I’ve been knitting since I was eight years old, and it has always been part of my life, through good times and bad. When my youngest daughter entered her senior year of college, I was finally able to follow my passion and open a yarn shop. I held onto my “day job” as a biomedical engineer while I looked for the right space. Loving the town of Hillsborough, North Carolina, and knowing there was not yet a yarn shop there, I searched for that perfect space in its historic downtown and landed right on Churton Street. In October of 2006, I left my position as director and took a half-time position, allowing me to open the Hillsborough Yarn Shop. Since then, we’ve grown slowly but surely, added a new classroom and inventory space, acquired plenty of new yarn and friends. As I added yarn and space, it became evident that I needed help. Many helping hands have made the shop what it is today, and now I’m thrilled to have full-time help in the form of my colleagues Julia and Bailey.
We are so thankful to have been voted “Best Yarn Shop” by the readers of the News of Orange County every year since 2008. Having been a finalist in the IndyWeek’s “Best of the Triangle” every year since 2012, we are proud to have been voted “Best Yarn Store” in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022. We’ve been lucky to have such kind and creative clientele. Please come visit us at the shop to see all that we have to offer!
-- Anne Derby, owner