I agree with Natalka, bring your glue guns and glue sticks, and other high-strength glues with you.
There are plenty of places where DMC and Anchor embroidery thread and Aida cross stitch cloth is sold and Kreinik thread and blending filament, too. Prices are higher, but they do have them.
They have wonderful Italian, Polish, German and a few UK sewing and craft magazines at the Galeria Krakowska Empik store, as well as a few decoupage, beading and painting supplies.
The yarns in the small pasmenterie stores in the city center and surrounding areas, as well as in little areas like Borek Falecki and Skawina, are of lovely quality and come in beautiful colors and shades, but most is wool or wool blend and not necessarily washable, as our Wool Ease and similar brands at home are. No Red Heart acrylic for kids crafts can be found in the entire country, I fear! Fur yarn can be found in small quantity, but it's pricey, as are cross stitch, crewel, cutwork and hardanger kits, when you can find them.
Singer machines can be found at chains such as Tesco and Carrefour, but I would suggest going to a pasmenterie store that specializes in sewing supplies and machines to buy one there. I saw some good Pfaff machines at the pasmenterie at Galeria Krakowska recently. Again, they are pricier than at home, but you can get them.
I brought along my knifty knitter circle and rake looms, some small hand looms (ezee knitter, daisy wheel, doodle looms, etc) but cannot find vast quantities of washable yarn to use with them. I have not seen Jamie or Simply Soft yarns, two of my favorites for washable and soft baby items.
I wish I would have brought my bulky/manual knitting machine and enough yarn for several large, ongoing projects, my sewing machine and my entire filet crochet and cross stitch/embroidery thread collection, in hindsight.
They have plenty of thread for filet and lace crochet and some great magazines for this craft, too, but each ball of thread costs approximately double what I paid in the states.
If anyone gets over to the Korona Hotel area and checks out the craft store there, will you post here to let us all know?
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