Green Mountain Spinnery
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- 1 Brickyard Lane
- Putney , VT 05346 US
- Directions »
- (802) 387-4528
- http://spinnery.com/
Notes
The Spinnery's small shop offers all our yarns and knitting patterns as well as limited edition yarns and mill ends at reduced prices. The shop also carries needles, knitting books, buttons and handmade gifts including lovely woven scarves, blankets, hats, and mittens. You'll be able to see display models of Vermont Designer Patterns knit in Green Mountain Spinnery yarns.
We are located at Exit 4 off I-91 across from the Putney Inn.
Tours of the production process take place the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 1:30 p.m.
Hours
- Mon - Fri:
- 09:00AM - 05:30PM
- Sat:
- 10:00AM - 05:30PM
- Sun:
- 12:00PM - 04:00PM
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Comments and Reviews
by rosalux on Sunday, Oct 21 2007 at 02:13AM UTC
Lovely little shop. It's stuffed full of their sweaters and yarns. Check out the mill ends - if a skein is off by a hair it is super cheap.
by FirstThingsFirst on Saturday, Jan 26 2008 at 12:33PM UTC
This is one of my favorite yarn shops in the world! If you're looking for novelty yarns or synthetics, then this is isn't the place for you. But if you like wool and natural fibers, you'll love it here.
The shop itself is very small and tightly packed with its own yarn and patterns. Behind the shop (in the rest of the building) is the spinnery itself, and if the shop isn't full of customers the spinnery staff person working there will very likely give you a tour of the spinnery. It's amazing to see the antique machines at work and huge bags of unprocessed wool.
It's not a high-tech place, but to me it is very much how knitting should FEEL.
by Anonymous on Monday, Aug 25 2008 at 05:50AM UTC
I am so excited. Our son will be attending college in Putney and now I have a yarn shop to visit as well! Looking forward to it!
by Anonymous on Tuesday, Oct 21 2008 at 09:06AM UTC
The pin on the map doesn't seem to be right. As far as I can tell, the spinnery is in Putney in Southern VT, while the map pin is near Montpellier in Northern/Central VT.
by juicyknits on Tuesday, Jun 08 2010 at 07:59AM UTC
Extremely friendly. Got a free tour of the premices with explanation how their yarn was made. How cool is that?!
by VangeKnitter on Monday, Oct 11 2010 at 12:03AM UTC
Small shop with their yarns. Very friendly. Extremely easy to find as it's right off the highway.
by jayel on Thursday, Jun 30 2011 at 03:52PM UTC
I visited as part of the I-91 Shop Hop last week. We arrived near the end of the day and got a tour of the spinnery (only one machine at work, but still fascinating) and we had a very nice chat with the shopkeeper/collective member and an unhurried browse of the yarns in the little shop. They also have a nice selection of their own and other patterns and books. I believe these folks process the yarn of a local producer in my area, which made the tour all the more meaningful to me, seeing how they keep track of different orders. Since this was part of an 11-shop yarn crawl, I made only a modest purchase, but I was really tempted by several of their wools and wool/Tencel blends. A mall shopper may suffer a little sticker shock, but a short tour of the mill will show how labor intensive turning wool into yarn can be. (I would love to be there some time when they are blending different color wools into one of their heathers!)
Note to yarn tourists: Green Mountain Spinnery is right across the street from Putney Inn. Makes for an easy impromtu browse, even with family in tow.
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