The Yarn Crawl departed from Needleworks on a Tuesday morning with a first stop at A Knitted Peace. After shopping for what seemed like just a few minutes but was actually over an hour, we headed on to the Brown Palace for a grand tour of the Old Lady of Downtown Denver which included views of the stained glass ceiling, the tea room and the Art Deco decor of the 8th and 9th Floors. Thrown into the tour was a rest stop in the Eisenhower Suite and a lot of history of the determination of the ownership to survive the depression and resulting travel downturn with an imaginative redesign and change in purpose of the top two floors from hotel suites to apartments for the wealthy who rented out their mansions to also survive but needed a place to live. After the tour we were ready to go ashore at the Ship's Tavern where we had a terrific lunch amidst the sailing ship models and seagoing decor. Re-fortified (but sleepy) we headed on to the Lamp Shoppe which is a comfortable place to sit and visit while browsing through patterns. Finally it was back to Needleworks and home, quite satisfied with the visual, social and mental experience but thoroughly exhausted.
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