While you knit

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Maureen and Kate just recently returned from more than a month of road trips, bringing Spinnery yarn and samples to sheep & wool festivals around the country.  They spent many […]


A must read

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Carol Feller’s Short Row Knits was published earlier this fall.  It’s subtitle, “A Master workshop with 20 learn as you knit projects” beautifully distinguishes this book as one that you […]


Are you ready?

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Basic Mittens

We are setting up shop at Rhinebeck this weekend.  We look forward to this festival every fall.  The food, yarn, sheep and wool bring thousands of fiber enthusiasts to this […]


And that’s not all…

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Last week we shared with you Amy Christoffer’s Coolidge Cardigan pattern, a lovely moss stitch and lace creation that Maureen has already cast on for.  She is making a version […]


New for Fall

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Midnight Capricorn

We have two new patterns that we are debuting at the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend.  For those of you that would like a virtual preview we’d like […]


Winner, Winner!

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Ceylon Alpaca Elegance

Many of us at the Spinnery will be helping to judge this year’s Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival Contests.  We are thrilled to see what visitors to the Festival have […]


Course corrections

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Mohair from Angora Goat

Kate had an “ah-hah” moment in the midst of working on a sample of Heidi Kirrmaier’s Vitamin D cardigan that we thought might be worth sharing.  She cast on for […]


What’s on our needles?

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We reorganized one of our display walls last week in order to incorporate the newest colors of Sylvan Spirit into our DK wall of yarn.  This inspired us all to […]


Simply beautiful

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Our ravelry friend Jessica recently finished a show stopping shawl that we thought you might like to take a look at. Annie Rowden designed a stunning lace shawl this spring […]


Shop Hop project ideas

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With the I-91 Shop Hop gearing up to start next week, we got to thinking about how to help get your creative juices flowing. We understand that with a dozen […]