Material Girl Fabrics

Wanna go fabric shopping with me? Shall we wander around a quilt shop together?

Yes, yes, I know that unless I was to fly you all to Central Oregon (and that could get really expensive when it comes to bringing my readers in Australia over to Oregon…), our only option is to virtually go fabric shopping together!

Today I will to take you one of our wonderful Central Oregon Quilt Shops – Material Girl Fabrics in Redmond, Oregon.

Terry the Quilting Husband and I met a couple friends for brunch today in Redmond and then headed for a wander about Material Girl Fabrics. The wonderful owner Leslie was having a quiet afternoon when we arrived (because of the weather/snow), though it picked up while we were there. Luckily before it go busier, we did get time to visit with Leslie who always makes her visitors feel welcome.

The quilt shop is very sweet – it is inside a former house and it is very cozy!

Let’s start our wander around this shop together:

General Photos

(Click on a photo to open a slideshow)

A Sweet Little Play Area

Tucked away in the shop is a sweet little play area for small children among the juvenile themed prints:

The Kitchen!

As I mentioned, the quilt shop is a former house, and has a functioning kitchen which also serves as the counter/cash register area:

Fabric Purchases

I was well behaved and I bought a remnant piece of gold Asian fabric. One of my friends, Susan, bought a nice little stash of fabric and was quite pleased with her purchase:

Material Girl Fabric may be considered a “smaller quilt shop” but it is very well curated. There are many high quality delicious quilting fabrics inside the cozy house.

For those of you familiar with the Row by Row Experience, where quilt shops around the US offer an annual free pattern of a row for a quilt (usually themed for their shop), here is the Material Girl Fabrics’ Row by Row:

Thanks for virtually wandering around the quilt shop with me! (If you would like to check out the our other lovely Central Oregon shops, I have links to all the shops in the right sidebar of my blog.)

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Postscript

Terry the Quilting Husband got his most recent quilt back from the long-arm quilter today. This quilt was discussed in the 11/20/16 post Terry the Quilting Husband – Update.

Usually I am a “nice wife” and I trim the excessive batting and backing off the quilt, but this evening I let him do it himself. He wants to put a denim border on it and I am trying to figure out if I have some light weight denim in my stash that will work. I will post a photo of the complete quilt once the binding is added and sewn down.