WELCOME TO VILLAGE FABRICS
Village Fabrics, founded in 1981 is the oldest quilt shop in Oxfordshire, and one of the first quilt shops in the UK. We are located in Wallingford, a beautiful, market town on the River Thames, near Oxford and Henley. We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday, except on bank holidays.
Come and visit our permanent Christmas room, our enormous variety of patchwork cottons, Husqvarna sewing machines and other specialist quilting accessories, waddings and books. Our fabrics include Moda, Marcus Brothers, Hoffman and Kona Bay as well as an extensive collection of 1930s prints and batiks. We also carry Simplicity patterns and Curtain Express "ready made" curtains.
Current BLOCK OF THE MONTH Programme
I have just added a new series of classes to our listing "Gay's Antique Medallion Style Quilt". We are so glad to welcome Gay Eldridge back to teach some classes for us. So just go to classes and find more details.Dates for your Diary Saturday, 23rd January 2010 "Quilts for Valour" Thanks to everyone who came along on the day and to those who are still helping.
"Quilters Valentine Pick Me Up" The indulgent evening we had planned for 10th February has had to be re scheduled we have just been too busy to organise it has we would like. Watch this space for the new date.
FREE Taster Weekend, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March Over the two days we shall put on a series of short classes and demonstrations to familiarise you with different aspects of patchwork and quilting. All for FREE. We will be offering hour long sessions on such techniques as: Hand Quilting, Machine Applique, Foundation Piecing, Computer label making ......
Pre booking will be essential. The materials and tuition are FREE. So please tell any friends who may be interested to come along and enjoy themselves. Refreshments will be available.
You Can Now Hire Our Workroom
We have converted our old Christmas Room upstairs into a workroom! No more crawling around on the floor to baste a quilt. No more sore backs from leaning over your dining room table. We all know what that’s like!
Village Fabric’s workroom has large tables at waist height, space for a sewing machine and ironing board etc. Importantly we will make sure that there is plenty of coffee available.
We are renting the room to individuals for £20 per day; Village Club membership lowers the cost to £15. We would also consider the possibilities for small quilt groups to hire the room and we can also try to accommodate ½ day hire of the space.
Please come and talk to us about your needs.