Ascot is the place to go - there's a
national Quilt exhibition in the Exhibition Halls at Ascot Racecourse in July, and
you have never seen so many quilt shops, or quilters, or heard so many people talking and
laughing, as at Ascot!
LONDON
John Lewis
Bond St
does have quite a good dept. with sewing machines, fabrics, haby, notions and some patchwork fabrics etc. I never come away from there empty handed.
KEW
Stitch in Time
293 Sandycombe Rd, , TW9 3LV
0181 948 8462
open Tues -fri 10-5.30, Sat 10-4.30
4 mins walk from Kew Gardens Underground Station
re the quilt shop. well it was very easy to get to. it does take about 4-5mins walk from the kew gardens train station. the area is really nice and calm/residential but it is amongst a group of shops. it had probably one full wall of bolts of fabric. plus the usual little baskets of little things to make. it had a few of those plastice border things (I forget what they are called) that you trace on and then quilt. it also had a bit of embroidery stuff, like kits and the threads etc. there is a room out the back for the classes. there is also a bookcase/stand with quite a nfew books on it and also a magazine rack thing. it is basically a little shop but it had a nice atmosphere.
MIDDLESEX
ENFIELD
STAINES
Green Mountain Quilts
01784-452077,
open Tuesday through Saturday.
run by Paula Doyle (who is from the U.S. I think)
lovely shop This is not very far from Heathrow. I was in there about three weeks ago, and Paula was veryhelpful. My credit card groaned again. It is a little difficult to find, I found the ad. and directions in
Patchwork and Quilting ( an English publication). A phone call would be needed.
HAMPTON COURT
Creative Quilting
9 Bridge Rd, KT8 9EU
01819417075
open 9.30-5, sun 12-4
After visiting Hampton Court we went back, it was a well stocked store and very helpfull staff, and of course I had to buy something! I made a lap quilt with red, white and blue fabrics to remember my visit.
SURREY
DORKING
The Quilt Room
20 West St
Tel: 01306740739
Hours 9.30-5pm
I actually went to the Quilt Room last wednesday managed to pick up a few things - including some American magazines which are virtually non existant in all the newsagent in England. The two UK ones are on sale 'Patchwork and Quilting' and 'Popular Patchwork' but not the normal US ones. For these you need to go to a quilt shop. I also bought a pair of gloves for Machine Quilting and these are cream with rubber spots on them to hold the material.. I also picked up quite a few cheap but good books.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
RISBOROUGH
Inca Studio
10 Duke St
Ph: 0194434343
CHESHAM
OXFORD
OXONFORD
Village Fabrics
CAMPDEN
Calico Cat and the Patchwork Dog.
They are no longer there but on that site is a florist who had some fabric in the back. They all carry American fabrics that you can get here anyway, and they were only a little bit cheaper the last time I was there.
BRISTOL or nearby
WESTBURY-ON-TRYM
PATCHWORK HOUSE
0117-9079991, fax 0117-9079992.
I was there a few months ago, and again the ladies are extremely helpful. GREAT shop near Bristol
CLIFTON
THE QUILTED BEAR
Whiteladies Road,
Haven't got details in front of me just now, but it usually has an excellent range of everything needed for p & q, and is only a few minutes drive from Patchwork House. They seem to have different ranges as well, so I usually visit both if in Bristol.
BATH
Country Threads,
2 Pierrepoint Place, Bath.
BA1 1JX. Tel.01225 480056.
Try to spend a day in Bath, its really interesting- Roman Baths,
Georgian trerraces, excellent Museum of Costume, plus huge collection of
quilts (and often a special exhibition) in the American Museum at Claverton
Down....
Large collection of Quilts
NEWBURY, BERKS
Inches to Metres
NEWCASTLE
WHITLEY BAY
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I did find a shop in Whitley Bay (near Newcastle UK). I bought a small whole cloth quilt and bordered it with a very quaint wallpaper type print and called it my Beamish Quilt.
DURHAM
Beamish Open Air Museum (Durham) and had a pre-arranged viewing of some of their quilt collection. There were a couple of whole cloth quilts with stripped borders The Beamish Museum Quilts were truly inspiring and I wish I had known more about the history of quilting before I saw them. Since going I have done quite a bit of reading and would appreciate it much more now.
WALES
NEWTOWN
Laura Ashley seconds shop in Newtown(her home town)
that has wonderful bargains!
SCOTLAND
TAIN
(shown at the beginning of "A River Somewhere")
There`s a wee shop in which stocked quilting fabric and ran a few contact sources for classes
INVERNESS
the main fabric shop stocked fabulous tartan silk ,I now have a long evening skirt in Hunting Maclean.
BEAULY
Campbell`s,
A beautiful old tailoring/fabric shop where I indulged in some wool tartan and tweed.I`m planning a patchwork skirt next time I go. Saw a lovely one in wool .Beauly is a village north of Inverness which has won "The Most Beautiful village in Scotland" for a number of years.It has some great spots for unusual craft buys.
BIGGAR
THE THIMBLE GUILD
Museum
The Thistle Mill
Station Rd
