Greetings from Bergamo!
Just a quick note... I am away at a conference in Bergamo, Italy on English Historical Linguistics, so I won't be posting as regularly. However, I can tell you about this wonderful yarn shop that the owner of my bed and breakfast told me about. Here's the name and address:
Out of respect for the wishes of the owner of this shop (who I don't think quite understood what I was saying), I am deleting the name and address of this yarn shop. However, if you are interested, email me, and I will be happy to send you the info.
Bergamo
It has yarn and textiles and all sorts of knitting, crochet, cross-stitch and embroidery supplies. So far, I've bought two balls of red cotton yarn (I'm making a set of placemats with matching coasters in the basic grade-school colors: red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange) and a lovely Italian-made yarn swift! I'm so glad I finally have one of those... It'll make rolling center-pull balls much easier! I've also bought a book on knitting and one on crocheting in Italian. Crocheting seems to be more popular than knitting, if the selection of books is any indication. Pictures of these will come once I return!
Anyway, wish me luck on my presentation, and expect pictures in about a week!
Out of respect for the wishes of the owner of this shop (who I don't think quite understood what I was saying), I am deleting the name and address of this yarn shop. However, if you are interested, email me, and I will be happy to send you the info.
Bergamo
It has yarn and textiles and all sorts of knitting, crochet, cross-stitch and embroidery supplies. So far, I've bought two balls of red cotton yarn (I'm making a set of placemats with matching coasters in the basic grade-school colors: red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange) and a lovely Italian-made yarn swift! I'm so glad I finally have one of those... It'll make rolling center-pull balls much easier! I've also bought a book on knitting and one on crocheting in Italian. Crocheting seems to be more popular than knitting, if the selection of books is any indication. Pictures of these will come once I return!
Anyway, wish me luck on my presentation, and expect pictures in about a week!
posted by gearncniht at 1:48 PM
2 Comments:
Oh, to be in Italy and be able to go to Italian yarn shops. I'm swooning over here in Atlanta! You lucky dog you!
Can't wait to catch up with you, Roberto. Italy and mijn scriptie have created a chasm between us.
xxx
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