Yarn Store Yatra, Part II: Actually Buying Stuff

Saturday mornings are an important part of the week in Germany because a lot of places close at mid-afternoon and stay closed on Sunday.  So you need to plan your Saturday pretty well if you want to fit in, say, a morning yoga class...

Schlüsselkäfer says, "I spend all of class doing Shoe Protection Pose." 

...And then make it to a yarn store or two while they're actually open.  I stopped only long enough to check out the window of "La Laine" on Kantstrasse, but it looks as though they have some nice things:

But I did meet a colleague for a quick visit to a knitting/coffee shop in Wilmersdorf, "boucle+cafe",  where they sell both yarn and very tasty chai latte without any straw. They have a Ravelry group and a regular schedule of Stricktreffen or stitch'n'bitch meetings, so that would be a good thing to try at some point to get my German language use a little more activated. Also a nice yarn selection:

Most of the yarns are major multinational brands, naturally, but they also had some handsome German natural wools and a selection of variegated yarns dyed by a Berlin artisan called "Wool Queen" (Wollkönigin). And although of course the store was overwhelmingly geared towards knitting stuff, they did have some crochet hooks, including one tiny steel hook that I think is going to save my lace gloves project!