4 Best Shopping in South County, Rhode Island

This boutique shop has been a mainstay in Wickford Village since 1971, selling a wide variety of local crafts, stationary, glassware, pottery, and quirky gift items. It's a delight just to stroll around and admire the collection of unique and curious goods packing every shelf, and while you can spend hundreds on some one-of-a-kind items, the shop isn't so precious as to eschew a few $10 touristy trinkets, too.

With a hippie vibe, the kid- and couple–friendly Fantastic Umbrella Factory contains a handful of rustic shops built around a wild garden and bamboo forest. Unusual flowers, succulents, and other plants are for sale, along with interesting clothing and jewelry, CBD products, soy candles, creative pottery, Native American handcrafts, quirky gifts, and incense. For $3 you can buy a bag full of seeds to feed the fenced-in emus and roaming chickens. 

This small fine-art gallery represents local and nationally known artists, photographers, and jewelry designers. You'll find inspired landscapes and seascapes as well as a collection of vintage pottery.

This welcoming yarn shop has a great selection of organic cotton, bamboo, alpaca, merino wool, and cashmere yarns, as well as felting supplies, beads and buttons, books and patterns, and knitting and crochet needles. Classes are offered so you know what to do with your purchases. For the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday "knit-ins" you can bring your own work in progress and knit with the locals.