The Quilting and Fiber Art Marketplace – Directions, Vendors, and Hotel Info
The Quilting and Fiber Art Marketplace
Friday, Jan. 10 and Saturday. Jan. 11, 2020
9 am – 5 pm on Friday and 9 am – 4 pm on Saturday
Dennis Wicker Civic Center
1801 Nash St.
Sanford, NC 27330
$6.00 admission
One stop shopping for the best vendors from NC and SC. This is our 10th year for this show and we get better every year. We have tried to bring you the best local and specialty shops available. Save your gas and spend the day shopping with a variety of vendors. This is not a “shop hop” but a shopping stroll. Take your time and browse with all our merchants. You will see lots of fabrics, yarns, books and patterns. Several quilt shops will be here with quilting supplies. Vendors with wool and floss for stitchery, will be here also. Are you shopping for a sewing machine or a long arm quilting machine? There will be several choices.
The Early Bird will get the Worm!
Again this year! Early Bird Specials!
Get to the show by 9 am for specials and chances to WIN! The first 100 people to buy an admission ticket each day will get two chances to win all day long. So, that is two chances for hourly door prizes, two chances for the daily sewing machine drawing and two chances for the big basket that we draw for at the end of the show.
Many of the vendors will be featuring “early bird specials” on selected items from 9 am to 10 am. Many of your favorite vendors will be here and some new vendors that you will love!
On Friday, we will have a drawing for a Pfaff sewing machine at 3pm. This drawing is sponsored by Find X Designs located at 719 Carthage St., Sanford, NC. Find X is a Pfaff, Janome and a Necchi sewing machine dealer. They also stock a wide selection of quilting fabric.
On Saturday, Find X will have a drawing for a Janome sewing machine at 3 pm.
In order to win either machine, you must have your entry in the box for the drawing held at 3 pm. You must be present to win. If you really want to win, the first 100 people in the door each morning with get two chances to win that day. All entries collected throughout the day will be entered to win hourly door prizes and the sewing machine drawings at 3 pm each day. You must be present to win.
If you don’t win a machine, then test drive any of the several machines that will be displayed. Sewing machines, embroidery machines and long arm quilting machines with be featured so that you can shop and compare without having to drive from shop to shop.
At 4 pm on Saturday, we will draw for a gift basket donated by all the vendors. You do not need to be present to win the “big basket”.
So get up early, pack your car with your sewing and knitting friends and join us for a fun day. Mrs. Lacy’s Magnolia Tea Room from Sanford will be doing our early morning food and lunch, so you can have a coffee and something delicious to get you started and then some fabulous chicken salad and famous chocolate cake for lunch to keep you inspired and shopping all afternoon.
Our list of vendors follows on this page, but there will be wools for appliqué and stitchery supplies. Quilting patterns will be available from many sources, some from the designers themselves. Local quilt shops like Cary Quilting Company and Find X Designs want you to see what they have to offer. Other shops like The Cotton Quilt feature a variety of fabrics, especially Civil War and Feedsack fabrics. Fiber lovers will enjoy Alpaca products from Empty Pocket Alpaca Farm. If you are shopping for a sewing machine, there will be several sewing machine dealers on site. You can sew on everything from a tiny Singer Featherweight to several brands of long arm quilting machines.
We promise you will leave inspired and well fed. Whether you are looking for a small project or a large one, you will find something at the QFAM.
Hotel Information: Please call the hotels directly and ask if they have a QFAM rate. Don’t wait until the last minute. Make your reservations early,
Hampton Inn –
1904 South Horner Blvd., Sanford, NC – (919) 775-2000
Rate – Check internet for the best rate.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites –
2110 Dalrymple Street, Sanford, NC – (919) 776-6600
Rate – Check the internet for the best rate.
Comfort Suites by Choice Hotels
1891 Bragg Street, Sanford, NC – 919-842-5600
Rate – Check the internet for the best rate.
https://www.dawcc.com/contact.cfm. This page has a map.
For additional information contact
The Quilter’s Gallery
call 704-376-2531 (Cindy) or 704-807-6992 (Patti)
2020 Vendor List
Auntie Ju’s Quilt Shoppe
Wilmington, NC
910-547-8687
Hand-dyed wool, wool off bolt, wool appliqué, pattens, books, kits, and punch needle patterns, kits and supplies. WDW, Gentle Arts and Valdani flosses. Rustic Moire Wool threads. Weeks Dye works, Aurifil Lana Wool, Diamond Textiles wovens and brushed cottons.
Bear Hug Quiltworks
Winston Salem, NC
Original patterns, fabric and precuts, kits, Yardage from Hoffman, Free Spirit, Cotton and Steel, Art Gallery and more.
Freda Berry Woolens
Morganton, NC
828-437-6962
jamesfreda@charter.net
Wool and silks for appliqué and small projects
Cary Quilting Company
935 N. Harrison Ave, Cary, NC 27513
919-238-9739
Our booth will be a mini version of our shop! We will have patterns, kits, fat quarters, etc. Visit our shop in DT Cary. We offer classes and longarm quilting.
The Cotton Quilt
4900 Troy Road, Granite Falls, NC 28630
828-244-7797
Fabrics and fat quarters, wide backing, 5 yard bundles, fabric, books, wholecloth quilts. Also wide backings. 30″s and 1800’s. TCQ was just featured as a Quilt Sampler Shop.
Dragonfly Quilt Shop
High Point , NC 27265
336-880-2509
Quilting Fabric, flannel, wool, kits paterns and supplies
Empty Pockets Alpaca Farm
Diane Adams
Climax, NC 27233
336-674-3334
Award winning alpaca yarn from our animals raised in NC. Yarn available in natural colors as well as hand dyed colors. Alpaca wearable items such as socks, hats, scarves and shawls.
Featherweight Poppy
Salisbury, NC
704-639-1326
Singer 221 and 222 Featherweight sewing machines, parts and supplies. Featherweight servicing during the show for $50.00 + tax.
Find X Designs
719 Carthage St., Sanford, NC 27330
919-774-4700
Yarn, fabric, cotton fat quarters, kits, Pfaff, Janome and Necchi sewing machines. Arrow sewing furniture and Sew Steady products.
Kathy’s Patchwork
Springfield, Va.
703-241-2279
Chenille, jewelry and fat quarters
The Longarm Network
Greenville, SC 29615
864-272-3488
Innova longarm quilting machines
Loving Stitches
7076 Ramsey St, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-3912
Bernina sewing machines, embroidery machines, and long arm quilting machines. Also full service quilting supplies. Fabric, notions, rulers, accuquilt, threads
Memory Lane Quilting
Brecksville, Ohio
216-315-0227
Threads, rulers, pantographs, backing fabric and Nolting long arm quilting machines.
Moore than Needlepoint
Pinehurst, NC
910-295-3727
Painters threads, Planet Earth threads, misc. metallics and fibers, needlepoint and crewel kits.
Mountain Top Fibers
Ennice, NC
336-648-9950
Luxury yarns and fibers of domestic and local origin, felted sheets. Home grown and hand dyed yarns. roving and accessories to enhance your fiber experience. Luxury yarns from our mountain top.
North Cat-olina Quilts
Angier, NC
Corinne Kerns
919-639-3111 or corinnekerns@yahoo.com
Unique patterns and kits. Aurifil thread dealer. (140 colors) Valdani thread, Stella lamps. Quilts, fabric boxes, handmade items such as needle minders and scissor keepers.
Primrose Lane
Black Mountain, NC
800-218-7611
Original patterns for quilt, embroidery, children clothing and doll clothing. Valdani 12 wt. perle cotton.
.Quilt Patch Fabrics
Matthews, NC
704-821-7554 or qpf@quiltpatchfabrics.com
Fabrics, books, patterns, sewing and quilt notions. Also quilting services.
Quilter’s Express
Lexington, SC
Take your project from “Fabric to Finished” with QE. We carry a variety of quilt patterns, fabric kits, threads, a full range quilting notions, and lots more to complete your next project. New this year – Dear Jane using English Paper Piecing. Learn a new way to make an old favorite. We also offer quilting services at our studio and carry a wide variety of Swarovski Hotfix crystals for that perfect finishing touch.
Quilter’s Gallery
Cleveland, NC
704-376-2531 or 704-807-6992
We’ll have plenty of our freshly made Fabric Pizzas and our new 1/2 yard fabric “flatbreads”. Quilting kits, rulers, patterns and templates. Lots of fabric – prints and batiks.
Quiltricks
Cary, NC
Original quilt patterns, featuring “quiltlet” trios, seasonal “woolies, purses, wallets, table runners, wallhangings and full size quilts.
Schoolhouse Quilts
399 Sunset Memorial Rd.
Forest City, NC 28043
828-245-9774
You can find supplies that meet the needs of the beginner to the art quilter at SHQ. Our shop is the quilting “hardware” store as well as a “library” book selection that is second to none. This booth is always well stocked and always packed. Got a question about what book has a certain pattern? Just ask Brenda.
Shakerwood Woolens
Rock Hill, SC 29730
803-487-6975
Hand-dyed wools, wool applique patterns and books, threads – Valdani and Rustic Moire, rug hooking supplies and other necessities. Civil war cottons and homespuns.
Stash Tools
Huntsville, Al
256-698-0872
Templates, pre-cuts, panels, books, patterns, etc. ST designs and sells acrylic templates to assist quilters in reducing their stash. Our templates are designed to work with leftover precuts, but can easily be used with the fabrics in your stash. We also carry FQ, panels and patterns designed for our templates. Ongoing demos in our booth.
Studio Stitch
3215-B Battleground Ave., Greensboro, NC 27408
336.288.9200
Bernina sewing machines and fabrics. Sewing and embroidery notions. Machine repair and classes.
CF Tomchik Designs
Clemmons, NC
Raku fired buttons, jewelry and shawl pins.
U Can Quilt
Raleigh, NC
919-630-8591
Pre-measured, custom cut quilt kits, designed so you can quilt and sew. Each packaged in a special “container”.
Wood Quilt Blocks
Manassas, Va.
703-794-0336
Wood marquetry in quilt patterns as jewelry, all hangings, ornaments and clocks. Also wood turned seam rippers and tools.
Twin Birch Products
Siler City, NC
TBP are makers of hand crafted Birchwood Fiber Art Tools. Our booth features our product, handwoven “fair trade” baskets and wearable art.