This store has knit and crochet classes! It is very affordable. This is an excellent high quality…read moreyarn supply shop. I have bought a lot of beautiful yarns and accessories. In particular Donna has been a wonderful resource for helping me with projects and teaching me how to make a knit sweater and Docker Beanie. Joanne is very kind and has made me feel so welcomed to the Chico fiber arts community! Thank you so much Heartstrings!! I cannot take your shop and valued teachers for granted. I am so grateful!!!!!! I no longer have to figure everything out alone with YouTube videos. I can receive help and learning from real beautiful expert people!!!!!

Always very helpful, n have lovely yarns to pick from ... very fun shop!…read more tks Joann. just another knitter Caroline

I just recently started 2D needle felting. A friend recommended I try The Yarn Basket in Chico to…read morepurchase wool roving. So I did! They have an entire closet size section dedicated to ROVING!! To say I temporarily went crazy is an accurate description!! I ended up buying at least 36" of every color they had in stock!! And, what is really nice, they sell by the ounce, with no minimum per color!! The other yarn store in town had a very limited selection, with a 1 ounce per color minimum. And, it was $1.00 more per ounce than The Yarn Basket. And, if your not looking for roving, their selection of yarn is FANTASTIC!! And Bruce is EXTREMELY helpful if and when you want help!! I can't recommend this yarn shop more highly! You definitely won't be disappointed!!

Bruce was a font of information - and INSPIRATION - from the first time I came into the store. His…read morestore has everything a fiber artist could ever need: every kind of yarn, knitting, spinning and weaving supplies! I think there is also a rug-hooking section, but I didn't ask. Bruce also is a supplier of spinning wheels and weaving looms!! I can't wait til I go back to the Yarn Basket...to show Bruce a selection my hand spun yarns... and get warp yarns for my next weaving project!

I have a yarn, fabric and clothing fetish. I love really nice yarn, fabric, and…read morebeautifully-designed clothing. I love making things with them -- particularly clothing. Wearing what I wear is less of an issue for me. Bow Bec's is an unexpected paradise for me of yarn and unusual, flowing, imaginative clothing. There's a tendency in slightly hippy towns for the kind of layered, drapey middle-aged New Age woo-woo woman look that is missing here. Instead, there are chic, asymmetrical skirts, biased cut tops and bottoms, feminine, draping, flowing clothing that are not necessarily the oversized, loose garb of the above mentioned kind of woman -- bless her heart -- that leans toward unusually cut clothing. I have some real clotheshorse friends that wear tiny sizes and workout about 2-3 hours a day. They love draping, flowing, comfortable, form fitting clothes and I saw plenty of skirts and tops here that they would love. The price tag comes with it, though. This is no cheap store. A nice skirt with several bias-cut gores with ruching embellishment cost about $115. You'd expect this price and it is worth it. It's not poorly constructed and it'll probably be the favorite skirt of that certain chic, unusual girl for the rest of its lifespan (I'd give it about 15-17 years with the proper cleaning care and as long as she stays relatively the same size that long). In the back, there are the best yarns. No cheap quality yarns here. Noro, Gedifra, GGH, and other great brand yarns of high quality with BEAUTIFUL colorways. And a good amount of stock. I go to my LYS (Local Yarn Shop) and it's not well-stocked, only 3 of the most attractive colorways and 9 of the less attractive colorways. The prices were moderate -- not the highest I've seen and not the cheapest either. Okay, let's be blunt: I tend to shop online because I've been knitting since I was 8 and I can tell by most of the information I see online and sometimes by dropping in on my LYS what a yarn's going to be like. Many knitters prefer the sensuality of touching the yarn and seeing how the yarn looks next to their skin in the mirror. This is the perfect shop for that. It's well-stocked and the prices are not outrageous. Soft sell: the serene woman at the helm was not the owner and she was helpful and avoided any kind of annoying and aggressive sales. In fact, no one I've encountered in Chico has yet to be an aggressive salesperson. Yay!

I love Cathy's Sew and Vac. The staff is friendly, knowledgeable and professional. They have the…read morebest selection of sewing machines, sewing cabinets and tables and really helped me with my purchase. I love the classes they offer and have taken several. The instructors give clear instructions and it's like hanging out with friends at the classes. I also love the high quality fabric and supplies at Honey Run Quilters that is part of the store. I can not say enough about this business, I highly recommend them!

This store and the personnel are one of the reasons I am glad I moved back to Chico after being…read moreaway for most of my adult life. You can find almost anything you are looking for in regard to quilting, sewing or even vacuuming. The staff makes you know you are welcome and are very helpful and knowledgeable when asked for information about a product. I only intended to do quilting here and ended up buying a vacuum as well that I really love as it does the job (no cord needed (except when charging.) I had a Dyson that I could never dismantle to empty without help and the vacuum I bought makes emptying it a breeze. I also bought a Solaris and the staff gave me a great trade-in and let me complete the sale in November rather than the few days earlier. Why? The company was running a special of 60 months with no interest by waiting. That's what I call user friendly!

The perfect place for arts & crafts lovers!…read more When I was younger, I absolutely adored doing arts & crafts. Now, as an adult, I don't do arts & crafts much. In recent years, however, I have become interested in this hobby again. This why I occasionally visit this store. The inside is large and spacious. They have a wide selection of fabrics, paints, glitter, stickers, paper, etc. It's really exciting passing through the aisles, not knowing what you'll find. I go in knowing what I want, which is why I can't speak about service in this review. But I'm sure employees would be helpful if you had some questions. Some of the materials can be expensive. Now I remember why I stopped doing arts & crafts. Still, this is an excellent store any creative person.

Terrible customer service by NATALIE. She would rather defend sloppy, zoned-out behavior of one of…read morethe workers instead of improving on customer service attentive skills. I returned my $86 dollar purchase because NATALIE did not want to listen to how I was ignored by one of the workers. She said the worker was SHY. I am sorry but at work we do training and teach workers to take initiative to help customers and not just stand there staring out into space; that is not shy that is not paying attention and working. Instead of listening to my experience she wanted to argue and call me mean. Natalie shame on you for not training workers for taking initiative, for not listening to the customer's experience. And to top it off you told me that you did not want me back to Michael's and you were glad that Michael's did not get my money. I will be sure to let the corporate office know and I will never continue participating in craft nights or any other store activity at Michael's Natalie when a customer is upset for being ignored while other customers are being looked at and spoken to, you are supposed to try and understand why....not defend the behavior and call it shyness. A worker who intentionally ignores me is strange....I begin to wonder if it was because I was Black because she didn't seem shy talking to the person right in front of ME!!!!!! So Natalie Yes THANK YOU I WILL NEVER STEP INTO A MICHAEL'S STORE AGAIN!!!!!!!! And I will report your nasty behavior to the corporate office! P. S. Michael's selection of yarn is terrible. The variety has gone way down along with their customer service!

Had exactly what I needed! Helpful sales people! Great value for what I needed...the thread I…read moreneeded was half of what it would have cost me to ship from east coast.

Auburn Needleworks has everything! Yummy yarn, hardware…read more(hooks, knitting needles, stitch markers, etc.), and embroidery floss. They might've even had cross stitch kits, but not sure about that. You could spend hours just looking and it takes willpower not to blow a year's worth of pay! The proprietor is a very nice woman and gives great service.

I found this shop through my "Yarn Places" app and am so grateful that we stopped in town for…read morelunch, and the shop "just happened" to be on the way back to the freeway ;-D! (We were headed up to Fortuna from the Bay Area). What a delightful little shop. The yarn selection is amazing, the staff is friendly. Several samples around the shop for inspiration. The selection of knitting notions, tools, etc. should not go unnoticed. Do not pass up the opportunity to look through their sale yarns! Lots of stuff for inspiration (I picked up a couple of skeins of Araucania Milodon for a pair of felted slippers). The shop puppy is a welcoming presence (and very well behaved). So grateful to have stopped and had a chance to help stimulate the local economy.

Heidi, the owner is super helpful and always friendly. If she doesn't have your yarn she will order…read moreit for you and mail it or keep it until you come in. I'm a yarn snob & from Santa Barbara to Mendocino-This is my favorite yarn shop. It's small, but it's packed with only high-quality yarn. don't miss this shopping experience if you're traveling anywhere within 100 mile radius you should get yourself there!

Lovely shop! But I would be failing all my fellow yelpers if I didn't praise the staff at this yarn…read moreshop... they are fantastic! If you need help with picking yarn (or notions) or a project have no fear they will get you sorted! I've taken a learn to knit class here and also dropped in for help and everyone I've come into contact with has been an absolute joy to meet and interact with.

In our small town it is sometimes difficult to find everyday notions. Try Purls of joy for buttons…read moreand needles. Helpful staff.

This is such an adorable yarn store! They have an expansive collection of yarns, and what I really…read moreappreciated is that they had some swatches done so you could see and feel how the yarn would feel when knit up. They said that they are making more crochet swatches too. It's a super cute store, with lots of projects all around the store. The finished project had a note with the yarn and design so you could easily make the project. Staff is so friendly and helpful with yarn recs too! Can't wait to visit again.

This is a awesome yarn shop. They have tons to choose from you have to check it out. The…read moreenvironment is chill as well. Service is very helpful informative and the price is fair or above, but you get a lot of knowledge while you're in here.

Stopped here as part of the Sierra Nevada Yarn Crawl and ended up loving the store. The owner…read moreHeather was so friendly and was so knowledgable about diff types of yarns and just general info about the fiber arts in general. We ended up coming back on our way back from Lambtown--lots of great crafts in general and love their yarn selection.

I love this shop! The owner is super friendly and I love the shop dog!!…read more What's great about this store is that not only is there plenty of yarns, is that there's lots of other crafty stuff like a sashiko embroidery kit, cross stitch patterns, gorgeous journals, and lots of postcards and art prints! They also had plenty of stickers and enamel pins. Definitely looking forward to coming back!