Trends · data through September 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in Alabama

Iceflower tracks 154 stores from 98 art craft hobby store chains in Alabama. Hobby Lobby 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
98
Tracked stores
154
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. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +4.5%
2 M Michaels logo Michaels - +0.8%
3 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores - -100.0%
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Michaels
  • The Vinyl Room Mobile
  • The Vinyl Room
  • JC's House of Cards
  • Gulf Coast Hobby
  • Big Hit Sports Cards
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

154 tracked store locations in Alabama. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Hobby Lobby (29)
  • Michaels (21)
  • The Vinyl Room Mobile (1)
  • The Vinyl Room (2)
  • JC's House of Cards (1)
  • Gulf Coast Hobby (1)
  • Big Hit Sports Cards (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby 29
  • 2 M Michaels logo Michaels 21
  • 3 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 6
  • 4 T The Vinyl Room 2
  • 5 H Home Accents 2
  • 6 M Magnolia Gaming 2
  • 7 B Beth's Heirloom Sewing 1
  • 8 F Farmer’s Daughter 1
  • 9 A All Strung Out Yarn Shop 1
  • 10 B Bessemer Sewing and Vacuum Center 1
  • 11 S Sew Charming Quilt Shop 1
  • 12 F Frame World Art Gallery 1
  • 13 G Geekz Haven 1
  • 14 B Blackberry Cottage Studios 1
  • 15 T Tom Jones Pottery 1
  • 16 F Front Porch Quilt Shoppe 1
  • 17 T Thimbles 1
  • 18 A Ashville House Quilt Shop 1
  • 19 D Downing and Sons 1
  • 20 T The Craft Room 1
  • 21 P Patches & Stitches 1
  • 22 S Sweet Home Quilting and Supplies 1
  • 23 O Oxford Gaming Center 1
  • 24 T The Needle Bug 1
  • 25 P PO's Cards and Coffee 1
  • 26 3 3 Hens & A Chick Quilt Shop 1
  • 27 C Cotton Capers 1
  • 28 B Bou Cou Dancewear logo Bou Cou Dancewear 1
  • 29 S Southern Vinyl Source 1
  • 30 T The Vinyl Room Mobile 1
  • 31 E Enterprise Sewing Center 1
  • 32 B Blue Water Vinyl and Gifts 1
  • 33 B Beads & Leather 1
  • 34 T The Main Menu 1
  • 35 V Vinyl Cottage 1
  • 36 T The Stampin' Elephant 1
  • 37 N Nikkis Magickal Creations And More 1
  • 38 B By Grace Fabrics 1
  • 39 H Hale Fire Glass 1
  • 40 C Classic Decks logo Classic Decks 1
  • 41 H High Country Hobbies 1
  • 42 G Greathouse Made LLC 1
  • 43 S Sew Blessed Fabric & Embroidery 1
  • 44 F Factory Surplus Sales Inc 1
  • 45 S SPARKLE Studio 1
  • 46 O Otaku-Planet 1
  • 47 M Mastermind Models and Miniatures 1
  • 48 D Dreamland Graphics and Vinyl Supply 1
  • 49 3 3D Cards and Collectibles 1
  • 50 P Paper Crane Yarns 1

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