FAQ

We are not currently offering any tours at our Queen St mill and dye house, but we are so proud to welcome you to our brick & mortar yarn store! You'll find everything Spincycle has to offer, along with a carefully curated selection of yarn from our favorite dyers and some pretty fabulous knitting accoutrements.

Spincycle Yarns & Supply Co.
112 Grand Avenue 
Bellingham WA 98225

We are open Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 6pm and Sunday 12pm - 4pm. We are closed Mondays. 

We want y'all to be happy with your yarns, so please take advantage of the order notes box at the bottom of the shopping cart. That's the right spot to tell us exactly what you're looking for in your skein! Super saturated? Pale and wintry? The one with more blue and less pink? We will do our very best! 

Please note: We cannot honor requests emailed after purchase or through any other method; you must use the order notes box in the shopping cart.

We are not able to combine shipping on multiple orders, nor can we make any adjustments to your order once it has been processed and packaged for shipping. Please double check your cart before clicking through payment. If you purchased the wrong colorway by mistake, you can email orders@spincycleyarns.com to request an order cancellation. If we get your message in time, we will cancel and refund the order. If the order is already in process or has shipped, see our returns policy below.

If the colorway or item you want is not in stock, you can sign up to receive a restock notification by email. Look for the EMAIL WHEN AVAILABLE option available on any out-of-stock item.

When an item has been out of stock for a while, or is popular due to a new pattern release, there may be a LOT of folks signed up for restock notifications. When we stock the item, all of the restock notifications go out at the same time. Depending on when you check your email, the item might already be sold out again by the time you click over. 

We can wind your skeins into balls for a fee. Click here for that service. Wound yarn is not eligible for returns, unless there was a fulfillment error on our end.

We know that sometimes the yarn arrives and it's just not right for you! Not a problem. We will gladly refund the purchase price, minus shipping, to your original form of payment.

Yarn returned in its original condition will be accepted within 30 days of receipt for domestic orders, 6 weeks for international orders, and 14 days for shop purchases. If you have opted for ball winding service, your yarn is not eligible for returns. We cannot refund you for orders returned after these dates, or for yarns that are covered in pet hair, or that smell like smoke or perfume. Purchases of discounted items are final. This includes "seconds" and discontinued colorways.

Please mail to:

Spincycle Yarns
ATTN: Returns

112 Grand Ave STE 105

Bellingham WA 98225

You must include order number! Without an order number, it is very difficult or impossible to figure out whose account to apply a refund to.

Please note: We cannot accept yarn purchased from our stockists. That yarn must be returned to the shop from which it was purchased.

If we made a mistake in your order fulfillment, we will generate a return label and email it to you if we are able, or reimburse your shipping cost to return it, and we will ship your replacement skein(s) for no additional shipping cost.

We reserve the right to retain 20% of your refund for a restocking fee. Restocking fees are applied to orders returned without order numbers and returns accompanied by rude or abusive notes or emails. Just because you didn't like your colorway, doesn't mean heads need to roll!

Because of fluctuating inventory numbers and how quickly some colorways sell out, we cannot offer exchanges. Instead, please make a new purchase and then send back your original purchase for a refund.

What are your shipping rates?

Domestic orders are based on USPS rates.

International packages are shipped via DHL Express. DHL Express rates depend on the location of the recipient. For a DHL rate quote or to request international shipping via USPS or UPS, please reach out to orders@spincycleyarns.com.

Unfortunately, we cannot be responsible for your carrier delivering to the wrong address, or for stolen packages. If you would like to insure your package, let us know right away, and we will send separate invoice for the insurance cost. The customer assumes responsibility for any mistakes made entering the shipping address.

ATTENTION: Import duties and taxes are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are your responsibility and will be collected from you by the carrier upon delivery. We cannot falsify the value of the contents of your package, and deliveries that are returned for refusal to pay duties are not eligible for a refund. 

At checkout, you can choose between USPS Ground Advantage (slower) and Priority Mail (faster). Estimated transit times for USPS Ground Advantage and Priority Mail reflect USPS’s shipping times, not our speed of order fulfillment.

All orders are fulfilled chronologically, so paying extra for priority shipping will not bump you to the front of the queue. It will make your package move faster only once it is in the hands of USPS. 

While we strive to get orders out the door within 2-3 days, a high volume of orders may cause fulfillment delays. If you are leaving for vacation, moving, or wanting your order in time for a birthday or holiday, we encourage you to plan accordingly. Our small but mighty shipping team thanks you!

With the exception of our seconds mystery bags, we seldom offer discounts or sales. The reason for keeping our pricing constant is that we don't want to undercut our stockists. We do our best to respect all of the work that yarn shops put into this industry.

Regarding our yarn prices: We have a staff of twenty+ highly trained folks making your yarn. They have each undertaken a huge amount of on-the-job training to learn to mill yarn and to maintain and fix machinery. It is really important to us that working at Spincycle Yarns be a viable career for everyone who works here, so we provide healthcare, retirement benefits, livable wages, sick and holiday pay, profit sharing, and a safe and clean work environment. When you purchase Spincycle Yarns, you make all of this possible. Thank you!

Our wool is grown, processed, dyed and spun in the USA. The only part of the process we don't do ourselves is the scouring and combing. We don't have the capacity to scour and comb the 10+ tons of wool that we move through our mill each year, so that part is done for us at Chargeurs mill in South Carolina.

The non-superwashed wool that we use in Trine is a blend of Corriedale, Rambouillet and Columbia breeds, from sheep raised in Wyoming and Colorado. Our superwashed wool blend, used for Dyed In The Wool, Dream State, and Plump, consists of Rambouillet, Targhee and Merino breeds, raised primarily in South Dakota and Wyoming. Wilder is Wyoming-raised Rambouillet. Our Nocturne is the only non-US-grown wool we buy, and it is non-superwashed European merino. Metamorphic is a blended combination of any or all of the above. 

The sheep that supply us with our wool are 100% non-mulesed.

When we pull the yarns for your online order, skeins from the same colorway will be a good match to one another. However, lots - and even skeins within lots - vary pretty wildly! That's due to our unique "dyed in the wool" process, in which we dye the fiber before it is spun into yarn, resulting in slow color changes and completely unique skeins!

We recommend that you purchase all skeins for a project at once so that we can make sure they match well. Should you need to match an existing skein with a new purchase, feel free to email a photo to orders@spincycleyarns.com. We will be happy to help make the best match possible from on-hand stock.

Our mill is pretty small, as mills go. And the process is still very hands on... very human. No skein is perfect! Though we aim high, idiosyncrasies happen. If you run into a slub, it can usually be teased out gently. Splices aren't common in our skeins, but do occur when we need to join an end from one bobbin to an end from another to wind off a full yardage skein. We use a mechanical, compressed air splicer to ensure a very firm splice that will not pull apart, and we make sure to join yarns at matching color sections.

Please contact us if you feel you’ve received a skein that has slipped past quality control and is too irregular.