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Apr. 9th, 2015 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynFound a very, very dangerous store yesterday, on Harrison Street. It's a little over a mile from my office, and the nearest mass transit is the Silver Line, about three blocks away. If you don't take the Silver Line you walk through Chinatown and over an overpass over I-90 and past Pine Street Inn to get there.
That is not the dangerous part.
The dangerous part is that this store is Boston Bead and Fiber, and about half of it is devoted to yarn and knitting, and the other half is devoted to beading and jewelry-making. And it is open until 6 most nights, 8 on Wednesdays. Walking a mile takes me twenty minutes.
Reaching any other store that sells yarn requires me to rent a Hubway or take the Red Line out to Cambridge. Reaching any other store that sells beads requires equal rigamarole. This one may not sell Lion Brand, which is cheap enough and decent enough in quality to be my usual fibrous poison of choice, but they sell other yarns of good quality at about the price I'd expect to pay anywhere else. And they have sparklies in half the shop; I've just started getting interested in beading, and now, look, I can walk to a source....
I would say the only shop I've found in Boston that's more dangerous is the LUSH I usually go to, since they're directly above a yarn store, but the yarn store in question is Newbury Yarns and they sell things like baby alpaca/musk ox blend at prices best denominated in foreign currencies so you don't think too hard about what you're paying.
That is not the dangerous part.
The dangerous part is that this store is Boston Bead and Fiber, and about half of it is devoted to yarn and knitting, and the other half is devoted to beading and jewelry-making. And it is open until 6 most nights, 8 on Wednesdays. Walking a mile takes me twenty minutes.
Reaching any other store that sells yarn requires me to rent a Hubway or take the Red Line out to Cambridge. Reaching any other store that sells beads requires equal rigamarole. This one may not sell Lion Brand, which is cheap enough and decent enough in quality to be my usual fibrous poison of choice, but they sell other yarns of good quality at about the price I'd expect to pay anywhere else. And they have sparklies in half the shop; I've just started getting interested in beading, and now, look, I can walk to a source....
I would say the only shop I've found in Boston that's more dangerous is the LUSH I usually go to, since they're directly above a yarn store, but the yarn store in question is Newbury Yarns and they sell things like baby alpaca/musk ox blend at prices best denominated in foreign currencies so you don't think too hard about what you're paying.
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Date: 2015-04-10 06:13 pm (UTC)