Knit & Caboodle

Downtown Canmore is beautiful, surrounded as it is with mountains.  As with any tourist-y mountain community I've been to there were a number of outdoor clothing stores, restaurants, souvenir stores and fudge shops.  What's with the fudge shops in these places?  I'm not complaining, but I wonder why they are so plentiful.  I also found a really good bagel place, the Rocky Mountain Bagel Company.

This is 9th Street, a block away from the main Street, and across from a yarn store.  Check out that mountain.  If you looked down the street in the opposite direction you'd have a similar view.  Yes, that's my vehicle on the left.

No trip is complete unless I visit a yarn shop, if there is one, and I found a very nice place called Knit & Caboodle.

I was immediately impressed when I walked in the store.  There was quite a variety of yarn, many that I recognized, Cascade, Sirdar, Manos del Uruguay, Madeline Tosh, Malabrigo, etc., and some that were new to me. 

What I really liked was the support of local entrepreneurs:  a couple of independent dyers, TwoJuniper Yarns and Bohoknits and yarn bowls by Canmore potter, Katie Borrowman.  One of the bowls followed me home as well as a skein of yarn for my Travel Afghan - more on my purchases another time.  The lady who was working was very nice and a talented knitter.  This is a shop that I look forward to visiting again.

The drive back to Calgary was much quicker.  It turns out that I really was on a secondary road when I went to Canmore.  I was on highway 1A, the old Trans-Canada, not highway 1, a busy, well-maintained divided highway.