Nautical Yarn, or Support Your Local Yarn Shop
I came across this impressively stocked local yarn store in Ludington during my travels in northern Michigan. Nautical Yarn is a flagship store for Rowan, and carries many other fine lines of yarn as well. Having recently splurged on alpaca yarn at Cotton Creek Farm, I loaded up on some necessities including faux fur pompoms, and stitch markers.Β
The shop has sample knit garments and wraps showing what you can do with the yarn on offer, all around the store, including this lovely version of Ranunculus, designed by Midori Hirose, done up in hand-dyed Madelintosh sock yarn and a mohair yarn held together. Notice the addition of novelty cuffs.Β
Besides so many yarns and notions, Nautical Yarn offers a variety of classes, some in person, some hybrid, and a knitting weekend in November to learn how to make and steek Fair Isle knitting which is offered in conjunction with local bed and breakfast inns.
For Nautical Yarn, go here: https://nauticalyarn.com/
For the knitting pattern Ranunculus, you can sign up at Ravelry.com (it is a free registration), and see it here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ranunculus-3
