Aug 22 2008
Dutch Oven Yarn Shop
This shop is in the back of a bakery. I must say the concept has intrigued me since I first heard rumors of it last year. I was really excited to see it as my perfect-in-my-head LYS has an espresso bar. Dutch Oven Yarn Shop is located in Alanson, Michigan at 7611 Burr Avenue.
In practice though, this shop was not quite what I was expecting. The bakery portion was very nice. It had fresh baked break, cookies, pastries, and deli sandwiches. It also had a very nice seating area. The employee behind the counter there greeted us as we came in. You must enter the bakery in order to get to the yarn store. That was as much of a greeting that we received.
The yarn store portion is to the right of the front door and up some stairs, past the seating area. The store area is not very big, but it is crammed full of all different kinds of yarn. My husband and I were really put off by the lack of any sort of acknowlegment though while we were shopping. Granted it seemed the store employees were at the register dealing with customers, but a simple hello always goes a long way.
We didn’t spend too much time in the store because we wanted to get to our final destination, we had an antsy 3-year-old, and well we were not that impressed. Perhaps my hopes were too high or I had just set a different idea in my head when I had heard about the store. I don’t think we will ever stop in there again.
We did get a couple of cookies before we left though. They were all right, nothing spectacular. Ah well, the pursuit for my “perfect” yarn store goes on.
