Everyone said you could buy yarn everywhere in Iceland including at the grocery store. This is both true and not true. While I did find yarn in some grocery stores, definitely they don’t all carry this staple. But then many didn’t carry gluten free staples either.
I found that the grocery stores in Reykjavik in the city center did not have yarn. For that you should go to the Handknitters Association of Iceland. You can also pick up a handknit sweater while you’re getting your yarn.
Some of the yarn at the Handknitters Association of Iceland, Reykjavik. The yarn in this photo is almost entirely Lopi but they do have a little bit of other sorts around the corner.
Yarn in the Skagaströnd supermarket north of Blonduos. Even this tiny store had a shelf of yarn tucked into a hallway.
In the rural north of Iceland where I spent most of my time, all the grocery stores I went into except the one in the town I was living in, Blönduós, had yarn. All of them. These are small stores with limited shelf space but even the smallest had at least one shelf tucked somewhere to the side full of yarn.
On the day we went looking for seals on the Vatnsnes peninsula, we ended the day at the Seal Center in Hvammstangi and their grocery, though small, had a nice selection of natural colors of Lopi.
Hvammstangi grocery store with a good selection of natural colors of Lopi.
And we had two visits to Sauðárkrókur which had the largest grocery store we went in anywhere in Iceland. It was rather fun to be buying enough groceries to need a cart and to have yarn mixed in with the celery.
This is some of the yarn at the Sauðárkrókur grocery. Lots of colors of Plotulopi also.
Yarn in the supermarket in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland. They had a huge selection of Lopi as well as many other yarns. This particular store is the largest I was in in Iceland and they had many other things besides food.
Yarn at the Keflavik Airport
And yes, you can even get Lopi yarn at the airport on your way home.
And yes, you can get your last bit of yarn along with a fur-lined hat on your way to the flight. Keflavik Airport, Iceland.