Fifth Day in San Francisco.

Fifth Day in San Francisco. We’re currently taking a break for lunch at the Tartine Bakery.

We started off the day with the annual visit to General Bead on Minna St. General Bead is an amazing store. Their inventory is so huge that they just display one of everything on the walls along with a corresponding catalogue number. You then write doen the number, colour, quantity etc. on a form. I didn’t think that I needed to buy much during this visit but they have so much great stuff that it was hard not to buy the whole store!

Next was Pearl Art Supplies – where I picked up some Lion Brand Woolease and some card making supplies. All for under $10.

Then we went to Tartine followed by a visit to ImagiKnit. Or should I say the new and improved ImagiKnit. When I first visited the store last year I thought it was jam packed with yarn. Now they’ve expanded into the building next door and have packed even more yarn in there! It’s easy to become overwhelmed because there’s just so much.

I ended up getting the new Debbie Bliss book, some Artful Yarns Portrait Mohair and some Mountain Colors Bearfoot sock yarn in Ruby River. I’m quite tempted to make some gloves from it. I’m wondering if I could squeeze a pair of socks and some fingerless gloves from it.

There are some great bookstores on Valencia st, I went to Dog Eared Books and picked up the new Alice Walker novel. Modern Times Bookstore is very woman friendly and has a great feminist section. I picked up a few presents there!

Mexican Hot Chocolate – We went into several grocery stores in the Mission but only found it in one. But it had obviously been in the store for some time as it was really dusty. I decided to leave it there. Hetty’s mother is sending some over for me anyway. Thanks Hetty!

Now we’re back in the hotel room recuperating, we’ll be going out for Chinese food later. Yum!