# Local Crafts

**Website:** http://www.localcrafts.com

**[Local Crafts Acquires Jimmy Bean's Wool!](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250416345543/en/Blue-Point-Backed-Local-Crafts-Acquires-Jimmy-Beans-Wool-Weaving-a-Stronger-Future-for-Crafters)**

**Local Crafts Group** {formerly Premier Needle Arts (PNA)} proudly provides the highest quality products and services to millions of passionate enthusiasts in the quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, and other fiber arts communities. Our family of companies is comprised of five leading, top-of-mind Consumer Brands with more than 18,000 products, which are either self-manufactured or sourced from the highest quality manufacturers around the globe. Today, our brands are sold across the world and are found on the shelves of independent retail locations, third-party retail sites such as Amazon, and our own consumer websites, and our branded print catalogs.

We employ over 150 team members across the country. Our staff is comprised of innovators who emphasize high quality, affordability, and ease of use. Each day, we focus on designing, manufacturing, and delivering products for our creative customers. Local Crafts Group is headquartered in Vancouver, WA, just a few miles north of Portland, OR.

Our direct-to-consumer division, **[Crafts Group](http://www.craftsamericana.com/)****,** consists of four brands that sell exclusive and name-brand merchandise. **[Connecting Threads](https://www.connectingthreads.com/)** focuses on the quilter with fabric, instructional books, patterns, thread and notions. **[Superior Threads](https://www.superiorthreads.com/)** produces high-quality threads, needles, and notions for both the industrial and home sewist and is a leader in thread and needle education. **[Knit Picks](https://www.knitpicks.com/)**[](https://www.knitpicks.com/) sells everything a knitter could want including yarn, books, patterns, swifts, ball winders, needles and accessories. **[Crochet.Com](https://www.crochet.com/)** was launched in the fall of 2019 and serves the crochet community with the same attention and expertise provided to our other brand customers. All of our products ship from our large distribution center in Columbus, OH.

The newest member of the Local Crafts family, **[Berroco](https://www.berroco.com/about-us)**, is one of the largest importers and wholesalers of hand knitting yarns, patterns and supplies in the United States and Canada. Its range of specialty yarns are imported from countries around the world. Berroco also publishes an extensive range of books and patterns for both knitting and crochet. Operating on the site of the old Lonsdale Cotton Mill in North Smithfield, RI, Berroco continues to lead the industry by continually adapting to the changing needs of the times.

If your dream job isn't listed here, we welcome you to apply for future vacancies by following the link at the bottom of this page.

## Open positions

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