Hi Everyone! One of my most asked questions is, where is the best place to buy fabric online? Especially quilting fabric and precuts. This will be a mega post to give you over 65 recommended quilt shops and resources to keep you stocked with fabric and notions!
This list was compiled from shops I have used myself or heard good things about and shops recommended by my community. If you would like to add any to the list, please leave a comment and I will add it! I would like to only have solid recommendations here for people to try 😉
Before I get to the list I want to point out my top tips and recommendations for buying fabric online.
- For me personally, I like to shop local whenever possible and keep my money in the quilting community and in small businesses and other creatives like me who value it so much!
- If a designer you love sells their own fabric, shop from them if you can!
- Not sure how much to buy? Get half yards if you can, I find that to be the most versatile fabric cut when you don’t have specific plans for the fabric.
Online AND Brick and Mortar
This first list is of where to buy fabric online is brick and mortar shops that also have a significant online presence. This way, you are still supporting those small local businesses, even if you purchase quilting fabric online. All of these shops whether online only or combined, they have a personal taste and style. It’s helpful to search around and find shops that carry many of the styles that you prefer.
Superbuzzy (my local shop, Kelly is the best! – Ventura CA)
Fabricworm ( Birch Fabrics, Paso Robles, CA)
Hart’s Fabrics – ( Santa Cruz CA)
Cloth Carousel (Vacaville, Ca)
Jordan Fabrics – (Grants Pass Oregon)
Quilt in a Day – (San Marcos, CA)
Craft South (Nashville, TN – Anna Maria Horner’s shop)
Missouri Star Quilt Company (Hamilton, MO)
Itch’n to be Stitch’n (Staunton IL)
Fabric Depot (St. Louis MO)
Marshall Dry Goods (Batesville, Arkansas)
Cary Quilting Company (Cary NC)
Capital Quilts (Gaithursburg MD)
Grubers Quilt Shop (Waite Park, Minnesota)
Quilted Memories LLC (Kansas City area)
Bijou Lovely (Iron Mountain, MI)
Pineapple Fabrics – (Archdale, NC)
Just Sew – (Fort Thomas KY)
The Quilted Peacock – West Palm Beach, FL
Marietta’s Quilt and Sew – (Simpsonville, SC)
Charlotte’s Sew Natural (Newton KS)
Lonestar Quiltworks, (Bryan TX)
Sew in 2 Quilts (Huthinson, Kansas)
Quilts and Sew Forth (Mentor, OH)
Pink Castle Fabrics – (Ann Arbor, MI)
Sewtopia – (West Jordan, UT)
The Fabric Cobbler – (Forsyth IL)
Sew Special Quilts – (Katy and San Antonio TX)
Some amazing beginner quilting projects!
Buy Fabric Online Only
These are online only shops, but still local small businesses. Sometimes you can get great deals from theses shops because they don’t have the physical store overhead.
Westwood Acres (great shop, specializes in precuts and bundles)
Green Fairy Quilts – Precut Queen and lots of charm packs
Individual Etsy Shops (often a great way to find a specific quilting fabric online)
Online … but.
These are not small businesses, but often have great deals and prices. Sometimes lacking in the customer service department but can still be helpful when you want to buy fabric online.
Fabric.com (especially bad customer service and difficult to return things)
Amazon – My Amazon Store with all of my recommendations!
Overseas
Canadian Shops
The Workroom (Physical and online in Toronto)
Quilt Thyme (Physical and online in Kingston, ON)
Island Sewing Centre (Campbell River BC, Canada)
*Several Canadians have mentioned that Missouri Star Quilt Company has great shipping rates to Canada and they find it’s not too expensive with the exchange rate to shop through them.
Australian Shops
United Kingdom Shops
So far my community from the United Kingdom has mentioned shopping at local shops to be the best.
Need to know how to organize all of this fabric?! Check out my fabric organization post.
Thanks for such a wonderful, thorough fabric store list! I live in a place where there’s not much to choose from, and I would much prefer to order from a small shop than from Joann, etc. I book-marked each site you recommended. 🙂 Thanks again!
For batik fabric, I have found Batiks Plus (batiksplus.com) of St. Louis, Mo to be the best. They’re very helpful with selection online and everything is very high quality. They are also a brick and mortar shop, but I’ve never been able to get there.
Fabric Shack of Waynesville, Ohio. Recently went to online only thanks to the pandemic. 20,000 bolts. Great customer service. 150 miles away and to us it was worth the trip to go down individually.. We used to stop on our bus tour on the way to Paducah every year. One year I ordered fabric and made a blouse beforehand. When I wore it on the way down the clerk who cut the fabric recognized me by it. I had also ordered some fabric to be picked up in person that day.
Fat Quarter Shop – on line and just south of Austin, TX. Great prices, selection and customer service. I have learned a lot from their video turtorials.
Dinkydoo Fabrics (https://www.dinkydoo.com/pages/shop) is a great Canadian on-line shop!
Desperate quilters online shop is a great shop. All fabric is quilt shop quality.
The Quilted Cow in Branson West, Missouri has wonderful fabric, notions, precuts and all sorts of prepackaged kits. Jenifer alshosts a FB live every Wednesday at 8pm est.
Fabric Paradise – THE place for all novelty prints. Good prices, super quick service. They are fantastic!
Please include Sew What Fabrics & Batiks, Etc in Wytheville, VA. Fantastic shop, tremendous variety, especially in batiks, friendly, knowledgeable staff. Plus, a great online presence. Check them out!
Farm Fresh Fabrics in Bath, NY. Brick and mortar AND online. http://www.farmfreshfabrics.com
I love Quilting in the Valley in Illinois. It’s my favorite shop even though I live in Minnesota! The owner, Lisa, has been expanding and now has 4 locations. They’ve been doing daily Facebook live events to show people what they have and to market fast, easy projects to do during the pandemic. Their online shopping experience is improving all the time and I highly recommend them! It’s a hard-working, creative small business with a great selection and philosophy of”be kind”.
I just found this one from stitch Roadies called my favorite quilt store.com so l looked it up and I was very impressed.
A Quilting Stitchuation in Ruidoso NM is such a wonderful shop. Shop inside or order online. Great customer service
How awesome I live in El Paso I’ll check them out thank you
We’re Sew Creative. Brick & Mortar and online. Fantastic selection, top notch customer service and fast shipping
http://Www.weresewcreative.com
Thank you so much for including Cary Quilting Company on your list! We strive for the best customer service in the industry, and always ship out within 24 hours of an order! 🙂 Thank you thank you! – Julianne, Owner
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Salt water fabrics https://www.saltwaterfabrics.com/
Great bundles and fast with shipping.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Salt water fabrics https://www.saltwaterfabrics.com/
Great bundles and fast with shipping.
ME TOO!!! I was just going to add their name to this list when I saw that you already had. They have absolutely beautiful fabric, great prices, and insanely fast shipping.
Can you do a video on how you made your pegboard notion holder on your wall, what you used, etc
How you store your scissors, etc
Fabric Shack in Waynesville, Ohio!!!
They are advertised in most of the sewing and quilting magazines. Tons of fabric to choose from. I’m not just partial because I’m related to the owners but they truly are great. People come from all over to shop and visit their store. They also have a second store for draperies and upholstery fabric. They sell all over the the world.
Honey Run Quilters
Chico, CA
I really enjoy Quilting Foxes quilt shop in the small town of Sedro Wolley Wa. Denny has a great selection of Japanese style fabrics she also has Sashiko patterns/thread.
The store opened and was just getting good inventory when the pandemic hit. Denny has been accommodating with offering free shipping and curbside pick up.
Always a pleasure to support locally.
Stitchen Heaven is the largest quilt shop in Texas with really nice things
My favorite Etsy shop: Genesis Quilting. Family owned and run, excellent customer service, super quick shipping. Longarm services that are impeccable.
Thank you so much for including my little online shop to your list, Good Girl Fabric!!!! It was such a wonderful surprise 🙂
The Savage Quilter in Oklahoma City is a WONDERFUL fabric shop! Great selection and friendly staff! Please add to your list if it’s not there already. 😁
I don’t recommend shopping at Fabricland, because of poor quality of quilting fabrics, also they inflate their prices and sell annual memberships to offer lower prices to members which then makes them comparable to the price of good quality fabrics at specialty Quilt shops.
Thank you Melanie!! I am planning a road trip from PA to OK and want to make it a quilt shop-hop. I got some ideas from your post. I plan to take a southern route one way, and the northern route the other way. I appreciate the insight.
Debbie
Lone Star Quilt Works in College Station TX is a great shop. Exceptional batik available. Lots, lots more.
Denise Mackan
College Station TX
Home of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies!
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Thousands of Bolts is a wonderful place to save on discontinued lines and bella solids, grunge, stonehenge etc. Love it!
Awesome, I will add them!
Love, Love, Love
Capital Quilts
Gaithersburg, Maryland (Near Washington, D.C.)
perfect! Thanks for the recommendation, added them!
Hi Melanie!
Thank you for posting the videos on sewing my first quilt. Your instructions are simple and concise. I’ve ordered my fabric and other supplies. I do have one suggestion (and perhaps you have this listed elsewhere). It would be great to have a list of required supplies as a preface to the beginning of the videos. This way we can order everything we need at the same time, so we don’t have to delay to proceed to your next video.
Thanks for simplifying the mystery of quilting!
Leslie Baer