Fiber Notion

Great selection and exceptionally helpful and friendly clerk. Although I walked in a minute before closing, I was given quick and easy suggestions on how to keep my costume simple and recognizable. Moderate prices and great selection of fabrics and accessories. Excited to brainstorm my next costume!

I went in earlier today after reading the great reviews. I must say my experience was nothing shy a perfect. I was just looking for small pieces to put together for hair scarfs but the women (I didn’t ask her name –_​-​) helped me find soooo much more. I’m sad that I found the store as its in its last few months but I will definitely be back before they close their doors!

Jaw-​droppingly unwelcoming and unfriendly customer service. Ever heard of smiling or have a good day?

The woman there was very helpful and the do have bags for 50 cents. I support the bring your own bag practice, but happy they have some. I got the thick canvas material I was looking for at a good price. Overall good experience.

I walked in quite confused. Overwhelmed by SO MANY crafty things. Yesterday was my first trip to a fabric store. I’m fairly inexperienced and had some questions that the female employee (whom I assume runs the place) answered. She was very helpful /​knowledgable and my excitement about the place was exciting for her, which is a good thing! This place seems like a true gem. They’ve got everything from buttons to zippers, quilt fabric, felt, sewing supplies, knitting supplies goodness the list goes on. This place has me so hooked that I’m tempted to stop by in the morning right before by tiring retail shift. Sacrificing sleep just to make a trip here will make my day. That should say something for ya!

This is my go-​to store in the area! The female who runs the shop always answers my questions (no matter how inexperienced they may sound). If she doesn’t carry some odd thing you need (in my case it was a rare iron-​on), she’ll tell you where you can go to find it! She is extremely helpful and she really knows what she is talking about. Highly recommended!

This little nook of a store is an absolute gem! They stock an incredible selection of fabrics and sewing supplies. There are gorgeous small silk samples from France that make amazing scarves. There was Mexican gingham oilcloth buy the yard, to line drawers, and all kinds of quilting supplies.
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You can’t get much better than Fiber Notion. I stopped in there today in search of some crafty ideas for a Mother’s Day card. The owner, Kat, talked through some ideas with me and then we ended up creating the card right there in the store! She helped me with everything! Every single idea we came up with she let me try out. She helped assemble this very extravagant card right there in the store, cutting out felt, adding ribbons, glueing photos on cardstock, etc. etc. etc.
During our in-​store arts n’ crafts session there were a few school girls who came in looking for various bits n’ pieces for their own projects. I watched admiringly as Kat gave each girl personal attention and encouragement. It was heart-​warming and inspirational.
She is a lovely person with wonderfully creative ideas. A store like this is the sort of thing that really makes a neighborhood special.

My fiancée and I stopped in here on the way after brunch on a Saturday. It had a few other people shopping inside of it, mostly focusing on knitting supplies.
We asked a few questions and were responded with accurate, but surly answers. The male employee was asked by another customer about fabric and he did not respond at first. It was overall a less-​than-​pleasant experience.

I went here today because I work in the area and was looking for something specific to finish a project I have at home. I let the shop keeper /​Owner? know what I was looking for and the project I had in mind and she went above and beyond helping me with measurements and finding what could possibly suit it to a tee! I will be coming back for other projects!

Very interesting store to buy something that you need right away. Not overcrowded as many chain stores, all merchandise clean and very well displayed.

Great place for quilters. Not great for apparel sewers. If you need a few notions in a bind, though, this place will do.

I’ve lived in the neighborhood my entire life, born & raised, and we have been in dire need for a craft shop since the fabric store that used to be on 7^th Avenue closed a million moons ago.
Kat opened Fiber Notion and changed everything! Fabric, yarn, notions, buttons, you name it! Is she able to carry every brand of everything? Of course not, but the styles and brands there are fantastic.
We have shopped there since they opened their doors and NEVER have we been treated rudely or ignored. Kat also encouraged my child to touch the fabrics, yarns and offers advice on crafts.
I happen to really like Kat. She’s a cool, small-​business survivor and that takes guts in Park Slope. Asking people to leave their drinks outside is her choice as the owner.
Go to the store for the beautiful fabrics and rich, soft yarns. Go for the felt, notions and ribbons. Just go! It’ll be worth the trip!

They didn’t have exactly what I was lookin for HOWEVER owner was extremely helpful in my decision making process. I needed something akin to snap tape, alas that’s all I could find. Great little store! If I knew how to sew I’d be a more frequent visitor.

I just needed red ribbon and hook-​and-​eye fasteners, and finally caught Fiber Notion when they were open. It’s a tiny very disorganized store; there was a crate of a few random ribbons by the door and I looked around for a rack or some organization and the man working offered to help, flicked through the crate and said «yeah, we don’t have that» and walked back to his desk. Not great either in service or products and I don’t recommend this store.

I randomly did a Unilocal search for a nearby craft store while studying at the Tea Lounge. I found that Fiber Notion was only a few doors down so I had to check it out. Luckily, the shop was open (I read reviews about random store hours).
It’s a small local shop and appears to be owned by a couple. The hubby was sitting on a stool by the entrance and greeted me as I entered. There was a lady behind the counter and she made an effort to show that she is not ignoring me but it did not seem sincere. I assume she read the Unilocal reviews about her shortness with customers. I overhead her conversations with a supplier and another customer and she was quite rude with them. I thought her husband was much kinder and eager to help.
It looked like most locals come in to shop for yarn but I have a cheaper source for it so I browsed around the store for whatever caught my eye. The first half of the narrow shop is dedicated to sewing-​related material. I ending up buying 2 yards of print fabric and buttons to use on some great beginner’s sewing projects I found on pinterest :)
I’m a huge fan of supporting local businesses but I’d rather buy my fabric at a cheaper price from Jo-Ann’s where they have friendlier staff.

Cute little crafts store. I found them on Google, called to ask if they carried Stitch Witchery. They didn’t, but she had Steam-​a-​Seam instead, so I headed over. Their website warns that they have irregular hours so you may want to call ahead before you go.
When I got there, I discovered a teeny tiny little store. There were about 5 people in it, and it was difficult to get around. But they have a decent selection for being so small, and the woman behind the counter was helpful, if not the warmest person.
The only reason I’m docking a star is because they’re bag-​free. Honestly, I just find the «bag free» movement to be somewhat irritating. I just came and bought a handful of knitting needles and yarn and scissors and paid you for it, and now you’re begrudging me a $.1 plastic sack? This might work in a city where you just have to walk out to the car, but I wasn’t thrilled about having to carry an armful of purchases the 10 blocks home. Other than that, I was happy with the store, and will return.

I’ve gone here 3 separate times before deciding to write a review, and each time had the same experience.
I was lucky to even get a «hello» when I walked in the door. Even when I asked for help, she begrudging took a minute from talking to her friend to sort of answer my question.
Never once have they had what I was looking for — and I’m not talking crazy things: lighter weight fabric options, more than 1 type of yarn, most sizes of crochet needles, and the list goes on.
But honestly, the unfriendly atmosphere will keep me from ever going back…

Let’s start with what you WON’T find here:
*Rigid hours or a phone number that works after Hurricane Sandy
*The stock or range of materials set at the price bracket found at Michael’s or other craft store monster chains — this is a little shop about the size of an average apartment, though quite well organized.
*A knitting store within a craft store
* «Scraps» (believe me, I asked) for the tiniest of finishings on your current whimsical project
And after you’ve wrapped your mind around that, here’s what you WILL find here:
*Polyester fiber filling for stuffed animals, quilts (if you’re not going to be orthodox and use cotton batting), and the like at $ 8.99 for a 12 oz. (340g) bag that could probably stuff like three little stuffed creatures
*Tiny ziploc bags of five jingle bells for $ 1.50
*Bags of both natural and wildly dyed feathers
*Bric-​à-​brac of all kinds of colors, if you’ve ever figured out what you can DO with bric-​à-​brac, except wish you had a reason to make yourself a traditional Mexican dress from scratch
*Packets of googly eyes
*Tubes of glitter
*Hemp and leather cords
*Bolts of cotton calico, nylon netting in a few shades, and even lamé (shudder)
*An assorted collection of birch knitting needles and aluminum crochet hooks
*Wooden embroidery hoops
*Cross stitching cloth, though probably of synthetic make
*Plastic needlepoint grids
*$ 3.99 cross stitch patterns for like 70 types of tropical fish, birds of prey, etc.
*Fiskars original scissors (strong enough to cut off whole fingers with one snip) for $ 18.99
*Jumbo skeins of Bernat worsted acrylic yarn in a host of colors, but that you still don’t want to purchase
*A jolly sampling of colors in ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ acrylic/​cotton baby yarn that you might buy by the armload if it weren’t $ 6.99 a skein
*A surprisingly touchable basket of ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ cotton/​hemp 66-​yard skeins of yarn… which you want to buy until you see that MARTHA STEWART was behind their composition (whaaat? Hemmmmp?)
*Limits: As in, $ 15 limit for card purchases, and ½ yard limit if you want to buy wool felt ($ 8-​$ 9) instead of the pre-​cut, synthetic, 60-​cent squares). I’m the first person who detests credit card limits, but come on, folks, they’re everywhere… and we just take it. Surprised by the outcry when it comes to a mom ‘n’ pop needlework store.
*A woman who DOES fit the descriptions in EVERYone’s review here; brusque, moody (self-​admittedly crankly when suffering from a chest cold after the storm, and who really could blame her) who will rip your head off if you presume the private bathroom/​storage area is for public use without asking (saw it happen to a lady who just couldn’t hold it), but is at the core very kindly and helpful, and will jump to reach a bag of fiberfill with a special hook from the topmost shelf or actually tolerate your questions about the philosophical differences between felt and «thick fabric.» She’ll also let you lay away your selections on a small working table so you can free your arms to browse some more. She grumbles, «Wouldn’t it be nice if this were a bigger store?» But actually, there’s something very cozy about a shop where you only have a few options for each thing that you need, and can navigate whole genres of items without running through sterile aisles, calling out in vain for help from uniformed and dispassionate staff at a craft megastore. It’s like the good old days, when I imagine craftspeople relied upon their neighbors for odds and ends, notions, and some yards of calico.
Chances are, this place will have what you need, and then some. However, if you’re looking for silk tulle, wrapped organic cotton yarn for babies, beads of Swarovski crystal, 30″ fuschia zippers and shit like that, you’ll obviously have to go elsewhere.
Not only is this the only serious option for craftspeople in the whole area, it’s also pretty darn good in its own right, and helps you avoid the hustle, bustle, crowding, and dust of Midtown when all you want is a button or a bag of polyester fluff.

I should have known that going to a craft store the weekend before Halloween would be bad idea. Fiber Notion’s small space was crowded with little kids running around (standing in front of the door waiting to be hit, of course) and parents who could care less. That’s not Fiber Notion’s fault, but just added to the experience.
I went there searching for a pair of knitting needles, found the size I needed and went to check out. Wait. There was a credit card minimum of $ 15? Yes, $ 15. Really. And guess what? The needles were overpriced, at $ 11, so I was $ 4 short. As I didn’t have enough cash, I turned to leave, but before I got out the door, the wife of the cashier said she would let me use my credit card. Great! Redeemed! But of course, not without a whole lecture on «how hard it is to be a small business.»
It look all my willpower to not to say that a) having credit card minimums are illegal in the first place and b) renting a store off 7^th ave in Park Slope is certainly not helping if you’re concerned about costs. My advice for them: Don’t pass it on to your customers in the form of unrealistic credit card minimums and overpriced inventory. Treating your customers right will always work out better in the end.