THE Q & A SERIES - ONLINE RETAILERS IN THE US & CANADA
I love your Q&A newsletter on the patterns. This is great news! What are a few online fabric retailers in the US? My instagram feed is filled with UK and Australian fabric stores and I'm so jealous of their selection.
- Stephanie
Hi Stephanie,
This is a great question and one which I'm sure will be of interest to a lot of you, seeing as though about a third of the people who read this newsletter are from the US.
I have some fantastic US and Canadian pattern stockists that I'd love to share with you. I reached out to some of them and asked for them to give us an idea of the fabrics they specialise in!
STONEMOUNTAIN & DAUGHTER FABRICS
Stonemountain & Daughter Fabrics is a family-owned store with a brick and mortar in Berkeley, California. We got our start as a fashion-focused store that provided silks, linens, wools, and more at a time when most fabric stores were stocked with cottons. Now almost 40 years later, we are still centered on offering high-quality garment fabrics (in addition to a large range of quilting cotton!) and serving as a knowledge hub for sewists both locally and around the globe.
Though we're known for our linen, ikat, and silk noil selection, we love garment fabrics of all kinds. We also have an extensive selection of fun deadstock pieces—these "leftovers" from the garment industry are a great way to find more unusual fabrics and take part in reducing textile waste.
Find out more:
www.stonemountainfabric.com/
FABRICATIONS
Fabrications is a fabric boutique in Ottawa, Canada's Capital City. We believe that everyone is creative, and we are here to support you in your journey as a maker. We welcome sewists and makers of all levels, races, shapes, and genders.
We focus on natural fibres and casual apparel sewing when choosing our fabric selection. We stock lots of cotton and bamboo knits, a wide range of linens, denims, rayon challis, double gauze, the occasional wool, and much more.
We are particularly thrilled to have been able to restock our best-ever-selling fabric this week! This digitally printed reproduction Rembrandt floral canvas is perfect for a pair pants, a York Pinafore, or a stand-out bag!
Find out more:
www.fabricationsottawa.com
NEEDLE SHARP
Needle Sharp specialises in monthly subscription sewing kits. You have a subscription to your coffee, your favourite magazine, even your dinner. Why not your sewing? Enter Needle Sharp, the sewing box sent to you each month that contains everything you need to sew a beautiful piece of clothing: the pattern, the fabric, and all the notions. No finding a pattern, searching for the right fabric, running to the store for matching thread, cursing because they don't have matching thread, running back to the store because you forgot interfacing. It's all done for you so you can get down to the fun part of crafting your very own handmade wardrobe. We offer four different boxes each month, each featuring a different independent sewing pattern which we pair with three fabric options to choose from. Once you pick your fabric, we do all the rest for you to put the box together, and we send it to your door at the beginning of each month.
We also have an online retail store where we sell fabric, patterns, and non-subscription sewing kits. The website is https://www.needle-sharp.com
SIMPLIFI FABRIC
Established in 2012, we specialize in the latest eco and organic textiles on the market, including knits and wovens made with organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, soy, lyocell, linen. We also stock a large variety of European imports, wool, indy sewing patterns and notions!
Find out more:
www.simplififabric.com (US/worldwide)
www.simplififabric.ca (Canada)
OTHER STORES
Some other stores you may like to checkout:
Another thing you could look at is this post I did a little while ago. It's not just US retailers, but a great list of stores that makers have suggested, so might be worth taking a look at too!
Happy sewing,
Emily
P.S. Would you like to know what the Q & A series is all about? This page tells you a little bit more about the motive behind the series. Past issues from the Q & A series can be found here.
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