When I travel, I look for yarn shops in each city or town that I visit. I search the internet, clicking on links from Google, Ravelry, and ones that other bloggers have posted. Yarn shops come and go. When they go out of business, change owners, or when money is tight they let their web page expire.
I can, however, check the links on my site and do a little more investigating to see if new shops have opened. That is what I decided to do — here is my updated post. When my daughter and I traveled to Spain, one of our priorities was to visit the yarn shops there.
I had searched on Google, and also on Ravelry , a fiber craft related social networking website. I found a short list of shops located in Madrid and one shop in Barcelona. We arrived in Madrid in the late afternoon. Since this was the first stop on our European trip, we were tired from our flights Chicago to Paris to Madrid. Rather than going to bed early, we wanted to do some walking to help us fight jetlag. Rather than just wander aimlessly, we decided to check out the two yarn shops near the Plaza Mayor and within walking distance from our hotel.
The first shop, Lanas Sixto, carried a lot of Katia yarn, in fact, I think they had every color of every Katia yarn made. The Katia yarn company started in Barcelona in , eventually growing to an international company. Although Katia is produced in Spain, it is widely available in Europe and sometimes in the States.
I was not able to pull it up on my computer. There are old mentions on Yelp and Facebook, with the only current reviews on Google. Google also lists hours. Their address is Calle de Atocha 9, Madrid.
