As I mentioned in the post 2025: Year in Travel, Part 2 during our 2025 year of travel we spent time in the South Fork, Colorado. One day we went into a neighboring town, Del Norte, Colorado and visited a quilt shop – Kathy’s Fabric Trunk in downtown Del Norte.
First we stopped at the Up Top Cafe for some breakfast, coffee (John) and tea (me):
It felt like we spent a couple hours on their cozy couches (there is another sofa across from the one in the photo) eating breakfast and drink our hot beverages. I think we only spent an hour there actually but it was a delightful hour!
Then we walked over to Kathy’s Fabric Trunk to wander around:
Immediately upon walking in we were greeted by the staff and a very cozy and cluttered (but the fun kind of cluttered) quilt shop:
And there was a dog napping that I had to just walk around, he didn’t want to be disturbed by shop visitors!
There was a second section of the shop where they had a huge fabric sale going on of older fabrics and a “Husband Seating Area” for John.
(John sat on the other side of this fabric on a table with sewing machines for sale.)
It was more cluttered than I captured in photos but I had a blast wandering around and even found some fabric that I could not leave the store without:
It’s the Northcott Fabrics Barn Quilt line and here are the fabrics I bough a couple yards of each (images from Northcott Fabrics website):
Not sure what I am making with these fabrics but I totally fell in love with them!
They also had a collection of antique sewing machines scattered around the shop like this one:
Lots and lots of buttons:
And another shop dog that couldn’t be bothered with shop customers – ha!
Hope you enjoyed this little tour 🙂
tierneycreates 
The coffee shop looks very fun and cozy. I would enjoy that quilt shop with so much fabric and cute pups! That barn fabric is cool, will be fun to see what you do with it!
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What a fun store. I would have a hard time picking a fabric, it looks like there are alot there. The dogs are so cute too.
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I love the relaxed atmosphere of this shop.
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I was smitten as soon as I saw the large “Oh hello” banner in the window! What glorious amount of fabric in the shop. You did well to limit yourself to your lovely choices. Having said that, I am not sure I could have dragged myself out of the cozy cafe.
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That’s a lovely looking shop and sounds like a good day out
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It was fun to wander around and the staff was so friendly (even if the dogs ignored me, ha!)
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Oh, fun!
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It was, thanks for stopping by 🙂
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What a great little shop!!! I have been so disappointed with the shops near me lately. My favorite one closed about 2 years ago and I miss it. She dared to retire!
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It was and very laid back 🙂
Sorry your local shops have been disappointing and yes your favorite should have stayed open ! 🙂
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