Good Wool Hunting

With me living in Munich - third-largest city in Germany - , one would think that finding the right material for crocheting would be like a walk in the park. Wrong! Munich does sport an adequate, or better said fashionable number of wool shops.

But the selection is anything but fashionable. Rather old-fashioned, to be honest. A couple of months ago, I went to have a look into one of the shops just to find that the balls cost an obscene amount of money and the range was really small. Then, last week, when I asked for effect wool I was told that they "do not feature synthetic fibers just because".

Where, do you ask, is the creativity? The fun? A wool shop is not social media playground, admitted, but the why do owners not experiment a little? A couple of years ago, effect garn was the latest hype and you could get it everywhere. Where has this initiative gone? For such a traditional sector, you would not expect trends to come and go like that.

Anyway, this leaves me with fewer options that I thought. Furry guinea pigs? Not possible. Fluffy teddy bears? Not realizable. A remake of Alf? Forget it!

So please, please, shop owners, be a bit more innovative and give us creative, young, energetic crocheters something to work with. Until then, I will have to beg my mother to get me the appropriate wool in tiny Würzburg (where, suprisingly, there is still some choice). Hrrmmppff!