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Jul
5

Featured Shop: Bernina Sewing Centre

“People walk in, decompress, and then their heads go up and their mouths drop open.” Customers also appreciate the good lighting and excellent customer service. “We’re super-friendly in our shop,” says Melody. She and her “super-knowledgeable” staff of ten make sure to engage customers, giving them...
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May
17

Featured Shop: Quilter's Garden

Finding a great quilt shop can make you feel like kicking off your shoes and dancing for joy. At Quilter’s Garden in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, it turns out customers actually do dance in the aisles (although most keep their shoes on). “We play Tony Bennett radio and customers sway or sing along while...
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Apr
26

Featured Shop: Old South Fabrics

The past has come full circle for Wanda Coley, owner of the Old South Fabrics in Cleveland, Tennessee. That past includes childhood hours spent at her grandmother’s home, where a pot-bellied stove would warm the room. Wanda watched as her grandmother and the neighbors would lower a quilting frame...
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Apr
19

Featured Shop: Got 2 Sew

“I was quilting for therapy,” says Kayleen Stingley about how she spent her free time when she worked as an accountant. Now, as the owner of Got 2 Sew, providing “therapy” for customers is one of Kayleen’s greatest joys. As a matter of fact, that’s how Kayleen named her shop, which is located in...
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Dec
7

Featured Shop: Calico Kate

The Welsh Quilt Museum isn’t the only venue to delight quilters in Lampeter, Wales, Just a couple doors down you’ll find Calico Kate , a knock-your-socks-off quilt store. When I walked through the door I thought “What a sweet little shop!” Bright fabrics, gifts, buttons, and yarns were visible in...
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Aug
25

Featured Shop: Pinwheel Fabrics

Just off Interstate 30, in Alexander, Arkansas, sits a sweet white house. Though it’s got an acreage and pond behind, it’s what’s inside that entices visitors: fabric, and lots of it. Charlotte Williams opened Pinwheel Fabrics on May 1, 2004, and 18 months later moved it from its original strip...
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Jun
15

Featured Shop: The Fabric Center

If there’s a longevity award for fabric shops, it probably belongs to Dick Raudabaugh, who opened The Fabric Center 54 years ago. What started as a go-to store for garment fabrics, today features a wide range of quilting fabrics and draws customers from Virginia, New Jersey, Philadelphia, as well...
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Mar
23

Featured Shop: Christie's Quilting Boutique

Though she’s had a number of “black-and-white” jobs, color has always been dear to Christie Ruiz’s heart. First she was a police officer, wearing a drab uniform. Then she served as technology coordinator for a local school district, working with keyboards and monitors day-after-day. Despite these...
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Feb
23

Featured Shop: Apron Strings Quilt Shop

A love of quilting is often the inducement for opening a quilt shop. But not always—when Mary Honaker opened Apron Strings, she’d never made a quilt. In fact, she couldn’t sew a stitch. Mary says, "If I can do it, YOU can do it!" Things have changed in the nearly ten years the Maysville, Kentucky,...
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Nov
3

Featured Shop: Lone Star Quiltworks

Terry Skrabanek says she’s tried every craft in the book, but it wasn’t until the mid-1980s, when she was into English smocking and her sons said “We’re not wearing that stuff,” that she learned to quilt. It wasn’t long after that she also learned to longarm and started “quilting for the public” as...
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