San Francisco Treats

Given the opportunity to shop, I gravitate towards my passions and interests. Of course, I must buy yarn when on a trip. Some purchases in the photo are Melenweit sock yarn purchased at Imaginknit, not far from David's place, and books purchased at Noe Knit. The books are Inspired Cable Knits by Fiona Ellis, and Scottish Island Knits from Rowan. I could have gotten the books on line or locally, but they will be a nice reminder of the trip. I especially love the cover jacket on Scottish Island Knits, and there's a Scotty sweater with a hood that might make me actually want to try intarsia again. There's some rich hand cream from L'Occitane, which I could have found at home, so was a total impulse purchase. The coffee is a dark roast from the Castro Cheesery--made some this morning, and it's great. The two grey hanks were purchased at an organic grocery stand in the Ferry Building. The name is Full Belly Farm, and I found a web site using Google. I have 500 yards, and will probably make a little shawl from it. I love that most of these things can be purchased via mail order, so getting more of these treats will be easy. One of the other great things about San Francisco is the delicious food. The pastries were for breakfast on my last day, and they came from an Italian bakery on Columbus Street. And, I did manage to get a pie baked, it was peach and blueberry with a hand cut crust.