During my visit in Paris, I had a delightful afternoon meetup with my Parisian knitting friend, Nicole, and my German cousin by marriage, Annette, who has recently taken up knitting. L'Oisivethé, the teashop that combines the idea of idleness and ease (l'oisiveté) with the delights of tea drinking (thé) was the perfect spot for us to relax. We all brought our projects and had a marvelous time crafting in between eating tiny little scones and drinking green tea.
You see how cozy this teahouse is. Lots of tiny tables with friends chatting and drinking tea while fabulous yarn surrounds you from all sides.
Aimee, the American founder of l’Oisivethé as well as La Bien Aimée yarn company, has carefully curated a jewel of a yarn collection that adorns every wall of the tea shop. Junk yarn hand-dyes from New York and Madelinetosh were featured in the wall photographed above.
There is also a wall of Wollmeise, and another of Brooklyn Tweed yarns:
One reason the gals and I had traveled far to this tearoom was to get our fingers on the olann yarn which is stocked at L’Oisivethé, and I can tell that everyone else wanted it too, because the yarn stock looked really depleted! We depleted it further.
I bought a lovely skein of olann sock lite yarn for myself in muted russet and jewel tones while my husband astonished me by picking a hot pink skein for his own socks!!!!
While my husband read world cup soccer articles and we all ordered oodles of the scrumptious tiny scones and tea, Annette, Nicole, and I knitted and relaxed.
Those tiny scones were hot and flaky and amazing. The tea was so good that I took a packet of the green tea, flavored with vanilla, home to savor. There is an entire wall of teas at l’oisivethé, which are sold as well as yarn.
The day we visited, we were served by Aimee's young son, a French boy of probably about 11 who was completely charming. Just keep in mind when you visit any small, family-run business in France that it may close unexpectedly. Our afternoon almost ended before it began when Nicole arrived to a closed shop with a little handwritten sign in the window. Thirty minutes later, though, the shop had re-opened so it all worked out in the end!