Last month Abbey and I went to Santa Fe for a yarn crawl. We found three yarn stores we hadn’t visited before.

First up was Tutto:

This was a nice sized store with good lighting. Lots of pretty yarn and a diverse book section. There were also a lot of knit samples so you could get an idea of what the yarn looked like worked up, something I particularly like. Abbey got some made in NM yarn here for her Wool Fest projects.

I bought some groovy socks here that I’ll blog about soon.

After that we went to Oodles. I forgot to get a picture of the outside and they don’t have a website yet. If you park in the pay parking by Tutto you can easily walk over to Oodles if you walk around the Hilton hotel.

This store is smaller but they have a good amount of yarn. There was lots of pretty handpainted yarn and several shelves of beads. I bought some sugarcane yarn here that I must put on the needles soon.

Our last stop was Looking Glass Yarn and Gifts.

This store is run by two sisters who were fun to chat with. We laughed a lot in this store.

There’s several rooms to explore with lots of pretty yarn and plenty of books and patterns to choose from. I bought a felted bootie pattern here. Abbey bought some sweet sock yarn and got knitting mugs for both of us.

Check out this adorable ball of yarn candy:

For lunch we ate at the Whole Hog Cafe.

The food was amazing. The beans and coleslaw reminded me of old fashioned Ozark cooking. Mmmm. But the best part was the ribs:

There was a six pack of bar-b-que sauces on each table. Yummy!

I love eating ribs. There’s just something so primal about it. Here’s me channeling my inner animal:

If you love BBQ this is the place to go. It was delicious!