I Love Knitting

Oh my gosh. Look at their store hours. One reviewer said something about a small group of friends starting a yarn shop so they can get wholesale prices. Based on their hours, I can see that! I haven’t been to this store but I would love to stop by just to see how rude they are based on reviews and let them know that’s why I was there.

I have visited this store on a few occasions and each visit has been the same, so I can safely say that I do not recommend shopping here unless you appreciate feeling like you’re inferior and enjoy eavesdropping on personal converations. There are always a group of women sitting around the large table that look you over up and down. The Pretty Woman reference by antoher reviewer is spot on.
The disorganization and messiness of the store could be overlooked if the owner/​workers/​full-​time knitting posse would be more friendly and inviting. They carry very nice brands, but the yarn is scattered throughout the store and if you need help, the people running it act as though you’ve interrupted their private time gossiping and knitting. As the photos show, the shelves are really high, making it impossible to look at or touch the yarn.
After discovering other yarn stores during the yarn crawl I realize I can spend my money at many other stores that appreciate my business and are welcoming and friendly.
I am hoping the store owner doesn’t understand the power of Unilocal because it would be sad that she doesn’t care enough to improve her business after reading her store’s reviews.

Well, I had hoped that since some of these reviews were a few years old, that perhaps the store had improved or wasn’t really as bad as it sounds. Alas, this store is as bad as it sounds.
There is no organization at all to the store. On the day I visited, the person working there said «all the things on the table are 40% off», but things were just thrown on the table or in large bags/​boxes — almost impossible to see what was there.
Of many of the lines they had, they only carried a small sample of the colorways, so finding yarn you may have picked out for a pattern would be almost impossible. A particular yarn could probably be found in multiple locations in the store. And they had a scarf sample hanging but had no idea what pattern or what yarn was being used in the sample (?!).
The store sort of looked like a messy person’s very large stash.
If this is your closest yarn store, I’d drive further to find better.

Online this store looks great. As it was Sunday, I made sure to see if they were open, and yay! they were. I checked a few different online locations and all said they were open. Drove all the way form Broomfield to this store, only to find out that there were summer hours not posted anywhere, but on a hand written note on the door. Needless to say, I was very frustrated. I didn’t think it was that hard to update a schedule online, oh well.

I liked this store originally. Then for some reason, when I go in, the owner isn’t friendly at all. It always feels like I’m intruding in a small group of friends. I went in today at 4:40 to buy some yarn I needed. The owner said she was closing. She hadn’t actually restocked what I needed anyway. So I got in the car and called another yarn store, who had what I needed and said she would wait for me. The new store was so friendly. I get to decide where I spend my money. If they don’t want it, I can go somewhere it’s wanted.
Also the website is never updated. No classes are posted and I can’t seem to get on the newsletter. Oh well.

I’ve been here a few times, but it’s never been my favorite. Even though this store is close to me, I tend to shop for yarn on the other side of town because the selection here is not that great, imo.
The store is a bit small and has a small selection, most of it designer yarn with designer prices. The few times I’ve been there, there’s always a group of people at the table, hanging out, including the shop owner/​shop employee.
Whenever I’ve been here, the staff has always been friendly and helpful, but I rarely find what I need, even when searching for needles. I only go here when I don’t want to drive to Southglenn, but I usually leave out feeling more frustrated than when I walked in.

There are two kinds of yarn shops. The first is the kind where they love yarn and knitting so much that they just have to open a yarn store. The second is the owners love knitting with their friends and want the wholesale discount so they open a store and don’t know how to run a business or how to treat customers. I Love Knitting is the second.
As other reviews have stated, it is VERY messy and cluttered. There is yarn everywhere. On the floor, in bins, stacked in disarray and nonsensical organization. The books are not on a bookshelf but are in the window sill leaning against the window. The space is the size of a cubicle but in spite of how tiny it is they have a gigantic table that fits maybe 10 people, taking up half the shop. This makes it impossible to see the yarn on the shelves behind it. The prizes seem a little higher then other shops but they do have a decent selection.
The service isn’t great. I have been in three times and two of those times the owner and employees were sitting and knitting with friends and didn’t acknowledge or help me or anyone else that came in. The last time I went in I wanted to talk to the owned about a knitting group I was doing and how I wanted to get my members more involved in the knitting community by interacting with the shops. I reached my hand out to introduce myself and the owner stared at my hand and kept knitting. Pretty rude right?! After explaining my case and finishing my speech she said, «wait, what?» She hadn’t listened to anything I said! Needless to say I left, haven’t gone back and now work with great knitting stores like Lamb Shoppe, Fancy Tiger, Stash and Wild Yarns. They are awesome shops who are supportive of knitters and the knitting community.

When it comes to non-​corporate outfits, especially those off the beaten path, I tend to be generous with stars and cut a LOT of slack. Probably too much.
So it says a lot that I’m giving this establishment a solitary star and whole heartedly believes it deserves only that and not a glimmer more.
Their inventory is all over the place, half in shipping boxes, a fourth overflowing from baskets and haphazard displays under tables, the remaining fourth stuffed onto shelves that make me feel nervous just pulling out a skein fearing I will upset the whole damn thing onto the floor. I mean, maybe that’s what happened causing all the bedlam under the tables.
The woman working the three times I’ve been in has always come across as smug and condescending. She might just be shy, but if that’s the case, there should maybe be another sales floor presence. The times I’ve gone in looking for a specific hue within a specific line of yarn she gives me a look half amused and half annoyed — very Pretty Woman «you can’t shop in that league, sweetie» Rodeo Drive-​ish.
I once (and will never again) bought 8 skeins of Berroco Peruvia Thick for a sweater I made my husband for Christmas and not only did she have to flit to four different locales in the (small) store to even find the yarn I was looking for, she didn’t offer to wind it.
Isn’t that just common fiber courtesy? Hi. I’m spending $ 100 on yarn (which yes, I realize you think I won’t know what to do with but how about you just take my money mmmkay?) that I can’t return (store credit only) and you complete the transaction standing next to a functioning yarn swift and you don’t offer to wind even a hank?! Really?
That sealed the deal for me. Never going again. Which is too bad… I love me a local yarn shop. Just not this one.

We stopped by for Yarn Along the Rockies (2012). I’ll admit that I was a little torn on my rating. I did bring in my 4 year old boy to look around with me. The store had a ton of yarn and it wasn’t all tidy and put away. One employee mentioned that the yarn on the tables and under the floor next to the counter were on sale. Someone else was going through them, so we just cruised by. The employee did ask my son not to touch the yarn roller thingy, but she wasn’t a jerk about it. She just explained that it was delicate. I don’t think we’ll be back as I didn’t see anything that caught my fancy and the store felt cramped with the layout and amount of stuff that didn’t seem to have a place to call home.

Very rude and disinterested in helping or answering any questions. The owner barely turned around from her knitting group to answer a very simple question about classes and acted like how dare I come into her store and ask a question. Now that I read other posts I can see this is a common occurance — I’ll never go back again!

When I venture out to a yarn store, I do so in hopes of finding helpful advice from the people who work there. I don’t find that this is the place for people looking to be helped.
Each time I have been to this shop, I have felt like I was inconveniencing someone to ask for help. As another review mentioned, it is difficult to know who works there and who is just there to knit and socialize. There is kind of a snobbish feeling I get from the people there, and since I don’t know if they’re the employees or a social knitting club, I go with my gut and decide not to bother being in that environment whenever I need knitting supplies or advice.

I was in Denver for some meetings and only had a few hours of free time. I had to make a hard decision between vising one of the best knitting stores in the nation (The Lambe Shoppe) or checking out some place new. It was a hard call but my meetings were closer to this place so I went here.
I was not impressed. The store was an absolute mess. This appeared to be because they had recently gotten in a new shipment of yarn so I can forgive them for that.
The store was full of people but it was hard to tell who was an employee and who was a customer. I was looking for a few different yarns, none of them very unusual, and they didn’t carry any of them. So I asked if they add any suggestions on substitutions. I think this is a very standard LYS question, but they acted like I was asking something very hard that would take hours to deal with. She told me she could help me soon but had to help some of the people around the table with their knitting questions first.
They also keep some yarns behind the counter. You are allowed to go back there but it feel weird.
When I did find a yarn I liked, they didn’t have enough skeins out so they needed to look in back to find more. This is when I realized that at least 4 of the people there were employees. So why couldn’t they have helped me? Who knows. Very weird division of labor going on.
Prices seemed slightly higher than most stores but only by 50 cents or so. I also asked if they had any sales. They had a couple of yarns on sale but they weren’t labeled as such and they were bags in the back room. So if you go, be sure to ask explicitly about sales.
After I bought my yarn, I asked if I could wind it. They wanted to do it themselves. Fine, no problem, thanks. But then suddenly a woman who had been sitting there knitting leaped up and said she wanted to wind her yarn first. Wha? They got her to agree that we would alternate winding skeins (made no sense to me as that would not save me any time). They wound one skein of my yarn and had trouble using the ball winder. This has been a common occurrence lately. I go to yarn stores, buy yarn, they insist on winding it and then get it all tangled. Sometime I just wish they would let me do it. After one skein I remembered that I would be going to my mom’s soon and she has her own swift and winder so I just grabbed the yarn and headed out.
Unlikely that I would return here.

i’m usually a reasonable person. seriously. i visited and inquired about the lessons and decided to pull the trigger. i sent an email, got some additional information and was asked for my phone number so someone could call me and schedule lessons. i sent my number and still haven’t heard back from anyone or gotten a follow up email. i’ll keep the $ 70 in my pocket and check out the lessons at Fancy Tiger instead.

I went here thinking that I would find some fun yarn but I didnt. I found less than I expected and some of the same stuff as in other yarn shops. There was a woman there who seemed very grumpy at the fact that I brought a kid in. He wasn’t running around or anything but she gave me the stink eye. Oh well, probably won’t go back there but who knows I may change my mind.

This is one of the cutest stores in the area. The store is decorated with charm and warmth. They have a great selection of yarns and patterns and even some items that are completed to purchase, like felted purses. A very nice staff and owner. They will treat you like a friend.
Get on the mailing list and they’ll email you reminders of upcoming events. They even teach a few classes. If you’re in the cherry creek area, and you like yarn, you’ve got to stop by. They are only a year old, but they seem to really know their stuff.

I Love Knitting was the first knitting store I went to in Denver, and I wasn’t disappointed. The store is really pretty– all dark wood shelves to hold the yarn. Downside to this: the clientele has more of a rich/​snobby vibe instead of the hippy/​crafty vibe I prefer. But with that comes upscale and trendy yarn, brand new patterns, and sophisticated knit examples. They also have a lot of pattern books and patterns that they will let you photocopy, and a sale table. You can visit their website to see their classes as well. A pretty well rounded, if not upscale yarn store.