Reposted with permission from Weeks Ringle, Modern Quilt Studio The past few years have brought tremendous changes to the world of quilting. Shops have closed by scores. Magazines and book publishers have shuttered or merged with other publishers. American Quilter Society has ceased publishing books all together. City Quilter in New York is closing. Tension…
How Quilt Shop Quality Fabric Can Make You {Look Like} a Better Quilter
By Maddie Kertay, founder of the BadAss Quilters Society. Being a hands-on quilt shop owner means I spend a lot of time acting as confessor and therapist to a wide variety of patrons that visit our shop. Some need little more than hand holding and a quick lesson on how to spiff up their mitered…
10 Reasons to Shop Locally
Published with permission from the Institute for Local Self Reliance.
Don’t Skip The Store
Re-published with permission from Shannon Ownby, Owner of Fabrics N Things. See the original posted November 3, 2015. We all know that our world is so much smaller than it used to be with the technology that has exploded in the last 15 years. It would be hard to be completely unplugged. For those with…
Covering Seniors With A Hug – One Quilt At A Time
Meet Shannon Ownby, the owner of Fabrics N Quilts in Jamestown, Tennessee. She is always ready for a challenge and committed to giving back to her community. When she heard about the Quilted EMbrace organization, she wanted to get involved herself and bring her customers into it as well. And thus a very special community-service project was born.…
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