7 Yarn Store Success Stories [2024]

Updated: November 19th, 2023
Start A Yarn Store

Here are some real life success stories of starting a yarn store:

1. Blacker Yarns ($156K/year)

Sue Blacker, the Managing Director of Blacker Sheep Limited, came up with the idea for her business after being a customer of the Natural Fibre Company spinning service. With a background in business and finance, Sue saw an opportunity to own and manage the spinning service and purchased the business, conducting extensive research and business planning before successfully convincing a bank to support them. Since then, Blacker Yarns has grown into an international business, selling their yarns mainly through their online shop and selected stockists across the world.

How much they make: $156K/year
Current team size: 16

article

How I Left Corporate Life To Start A Yarn Business

Blacker Sheep Limited is an international yarn business that sells Blacker Yarns through their online shop and selected stockists across the world, with over half of their sales to countries outside the UK and half of those into the USA.

About
Blacker started Blacker Yarns over 18 years ago
Revenue
Blacker grew the business to $13K/month
Read by 8,613 founders

2. Ravelry

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia
Website traffic: 13.3M/month

article

So... can you actually make money with a yarn store?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

  1. Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
  2. Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
  3. Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now

4. Lion Brand Yarn

Lion Brand Yarn is America's oldest craft yarn company with 80+ active yarn families. Find your next project by searching over 8,000 free knitting and crochet patterns for afghans, hats, scarves and much more.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA
Website traffic: 1.09M/month

article

5. KnitPicks.com

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Website traffic: 670K/month

article

So... can you actually make money with a yarn store?

Of course. There are millions to be made in this industry.

But how?

  1. Research real, profitable businesses and see exactly how much money they make.
  2. Study exactly what works, and what doesn’t.
  3. Take action, because now you have the roadmap.

Join Starter Story and build your next big thing:

Start Now