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Maranacook Yarns strives to provide the best value possible to my customers by offering quality yarns at a reasonable price. I pay careful attention to the yardage per skein when I order from suppliers, and search out alternatives to high-priced, low-yardage skeins whenever I can. I am “buying locally” when I can, taking pride in featuring reasonably priced Maine-produced yarns.

I will special order any yarn from any company I have an open account with, but if I don't stock the yarn I will require the customer to buy a whole bag (which can range from 3-10 skeins). The exception is from Brown Sheep Co. from whom I can special order a skein at a time.

I’m stocking the following, and can’t seem to stop finding new yarns that I “just have to have,” so the shelves soon will contain other yarns:

From Maine

Bartlett Glen and Shetland tweeds worsted
Fishermen bulky
Halcyon Botanica
Village Farm Alpaca 100% alpaca in natural colors
Nezinscot Farm Homespun 100% wool, corriedale
Fireside Ridge Alpaca Farm Alpaca yarn
Done Roving Farm and Carding Mill
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Hand-dyed sock yarn

From "Away"

Brown Sheep

Lamb’s Pride (worsted and bulky)
Hand Paint Originals
Top of the Lamb sport weight single ply
Lamb's Pride superwash and Superwash Bulky (NEW!)
Wildfoote Luxury sock yarn (regular and handpaint)
Cotton Fleece
Burly Spun
Serendipity Tweed

Patons

Be Mine
Cotton
SWS (30% soy silk/70% wool) self striping
Rustic Tweed Classic wool

Bernat

Satin
Cotton-tots
Sugar and Cream
Matrix

Lion

Wool-ease (chunky)
Fun Fur
Incredible
Sock-ease
Cotton-ease
Trellis

Skacel

Fortissimo sport weight sock yarn
Limbo DK superwash (solid and fairisle)
Ethno
Posh
Portofino
Trekking XXL sock yarn 100 gm balls (tweed and striping)
Big Mexico/Big Mexico Print (self patterning fairisle or stripe; superwash, worsted)
Polo, cotton/microfiber DK

Knit One Crochet Too Truffles
Polar Fleece
Temptation (wool/alpaca blend)
Reynolds

Fusion
Artful's Broadway
Lopi

Aurora

Strapaz Ringel (sport weight striping sock yarn)
Strapaz Norweger Ringle (sport weight fairisle sock yarn)
Strapaz sport weight tweed sock yarn
Sockenwolle sport weight sock yarn
Hauswolle worsted weight (wool/acrylic/nylon)
Merino Soft (merino/microfiber DK)
Steinbach Wolle: Golden baby (100% wool superwash, DK); Eroica (55%wool/ 45% acrylic DK); Aktiv Effekt patterning sock yarn

Southwest Trading Co. 100% soysilk: Oasis and Phoenix
TOFU-tsies sock yarn (soysilk/wool/cotton/chitin which is crab and shrimp shell fiber which is antibacterial)
aMaizing (100%cornfiber yarn)
Country Classic Worsted weight sock yarn
Malabrigio Kettle dyed, soft merino worsted weight
Sock yarn
Dark Horse Yarns Fancy yarns
PT Yarns Opal DK and fingering sock yarn
Hundertwasser (DK)
Harry Potter (Fingering)
  Recycled sari silk in handspun and worsted weights
  Custom spun alpaca/wool/silk DK sock yarn
Lana Grossa Meilenweit (all patterning)
Fantasy; Multi-effekt, Inca & Mega-Boot stretch
Cascade and King Cole

Fixation sock yarn (DK cotton/elastic)
Dolce (alpaca-wool-silk) worsted
Sassy Stripes sock yarn
Fashion Aran (30%wool/70%acrylic)
Eco Wool
Cascade 220 Superwash

Alpaca With A Twist Baby Twist (100% alpaca DK)
Knitting Fever Inc

Ella Rae Amity (75% acrylic/25% wool, worsted weight/200 yds)
Sirdar Snuggly DK
Snuggly DK fairisle
Araucania
Ranco kettle dyed sport weight sockyarn
Nature wool
Noro
Silk Garden DK
Silk Garden Lite sock yarn
Kureyon
Kureyon sock yarn
Kochoran

Kertzer On Your Toes DK Sock Yarn
Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool
Queensland Collection Rustic Tweed
Spinning Fiber Luxury and fine top roving from Peace of Yarn and Ashland Bay Trading Company
Mill end roving from Brown Sheep Co.