This shop is mesmerizing. If you need to reinvigorate your knitting mojo, take a trip down to Eugene, Oregon, to visit Cozy. This yarn shop is the perfect neighbor to the 5th Street Public Market, where you can enjoy an open market experience filled with delicious coffee, pastries, and if you feel like having lunch after buying yarn, you can drop by Pure for some sushi.  The layout of Cozy is well thought out. The shop has an open concept with white shelves lining the walls, which house yarns in a pleasing spectrum of colors.    Some of the yarns are in the shop's outer wings, perfectly positioned not to disturb your view from the rest of the shop. Unfortunately, due to COVID, the area meant for needles and knitting literature was blocked off. But from the looks of it, the owner has stocked anything and everything you will need.  Now let’s talk about the products, shall we!  Needles –  • The predominant brands were Lykke, Chiaogoo, and Knitter’s pri...

This pandemic has taught us many things.  Many quarantiners (?), quarantites (?) chose to learn how to bake bread while simultaneously learning how to care for plants.    Personally, I tried the plants thing and let’s just say if plants had a way to communicate in words they would be warning each other about my ability to murder just about anything. Then there were the select few who decided to learn how to knit. These folks dove head first into the world of luxury fiber as they learned about Magpie fibers, O-wool, and EKF (yes they are some of my faves).    With this wave of baby knitters and let’s be honest with the stimi (for some) there was a giant demand for fiber. Updates popped up everywhere for many non-fiber small businesses as well, most notably stitch marker makers and pottery makers. And with each update, the extra time, and the depression/anxiety of many things that were happening around us we all joined in solidarity and flocked to purchase items t...