Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every Connecticut metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Michaels leads in all 4 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Connecticut as a whole, Michaels stands out in 3 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Michaels
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Hartford, CT 1× · New Haven, CT 0.9× · Bridgeport, CT 1.1×
Not enough tracked stores: Waterbury-Shelton, CT
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Norwich, CT
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Michaels
#1 in all 4 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Waterbury-Shelton, CT
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Connecticut compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Connecticut as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Connecticut and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Connecticut is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Michaels and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaels | - | +10.4% |
| 2 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | - | -100.0% |
- Michaels
- Hobby Lobby
- Prowess Gaming
- Tabletop Gaming Center
- Jerry's Artarama
- Colchester Mill Fabrics & Quilting
- Milford Scout Shop
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
118 tracked store locations in Connecticut. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 44 of the 118 stores (37%); 68 of the 76 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Michaels (24)
- Hobby Lobby (6)
- Prowess Gaming (1)
- Tabletop Gaming Center (1)
- Jerry's Artarama (2)
- Colchester Mill Fabrics & Quilting (1)
- Milford Scout Shop (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 24
- 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 10
- 3 Hobby Lobby 6
- 4 Affordable Fabrics 2
- 5 Branford Hobbies 2
- 6 Hands On Pottery 2
- 7 Close to Home 2
- 8 Jerry's Artarama 2
- 9 The Yarn Barn 1
- 10 Knitty Gritty Yarn Girl 1
- 11 Ground Zero Airsoft USA 1
- 12 Eejl World LLC 1
- 13 SkyBox Collectibles 1
- 14 New England Toy 1
- 15 The Village Ewe 1
- 16 Hull's Art Supply 1
- 17 Quilted Ewe 1
- 18 Cate's Sew Modern 1
- 19 Knit & Pearls 1
- 20 The Pottery Factory 1
- 21 P1ag Thrillz 1
- 22 SkyBox Trading Cards and Collectibles 1
- 23 New England Yarn 1
- 24 Close To Home The Sewing Center 1
- 25 Ursel's Web 1
- 26 Prowess Gaming 1
- 27 Tabletop Gaming Center 1
- 28 Naa Addy Enterprise 1
- 29 Water Street Potters 1
- 30 EcoWorks, Inc. 1
- 31 Pamela Roose Knitting Supplies 1
- 32 Ronnie’s Candles LLC 1
- 33 The Craft 1
- 34 Second Floor Games 1
- 35 Sew Inspired Quilt Shop 1
- 36 de Gerenday's Fine Art Materials & Curiosities 1
- 37 Holzbecher, LLC 1
- 38 Camouflage 1
- 39 CADMarshall Framing 1
- 40 Velvet Tomato 1
- 41 Yankee Cloth 1
- 42 Stitch Chicks - A Quilting Shop 1
- 43 Madison Wool 1
- 44 In Stitches Custom Embroidery 1
- 45 Market Street Creatives 1
- 46 Driftwood Yarns 1
- 47 Tobacco Valley Action Sports 1
- 48 Pottery Piazza 1
- 49 JB Sportscards & Memorabilia 1
- 50 Papercraft Clubhouse 1
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