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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That coffee shop staff were so warm and inviting too! I enjoyed it as much as the quilt shop 🙂
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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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Thanks for stopping by and I felt like a needed a couple more hours to wander around the shop to find everything tucked away as fabric was randomly put together, ha!
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I love the relaxed atmosphere of this shop.
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So did I – it was like “we have cool fabric, we aren’t going to organize it” – ha!
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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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Thank you and I agree I was well behaved as there was much temptation! Yes the cafe was super cozy 🙂
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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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The store is aptly named as it looks like a ‘Fabric Trunk’! The doggies are a perk for sure – if not seemingly perky. (groan, my bad!)
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so fun to see the old sewing machine and Del Norte, Colorado looks like a great place to visit and explore!
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It was and thanks for stopping by 🙂
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i am always envious when I read your posts on the amazing quilt shops in the USA, but this one takes the cake. So much fabric!! Of course you had to buy some, but it must have been hard to choose.
Maybe I should do a post on my local fabric shop, so you can see the difference 😊
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OMG, what an amazing quilt store! It definitely looks like it would take some time to really go through. Love that the dog just sort of flopped over wherever and went to sleep 🙂 You found some great fabric! The third one down looks like PA Dutch hex signs – very cool! I don’t even sew and I want some of that 🙂 As always, thanks for sharing your adventure!
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