Though I understand the fate of Explore Booksellers in Aspen is a bit uncertain, it's a fabulous place, crammed floor to ceiling with books and a delightfully cramped vegetarian bistro. If you happen to be in Aspen, stop in and unload your wallet. It's one of those bookshops where it's easy to while away hours dreaming of good reads and new adventures.
Wouldn't that make a fabulous model for a yarn shop? Wouldn't it be divine to shop for yarn and then mull projects over lunch?
Some other grand ideas came in yesterday as well. Christie and Kim would like the 24-hour yarn shop. The hospital yarn shop. (Who among us hasn't stitched away madly hoping for a healthy outcome?) The truck stop yarn shop!
From Pam, the doggy day-care yarn shop. Kim's hoping for the mall yarn shop. Fillyjonk wants a campustown yarn shop, which, since I spend a good deal of time on college campuses, I fully endorse. I would even go so far as to move the yarn shop on campus to serve frantic, tenure-track faculty in need of warm fuzzies. If it's an ag school, why not raise cashmere goats and vicuna and sell rovings and batts as well?
Lucy would like the high-school football/basketball yarn shop. But why stop there? Why not have yarn sellers troll the stands like hot dog and beer vendors at games?
Now if we could only get yarn into the corporate cafeterias...