Pine Tree Yarns

I was in town for the Pumpkin fest this year! Damariscotta is great, but not this shop. There may be great yarn here, but I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t allowed in the store with my 6 month old baby. I guess the shop is too small. I was rudely approached at the door. I guess it’s okay though, I don’t like supporting terrible people anyway…

Cute little yarn store! I must have come at the right time :) Talked to the owner for about an hour. She was more than pleasant. She explained some places to visit in the area, and told me all about «hooking», which I know nothing of. She even gave me a little demonstration. I bought several skeins. She sells a lot of options in regards to yarn she dyes herself as well. What a pleasure!

this is a small shop on a cute main st in maine (vacationland). i stopped in with my young niece and we easily found needles & yarn appropriate for a beginner project as well as some nice handspun for my stash. but i think we caught the owner on the wrong day; all i can say is that the vibe was off. my niece went outside to wait in the rain rather than be inside for check-​out (the shop is very small).
this store has supplies for rug hooking. at least i think that’s what it is. the examples on the wall were really nice and not the typical chickens & pennies i’m used to seeing. but i wouldn’t recommend asking about it. that’s when things turned sour for us.
if youre just passing through the area, i would stop in; it’s so nice to get special local homemade yarn.

Here they have some beautiful yarns, especially the ones hand-​dyed by the owner. You can find a nice selection of specialty yarns but sometimes smaller lots — often not enough to complete a modest project like a child’s sweater. And, the prices on typical brands (Frog Tree Alpaca) are higher when you compare them to other local stores (Willow’s End in Boothbay, Halcyon in Bath).
The kicker for me is that the owner is often not there to provide advice and just leaves a basket and a packet of sales slips for you to DYI (trusting, but not very smart in terms of finances or marketing). When she is there, she’s a little…‘moody.’ Sometimes you’ll get lots of help and advice, and sometimes you’ll get snarked at for answering your cell phone inside the store. It’s yarn store roulette!