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. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | - | +16.7% |
| 2 | Michaels | - | +2.3% |
| 3 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | - | -100.0% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- Coulee Cards and Gaming Cedar Falls
- First Turn Games
- Good Game
- Glazed Expressions
- Crash'n Bash Hobbies
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
117 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 46 of the 117 stores (39%); 72 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.
- Hobby Lobby (22)
- Michaels (9)
- Coulee Cards and Gaming Cedar Falls (1)
- First Turn Games (1)
- Good Game (1)
- Glazed Expressions (2)
- Crash'n Bash Hobbies (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Hobby Lobby 22
- 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 12
- 3 Michaels 9
- 4 Glazed Expressions 2
- 5 Beadology Iowa 1
- 6 Indianola Glass Creations 1
- 7 Major Art & Hobby Center 1
- 8 Creekside Quilting 1
- 9 Iowa Falls Sewing Machine Company 1
- 10 Crazy Redhead Quilting 1
- 11 The Mad Potter 1
- 12 The Backstitch 1
- 13 Sew That 1
- 14 Debbie's Quilt Shop and Gifts 1
- 15 In Stitches 1
- 16 Quality Time Quilts & Fabrics 1
- 17 The Art Store 1
- 18 The Hobby Shop 1
- 19 The Stitching Place 1
- 20 The Quiltmaker's Shoppe 1
- 21 Arkham Games 1
- 22 West Side Sewing 1
- 23 Countryside Coop 1
- 24 EaGenie's Scots N Knots 1
- 25 Kitchen Dressings 1
- 26 Cotton Cabin 1
- 27 Cindy Lou's Gifts and Quilt Shop 1
- 28 Addicted 2 Stitchin 1
- 29 Quilt This 1
- 30 All Those Little Things 1
- 31 The Knittery Nook 1
- 32 K & K Logo Design Ltd. 1
- 33 Inspired To Sew 1
- 34 Star Collectibles Hobby Center 1
- 35 Quilting on Main 1
- 36 Crafted QC 1
- 37 Crawford Creations 1
- 38 High Bridge Quilting 1
- 39 Fiberworks Needlework Shop 1
- 40 The Woolen Needle 1
- 41 Scrapmania 1
- 42 The Hobby Corner 1
- 43 Taylored Expressions 1
- 44 Red-Roxy Quilt Co 1
- 45 Cardboard Collectibles 1
- 46 Crazy To Quilt 1
- 47 Farmer's Daughters Quilts 1
- 48 Color Store 1
- 49 The Iowa Quilt Block 1
- 50 Prairie Quilt Studio 1
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