One of the things I got to do in Wisconsin was visit a yarn shop! I was looking back over my posts, and the last yarn shop I visited was in Las Vegas when we went there in November of 2019. No wonder I got so excited about visiting this shop!
We visited Casting On in Appleton – a very nice little shop with a pretty good stock of knitting, crocheting and spinning supplies. They have classes and knit nights, as well as offering private lessons. There was a class gathering as we went in, and everyone was friendly and chatty. There was a real mix of clientele! You know how most of us crafters get irritated at news people who characterize all knitters as grandmas. Well, this place did have a share of grandma-style persons, but also had a small group of young goth girls as well as some Moms with babies – all shopping and crafting away, friendly as can be.
I did not get any photos in the shop itself, possibly because I was overcome with yarn shopping excitement. However, if you follow the link to the shop’s website above, you will get some nice pictures of the place. I did come away with some finds:
If you are ever in the Appleton area, check it out! Have you gotten out to any new places lately?
Quite A Yarn 
It’s so exciting to be shopping a new place in person, isn’t it?
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OMG – yes!
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What lovely yarn and isn’t awesome to visit shops! I am fortunate to have two fairly close to me but it has been a few months since I’ve visited them, I think I need to.
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It is great to visit shops in person! I have one close to me that I go to sometimes, but so neat to visit a new place 🙂
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I do not see very many grandma knitters these days it seems just hip youngins like you 🙂
That sounds like a great shop!
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LOL! I am technically grandma age, though I am not one. It is definitely a great shop!
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That sounds like a fun place to visit! I wish there was something like that here. My mom and I went to a fabric shop a while back that was in an old warehouse. She loves sewing so she found a lot of stuff.
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That fabric shop sounds really cool 🙂 It is definitely a fun place to visit – if you are ever in the Green Bay Wisconsin general region I recommend a stop!
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You found some great things.
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They had good stock – really nice stuff 🙂
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That looks like some lovely yarn you found!
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It is! Very happy with my finds 🙂
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It’s been a while since I’ve been into a yarn shop myself, but I am going on vacation Wednesday. There’s no shops directly near where I’m staying, but I’m thinking of stopping a one or more on my way there or back, since it’s a 4 hour drive.
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Hope you get to stop at one or two! I had almost forgotten how fun it can be 🙂
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Great purchases. I love that they have such a diverse clientele.
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It was definitely a neat place! They had good stock – I’m happy with what I got there 🙂
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I’m very excited to see how that beautiful deep blue with the red part (Mary-Ann) knits up. I wish nearby we had a proper yarn shop, not one just selling acrylic yarns. I was a little overcome with yarn choices when I was at Karelia House on our way home from our trip, they are a Rowan special outlet and they had so many Rowan yarns I ended up not even getting one.
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Oh no! Do you have a chance to get back to them again?
A real yarn shop is just wonderful to have nearby. Maybe you need to start one!
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I’m sure we will be back down there at some point, but it’s well over 100 miles away so not soon. I don’t have the personality for running a shop.
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It would be difficult, that is for sure!
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