M&J Trimming • www.mjtrim.com • 800-9-MJTRIM
Trims, tassels, handbag handles, buttons, rhinestones, cords, and nailheads. M&J Trimming has everything you need when it comes to unique trims and embellishments.
Tall Poppy Craft Products • www.tallpoppycraft.com • 212-813-3223
Tall Poppy Craft has a unique assortment of bag-making supplies, including beautiful handles, hardware, and fabrics.
UMX Fashion Supplies • www.umei.com • 800-921-5523
UMX is an online factory-direct fashion supply store with an amazing selection of bag-making accessories, including handles and straps in a wide variety of colors and sizes.
Craftster • www.craftster.org
If your craft involves yarn, glue, glitter, thread, nails, needles, or really anything at all—there is a place for you on Craftster. It offers discussion boards, tutorials, and contests to challenge your creativity.
Crochet me • www.crochetme.com
Crochet Me started as an online magazine dedicated to providing free contemporary crochet patterns, articles, and how-tos. It has since evolved into a community for sharing projects, tips, and patterns.
Crochetville • www.crochetville.org
Crochetville is one of the first online communities dedicated solely to crochet, including patterns, tutorials, websites, and design.
Ravelry • www.ravelry.com
Ravelry is a super fun community for people interested in crochet, knitting, spinning, and other fiber arts. Use the site to organize and manage your yarn and projects, or connect with others who have similar interests in photo sharing groups and forums.
Art of Crochet.com • www.artofcrochet.com
A complement to any crochet book, this website features an online library of video stitch guides for basic to advanced stitchers and righties as well as lefties.
Crochet Guild of America • http://crochet.org
The CGOA is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to preserving and passing on the fine art of crochet.
Yarnstandards.com • www.yarnstandards.com
An online resource of yarn and design information compiled by the Craft Yarn Council of America with the cooperation of industry publishers, designers, and manufacturers. You’ll find standard crochet abbreviations and hook sizes along with the standard sizes for body measurements to be used in designing garments.
Amy Butler • www.amybutlerdesign.com • 740-587-2841
Amy Butler creates gorgeous fabrics with artistic style.
Moda Fabrics • www.unitednotions.com • 800-527-9447
Moda produces beautiful fabrics to match any style.
Reprodepot • www.reprodepot.com • 877-RETROFAB
If you love vintage fabric, you’ll love Reprodepot. They carry a wide selection of fabrics that are either directly reproduced from vintage designs or just inspired by them. They also carry ribbon and trim.
Berroco • www.berroco.com • 508-278-2527
Berroco has a vast selection of traditional and novelty yarns that are usually available in most yarn shops.
Brown Sheep Company • www.brownsheep.com • 800-826-9136
Brown Sheep produces my favorite wool brand, Lamb’s Pride. The yarns are soft and wonderful to work with and your felted projects will shrink quickly and beautifully.
Cascade Yarns • www.cascadeyarns.com
Cascade’s 220 wools always felt nicely and the Pastaza wools have a soft, delicate fuzziness after felting due to the 50 percent llama wool content.
Darice • www.darice.com • 800-321-1494
Darice is one of the largest distributers of craft supplies. Their products include beads, wire, and hemp that are usually available at craft supply chain stores like JoAnn Fabrics and Michaels.
Hemp Basics, LLC • www.hempbasics.com • 888-831-3747
Hemp Basics manufactures and distributes hemp twine, cord, and fabrics. Includes polished, unpolished, bleached, semi-bleached, non- bleached, and dyed hemp cord and twine in several plies and weights.
Home Depot • www.homedepot.com • 800-553-3199
I buy almost all of my kitchen string, jute, and sisal supplies at Home Depot. They also carry grommets and grommet-setting tools.
Jewelry Supply.com • www.jewelrysupply.com • 866-380-7464
Jewelry Supply.com is an online jewelry-making supply store that also happens to carry leather cord in a variety of colors and lengths. You can usually get a discount if you buy multiple spools.
Knitpicks • www.knitpicks.com • 800-574-1323
Knitpicks has a large selection of mostly wool fibers for a steal.
Kpixie • www.kpixie.com • 508-378-7344
Kpixie is right on top of current trends in fibers. Their inventory is an eclectic mix of specialty yarns and fibers, including wool, cotton, handspun, import, and paper fibers.
Land of Odds • www.landofodds.com • 615-292-0610
Land of Odds is an excellent resource for inexpensive beads and jewelry-making supplies. This is also a great place to shop for wire.
Leather Cord Online • www.leathercordonline.com • 937-399-4645
This is where I get most of my leather cord. They sell imported leather in 25-yard (23 m) spools in a wide range of sizes and colors. The owner ships quickly and offers discounts for multiple quantities.
Lily • www.sugarncream.com • 888-368-8401
Lily is known for its Sugar ’n Cream yarns—good-value cotton yarns available almost anywhere in a wide range of colors.
Paper Mart • www.papermart.com • 800-745-8800
Papermart carries a wide selection of packaging supplies, including ribbons, cording, raffia, jute twine, cotton string, and many elastic and nonelastic cords.
Weaving Works • www.weavingworks.com • 888-524-1221
Weaving Works is my favorite store in the Seattle area. They have a beautiful selection of yarns and spinning supplies, including dyed and natural roving, and the people are so friendly. If you’re lucky enough to live close by, be sure to arrive when tea is being served.
Create for Less • www.createforless.com • 866-333-4463
Create for Less is a beautiful thing. They have more than 50,000 craft supplies and everything is discounted. They sell crochet, embroidery, and felting tools and accessories, including hooks, roving, embroidery floss, and yarn.
Crippenworks • www.crippenworks.com • 518-789-6703
Katharyn Crippen Shapiro creates beautiful custom-made needle and hook cases. When you visit her website, you choose the fabric for your case. If you need extra pockets or any other adjustments, she is happy to customize to your specifications.
DMC Corporation • www.dmc-usa.com • 973-589-0606
DMC has the one of the largest selections of needlework threads on the planet.
Fire Mountain Gems • www.firemountaingems.com • 800-355-2137
One of the few places that sells Chinese coin replicas in a variety of sizes along with beads and other jewelry-making supplies.
The Warm Company • www.warmcompany.com • 425-248-2424
These are the fine makers of Steam-a-Seam fusible web products.