Purchases in Halifax

No vacation would be complete without finding local yarn stores!  First we visited The Loop Craft Café in downtown Halifax.  The store was open and bright, really nice to walk around and browse.  We like to look for local yarns, the shop owner was more than happy to help.  The yarn I picked was Lange’s Rock Farm from the Cotswold sheep.  She explained that this was a rare breed of sheep that are at risk of becoming extinct.  The shop owner is lucky enough to have a local farm with this sheep.  Since I am obsessed with Aran sweaters after our trip to Ireland, this yarn would be perfect for that.  It is different from other Aran sweater wools, rather than the typical off white colour, this yarn has a gold undertone.  It smells wonderfully sheepy and is full of lanolin.  The farm this yarn came from is unique, it’s also a rock quarry, so the animals are roaming around the rocks. 

So cute! A Cotswold Sheep.

The second yarn store we went to was LK Yarns.  This store was very full of great yarns, many well known brands.  This store had a wide selection of yarns that come from Canada, and the Atlantic coast.  I bought some Fleece Artist from Nova Scotia.  She had a much bigger selection of this company than I had seen at my LYS.  My goal was to buy some solid sock yarn, so I bought Trail Socks, 80% Merino, 20% Nylon in a teal colour.  I want to make some socks that have a lace or cable pattern, this will show up better in a solid colour.  The colour I got matches the yarn I dyed perfectly! 

We stopped into a few other gift shops, I got a ceramic soap dish holder in the shape of a bathtub.  I have a few of these now, I think this will make a great prop when I take soap pictures.

I just love it, it's so cute!  It's 7" long, 3" high and 3" deep.  I think it will fit a few bars of soap nicely.