We’re so excited to announce that we’ve just received a Trunk Show featuring Fibre Company Road to China Lace. The Effortless Collection and Pathways Collection will be on display here at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop until June 11th, 2016, and we have all the yarns and patterns to make these garments your own! … [more]
One of the best things about our annual trip to market is meeting with the talented, fascinating folks behind the yarns we love. This year, we’re delighted to bring that experience to our very own shop with an exciting event: an evening with Rachel Coopey and Jeni Hewlett from Fyberspates, on Tuesday, June 7th, from … [more]
We’re delighted to be hosting a Baa Ram Ewe Trunk Show, featuring garments from Carol Feller’s Dovestone Hills. All six of these garments are knit in Baa Ram Ewe Dovestone DK, a dk weight blend of 50% bluefaced leicester, 25% masham, and 25% wensleydale wools, all sourced and spun in the UK. We’re offering a 10% discount on this … [more]
The Triangle Yarn Crawl is a self-guided tour of local yarn shops, where yarn-lovers get together and hop from one shop to the next, shopping, entering raffles, and seeing the full breadth of available fibers. They happen twice a year, and the time has come again: the Spring 2016 crawl is coming up soon on April 16th … [more]
Another Fibre Company Trunk Show has arrived at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop! From now til March 20th, 2016, we’ll have the Bristol Ivy Collection on display. All six of these sweaters were designed by Bristol Ivy for Fibre Company Cumbria yarns, three in Cumbria Worsted and three in Cumbria Fingering. Both yarns are composed of … [more]
By now, you likely know how we feel about Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift: how perfectly suited it is for colorwork knitting, the vast selection of colors, and my fondness for knitting sweaters with it, in spite of–nay, because of!–its rustic texture. I’ve loved watching our one little basket of Shetland Spindrift grow into three over the years, … [more]
Our first Trunk Show of 2016 has arrived, and we’ve decorated our walls with the Kelbourne Woolens Cumbria Collection, featuring garments knit in Fibre Company Cumbria Worsted. These designs are inspired by the knitting tradition of the British Isles, from ganseys to stranded colorwork to cables. The Cumbria Collection features a variety of sweaters and … [more]
One of our end-of-year rituals here at the shop is counting up the donation jar that sits on our desk. We have a bundle of used books and magazines sitting on a ledge in the hall outside the shop, and we ask for a small donation in exchange for those items. The proceeds are sent to … [more]
Another trunk show has arrived, another opportunity to see hand-knit garments in person, which is always better than in photographs. Come by the shop before November 24th, 2015, to see garments by independent designers Julie Hoover and Steve Rousseau knit in Shibui yarns! We have five of Julie Hoover’s designs on the wall, four sweaters … [more]
As you may remember from years past, or may have seen in our most recent email newsletter, October marks the nine year anniversary of the Hillsborough Yarn Shop. The shop has grown and changed since Anne first opened in 2006, when the News of Orange reported on the new business at 114 S. Churton Street. We … [more]