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A sad yarn: Knitters could lose another shop

Mind's Eye Yarns in Porter Square is up for sale; if nobody wants to buy it and keep it open, it'll shut down later this spring.

Earlier:
Another bit of old Boston gets ripped out: Windsor Button to shut down.

H/t Cara.

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Very sad, but a smart decision given her situation.

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She's really awesome; I'll be sad not to have this store as an option.

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Oh man. I'm wishing Lucy the best of luck in this next stage of her life.

What's left, yarn-wise in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville? Woolcott in Harvard Square has been gone for several years, Circles is also no longer, Windsor is so sadly gone. Is Newbury Yarns still around? There is a new store in Dorchester. Anything else?

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JP Knit and Stitch in JP. Dorchester has Stitch House.

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There's also Gather Here in Cambridge on Broadway...very near Broadway Bicycle School

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The Knittin' Kitten on Blanchard Rd, outside of Alewife. I haven't been there in aaaaages.

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and it seems to be doing pretty well.

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and selling her knitting store, but I wish her all the best of luck, at this stage of her life. There is a yarn store in Brookline Village called Good Yarn, however.

Back in the 1980's and early 1990's, there was a huge knitting store right down in the South Station area (the name of which escapes me at the moment.) that had a huge selection of yarn (every color under the sun), knitting instruction books, as well as patterns and knitting equipment of all kinds, and it was reasonably priced. I don't know whether or not this yarn store down by South Station moved, or just simply went out of business. Too bad, because that was a great knitting store!

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I remember that knitting store near South Station. It was at the corner of Beach and Lincoln. I used to work right near there in the 80s. Before it became a knitting store it was a large, very short-lived discount candy store. Right in the same area was the now long defunct China Cinema, and the joke/magic shop Hank Lee's Magic Factory, which had a sign in the window that said "miracles for sale".

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I really liked that store...and I miss it!

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Sorry to bear bad news, but A Good Yarn has been closed for several months.

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