Goodies
May 2007
I finally managed to make my way to a new LYS the other day called Three Bags Full. What a warm friendly little store. Look at what I bought!
The last of sweetgeorgia in colourway Momiji. They still have a few skeins in about six colourways – hurry on down if you’ve been toying with treating yourself.
I also bought some hard-to-come-by Koigu. Francesca, one of the owners was telling me they have to actually send someone to Koigu to pick up and buy whatever stock they have on hand. Luckily she has dedicated family within a few hours drive who have been willing to do just that. I hear it can take a couple of years to receive backordered colourways.
Three Bags Full carries a carefully selected assortment of quality fibres such as Lorna’s Laces, Malagribo, Blue Sky Alpaca, Louet, Cascade, Rowan, Lanaknits Hemp, Noro, and Mission Falls.
I’ve been wanting to try the Louet Gems sport weight which they only carry from hand-painting artist, Trish Moon of Indigo Moon. It’s a huge skein and I need solid colours, not hand-painted. In order to help me decide if it will work for a design project I have in mind, Francesca searched in the back room and came up with these adorable mini sample skeins to try out (hmm, might have to take another photo since you can’t tell how small they really are).
As you can see, Three Bags Full has amazing customer service. When I was there Francesca was helping another customer choose a lace project. She spent quite some time showing her knitted samples and talking about the merits of both the Sivia Harding design and the yarn options. After the customer made her choice, her skeins of yarn were wound into balls for her, free of charge.
5 comments
Leave a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
I LOVE Three Bags Full! It’s 10 minutes from my house and I go there often!! Great review!
Well thats great you witness such great service from Three BAGS full! I have been in that store a few times. And the elderley lady there (owner?) was very curt and unfriendly. I bought 6 skeins of expensive wool AND my wool was not wound for me. The next time I went into the store the same lady was just as unfriendly as the first time. There was another young lady working there and she was helpful and nice. I would suggest this manager/owner be nicer to customers who are willing to spend a good amount of money in there. Thanks Theresa
So sorry to hear about your experiences. I’ve continued to have good service at Three Bags Full from all of the staff including the owners. Unless they are very busy or their ball winder is broken, they are happy to wind balls if asked, too.
I have to agree with Theresa…I ‘ve gone three times thinking the first time I received snobbish service was just a bad yarn day though I did buy some lovely yarn. Second time same thing and the third time I just left feeling like I was not a welcomed customer. Disappointing as the selection is awesome. I get lovely service at the two yarn stores in Steveston though!
I’m sorry to hear abut your experience. I continue to receive friendly service, although sometimes they are pretty busy and understandably don’t have the same amount of time to dedicate to each customer. Just last week I received excellent colour advice from Christa.