The Fiber Studio

Loved this place. Tons of variety. Roving and spinning supplies upstairs. Sweet staff and a table for sitting down and knitting and chatting with other customers who have come in for help. Plenty of stuff prepared for their tent sale, which they let us take advantage of a day early. My ONLY complaint is their lack of locally spun yarn. In NH it seems like a crime not to support local spinners, even if you only offer a few skeins. I can get Cascade and Noro everywhere!

Since I only visited the tent sale and not the actual store, I will have to come back and edit later on. The woman who owns this shop is very friendly and helpful. She was busy on a really hot day and did not mind me asking her stupid questions and bothering her for prices that were clearly marked (my eyesight wasn’t very good). She had great prices on some fabulous yarns, one of which I have been wanting for a long time now. I spent just under $ 100 and I was able to walk out of there with enough yarn for 3 large projects and a couple of balls of interesting novelty yarn to play with. She even gave me a pattern for some great mittens after I asked her opinion about mittens. The biggest plus for this shop is that, even though I visited several yarn shops in that part of NH, this was the one that had the largest amount of locally made or dyed fibers. I was very happy that I visited this shop for their sale and I will be visiting them to peruse their larger space sometime when we are in the area. One tip: if you are using GPS to get to the store, it will seem like it is taking you out into the middle of nowhere but the shop isn’t very far off the main road. It’s not hard to find but if your GPS takes you the back way like mine did, it will seem like the wrong way. Good thing machines don’t have feelings yet — mine is so abused and yelled at that it would need a super-​dose of Prozac just to get to work in the morning!

this is a really great yarn/​findings/​fleece/​dye store. they have everything from cheap lamb’s pride wool to beautiful mahogany spinning wheels. plus beautiful glass, wood, and stone buttons, crystal beads, every color of dye you could need, and tons of books and magazines.
the ground floor has weaving yarns on cones along one wall– every color you could need, lots of various fibers. in the corner toward the window is the dye section. in that front room are all the various findings– crystal beads hang from a fixture near the register, beads and buttons are spread out along a glass table near the stairs, and a big filing cabinet thing contains findings of every metal. in the next room is all the yarn. a whole section for malabrigo, lots of cascade, pretty much plenty of everything. mostly mid-​level stuff– no scratchy acrylic, no luxurious cashmere. there’s also a table and a knitting/​crochet book section.
upstairs is a spinner’s heaven. bins along one wall contain merino roving in every color. there are also some other fibers in separate bins. there’s another table in the center, surrounded by five or six full size spinning wheels set up to be tested. along the opposite wall is a book section on felting and lots of little needle felting kits
downstairs we were told there is a space set up for classes. it sounded like there was one going on so i didn’t venture down for myself.
the only negative is the location. i guess to have an entire barn filled with fiber and accessories, you can’t be right in a town where rents are high– but a girl can wish, can’t she? i guess it’s a close drive from concord, but it’s pretty far from anywhere else and that means i’ll rarely if ever be able to stop in.
i picked up some malabrigo sock yarn, teal powdered dye, and a few yards of beautiful burgundy waxed linen thread for the road.