This weekend marked the 6th Annual Long Island Yarn Crawl and I was crawling like a gangsta on Saturday. Here are some highlights!
My first stop was The Knitted Purl in Oyster Bay, New York. Oyster Bay is a hamlet on the north shore of Long Island, New York. It is home to Sagamore Hill, the former residence and summer White House of Theodore Roosevelt; it is now a National Historic Site and museum.
The Knitted Purl sits on a quiet corner behind a white picket fence. This is a very charming shop loaded with beautiful yarns, books and notions and the staff couldn’t have been nicer!! I picked up my complementary tote bag and got busy.
The Knitted Purl 
The Knitted Purl 
Swag Bag!
I found two beautiful skeins of yarn. The first is a variegated sock yarn by Shirsty Cat Designs. Druid’s Rest is shades of muted green, blue and lavender. The yarn is 464 yds/ 100g, 75% Superwash BFL/ 25% Nylon.
Shirsty Cat Sock – Druid’s Rest 
Emma’s Yarn
Emma’s Yarn is a hand-dyed yarn company based in Florida. Emma started dying yarn at the age of 15, after experimenting with it for a math assignment. The Hella Hank tops out at 600 yards of 80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere and 10% Nylon! Two of these skeins and you got yourself a sweater! I fell in love with Good Juju, a beautiful lavender.
Hopping in my car, I headed off to The Knitting Place in Port Washington, New York. This shop sits very unassumingly in a small plaza on Main Street. Don’t let this small shop fool you, though. It is stocked ceiling to floor with some of the most beautiful yarns and notions. The featured trunk show for Saturday was Asylum Fibers. Stephanie, the dyer, was on hand for a meet and greet. She makes some beautiful yarns, let me tell you!! I picked up a skein of 100% SW Merino sock weight yarn in the Rabbit Hole colorway. This will be a gift for my friend Jen who is constantly sharing her stash with me! She loves the color black and this is a nice ashy shade.
Asylum Fibers – Rabbit Hole
An unexpected surprise during this stop was realizing the shop owners are also video pod-casters whose channel I subscribe to. No, I did not put two and two together. The ladies were very sweet and friendly in spite of being TOTALLY busy with all the other crawlers. Please stop in and see them if you are ever in the area.
Another highlight was meeting designer Corrado Lark. What a sweet fella. He was sporting his latest design Mortaring. We enjoyed a conversation about the virtues of being nice. Unfortunately, Corrado has experienced first hand how unkind people can be when their hollow hearts are filled with self-righteous pride. Please check out his growing collection of knits. And for heaven sake…be nice!
Well, I think that is enough for the time being. I will continue with more Yarn Crawl adventures in the days to come.
As always, thank you for stopping by!!
Sending hugs out to your corner of the universe!
xoxo
Regina
Cosmicknitter 
So much fun! You got great yarn too:) There is nothing like a yarn crawl to get your creative juices flowing:)
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I agree! My friends and I have thought about coordinating a small one for our area. Everything is so far apart, though. I think I spent 3 hrs in the car Saturday. Fortunately, the weather was in my favor.
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What delightful shops! We have limited retail options for hand dyed yarn here but do have a range of regular fibre events. X😍
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I made it to 7 out of the 10 shops on the crawl. Each one had their own flavor. It was fun. Exhausting, but tons of fun!
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Thank you ever so much for my ‘rabbit hole’! I am already plotting what to make you are so very good to me. 🥰
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💕💕💕💕💕
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Love the yarn! I envy you living near so many yarn shops. We only have two. I end up buying a lot off the web.
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Don’t be envious. Long Island is 2-3 hrs away and the shops were on the north and south shores. Two shops were way out east towards the Hamptons. I didn’t venture out that way. I drove about 3 hours total from shop to shop. It a DAY!!
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That sounds like such a great day! You found great things. I look forward to seeing what you make with them.
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What fun! I wish I could yarn crawl – I always seek out places to buy good yarn when I am out and about but never too many within a close proximity to call it a ‘crawl’. Love that Emma yarn colour-wise.
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Oooh you lucky thing! You’ve got some real pretties there. I’m planning a mini yarn crawl come Local yarn Shop Day, as there are two shops right across the road from each other where I used to work!
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Mothy and the Squid?
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They do have some of that in Sealy MacWheely. But I confess I usually try to avoid Mothy now, (mainly) because of a poor experience at a trunk show a while back.
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Oh no! I’m sorry you had a negative experience!
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What a place😍I can’t wait to se what you ll produce with those lovely yarns😀
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Emma’s Yarn is just the best and you picked a lovely color.
Emma’s mom owns the yarn shop that was my local shop when I lived in Florida. It’s a great shop if you ever do a central Florida yarn crawl.
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How fun!! I loved learning about the history of how she got started as a dyer.
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