I’ve started these work-in-progress lists in the hopes of bringing together the wonderful sewing community around the greater Seattle area. All of the Seattle area meet ups that I’ve been lucky enough to attend can be found under the tag Seattle Seamsters Meet Up. If you see something in these lists that I’m missing or if something’s on here that shouldn’t be, let me know. Also, leave a comment with a link if you have written anything online about the Seattle area sewing community. Thanks!
Sewing and Quilting Blogs
** If I can update this listing with a photo or logo from your blog, please let me know! **
- Abby of Sew Much Ado
- Amber Dawn of Hectic Life, Pieceful Life
- Amy of Sew Well
- Ara Jane of You Know What I Love?
- Becca and Kris of Quilt Sandwich Fabrics
- Bernadette of Daisies and Dresses
- Bonnie of Jaded Optimist
- Carolyn of Fake It While You Make It
- Casey of CV Sagisi
- Chandra of Mildly Gifted
- Charise of Charise Creates
- Christina of DolciDeleria
- Christina of This, That, the Other Thing
- Debbie of A Quilter’s Table
- Denise of The Stitcherie
- Emily of Carolina Patchworks
- Erin of F is for Flamingo
- Erin of Seamstress Erin
- Far of Memoryseed
- gMarie of G Marie Sews
- Gwen of Calm Under Tension
- Jax of Regardez-Moi! Regardez-Moi!
- Jeanell of I Sew Love It
- Jen of A Little Knitty
- Jennifer of My Sewing Suite
- Jenny of Sew Kind of Wonderful
- Jenny of Jenny Bartoy ~ Handmade Designs
- Jessie of Tiny House
- Jodi of Fit to be Stitched
- Kathleen of The Midvale Cottage Post
- Katie of Sew Katie Did
- Katy of Crafting Katy
- Kimberly of Straight Stitch Designs
- Laurel of Laurel’s Studio
- Leah of Away I Sew!
- Letty of Happy Dance Quilting
- Lynn of This I Made
- MaLora of Bird and Bicycle
- Maris of Sew Maris
- Meg of The Kninja
- Megan of Shirley’s Singer
- Melanie of Details Sewing
- Melizza of Pincushion Treats
- Meris of The Fabric Alchemist
- Michelle of Happily Caffeinated
- Micki of Urban Recyclist
- Missy of Missy’s Craft Journal
- Morgan of Crab & Bee
- Niema of Wearable Muslin
- Olivia of Olivia-Marie
- Pam of Off Avondale Road
- Pam of Quilting Square One
- Patricia of Okan Arts
- Quixotic Pixels
- Rebecca of Cup + Penny
- Sanae of Sanae Ishida
- Sandie of Sleepy Owl Studio
- Shannon of Orange Cloud Handmade
- Summer of Comprehensively Quirky
- Terrorsaurus Dax of Toile and Trouble
Sewing, Quilting, and Knitting Groups
- Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Sewing Guild
- Newbie Knitters Meetup Group
- Purlygirls Ravelry Knitting Group
- Seattle Modern Quilt Guild
- Seattle Sewing Arts and Crafts Meetup Group
- Seattle Northend Knitters and Crocheters Meetup Group
- The Seattle Sewing Guild Meetup Group
- Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop
Sewing and Knitting Conferences
- Knit Fit in Ballard
- School House Craft in Ballard
- Sewing and Stitchery Expo in Puyallup
Sewing Classes
- Details Sewing in Lynnwood
- Made Sewing Studio in Greenwood
- New York Fashion Academy in Ballard
- Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild in Wallingford
- Sewing and Design School in Tacoma
- Sew Maris in Bellevue
Independent Pattern Designers
Fabric Shops
- Bug Fabric online
- Circa15 Fabric Studio in Kirkland
- District Fabric in Fremont
- Drygoods Design in Pioneer Square
- Esther’s Fabrics on Bainbridge Island
- Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop in Woodinville
- Gossypium Quilt Shop in Issaquah
- Hancock Fabrics in Kirkland and Lynnwood
- Hobby Lobby in Everett, Federal Way, and Lynnwood
- In Stitches Quilt Shoppe on Anacortes
- Joann Fabric and Craft in Ballard, Bellevue, Lynnwood, Shoreline, and Southcenter
- Keepsake Cottage Fabrics in Bothell
- My Modern Quilt Shop online
- Nancy’s Sewing Basket in Queen Anne
- Our Fabric Stash in Chinatown International District
- Pacific Fabrics in Bellevue, Bremerton, Everett, Northgate, and SoDo
- Pink Chalk Studio on Bainbridge Island
- Quilt Sandwich Fabrics online
- Seattle Fabrics in Greenwood
- Stitches in Capitol Hill
- Stork and Me online
- The Quilting Loft in Ballard
- The West Seattle Fabric Company in West Seattle
- Tina’s on Madison in Madison Park
- Undercover Quilts in Belltown
- Vian Hunter in Washington Park
- Walmart in Auburn, Bellevue-Factoria, and eastern Washington
- and more…
Yarn Shops
- Acorn Street Shop in Ravenna
- A Little Knitty in Auburn, WA
- Bad Woman Yarn in Wallingford
- Churchmouse Yarns & Teas on Bainbridge Island
- Little Knits in Admiral
- Makers’ Mercantile in Kent
- Seattle Yarn in Fairmount Park
- Serial Knitters Yarn Shop in Kirkland
- Tea Cozy Yarn in Ballard
- The Fiber Gallery in Greenwood
- The Weaving Works in the U District
- Tricoter in Washington Park
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I received a scholarship from the Sewing and Design School in Tacoma towards a 2014 class of my choice! What should I take?!
Oh so many to choose from, How fun!
How about the blog Faking It? I’m pretty sure she is from seattle as well
Oooh! I haven’t heard of that blog before. I just did a google search, and I couldn’t find anything. Do you know the blog’s website address?
I follow her on bloglovin and the name is (sorry for the confusion) Fake It While You Make It. She’s funny and honest and great sewist/knitter
Thanks! I found it!
Yay! Could you change my address though? I’m moving all the sewing stuff over to stitcherie.blogspot.com. How are you feeling?
I didn’t know you had a dedicated sewing blog. It looks great! Oh, and I’m feeling fine. I’m having the big pre-labor signs, but since this is my first, I guess it’s normal for pre-labor signs to last for weeks and weeks!
Hello! Can you add a link to Esther’s fabric on Bainbridge island? And I started a little blog but am rather new at blogging. I am attending the ASG banquette on the Saturday of Puyallup so would love to meet fellow sewist at the Expo. Anyone planning on going then? I’ve also started knitting so am loving Churchmouse but it’s putting a cramp in my sewing style!
Hi Amy, I just joined the local ASG. They have a listing of local stores and classes, as well as a yahoo group. (And the logo is the Space Needle with a giant needle as the center!) Besides the neighborhood groups and interest groups, there are a couple of sewing retreats each year. Ten percent discount at most of the local stores, and the national ASG connection provides discounts at Taunton Press, Vogue fabrics, etc.
Thank you for adding me to the Seattle area sewers blog roll! I thought you might want to check out a couple more Seattle area sewing resources: vianhunter. com on Madison occasionally has remnants of her locally designed fashions. A gem if a store, it’s worth a pop in to ogle the design room in the back (floor to ceiling rolls of fabric!). And Lisa is fantastic! I felt completely welcome even as I snoop shopped her designs. Of course I purchased multiple yards of her fabulous fabrics too!
The list of Seattle bloggers keeps growing! If you haven’t checked it out since I first wrote about this page, I highly recommend you take a look through again!
Thanks for adding my blog! Just a quick note of a couple of additions to your list of fabric stores–Lynnwood has both a JoAnn’s and a Hancock fabrics.
There is a lovely fabric shop in Bothell called Keepsake Cottage. It has such an amazing selection of quilting cotton. I go there all the time.
There is a DELIGHTFUL yarn shop in northern Kent (near Ikea) called Makers Mercantile. I don’t even knit, and I *love* that store! Lots of eye candy… and a gluten free bakery inside, too!
http://www.makersmercantile.com/
Your list includes Joann Fabrics, but not the Southcenter location – a mega store!
Hobby Lobby also has nice fabrics (multiple locations, north and south)
Fabric on-line; add BUG FABRIC.COM owned by a Redmond woman and has been in business for many years. She has lots more than kid fabrics!
There are 30 quilts hops in Western WA listed on the Shop Hop website
http://www.washingtonquiltshophop.com/Participating_Shops.html
… and there are MORE quilt shops that find participation too expensive; not on the list. There are two very nice quilt shops in Anacortes: (can only think of 1 right now)
In Stitches
There are two fabric bloggers I that I know that are not on the list:
Pam Cole in Kirkland has two blogs:
http://quiltingsquareone.blogspot.com/
http://keepingitsimplequilts.blogspot.com/
Pam Kartak in Redmond
http://offavondaleroad.blogspot.com/
Dare I add that some Walmarts also sell yardage! OK, maybe we don’t always sew heirloom projects requiring the BEST fabric. The Bellevue-Factoria location has LOTS of fabric, the Auburn store near the Super Mall, too… and some others. Walmart in Eastern WA has a BIG fabric dept.
Wow! Thanks! I’m going to make sure to find the time this week to update my list!
What a wonderful resource – thank you!
I’d add this great quilt shop: http://www.gossypiumquilt.com/
This is a wonderful list! I’m hoping I can be added as well. I sell organic cotton fabric online through my shop, Stork and Me. I live locally in Maple Valley. You can find my shop here: http://www.storkandme.etsy.com
Thank you!
Holly
Michelle at Happily Caffeinated wrote a great post on some of Seattle’s fabric stores here: http://happilycaffeinated.blogspot.com/2014/07/seattle-fabric-shop-roundup-summer-2014.html
My husband and I are thinking a about moving to Seattle. This list proves to be a great resource to me!
Oh! I do hope you’ll consider the move. The Bay Area holds a special place in my heart, but after one year here in Seattle, I am just as attached! We bought a house and are firmly planting our roots. It’s a great city. Let me know if you plan to visit to try it out!
I will definitely let you know! Thank you!
There is a quilt shop in Woodinville called Gathering Fabric Quilt Shop that you can add to your list.
Dear Professional Seamstress,
My name is Miri Kim, and I’m a student at Mountlake Terrace High school. I’m doing my senior engineering project this year. My project is to design and make a student backpack for that is better than the backpacks we have now. I would like to use several different unusual fabrics, including fabrics that are waterproof and fabrics that change color. Sewing these fabrics will likely require some well-developed technical skills, which I do not have. Therefore, I need some help and guidance from an experienced seamstress to assist me with sewing these unique fabrics… either by hand or maybe by using a heavy duty sewing machine.
I would love to find mentor who can support me. If you would be willing to help me, I would really appreciate it! Mentoring me would involve the following commitment: it would require talking regularly for about 5 months… from now till March or so. We could communicate by emailing, by phone call, and by meeting together sometimes. Meeting times can be determined early in our discussions, but I am thinking one day a week for 30 minutes or so each time. Soon, we might need to actually meet together to work on cutting and sewing, and I would be able to come to your location and meet you there. There might also be occasional invitations to come to the high school to support me as I present my project.
If you can help me with this sewing project, please contact me in an email : [email protected]
Thank you!
Hi!!! My name is Olivia and I just found your lovely site!! I’m from Seattle and have a sewing blog as well if you want to check it out – the address is olivialenz.wordpress.com 🙂 I don’t know many Seattle sewers so it is great to find this list!!
Oh! I forgot to mention that I’m a chemist and now a engineer doing my PhD in Materials science and engineering – it’s fabulous to know another sewing scientist!
Oh my! Your blog and your sewing are gorgeous!
Thank you so much, but I actually don’t live in Seattle anymore. I was only there for university, now I live in Thailand.
I have an online shop in the Seattle area (Redmond/Woodinville). You can find me at http://www.mymodernquiltshop.com.
Hello 🙂 My name is Melanie McKinley. I own Details Sewing (detailssewing.net) and am wondering if you can add me to one of your lists. I am an educator as well. I do private or group classes. have worked as a children’s instructor at a local fabric store
Do any of these businesses offer weekend retreats ? I’m about 4 hours away I really want to learn to sew and serg but dont live there
I know some do a retreat idk if anybody has had any experience with them, I’m still only doing extremely basic sewing and need help from the basics on up.
I know the local American Sewing Guild groups do weekend retreats, and from what I’ve heard they are a lot of fun. You should definitely look into those! I also know the Sewing and Design School in Tacoma hosts several day long classes, but I’m not sure if they’re retreat style – my guess is that they are probably go home or go back to a hotel sort of classes. I’ll look into others though and let you know what I find.
I would love to be added to your list. I have a blog about sewing and quilting at http://isewloveit.typepad.com/
Dear Team,
I am Looking for a private sewing and knitting instructor for my children in Capitol Hill, 98112, Seattle.
Thank you
Howaida
[email protected]