Apple Yarns

Great store! I visited for the first time today to get information about the Knitted Knickers. I received very excellent help from Andrew. The selection of yarns and notions is the best I have seen. The knitted examples are beautiful! I’ll be back even though it is 90 miles one way.

Caveat: I don’t knit. That’s my wife’s thing. So I’m writing this review with her input, and my vantage point.
My wife says this is a very nice store with very nice people. It apparently carries yarn types that she cannot find normally, and this is a plus. They wound her yarn for her, and had patterns she hadn’t seen before. She says their prices were good.
Male perspective: Could have used a chair for me to sit in while waiting. Had a restroom, so that’s a plus. Went and sat in the car for a while. The ladies working here were pleasant, and didn’t give me the weird pitying looks I’ve gotten in some yarn stores while waiting for my wife.

Located in a weird place (in a big strip mall), but the store is pretty awesome once you’re inside.
I went looking for Souvenir Yarn, which means something from a local creator. They were able to find me a couple different Washington dyers they stocked, and I picked up a lovely skein of Huckleberry Knits in a «pacific forest» type of colourway (think greens and a bit of blue).
The space was a little oddly shaped, but there were great big windows and lovely staff members. I also loved the big knitting-​related quotes on the walls.

This has been my favorite shop in my little private yarn crawl/​visit to Washington. Not only do they have a great variety of yarns, but they have unique tools and great kits to buy. They have local yarns and they have a great little group of knitters who gather to chat and knit. I was new to the area and felt very welcome here. We exchanged tips and ideas and I left with more experience than when I arrived. I had a great time.

Great yarn store with extremely helpful sales staff. Holds classes for all ages. Has a number of ornamental buttons — large, very special ones.

I went in today on the way back from a trip to Blaine. I knew there had to be at least one good yarn store in Bellingham and sure enough, there is!
The store is just east of I-​5 in a fairly generic area of strip malls and low-​rise office buildings. So not the historic downtown setting. But in return for that, you get a space with LOTS of windows and a nice open feeling.
The store is divided roughly ²⁄₃ inventory/​store and ¹⁄₃ open knitting/​gathering area. I really wished I lived in Bellingham and could hang out in that open space for a knit night (or afternoon).
A previous reviewer (from 2009) mentioned all the needles were on a wall behind the register. NOT SO! That may have been true back then, but now all the needles are out on a wall readily accessible to customers. In fact I handed some needles to the cashier when a customer was asking about them.
Yarn selection was nice, though I couldn’t quite figure out the organizational pattern. It felt more like brands were grouped together than weights or types of fiber. It wasn’t an issue though — I found some nice yarn and a great little book.
Staff was super helpful and friendly and got over their shock that I was a knitter with admirable speed. They led me to the book I wound up getting and were winding my skeins even as I was finishing paying for them.
I definitely plan on coming back with my daughter who loves exploring new yarn stores.

Top notch service and stunningly beautiful stock. I couldn’t be happier with my experiences there.

Great yarns, superior help, a bright, comfortable place to hang out and knit.

This place is great, granted I don’t knit or do yarn stuff but I took my 11 year old daughter in for a series of knitting classes and she loved it. The staff was very friendly and patient as she had never knitted before. I learned a little bit myself as well.

Nice friendly and helpful. lots of yarn. To choose from.

We are so fortunate to have thus store in our community. I really enjoy the book selections, very inspiring. I like the low calorie ‘eye candy’. A great way to perk up my day. I have met some wonderfully creative & helpful people in the Apple Yarns community.

Used to go there for a daytime knit session; then they wrote in their newsletter that folks were only welcome at open knit sessions if the yarn had been purchased there.. .well, I buy yarn at lots of places.. .and everytime I went I bought something from them.. .but I won’t go back because I don’t like their attitude.. .

Apple Yarns is the coolest yarn shop. I am not a great knitter but everytime i go in i get inspired. they have a great selection of books that are fun to look through and displays of finished products that i always want to have for myself.
great classes too! there is something for everyone taught by experienced and helpful staff.

I really enjoy this yarn store. Instead of encouraging people to buy just one or two skeins of super-​priced novelty yarn that will probably never get knit up into a project, this is a store for people who actually make things! Large selection of sock yarn, and plenty of Cascade 220 in stock, in many colors, to buy enough for an adult cardigan. Decent selection of needles, and knowledgeable staff. The layout is conducive to shopping for yarn combinations, and I got good advice about that too. Really friendly staff — I was invited to sit and swatch with them while deciding what to buy!

Why, oh why, Apple yarns, do you feel the need to keep your needles on the wall behind the register? Are you scared the middle-​aged yuppie ladies of the Barkley and Silver Beach neighborhoods are going to shove them into their bras, ala Perry Ferrell in the «Been Caught Stealin» video? I honestly doubt it. And that’s a bummer, because I NEED to touch the needles prior to purchase, as I am ever so fussy about yarn slippage and slidage and proper grip for gauging needs.
The sales people are a tad bit pushy and perky for my likes, but it makes sense given the yuppster haven the store is situated in. The yarn selection is pretty decent, but there has never been a scrap in there that has made me want to dive head-​long into the cubby on the shelf and revel in it’s plush /​alpacy-​y /​sinfully luxuriousness or salivate over its dyelot hues. Plus, no diva yarn? My little fat donut of super soft technicolor is no where to be seen here, que bummer. I suppose they’d special order it, but what would the point be when the other yarn store carries it?
So. Good store for beginners and middle aged folk, not so good for yarn-​fondling skein harlots, but the basics are there.