Friday, July 19, 2024

Yarn, yarn everywhere

Crochet Twin Cities at the Fall
Fiber Festival
Crocheters, knitters, weavers and other yarnies are truly blessed to live in the Twin Cities. I’m convinced we have more yarn sources than anywhere else in the world. We have over 60 big box stores including 19 Michaels, 10 Joann, 11 Hobby Lobby, and 21 Walmarts.

Here is an inventory, as of June 2024, of Twin Cities local yarn shops and yarn sources and not so local yarn shops in outstate Minnesota. I’ve included Minnesota festivals that have yarn vendors and all the various independent hand dyers I could find. The Minnesota Grown Directory from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture lists 32 farms that supply wool, though I suspect there are more. I tried to limit the list below to farms that sell yarn. Let me know if I’ve missed any so we can keep the list on the blog up to date. barbara55109@gmail.com.


Twin Cities Local Yarn Shops

CTC at Darn Knit Anyway
2024 Yarn Shop Hop


3 Kittens Needle Arts

750 Main St., Suite 112, Mendota Heights


A Sheepy Yarn Shoppe

2185 3rd St., White Bear Lake


Amazing Threads

11262 - 86th Ave. N., Maple Grove


beWoolen

11444 Marketplace Drive N., Champlin


Dandelion Fiber Company

3952 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis


Darn Knit Anyway

423 S. Main St., Suite 423b, Stillwater


Harriet and Alice

3922 W. 50th St., Suite 105, Edina


Knit & Bolt

2833 Johnson St. NE., Minneapolis


Knit & Crochet Store

388 West Market, Mall of America, Bloomington


Knit & Crochet Store

12633 Wayzata Blvd., Ridgedale Mall, Minnetonka


Knitting from the Heart

1785 Radio Dr., Suite D, Woodbury


Muse 2320

113 E. 2nd St., Hastings


needle & skein

5814 Excelsior Blvd., St. Louis Park


Rose Yarns

17563 Glasgow Ave., Lakeville


StevenBe

3448 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis


Yarn Tales 1

222 E. Main St., Anoka


The Yarnery

493 Selby Ave., St. Paul


Other Twin Cities Yarn Sources


Anoka Fiber Works

4153 Coon Rapids Blvd., Coon Rapids


BambooMN

Online


Ingebretsen’s Scandinavian Gifts and Foods

1601 E. Lake St., Minneapolis


Weavers Guild of Minnesota Supply Shop

1011 Washington Ave. S. #350, Minneapolis


Special Yarn Events


Fall Fiber Festival - Hopkins in November


Farm to Fiber Festival - Park Rapids in September


Minnesota Fiber Festival - Cambridge In September


St. Cloud Spin Fest & Fiber Fair - St. Cloud in June


Shepherd’s Harvest - Lake Elmo in May


Textile Center Garage Sale - Minneapolis -dates vary


Yarnover Marketplace - Plymouth in September


Zombie Knitpocalypse Marketplace - Rochester in June


Not Quite Local Minnesota Yarn Shops 


A2Z Yarn

123 N 1st. St., Brainerd


Becki Steier Studio, LLC

110 N. Main St., Blue Earth


Bemidji Woolen Mills

Online


Bonnie’s Spinning Wheel

16 21st Ave. S, St. Cloud


Dappled Fern Fibers

15 S. Broadway, Grand Marais


iTry Studios

518 Broadway, Alexandria


Knitting Knight

113 E. Howard St., Hibbing


Mary Lue’s Yarn and Ewe

122 North Front St., St. Peter


Monika’s Quilt & Yarn Shop

210 Main Ave. S., Park Rapids


Northfield Yarn

314 Division St. S., Northfield


Piece by Piece 

401 W. Broadway, Plainview


Playing with Yarn

276 Scenic Dr., Knife River


Prairie Fiber Arts Center

127 4th St. S., Moorhead


Quarry Quilts & Yarns, LLC

326 Quarry Place, Sandstone


Serenity Now Yarn & Alpaca Shop

231 Barclay Ave., Pine River


Silver Creek Cabin

3 Division St., W., Buffalo


Sisu Designs

31 W. Chapman St., Ely


Warm & Wooly

38500 Tanger Dr., North Branch


Yarn Harbor

4629 E. Superior St., Duluth


Yarnology

79 W 3rd St., Winona


Minnesota Yarn Dyers and Companies


Alainn Yarns


Aye Dye


Beautiful World MN


Berry Fun Yarns


Blue Sky Fibers


Cannon River Fiber Farm


Cashmere and Coconuts


Dark Lake Fiber Art


Diamond D Sheep


Dresow Family Farm


Eclipse Knits Studio


Fiber Fusion


Fiber MacGyver


Furious Feline


Get Bentz Farm and Badgerface Fiber


Hummingbird Yarn Company


Kasha’s Knits


Kato Yarn Company


The Kinetic Knitter


Knitting Lizard Fibers


Knitting My Way Home


Knitty Vet


Lavender Lune Yarn Co


ModeKnit Yarn


Muse2320 Fiber Co.


Nerdy Knits


Orchard Acres Textiles llc


Palmer Yarn Co


Petal & Hank – Natural Dye Studio


Purls & Pines


Rach-Al-Paca Fiber Processing & Vermillion River Alpacas


Reywa Fibers


Simply County Knits


Sister Weekend Yarn Co.


Shepherd’s Bay Farm


Silly Goose Yarns


Sunshine Queen Fiber Arts


Willow Pond Dyeworks


Yarn of My Dreams


Yarn to Dye For