The Village Fabric Shoppe

09/18/2026

Love this.

09/18/2026

More New Fabrics!!

William Morris is in the house!! New but classic quilting cottons from Free Spirit. I want to re do my whole house in these so you'd better come get some before I use them up. Shown here is my current favorite of the collection. Just stunning design work, and large prints mean large pieces, which means quicker finish. William Morris was an amazing craftsman who pretty much started the Arts and Crafts Movement, and his wife worked many large scale embroideries from his designs....

William Morris is in the house!! New but classic quilting cottons from Free Spirit. I want to re do my whole house in these so you’d better come get some before I use them up. Shown here is m…

09/11/2026

New Fabrics!!!

I am so very happy with the new fabric arrivals from Tim Holtz. These lovelies coordinate so well with a fall color scheme that you should rush in and get some. The moths and butterflies are great for fussy cutting but small enough to work in more standard piecing too. The mushrooms would be fabulous as a runner or placemats for the table....

09/07/2026

What we call particular colors can speak volumes

09/04/2026

Set up for Success

It's now early September and it is am excellent time for getting new habits and projects going. There are so many online retreats, 100 day challenges, and video series of tutorials starting this month it could be overwhelming. This is the online version of back to school for grownups. Many of them are free which is wonderful, but after attending and subscribing to lots of these over the years I have learned a couple things....

It’s now early September and it is am excellent time for getting new habits and projects going. There are so many online retreats, 100 day challenges, and video series of tutorials starting t…

09/01/2026

I’m not the only person who thinks beetles are awesome

09/01/2026

How many of us still use the floor for laying out or basting? We have big tables that you can use and save your back and knees. Call to reserve them. 845 7588541

The quilt spread across the floor of this room was mid-project when the photograph was taken in March of 1941. Its maker, the original government caption notes, had simply stepped out before the camera came through.

Nothing here was arranged for the photo. A treadle sewing machine sits still threaded with fabric mid-seam. A china cupboard along the wall holds dishware collected piece by piece over years, not displayed for show but simply kept where it was useful and visible. A grandfather clock keeps time in the corner exactly the way it likely had for decades already by that point.

This is what makes the image genuinely valuable rather than merely old: it captures an ordinary room in the exact middle of an ordinary day, not a formal portrait of a home dressed up for visitors. The quilt pieces scattered mid-assembly on the floor tell you more about daily life in an Amish household in 1941 than any posed photograph ever could, because nobody had time to hide the evidence of the work actually being done.

More than eighty years later, the room is gone and its maker almost certainly is too. The quilt she was piecing together that afternoon, whatever became of it, was probably finished not long after this photograph, folded onto a bed somewhere, doing exactly the job it was made for.