ABOUT HOMESTEAD FABRIC &
QUILTING

On June 24th, 2003, I opened my new business Homestead Fabric & Quilting in my family's garage. There was the sweetest fabric store in the local community that had just closed, and at that time I felt something was missing. With five kids, working from home worked well around being a mom.

I remember fondly of our pajama sale. I would open the store at 5 am and any customer who came to shop would get 40% off their fabric, come at 6 am and get 30% off, and so forth. And if customers came wearing their pajamas, they'd get an extra 10% off.

We would host an anniversary tea every year to celebrate the anniversary of the store. We would invite our customers to bring their recent projects in and we’d all show and tell while enjoying tea.

When my oldest daughters reached the age of wanting to quilt, we started a quilt class with them and some of their friends, which quickly turned into having a second teacher with 8-9 students.

In 2007 I sent away my Gammill Longarm Quilting Machine to become computerized. Today this machine runs 8 hours a day five days a week.

We began Christmas Fun Days around 2009, guests completed three Christmas projects in the day, the projects would be a surprise for their arrival on the class day. Our first Christmas fun day we had six quilters and we served lunch at the kitchen table in the family house. Christmas Fun Day is an event we still do every year, and we still serve lunch, just now you can eat it at your own work table.

In January 2012, Homestead Fabric and Quilting expanded from the garage to its own building across the driveway. This building allowed us to host quilters for sewdays regularly, bring in even more fabric variety and become handicap accessible.

Shortly after moving into the new building, we introduced paper piecing classes with a Judy Neimeyer certified instructor, Maureen Wood. We are fortunate to still have Maureen come to teach classes every summer.

In 2021 we broke ground to expand our current building. We added 24 feet to make a quilting room, a space with large tables, a cutting table, and custom-built ironing boards for classes and customer use.

Over the years we’ve had multiple amazing staff to help with the day-to-day business. We are very thankful for their dedication to helping us get to where we are today.

Homestead Fabric and Quilting has brought me so many blessings, and I find myself lucky to have found myself on this path, meeting fantastic people and most importantly doing something I love every day.

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