Yarn Shop
Inspiration for this scene came from the back wall which started life as a box of candy given to my son-in-law. I always ask to keep potential miniature items, so the candy box was transformed into a wall displaying cubbies filled with skeins of various colors of yarn
With back wall started, I had to figure out how to fill in the rest of the scene.
Using chopsticks and craft sticks, I made the four double level stands. Then I used the clear plastic bins I had saved from Chinese desserts one of my friends had brought for a pot luck lunch as sliding bins for the stands. Filling the bins with balls of yarn took many hours of wrapping fairly fine yarn around pony beads and the empty spools from inside dental floss containers.. Tiny labels were printed out and wrapped around the balls of yarn.
The table in the middle of the shop was next to be created with bubble bins from another saved item mounted below.
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Now came the challenge which took me five years to resolve: what was I going to use for the walls? I needed something that would allow for items to be displayed. What to use....????
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After many agonizing months (years), I finally came up with a solution. (Not to worry, I started and finished a number of miniature scenes in the meantime.) Thin cork would allow short little straight pins to be poked into it and let me display the knit lap robe, other skeins of yarn and several pairs of scissors on one wall.
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​On the table, wool ski caps, a woven purse, part of a sweater, a yard stick, a basket of yarn, odds and ends.
on the other wall, started but unfinished knit sweaters, a pair of mittens, a woven runner, knitting needles and buttons .
Detailed views below, followed by a top down peak at the whole scene.
