A Stitch In Time — Local services in San Marino

This is an absolutely beautiful, and spacious store. They have lots of gifts, and an impressive needlepoint section. My interest is knitting stuffs, which took up much of the store during the yarn crawl in April, but which takes up a smaller area now, but I was told it's the same amount of stuff, just reorganized. Lots of Berroco, some Lana Grossa and Trendsetter, a little bit of Noro, Queensland, Juniper Moon, Katia, and Frabjous, a good bit of Ella Rae, and a small bit of Lux Adorna 100% cashmere. Lots of other miscellaneous good stuff, too. One thing they have in surprising quantities is needles, which is why I made the hour drive today. They have maybe every Hiya Hiya and Clover Takumi circular needle combo made, and DPNs, two walls of them. I was there for size 5, 6, 7, and 8 Hiya Hiya metal dpns in the longer, 8" lengths, which are hard to find offline, but...

Went with the other half to pick out thread for our daughters stocking. She wanted blue instead of red for Santa's robe. (You do everything right in bringing them up to be a good person and then they do something like this). So we had to pick out different blues for the robe and sub reds for the blue presents. The people there were very helpful. They had thousands of different types, colors, and makes of threads. Made it easy to sub the thread for the robe. They are very good about mounting the stocking on a frame for us....

Just visited with my wife who has taken up needlepoint recently. She had a great time picking out new canvases and threads with Linda. I am sure this will be a regular stop for her when we are down in...