A Verb For Keeping Warm
2 May 2013
A few months after we moved away from Berkeley Eric read a little blurb about a new yarn and fabric store there and sent it my way. I was so sorry I’d missed it! My mom had heard it talked up at her knitting club in Memphis too, so we had to make a visit. The store is called, charmingly, A Verb for Keeping Warm.
They do an amazing range of their own work there–they spin wool, they dye fabrics, and they dye all of their yarns right out back. Awesome. That’s my mom, checking everything out.
They also have a wide selection of quilting fabrics (squee!), and they have classes for just about everything: dyeing, felting, knitting, sewing, weaving, quilting, spinning. It’s a little paradise. If you are in the Bay area, you should definitely check it out!
I think it’s so much fun to go to local art and craft stores when I’m traveling, and this is one I’ll definitely go back to. Ah, those quilt squares. They are the stuff of dreams!
And if you need any further convincing…this is their next-door neighbor!
May 02, 2013 @ 09:54:28
I am jealous……sigh. (but I’ll recover!)
May 06, 2013 @ 21:18:36
I am jealous too, since I don’t live there anymore. One can dream, though! Sigh!
May 02, 2013 @ 11:39:51
I’m so glad you were able to visit this great place, and I do hope you got a cupcake next door! That stretch of San Pablo is surely coming along. There’s also a great gallery/studios around the corner, and a sweet coffee house with laptop free weekends near by! So many reasons to come back and visit us, right? 😉
May 06, 2013 @ 21:20:01
So many reasons! You are so right:) Every time I come back, I lament that it’s for such a short time. We should totally buy a weekend condo there, right? I wish:) I am always happy to see new businesses thriving. Oakland will forever have my heart!
May 03, 2013 @ 16:39:45
I read your tea post first, but I take back what I said about you coming here. Instead, I will come to your town and you can knit me all the things while I make the tea.
May 06, 2013 @ 21:24:33
That sounds totally marvelous too! I haven’t been knitting too much lately, and clearly that situation needs to be rectified. 😉