We’re looking forward to Local Yarn Store Day, this Saturday, April 27th. Come to our shop on LYS Day for 25% off featured yarns!
LYS Day is about celebrating brick-and-mortar yarn shops and appreciating all that they offer. Here at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop, we are proud of our selection of high quality yarns, books and tools, and our customer service. Our mission is to provide knitters and other fiber artists with quality materials and help connect them with the knowledge they need to make things they’re proud of.
All the yarn in our shop is sorted by gauge, with sections marked Lace weight, Worsted weight, Bulky weight, and so on. We hope this makes it easier to sort through our robust selection to find the yarn that’s right for your project! For LYS Day, we’re offering 25% off one featured yarn in each gauge section:
You can read about all our featured yarns on the links above, and look for the yellow signs to find them here at the shop on LYS Day!
Come by the Hillsborough Yarn Shop this Saturday to celebrate LYS Day and get some great deals! We’re open from 11 am – 5:30 pm; see you at the shop!
A reminder: all discounted yarns are final sale, no returns or exchanges. Discount applies only to in-stock items, no special orders. Thanks for understanding!
Have you had the pleasure of working with Berroco Ultra Alpaca? It’s a soft and sturdy blend of wool and alpaca in a worsted weight, with a suggested gauge of 5 stitches per inch. This 50%/50% combination of animal fibers gives Ultra Alpaca the structure and elasticity of wool along with the drape, halo, and … [more]
The latest issue of Vogue Knitting magazine is here! Upon flipping through this issue, I noticed an abundance of cables. Come by the shop to get a copy of this latest issue, and to plan your next project!
Another Isager Trunk Show has arrived, a few weeks earlier than expected. We have four tiny garments on display, selections from Susie Haumann’s collection of knits for babies from 0-18 months, All You Knit is Love. Each one is made with Isager yarns, from Tvinni to Alpaca 1 and 2, sometimes held singly, sometimes doubly, … [more]
As promised, here’s another batch of show and tell! Gail crocheted this beautiful baby dress in Isager Bomuld, a smooth, fingering weight cotton. Amber made a baby dress, too–this delicate one, knit in Classic Elite Silky Alpaca Lace. Margie brought in two beaded scarves to show off, made generously as gifts for two friends. The … [more]
There’s been so much incredible showing and telling going on at the shop in the past few weeks, enough that it can’t all fit into one blog post. Here’s the first of two installments. Mary has been cranking out hats in the Swans Island Organic Merino Worsted. It’s been great to see how these colorways … [more]
Two new magazines came in this week: KnitScene and Jane Austen Knits, both of which are full of patterns for sweaters and accessories–plenty to keep your needles busy this fall and winter. I was pleased to see that KnitScene profiles one of our favorites in this issue: Swans Island, a small company in Maine that … [more]
A new book arrived a couple of weeks ago that immediately caught Anne’s eye. It’s no surprise–Northern Knits: Gifts is filled with three things that often catch her eye. Is there colorwork? Yes. Fine, lightweight yarns? Indeed. Something to knit for babies? Oh, yes! Anne is making three of these little hats for her three … [more]
When Namaste’s newest bag, Harlow, sold out almost as quickly as it came in, we got the message, and made plans to reorder. What are knitters loving about Harlow? It’s spacious, full of interior and exterior pockets for housing knitterly notions as well as wallets and cell phones, and has a zippered top to keep … [more]
UPDATE: As of 11/19/2014, we are totally sold out of Araucania Azapa! ************************************************************* In tandem with our anniversary sale, which entitles our much-appreciated customers to 15% off everything in the shop between October 13th and 21st, we’re discounting Araucania Azapa by 25%. Araucania Azapa is a bulky weight blend of merino wool, alpaca, silk, and … [more]
As you may remember from years past, or may have seen in our most recent email newsletter, October marks the six-year anniversary of the Hillsborough Yarn Shop. We are so grateful to all of you for your support over the years, for shopping and learning and sharing with us. We’ll celebrate another year in business … [more]