While in Hilo I visited the Yarn Basket. The two women working that day were very friendly and helpful. The store was an ok size-not huge but not too small. They had a lot of yarn. Interestingly most of if was packed in plastic bags. I’m assuming this was to protect it from the humidity.

Considering the climate I wasn’t surprised to see a large selection of cotton and acrylic yarn. Though they did have more wool than I expected a Hawaiian yarn store to have.

The prices were a bit higher compared to mainland yarn stores but not unreasonable. I thought about buying some yarn for myself but none of the yarn said “buy me”. I did buy some yarn for Abbey though:

Originally I had planned to buy her some spun in Hawaii yarn. But I couldn’t find any. This yarn reminded me of all the pretty flowers I’d been seeing so I bought it for her. She tells me she’s already cast on for socks and I’ll post pics when she finishes them.