The Ultimate Wollmeise Experience

Warning! 

Those of you with no interest in seeing lots and lots and lots of pictures of Wollmeise should skip this blog post altogether.

Okay, the rest of you just fasten your seatbelts and we´ll be off. 

And please put your sunglasses on now if you´re sensitive to vibrant colours. Lots of vibrant colours ahead!

The Wollmeise shop is in Pfaffenhofen, just outside Munich. I was staying in Nuremberg, but Pfaffenhofen was only 1 hour and 18 minutes on the train away and the shop happened to be open that very weekend – so I simply had to go. 

(Okay, so I planned my trip to Germany around the opening hours of the Wollmeise shop if you have to know)

I hadn´t seen much Wollmeise before I entered the shop, so I was rather overwhelmed.

I spent about an hour and a half going through the shelves.

My friend Lioba, with whom I was staying came with me and took lots of pictures while I was busy picking out skeins for myself and a friend.

The children occupied themselves with playing Nintendo and eating sweats.

That big bowl of sweats on the table was nearly empty by the time we left...

There was just so much pretty yarn in all the colours of the rainbow.

 

 

I had a really hard time choosing what colours I wanted for a new sweater that I´m planning to make.

Claudia, herself, helped me pick out the skeins for my friend Wendy. It was really kind of her. 

But there are no photos of Claudia, because she didn´t want to have her picture taken.

The kids were extremely patient, I must say.

But I knew when it was time to go...

And that´s my friend Lioba who fell in love with a pair of socks. Since she doesn´t knit much these dayst I promised to make them for her.

And this is what I got for myself: three skeins of blue and two skeins of orange and red.

I´ll try and take a real close up of the yarn later.

Afterwards  I did regret not getting a skein in the colour of "Rhubarb" for myself.

Pink and green – this colourway ought to have had my name on the label!

I was very tempted to keep the skein I got for Wendy. But that would have rather been bad of me, wouldn´t it?

Sometimes it really hurts to be good, though...

Still I was very happy and content after my visit to Wollmeise Heaven. I´m sure that no matter how much I had bought I would still hanker after more!

I want to say a big DANKE SCHÖN to my lovely friend Lioba, for coming with me all the way to Pfaffenhofen and making our stay in Germany so nice.

I also want to add that no children were harmed by the experience. 

On the way to the train we came across a playground and Ludvig´s good mood was restored.

Comments

[Wendy]

Now I am drooling even more!

[Sheri@theloopyewe.com]

What fun! All of that Wollmeise at once - wow. You showed very good restraint. :-)

[Sandy]

My husband and I went to Germany this summer for my birthday. We visited a friend in Frankfurt and went to Pfaffenhoffen on a weekend that the Wollmeise shop was open in early July. I must admit to suggesting the trip to Germany solely because I knew that the shop was open at that particular time. I didn't spend as much time looking as you did, because my husband was along, but I did have an hour where managed to grab about 8 skeins of yarn for myself. Claudia is a doll, isn't she?

[Rae]

I am in yarn color heaven I don't think I would have ever left the store lol. The rhubarb is a goregous color. Your kids were real troopers lasting as long as they did without goig crazy from boredem. Can't wait to see what you make.

[Karen]

Wow. I wish I was your friend too!! :^)

Looks like you had a grand time.

[Suzanne Muir]

Given the difficulty that we have obtaining more than one or two skeins of Wollmeise in the US, I had no idea that there could exist an entire shop filled with it! Of course you scheduled your trip around shop hours. It would have been quite unnatural not to.

[jackie]

wow, it sounds so lovely. I can only imagine it would be like going to a Disneyland for Knitters ;-)

[Sonja]

I have to go there. I just have to.

[Heidi]

To quote Liz Lemon,"I want to go to there."

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I hadn´t seen much Wollmeise before I entered the shop, so I was rather overwhelmed.

[katiemckinna]

Ohmigod. This store is going on my list of places to get to next time I'm in Munich! I can't believe I didn't know about this. Thank you so much for this post.!