Yarn selection is lacking. But has the best selection of Quality knitting needles available in town. I would love to see more high quality, premium yarn in store. Not just blends of

Friendly and helpful staff, clean store and decent prices. Store is near to Hobby Lobby and the Salvation Army, so it is easy to get everything you need for a project basically right within this small shopping area

Great store. I sometimes question the coupons and they once forgot to ring an item up correctly. BUT - nice selection and sales are great!

Clean well organized store with a wide variety of merchandise. friendly, helpful staff

My girls & I stopped in while waiting for pizza. The manager at checkout saved me 50%. Very nice guy, great customer service.

Nice clean store. Friendly and helpful staff.

Good selection of sports and collegiate material

My go-to starting place for finding fabric for sewing projects. Typically can find sales or coupons for just about anything. Pretty good selection of baking supplies too!

Always have what i need. Last minute order, pick up was easy. Will definitely buy here again.

Its perfect place for cosplayer shop at.

The store itself was very nice and appeared clean and organized, however, the staff watched me walk in and never said hello or welcomed me at all. It would have been nice if they wouldve asked if I needed to find anything.

They do not have paint stencils.

I had found yarn Joanns online at a 40% discount. When I asked, I was shown that yarn and told all in that section was 40% off. When I went to pay, the extras yarn I picked out rung up at full price. When I question this new employee, he overrode the price and gave me the discount!

Clean well organized, so much fun to walk through

Awesome fabric and craft and so much more

Found some really great deals at this store.

Never have what I need

I downloaded the app so I could get a coupon....only thing is they also make you creat an account and NOT ONLY THAT YOU HAVE TO SOEND A MINIMUM OF $30, NOT INCLUDING TAX, TO USE SAID COUPON. MY BILL CAME YO $29.17 incl.tax.....Can JOANNS SAY HASSLE/RIP OFF......

Helpful friendly staff

Helpful employes and decent selection of cotton fabric. Bring your coupons or download the ap (or both).

Helpful staff. Clean store. Great value.

They had the needles I needed, great service and prices!

Fabulous as ever

They had exactly the fabric I was looking for. Great customer service too

Your typical Joann store. You can get a variety of crafting items here. Sometimes they have great sales going on. If youre lucky, service isnt slow. Thankfully most of the employees are knowledgeable about crafting and can actually help you with a project.

This is my favorite craft store ever! I bought all the materials for my wedding dress here. There are some good quality fabrics for good prices. The sales are impressive too.

Great selection of fabric. Many other fun things.

Great service at my most recent visit! Past trips have had the store understaffed and long waits to check out. Today there were plenty of staff and they were super-helpful! When what I was looking for wasnt something they had in stock in store, Skielar helped me find a great solution and Ill be able to get what I wanted just in time!

Full of great fabric!

Good for fabrics and sewing items. I liked that you can order online and pick up in store now.

There can be a wait to get your fabric cut.Location in Ames is center of Ames so there is quite a bit of traffic. If you are on their mailings they have great coupons. Bright, clean store with lots of close parking.

My first experience there today was great. I went for acrylic supplies and the staff was friendly and helpful. Definitely will come back soon.

Very good inventory but quantity is somewhat limited in some areas and does not have enough clerks at times.

My go to place for sewing and crafting. Good sales and coupons. Friendly help.

Excellent customer service! Lots of fabric options & great deals. Knowledgeable staff!

2 people working 1 cutting and one check out took 1.5 hrs to get done

Clean and organized, but a few issues...The staff were not very friendly or welcoming at all. When we asked where a specific fabric was, the girl barely made eye contact and dismissively said, A few aisles that way, without pointing in any direction.Also, the entryway was chock full of some sort of pumpkin spice aroma and my wife almost choked out on it. Wouldnt recommend, sadly.

Employees are nice and helpful- despite being small, they have a really good variety of stuff

I always have a good experience at JoAnn, and this visit, my first since moving to the Des Moines area, was no exception! Friendly staff, large selection of what I was looking for. If there was anything I would change, it would be to have a more comprehensive yarn department. There were certain brands and types of yarn, that can only be purchased through JoAnn or the manufacturer’s web site, that we’re missing!

Always friendly.

The Ames location is pretty nice. They have lots of stock in all of their departments. Friendly service also. Keep an eye out for their sales, they can be pretty good.

Decent prices, decent inventory, decent quality. Stocks many hard-to-find items. Always seems understaffed. Location isnt the best.

I dont often write reviews, especially negative ones, but I am really hoping that things start changing at this store. I buy most of my fabric online however there are a few quality fabrics I like to buy locally, however this Joanns is making it difficult. I sent my brother in to buy some sweater knit I needed for a gift. To make sure he got the right thing I made sure he had a link on his phone to show an employee. He did so and came home with ponte knit instead of sweater knit. Huge difference. I understand that the employees dont need to know everything about fabric, but they should know enough to distinguish the names! Also, I have found that I need to always double check the receipt. After checking out one time I thought it seemed off and asked the cashier to redo it, when she did there was a $15 difference! And instead of putting it back on my card I could only get a gift card. Hopefully the employees can get better training so that things like this dont happen!

Very friendly staff and helped find coupons and save money.

Love this place. Not the biggest Ive been to, but still a good selection of fabric and notions - they stay true to their core demographic. Where they suffer a bit is the other things you have come to expect from a JoAnns; yarn and such. But theu are a great FABRIC store.

I love this location! I always find what I need and I love the workers! They are so nice and helpful. They really invest in their store and care about what they sell!!

Fun place. Just have fun walking around and looking. Planning my next project.

Yes at help n service

The store has narrow isles, but there is a lot packed into a small store. I bought yarn and was able to look through a variety of weights and colors to find what I wanted for my next project.

This place is great, theres always sales, discount coupons, friendly help..oh and beautiful stuff..

Many options to chose from, craft, sewing, blankets, so many crafts for one to make. I love this store.

Friendliness NOT at this store. High prices always

Clara at the Ames , Iowa store is always so helpful. She goes out of her way to see that I get exactly what Im looking for and tells me about bargains that I might not be aware of.

The store was so clean and everyone was very nice. We were able to find what we needed, and more!

Best store Ive been too! Amazing fabric options, excellent staff!! I will definitely be going back to this store!!

Love the manager Kem, she always makes it a pleasurable visit when I have to go in for my wife. Very helpful and super knowledgeable.

Helpful, informative employees. Good sales and customer service!

I really liked having a register at the cutting table! Clean well-organized store.

Disappointing! I refuse to shop at Hobby Lobby anymore, but every time I go to Jo-Ann they dont have what I want. After not finding one thing I needed today, I did have three items, one was 50% off on a shelf with several other similar items. When we got to checkout, my half-price item didnt have a tag, so my husband went to pick up one that did so they could scan it. Meanwhile, the manager informed the cashier that they WONT SELL ME the one without the tag. Even though we are standing there with one with a tag on it. I told them screw it and left all my items and walked out.

You can find most any sewing or craft thing that you want here.

I LOVE JoAnn Fabrics!!! They have an awesome selection of vinyl for vinyl cutters among many other great selections on various items. I only wish there were more stores around. On this particular Sunday (9/30), it was busy and I dont feel they had enough help. I was looking for alcohol ink and had been around the store several times looking for it. I finally asked an associate where I might find it. She hesitated and told me she thought it would be with the fabric dyes. She continued on her way to the fabric cutting table. I dont think she knew what it was, bc it isnt for fabric, so naturally I didnt find it there. I continued to peruse the store and was not able to find any available help, so I just left. My rating for JoAnns would be 5, but for this store, they didnt quite measure up. Sorry.

Good atención and very good material for crafts.

They have a lot of craft items to offer, not just sewing.

Small store in Ames but packed with supplies.I find it strange they sell As Seen on TV items.

This store is in major disarray. Associates do not greet customers, aisles are cluttered, shelves are disorganized. As soon as the new manager starts, the store will begin improving.

2 employees working on a Saturday morning. Both cutting fabric and nobody at the registers.

The staff were helpful and friendly. This is a smaller Jo-Anns, so the selection was limited in some departments (e.g. the dessert decorating section)

Always great selections and clearance sections to go through! I love this place!

Bought a quilting kit that had NO instructions

It was super busy bit everyone was very helpful

Store is too crowded with merchandise-some stuff sitting in the aisles. Checkout person very pleasant.

I bought an item and gave this large middle aged lady a 10$ bill, she gave me change for a 5$ bill. I said I gave you a 10$ bill she got in my face and yelled It was a fiveeeeeeeee!!! Freaked me out. If she needs the money that bad more power to her. I wont shop at that sh** hole.

Great place to get my crafting needs met.

Good selection and pleasant staff.

Would like to see more scrapbooking items.

Staff is friendly and helpful. It doesnt have everything, but it has a lot for its size.

Staff is super helpful and courteous. If you dont use a coupon for every purchase I dont know what youre doing (theyre always online).

I was disappointed in the message yarn selection, but my entire order was greatly discounted, so what I did get was quite inexpensive.

Always has what I need

Saved 50.00 awesome store

GREAT PLACE YOU CAN FIND ANY THING THERE

The staff weren’t very nice to us when we entered the store, and the shelves were messy and the merchandise on the shelves were sort of unorganized as well. The overall appearance wasn’t great, either. My rating- 2 stars.

Great!

Sells specialty items that are required for crafts and sewing. Great start for hobbyist to find required items. However, it might get a little expensive.

Staff is really friendly and most of the time I get the best of my coupons

Ive just left Jo-Ann Fabrics in Ames IA. The store wasnt busy. After pressing the button for help, I waited several minutes for a clerk to show up. When one finally did, he was trailed by two other clerks chatting him up with compliments and giggling. Unacceptable.

Staff is super helpful and nice.

Limited selection, especially of wool and linen.

It has a crowded assortment of the necessary supplies

I like this place because has a lot of variety of fabrics and many other things you might need for your projects.. Sometimes I think it is a little expensive though 😬

Good choices and sale prices

Good deals

Some of the online coupons did not register when checking out so they had to go back and markdown each item by hand. They were great about doing it, but it was very time consuming and a hassle. Worth the 70% off!

Perfect for any yarn or fabric needs

Friendly store associates, was looking for fur pom poms and they helped me find what they had and offered suggestions on other options

Was very happy with the fact that was Llama fabric and fleece.

Always can find something I need and usually three things I dont! The staff are always friendly and helpful.

Amazing. So helpful

Very great service. For super deals download the 40% coupon online before you.

Love this store! Customer Service is alive and well here!