About Us

Community

The Stix Chx are excited to share our love of all things yarn by offering classes, hosting events and venturing out for field trips. We love learning about our local "fibershed" and love talking about where our yarn comes from. It’s important to us to foster a strong fiber arts community where folks can come together to discuss and share fiber-related stories. We love to host events for this to happen. 

Inclusion

The Stix community is made up of yarn lovers of diverse ages and abilities. We aim to create a safe space where everyone feels valued and supported in their crafting endeavors. This includes providing space for all people across differences of race, age, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, political affiliation and socioeconomic background. The more who craft, the better we make the world. 

History of Stix

In 2004, Stix opened in downtown Bozeman on South Tracy Avenue underneath Main Street.  A ball of yarn stationed at the top of the stairs (at one time deemed the largest yarn ball in the United States!) served as a beacon to draw knitters down the stairs. Our basement location served as the headquarters of the online magazine, Tangled, which published both knit and crochet designs.

In 2012, Stix moved up to West Main Street where locals and tourists alike found us and our reputation grew for carrying local yarns as well as a great selection of nationally known yarns. 

In 2020, in response to our customers’ need for parking, Stix moved to West Mendenhall Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our new location is light and airy with a large classroom and windows to gaze at the mountains that surround us. Today we sell products all over the world from our website.

About us

Cameron Hildreth is the tall one. She was a beginner knitter when she opened Stix in 2004. She likes color and spending ridiculous amounts of time matching mohair to other yarns. She seems to collect project bags with an accompanying project faster than she knits them. She's in charge of making sure Stix has yarn on the shelves and Stix Chx to open the store. She takes care of money things and ensuring there is fancy tea to drink. She likes to travel and buy "contraband" yarn (yarn Stix does not sell) on most vacations. 

Tracy Pipinich is the less tall one. A 3rd-generation yarn shop owner, her DNA strands are actually made of yarn. She enjoys playing with color, teaching hard classes, arguing about which mohair matches better, randomly rearranging the shop, and designing and sharing new ways to enjoy yarn. She is also particularly good at coming up with brilliant new ideas about how to use up every last inch of a ball of yarn and promptly forgetting them. She'll remember them eventually. You will usually find her behind the scenes in the online shop, making sure yarn gets into the hands of as many makers as possible.