Trends · data through September 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 103 stores from 74 art craft hobby store chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Blick Art Materials grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Michaels and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
74
Tracked stores
103
Consumer panel
130M+

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. Blick Art Materials and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Blick Art Materials ▲1 +19.8%
2 Michaels - +5.0%
3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores ▼1 -100.0%
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Michaels
  • Blick Art Materials
  • Pair A Dice Games
  • All Star Cards
  • CeramiCafe
  • Tabletop Tavern
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

103 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 32 of the 103 stores (31%); 67 of the 74 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across California.

  • Hobby Lobby (5)
  • Michaels (16)
  • Blick Art Materials (3)
  • Pair A Dice Games (1)
  • All Star Cards (1)
  • CeramiCafe (2)
  • Tabletop Tavern (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Michaels 16
  • 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 6
  • 3 Hobby Lobby 5
  • 4 Blick Art Materials 3
  • 5 CeramiCafe 2
  • 6 Paper Source 2
  • 7 UFO Upholstery Fabric Outlet 2
  • 8 RC Hobbies 1
  • 9 Monz Cardverse 1
  • 10 Addikted rc 1
  • 11 San Marcos Trophy and Engraving 1
  • 12 VISUAL gallery+design 1
  • 13 All the King's Flags 1
  • 14 Quilt In A Day 1
  • 15 Oskadusa Beads 1
  • 16 CoLabCrafts 1
  • 17 Gallery At Land's End 1
  • 18 Material Happiness 1
  • 19 Yarn & Thread Expressions 1
  • 20 Poppers Toy Store 1
  • 21 Ocean Sky Beads Carlsbad 1
  • 22 Mountain Beadworks 1
  • 23 Beads and More 1
  • 24 Discount Hobby Warehouse 1
  • 25 Needlecraft Cottage 1
  • 26 Krazy Kevin's RC Hobbies 1
  • 27 Grand Country Quilters 1
  • 28 EmbroidMe 1
  • 29 Cozy Creative Center 1
  • 30 Artist & Craftsman Supply 1
  • 31 San Diego Sewn 1
  • 32 Mandatory Fun 1
  • 33 Reed's Hobby Shop 1
  • 34 Home Ec 1
  • 35 Artesania Con Estilo 1
  • 36 Craft on Third 1
  • 37 Charlie Gaming 1
  • 38 Stamp Delights 1
  • 39 Apricot Yarn & Supply 1
  • 40 The Art Place 1
  • 41 Kingslayer Games 1
  • 42 The House of Halloween 1
  • 43 Oceanside Pottery Club 1
  • 44 Free Form Clay & Supply 1
  • 45 Nainsook Framing & Art 1
  • 46 Abcana Industries Inc 1
  • 47 El Cajon Hobbies 1
  • 48 Tandy Leather 1
  • 49 San Ysidro Games 1
  • 50 Clay 'N Latte' 1

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