The last time I visited The Quilt Emporium was probably about 20 years ago,
I bought a number of fabrics for a quilt that never got made. I stopped quilting for a long time. Now I’m back to quilting and one of those fabrics has survived till now. I think I intended it to be the backing, so I have about 4 yards, I’ve used it through the years, as you can see, most recently in my clamshell quilt.
It worked perfectly in this handbag, the stripes in perfect proportion for the bag.
Someone must have mentioned that the shop is now under new ownership and there are now modern fabrics as well as traditional quilt fabrics.
I was very pleasantly surprised when I stopped in on Friday. The people are very friendly and the variety of fabrics is best described as eclectic.
Whimsical and what looks like 30’s reproduction, well the colors do, these are not contemporary colors at all. I’m thinking of making a large brimmed hat out of these two.
I have a number of baby girl quilts to make over the next few months, modern polka dot and a different style of 1930s fabric. I’m gathering pinks right now.
With a son named Elk I couldn’t turn down this one! Although I may give it to my SIL Yoch, he has been gathering elk and deer fabric.
I really like the store, a nice vibe and a wonderful selection of fabrics.
Every quilt store finds it’s niche. Candys’ Quiltworks is in a very large space, a lot of fabric, probably the largest selection of batiks around. A lot of floral, novelty but very little modern fabric. Not surprising since they don’t have a website.
Sew Modern is just that, great modern quilting fabric, I’m there once a month for the guild meeting and I rarely leave empty handed.
Then there are the stores downtown, Michael Levine’s who probably carry most of the fabrics these other stores do, in one place. But no classes, no good batting and just the basic tools, not the specialty ones.
I love having choices, I love having rediscovered The Quilt Emporium, I will be back.
Leah