Thank you Jillian for helping me with my knitting problem and providing the required information to…read morepurchase the pattern for the cute little porcupine that I saw in the store. Great service!

Yarns Ewe'll Love is a fabulous yarn shop that opened September 12, 2018! It is located in the same…read morespot that was previously occupied by Yarn Forward, which closed over the summer (the owners of Yarn Fwd retired, and closed both this shop and the one on Bank St.) Louise, who managed the Kanata shop since its inception 20+ years ago, is the new owner and manager of Yarns Ewe'll Love. It's fresh and clean! I didn't realize the store needed a makeover, but it's really refreshing! It smells good, and looks great! They sell a wide variety of yarns, with more upscale offerings. I purchased a skein of "Eat Your Peas Louise!" just for fun!!! Well done, congratulations, and good luck! Welcome to the block! I'm so glad to still have a yarn shop in Ottawa's true west end!!

It's been a lot of years since I wrote a review for Wool Tyme. A lot has changed for them since my…read moreprevious review: they had a flood, then occupied a temporary location while repairs took place; COVID came and went; and they've expanded under new management. I was shocked today to see how big the shop is! Gone is the office space, in order to display more yarn! They have a humongous amount of squishy delight! Today I picked up gorgeous sock yarn for me and hubby, and a new colour of Briggs & little to knit something from "Big Splash Knits". I am busy knitting for the rest of this decade!!

I have now gone to the shop twice in the last month and half and both times was treated with…read moreextreme rudeness. The staff are not helpful and snarky comments are part of the customer service. I want to support local but won't shop here. There are other stores in Ottawa that will get my business or I will buy within Canada.

Wow! What took me so long to come in here? Then when I do, it's mere moments before closing! On the…read moreother hand, maybe that's a good thing, as I can then only do so much damage to the wallet! I can understand why quilters get such a stash too... very tempting, although I don't sew much. This shop has a section for yarn, but the quilting and sewing side has more variety in it. I was tempted by a lovely apron, which is funny because I don't ever wear one! Maybe I would though... if it looked like this, and if I made it myself! They offer some upscale yarns in here that were heaven to sink my hands into. I managed to walk away with "only" 2 skeins, which will be for a project for me; I'm thinking mittens, but we shall see. I recently purchased the new knitting book called "Saltwater Mittens", which contains patterns that are supposed to represent Newfoundland, and I'm just itching to get going on a few of these patterns! They have a knit-night on Wednesday evenings from 5:00 to 8:00. Now that it's on my radar, I will keep this in mind so that I can spend more time looking around. And oh yeah, knitting! LOL I will definitely be back.

From the owner: We supply products and classes to makers of textile arts. We offer fabric, yarns, Bernina Sewing…read moremachines, threads, and other sewing/quilting notions. In our yarn area we feature Canadian Hand Dyers in a variety of yarn bases and weights. We have dyers represented from Western Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. We still support the quilters among you with fabrics, thread, notions, patterns, classes and Bernina sewing machine sales and service. Longarm quilting services are available from “The English Rose”. What’s new you say? If you are into knitting/crochet, you will be pleased to know that we now carry beautiful materials, patterns, notions and classes for you as well! New stock is arriving daily so check back often.

This yarn and wool fibre shop is amazing! With all the…read moredifferent brands and styles of yarn I find the staff so very helpful in getting what I need and help with colours (I am a tad colour-blind-ish) for a project. And the quality of the yarns they carry, from commercial production to indie dyers is top notch. And then there is the luxurious spinning roving and sliver. This is where my heart lay . The colour selection of wool for needle felting is also great. I really love this shop. It's a great place for patters, everything you need to complete a knit project or a yarn spinning project. 10/10 Highly recommend T

4 stars out of 5 for:…read more - friendly staff - good, wide selection of yarn - on the pricey side - offers some classes

I don't shop for fabric very often. Actually it's close to never. But, on this particular occasion,…read moreI needed something very specific, and the only place of, other than a specialty packing supply company was C&M. I didn't even know the name of this particular material, but I found a pic of what I needed. Upon entering the store, I was greeted by a friendly staff member who pointed me in the right direction. The person I needed to speak with was with another customer. I was offered a chair while I waited. Once served, she knew exactly what I needed. Brought the roll of material out, measured, cut it, wrote up the invoice. At the cash, the person that initially greeted me punched in the numbers and processed my payment. And then, what happened, will keep me coming back to this store every time I need more material. SHE THANKED ME FOR MY PATIENCE. All businesses need to take note of this. This is how customer service should be.

Decent size store. Half is home dec, half is fashion. It was fairly tidy, though the shop…read moreassistants I came across all smelled of cigarette smoke. The fashion bolts I looked at ranged from $16/m cotton to $100/m wool. They have an excess of shiny, slippery and sheer fabrics, some solid and some nicely patterned cotton sateens, a few flannel/fleece options, lace/cut-outs, linings, and other stuff. I don't recall if they had knits or not. Warning to people under 5'7": you may have trouble reaching fabric on the top shelf in their fashion fabric area. EIther bring a tall friend or be prepared to wait for a shop assistant to help you out. When I went (4 Feb 2013) they were having a 50% off everything sale (with selected bolts at 80% off!) so if you're lucky you'll get there during a sale.

Susoss is upstairs on Bank Street just south of the Parliament buildings. I noticed the shop (it is…read morejust a doorway with stairs leading up) one day as I was shopping along Bank. They had really nice knit sweaters on display on the stairs and exotic music playing. I went up the stairs and was treated to a real international treat. If you have traveled around the world, you would immediately recognize many of the products on display - the Buddha statues, the silk wall hangings, the incense, the jewelry, the clothes. I saw much of it while traveling around Bali and the Philippines. It was a treat to see it again - but I was surprised how much more it costs here than over there. The ornately carved picture frames were hundreds of dollars. One very large frame was over a thousand. I could have bought much of these goods for a fraction of these costs. But, at least you wouldn't have to pay for the air fare and put up with the dozens of hours of air travel. The store also sells a variety of pants and shirts all made of cotton or hemp. So, if this sounds like the kind of thing you are into, check out Susoss.

I love this shop! So glad they've opened up in Bell's Corners. Too bad I don't paint though, as…read morethey have a great collection of paints being offered. They also have frames, and even knitting yarns. This is a smaller shop than in the St Laurent shopping centre, but still a reasonable size. I will come back.

I bought big canvas 48"x60" and I asked the cashier if there is anyone can help to put it inside my…read morecar which is 10 steps away from the store . She said no one can help as everyone busy with the customer!! What am I ?? I am a customer paid $90 for canvas. I told her I fell down on ice and my shoulder not feel good. It was very windy that day. The cashier not even bother her self and told me to wait until she can find someone. She let me leave the store holding big canvas by my self!!! The worst customer service ever.

When I visited the Trainyards for the first time, the first store that I hit was Michaels. I parked…read morewithin a few feet from the main doors and walked in. As with most Michaels stores, this one is huge and spacious. It has a ton of aisles and I can never figure out where the calligraphy section is. I feel like I need a map of the store. I did like the silicone moulds. I bought a couple of dog-themed ones for a friend. You can either make ice cubes or bake in them, or anything that suits your needs. I love the flexibility! I relived my youth by seeing Spirograph and macrame kits. I ended up getting a crocheting kit that was on sale. I like picking up a skill and crocheting, it is. Speaking of sale, there are a lot of bins with items that have been heavily discounted. I recommend checking them out. I was heading towards the checkout and a frazzled woman approached me. She looked at me and said, "Oh, you don't look like you work here." I was wearing a Snoopy t-shirt. Um, no. She decided to interrupt a transaction between a customer in front of me and the cashier to ask her question. This woman got her answer and I could tell that she was going to head in my direction and bump into me without watching where she was going. I held my crochet kit, which served as a shield. Yep, she plowed into it while I said to her, "Don't ram into me." Too much drama for a visit to a Michaels store, I tell ya! Anyway, the cashier was so sweet, apologizing. She asked me whether I had signed up for Michaels. I don't shop here all that often and said that I didn't think so. Well, after she looked up my phone number, it turns out that I am. Nice! I paid and walked out with my crochet kit, and my two silicone moulds. It's a good store, but watch out for the occasional weird shopper. (266)

This is a big, new, clean Michaels. I've been here a handful of times and usually fin what I am…read morelookin got most recently I was looking for Sharpie oil-based paint pens, and they had them! though they weren't located near the other non-Sharpie brand version of the same thing, so that was kind of annoying. It's also annoying - at this location and at other Michaels locations in general - that they don't have more cashiers working. I feel like I've wasted the prime years of my life waiting to pay for overpriced craft items at Michaels. Come on Michaels, give me my youth back. Whatever, where else am I going to find obscure crafting items?

Came here to get a frame, I knew the dimensions, and I found it, but then an employee insisted on…read morehelping me, and said I shouldn't buy this if I wasn't sure of the dimensions. I said I was pretty sure, I was willing to buy the frame but she said I should go home and be sure. I have no idea why she wouldn't let me buy the thing, and just risk returning it, which is what I wanted to do. Apparently, they don't want to take my money. So then I came back, I was right about the dimensions all along, but now they didn't have the size I needed anymore. An employee asked to help, i said "NO". Also, they don't give discounts to people who work at the mall, which some places do, so at this point I gave up. I won't come here in the future. I will have to just shop online, I wanted to buy it here, but they didn't make it easy.

turning into a craft store . Always under stocked . If you order something they don't have in…read morestock.. be prepared to wait forever. They have a below average selection of paints, brushes and paper/canvas . They charge for paper bags and don't offer to wrap expensive water colour paper sheets. This why people shop on line! I am switching to on line art supply shopping.

I get excited just knowing I'm going there. This is the ultimate toy store. Helpful staff, highly…read morerecommended!

When I was planning our trip to Ottawa, I made it a point that we would come here and all my…read moreexpectations were blown out of the water. Hobby shops like this simply do not exist anymore in New York which used to have a slew of them when building plastic models was popular. There are still a couple of mom & pop places scattered around but not on the scale of the Hobby Centre. Kids these days only interact in the virtual world and hobbies like this will eventually fade away. But in the meantime, I'm going to hoard as many plastic model kits that will fit in my house. My favorite theme for building and painting plastic models are World War II planes, so I was on the hunt for a 1/72 B-17G Flying Fortress or maybe a B-29 Superfortress. Airfix (from the UK) is one of my favorite brands and they stock a lot of their line here, but neither bomber were in stock on this trip. The hunt goes on. They did have a new release of the Avro Lancaster, which I have been searching high and low. I also picked up an Italeri JAS-39 Gripen and a vintage Airfix BAC Lightning. Prices are pretty good, especially on the older vintage kits along the back wall. With the favorable US$ exchange rate, I got some good deals. If I had spent more time here, I definitely would have blown through all the cash in my wallet, never mind my spending limit on my credit card. I just might have to make a return trip to Canada with a large trailer!