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Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill, LLC

Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill is a woolen yarn manufacturer that does custom wool spinning as well as spinning wool into yarn with our own unique character.

Our main website is blackberry-ridge.com A family-owned spinnery located in the hills of Vermont Township in south central Wisconsin. We provide wool processing services to customers from all over North America and natural fiber yarns and knitting supplies to hand knitters all over the world. We feature our own line of yarns using fibers grown in America that are spun, dyed and hand painted here a

t our mill. Our yarns are made from Merino (white) and Corriedale (gray) wool from sheep flocks grown here in the midwest. The fiber is spun using a woolen process, which produces wonderfully soft, warm lofty yarns. We also offer several additional yarns spun elsewhere from fibers that our machinery can’t process, such as the machine washable yarns.

04/27/2026

Thank you to all the shoppers that stopped by our mill on Saturday, LYS day. We appreciate you business. Stop out again when you are ready for more woolen spun yarn.

04/19/2026

We have restocked our red Madder Root dyed yarns, dyed lots of new rovings, and are generally getting ready for local yarn shop day which is next Saturday, April 25th 2026. We will be open from 10-4 that day and are offering shoppers 10% off purchases of $25 or more. Hope to see some of you then. Just a reminder, if you can't make it then, we are open by appointment most other times and are happy to have you come and visit.

03/17/2026

Sunday March 15th was the beginning of an ice and snow storm that lasted through the morning on Monday. We had a fair bit of ice collect on the tree branches but never lost power due to falling branches on the power lines. The snow that followed coated the windows as it blew around. On Monday, no school, no travel advised, no work. Here is a pic of the ice as it melted and re-froze off the mill roof. It has been a long time since we have had weather like this.

03/13/2026

This year marks the 30th anniversary of our first Sock of the Month pattern collection by Mary Dominski. This collection was inspired by the book Folk Socks by Nancy Bush which brought many knitters out of "retirement" with patterns for small projects (socks) that they actually got done. Mary went on to design many more sock patterns over the next few years. Although we no longer put together kits for these socks, the patterns are still available on our web site: www.Blackberry-ridge.com. April was most popular of these patterns with the sheep on the cuff, April being a common month for shepherds to plan for lambing.

02/04/2026

Last week our carding machine told me that it needed to be cleaned. I had been putting it off since It is a lot of work to do that. Earlier today, I was watching a video cast from another mill where they made a comment about how much work it was for them to clean their single breaker card. Ours has 4 breakers. We put a lot of wool through our card before cleaning which is why we sometimes have a long turn around time between processing colored wool and white wool. Here are some pictures of what it takes to get the first breaker clean. One is at the beginning of the process and the second near the end. It took many hours to clean spread out over several days, but it is now finished!

01/02/2026

Happy New Year!
We are continuing to fill in/update our web page with items that were left out during the shift to a new provider. Pictured here is a sport weight rag yarn spun from local Corriedale fleeces. For this rag, we plied a dark gray yarn with a medium gray yarn to give a subtle heather to the finished product. The lighter shade of gray is from older sheep (sheep get gray with age much like humans). This results in a yarn that is more rustic, smoother and tougher than the merino yarns that we produce. These are put up in 4 oz skeins with about 325 yards/skein. Wishing you happy knitting in the new year.

11/30/2025

After a pleasant Thanksgiving weekend, it will be back to work on Monday, December 1st which is hard to believe. Saturday we had snow big time, and we got a little dyeing done. Here is a pic of the last 2 jobs that will get mailed tomorrow. These are the last of the orders that we took over the open house weekend, but were low on stock. Shown here are 2 colors of our sport weight 25% silk blend yarns, one of my favorites! Happy Knitting.

11/24/2025

Thank you to all the folks that came to our open house this past weekend. I hope you enjoyed the tour and the shopping. Just a reminder, that we welcome shoppers at other times, but we do appreciate letting us know ahead of when you would like to come out. We run machinery and can't hear visitors when they arrived unexpectedly. Have a happy Thanksgiving and safe travels (and happy knitting!).

11/21/2025

Fall Open House Saturday November 22nd 8-4 and Sunday November 23rd 10-4. You can check out the wide variety yarns that we don’t usually take to the festivals. Tours of the mill. Purchase $25 or more and get a 10% discount. Happy Knitting and Happy Holidays!

10/31/2025

October is almost gone and November and the holidays will follow. Here are some "oldy but goody" holiday stockings available from our store either as a kit or just the pattern. Pictured from left to right are: Holiday Train, Santa's Chimney, and Christmas Cables. Visit our web page at: www.blackberry-ridge.com for ordering info.
November is also when we host our Open House. It will be Saturday November 22nd from 8-4 and Sunday the 23rd from 10-4. We'll be giving tours of the mill and a 10% discount on purchases of $25 or more.

Address

3776 Forshaug Road
Mount Horeb, WI
53572

Telephone

+16084373762

Website

https://www.blackberry-ridge.com/

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