3 Kittens Needle Arts is a specialty store that caters to customers looking for everything from the basics to the unique and hard-to-find products for knitting, crocheting and needlepoint. The store is stocked full with needles, buttons, handles, accessories, yarns, threads, knitting books and patterns. Customers can find specialty items including hand-painted yarns. The store offers regular knitting, needlepoint and crocheting classes and private lessons. Its staff is also available to help customers get answers to their own project questions. When answers just aren't enough, the store also offers professional finishing of handmade items. The store opened in Mendota Heights in August of 2008.