We’re delighted to announce that we have an exciting event coming up: a yarn tasting featuring four yarns from Mountain Meadow Wool, a small yarn company out of Wyoming. Mountain Meadow Wool is dedicated to producing locally sourced and naturally processed yarns. Run by co-owners Karen Hostetler and Valerie Spanos, Mountain Meadow Wool seeks to support … [more]
The Triangle Yarn Crawl is a self-guided tour of local yarn shops, where knitters and crocheters 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 2013 crawl is this weekend, March … [more]
Another year has passed at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop, and it feels like a particularly momentous one. Most of our days were spent in the usual way: we guided knitters and crocheters to the fiber, tools, and texts they sought, talked them through unfamiliar techniques, were wowed again and again by the incredible things they … [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]
It’s been a long, exhausting couple of days, but the shop reorganization is now complete. All our yarn is now sorted by gauge, the books are consolidated, and somehow the shop feels much bigger than it did before. You’ll have to come in to get a real sense of how dramatically this new arrangement has … [more]
Our reorganization of the shop is in full swing. Outside, our doors are locked, and we’ve hung sheets in the windows to hide the chaos within. What’s that? You’d like a peek at our chaos? You’re wondering just what we’re doing in there? We’re rearranging all our yarn by weight, so that yarns with similar … [more]
As you may have read in our newsletter, or heard from Anne and I over the past couple of weeks, we’re planning a major reorganization here at the shop. Furniture will be moved, needles and books rearranged, and all 600+ kinds of yarn that we stock will be shuffled around into a new order. The … [more]
July is coming to a close, which means that our annual inventory sale is ending soon. All month, everything in the shop has been discounted by 15%, unless, like the Cascade Lana Bambu or Rustic, they were already more deeply discounted to begin with. So many of you have already taken advantage of this discount, … [more]
This past week, we got some great news from the News of Orange County. Once again, we’ve won “Best Yarn Shop” in the News of Orange County’s Reader’s Choice Awards. Thanks so much to all who voted, and to everyone who supports the shop!
As many of you know, July is our annual inventory sale month. From the 1st to the 31st, everything in the shop is discounted by 15%, with the exception of classes and yarns that have already been discounted. If you’ve had your eye on a special skein, or have been planning a big project or … [more]