Hastings CBD
WestSide
You've got a project. You need fabric, thread, buttons, needles, a pattern, and something you didn't know you needed until you saw it. WestSide has all of it. One strip. Park once. Leave with everything.
There is a specific kind of Saturday that happens on WestSide. Not the errands Saturday or the coffee Saturday. The project Saturday. The one where you arrive with a purpose... something half-finished at home that needs the right materials, the right notions, the right advice from someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
WestSide is where that Saturday happens. Four businesses within a few blocks of each other, each one filling a different part of the same need. The serious fabric run. The specialty yarn. The bits and pieces you didn't know you needed. And when the project is bigger than you can handle... the person who fixes it properly.
Spotlight · 200 Avenue Road West · Mon–Sat 9am–5:30pm
You go to Spotlight when you know what you need and you need a lot of it. Fabric by the metre. Thread in every weight and colour. Interfacing, wadding, zips, elastic, bias binding, buttons. Cross stitch kits. Knitting needles in every size. Curtain lining. Felt. Foam. The kind of store where you go in for one thing and come out forty minutes later with a basket full of things you absolutely needed.
The Hastings store is on Avenue Road West, just off the main strip. It's the biggest craft footprint on WestSide... the place you go first when the project is large and the list is long.
NZ's favourite craft, fabric and homewares destination. Thousands of products for every creative project.
Knit World · 322 Heretaunga Street West · Mon–Fri 9:30am–4pm · Sat 10am–2pm
Knit World at 322 HSW is a 300 block institution. It has been here long enough that it has outlasted the trend cycles that declared knitting over and then brought it back. Merino. Mohair. Cotton blends. Patterns for everything from a beanie to a king-size blanket. The staff know fibres with every fibre of their being.
The customers are everyone. The grannies who have been coming here for thirty years. The young trendsetters who discovered cottagecore and then discovered they actually needed to learn to knit. The people somewhere in between who just want to make something with their hands at the end of a long week. All of them, at 322 HSW, on a Saturday morning.
4.7 stars. 66 reviews. That's not a craft shop rating. That's a community rating.
Merino, mohair and cotton blended threads. Patterns for everything from a beanie to a king-size blanket. Start granniemaxxing today.
The Dollar Warehouse · 329 Heretaunga Street West · Mon–Sat 9am–6pm · Sun 10am–4pm
Every project has that moment where you realise you need something small and specific that you don't have. A certain hook. A box to store the finished pieces. A length of ribbon. Tape. Glue. Something decorative that costs almost nothing but makes the whole thing work.
The Dollar Warehouse at 329 HSW is where that moment gets resolved. The range shifts and surprises... you don't always know what you're going to find, but you almost always find something useful. At a price that makes you pick up two.
5.0 stars. Open seven days. The most democratic shop on the strip.
Well-stocked variety store. Good range of everyday items, notions and novelties at prices that won't hurt the wallet.
Q Variety Store at 205 Avenue Road West sits right in the maker precinct. Scrapbooking supplies, craft odds and ends, variety items at honest prices. The kind of shop where you come in looking for one specific thing and end up finding three things you didn't know existed but immediately need for the project.
Open seven days. A reliable stop on the maker run between Spotlight and Knit World when the list has a few items that don't fit neatly into either.
Variety and scrapbooking store. Craft supplies, odds and ends, and things you didn't know you needed until you saw them.
Stitch in Time · 101 King Street South · Mon–Fri 9am–5pm
Not every project ends with the maker finishing it. Some projects arrive at Stitch in Time at 101 King Street South... the jacket that needs taking in, the dress that never quite fit, the hem that has been sitting in the bag for six months waiting for someone to deal with it properly.
Expert alterations, repairs and tailoring. The thing that separates a good garment from a great one is often fit. And fit is what Stitch in Time does. Bring the thing that needs fixing. Leave it with someone who knows exactly what they're doing.
Expert alterations, repairs and tailoring. Bringing new life to your wardrobe.
The project Saturday. WestSide has everything you need to start it, continue it, finish it, and fix it.
The thing about making is that it doesn't happen in one place. It starts with the big fabric run. It detours through the specialty yarn shop where someone knows exactly which weight works for what you're doing. It picks up odds and ends at a price that makes experimentation cheap. And when the finished thing needs a professional eye... it ends with someone who has been doing this for years and knows what they're looking at.
One Saturday. One strip. Everything you need to make something that lasts.