The Quarter Stitch

I just spent the most wonderful week in New Orleans with a couple of friends for a “spring break” trip (they are teachers, and it was their spring break). We stayed at the edge of the French Quarter, so we could walk around with adult beverages and back to our hotel. Imagine my surprise, in the heart of that perpetual tourist party, I found a local yarn shop: The Quarter Stitch!

It’s not even at the edge of the quarter, like our hotel was. It’s a stone’s throw away from St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square, in the middle of it all. I couldn’t resist taking some time in-between the history tours and beignet runs to poke my head in.

It’s geographically smaller than a lot of LYSs I have visited, but it seems the carry the same amount of product! Lots of yarns at different price points, and walls on walls of needlepoint canvases. Like so many places in the French Quarter, it is quirky and charming.

The staff was a little cold at first (but I can’t even imagine the breadth of people that would wander in, so can’t blame them there). They had lots of compliments on my Peep Show Pullover, though, once they confirmed I was a fellow knitter.

I left with a skein of locally dyed yarn and a nifty yarn cutter with the Quarter Stitch logo on it. If you visit New Orleans, be sure to stop by the Quarter Stitch. It’s so close to the action, so it’s hard to find the excuse not to!