Welcome back to the fantastic fiber voyage in Boston! If you missed the bus yesterday, just jump back in time down the page and then meet us up here again.

Today we'll be out and about in my neck of woods: the Boston 'burbs. We'll start in the town that I call home, beautiful Brookline, Mass. Again, I've found some photos on the web for those of you who like to look out the window during the trip. Many of the links will take you to pictures from the town of Brookline's photo pages, which you can check out here.

Brookline is a great old community just southwest of Boston proper. It's the birthplace of John F. Kennedy and Conan O'Brien among others. Brookline is also home to my local yarn store a good yarn. It's just a few blocks away from my place, so let's stroll on over, okay?

A Good Yarn is right in the heart of Brookline Village and is simply the loveliest yarn store I ever been in. It's large enough to hold loads of wonderful yarns, display countless beautiful sample garments and stock lots of patterns and books, but it's cozy, as a knitting shop should be. The large front and side windows let us peer in to all the knitty goodness from the street. As we enter, we are greeted by Vicky, the shop owner's little doggie, who is a sweetheart and divides her time between schmoozing with the customers and nibbling on a yarn label here and there. There are floor to ceiling cubbyholes filled with wool on the right and an entire corner of the store with cotton on the left. In the center, beautiful wooden chests are overflowing with chunky and baby wools. In the back there's an awesome selection of novelty yarns for those of you who like your knits fancy. And by the register is my favorite, a whole wall of needles and notions. I just can't leave this store without buying something, so let me gather up my purchases and let's hop back on the bus.

Since this is a virtual tour bus, we can magically pop in at my Sunday knitting group, the Knitsmiths, today. It's just a 5 minute drive from Brookline Village to Coolidge Corner, another little town center in Brookline. Coolidge Corner is home to the old Coolidge moviehouse and the greatest independent bookstore ever, the Brookline Booksmith. The Booksmith hosts our little group of knitters every Sunday in their events room. Let's grab something to drink from Starbucks or Peet's next door and make our way down the stairs to knit a few rows with them. Hello, ladies!

If we jump back on the bus, we can make one last stop on our tour. I've saved the best for last, folks, so get excited. We'll be driving out about 20 miles to Lexington and my absolute favorite knitting store, Wild & Wooly. Located right across from the Lexington Battle Green where the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, Wild & Wooly is a wonderful shop with wonderful yarns and a wonderful staff (their "knitting doctor" is Survivor Africa winner Ethan Zohn's mother!).

At Wild & Wooly you are greeted by the friendly staff and (I'm always a sucker for this) a large board with photos of customers and their projects. If you look closely, you might see a picture of my boys! Baby wool and patterns are in the long room to the right. You've never seen so many magazines and catalogs with baby patterns! There's a large display of Dale baby books and finished sweaters, which always makes me wish I started learning fair-isle earlier. To our left is another long room with an entire bookcase of Jamieson & Smith shetland wool in every fabulous color imaginable. And across from that a wall of Manos, Manos, Manos, exquisite Noro yarns and other luxury fibers too amazing to believe. After the HUGE book section (I buy all my books here. They have everything!) there's another floor to ceiling bookcase. This one is stocked with Rowan, Jaeger, Debbie Bliss and Jo Sharp wools. Oh and there's more downstairs! Can I offer you something in cotton, maybe? Among other yarns from Regia, GGH, Marks & Kattens, etc., etc., there's a veritable rainbow of boxes filled with Tahki Cotton Classic. If you come during the one of the semi-annual clearance sales, you'll also find bags and bags and bags of discounted yarn down here and the most helpful knitting store employee ever, who'll calculate for you what you can make with the quantity of yarn in any given bag. I love this store!

Well, this is where our tour ends (because I'm staying here!!). If you're interested in more fiber sites in the Boston area, the bus driver recommends an outing to Lowell, where you can visit the American Textile Museum and the Classic Elite factory store. Or perhaps you might enjoy a trip down to the Providence area, where you can visit two more excellent stores: A Stitch Above and Sakonnet Purls.

What fun it's been riding around with you all and showing you my knitting haunts. I hope you've enjoyed it. Be sure to catch the bus as the fantastic fiber voyage continues with Jayme's Tangible Geometry in Santa Barbara.