Fabric Scotland?

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a really good fabric store in Scotland? I live in Dundee but am having trouble finding any shop that sells a really good range of quality quilting fabrics. Don't really want to buy online because I much prefer seeing what I'm going to buy. Hope someone can help.

Many thanks :0)

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yspetersen
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There is a shop in Glasgow called Mandors which has lovely fabric. Don't know contact details off hand but they have a website and advertise regularly in quilting magazines.

Hope that helps.

Susan

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S R Glickman

We'll have to wait until Jo in Scotland reads this -- she used to live in Dundee, I know so, I visited her there! Cheers Bronnie

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bronferrier

Hiya,

This is Jo, in Dundee (and have been for 11 years!)

I take it you've tried the Sewing Station out in Broughty Ferry? It's tiny but it's local and she carries quilting cottons in novelties and blenders.

There is Mandor's in Glasgow as someone mentioned. It's either on Renfrew street I think (one of those "R" streets not far from Queen Street rail station). There is - or used to be - a fabric shop in Edinburgh. I've not been but I've heard about it. A google search might bring up the brick-n-mortar address, or they might have organised a website by now.

There is a shop up in Aberdeen I visited a few years ago. It's not in the centre, but you can get a bus out there. It's closed on a certain weekday (Monday or Wednesday or something) so do a check before you go. I was shut outside staring longingly in the window the second time I went! It's not much bigger than the Sewing Station, but is bright and friendly and I found a fabric that I thought had been discontinued.

There are a few sewing machine/fabric shops in Stirling. Megwen in Bath took me round those because her brother lives in Stirling and she knows the city better than I do. They are not "quilt stores" by any means, but they sell some fabric, and some cushion forms and buttons and things. If you will be in Stirling anyway, or have time between trains, then stop by. I can't remember the names, but Megwen would know, or do a search for "fabric shop Stirling" in Google or similar.

Then there is the famous craft shop outside Letham, Angus (not Letham, Fife). It is signposted from Letham I think. It's not in Forfar or even in Letham, but outside the village. Letham Craft Shop. They have everything in there, but it's well crammed in. A true "Aladdin's Cave". They have quilting cotton, FQs, panels, and also printing supplies, yarn, stamps, books, scrapbooking materials, doll parts, topiary forms, patterns for knitting and crocheting, etc, etc. Plan to spend at least an hour or two there, and take a list!

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I buy most of my stuff from online shops. Even with the shipping, it is cheaper from the US (especially now the dollar is so low). I have occasionally had a colour that wasn't quite what I was expecting, but that is rare. Make sure you are using a good, newer monitor when you are looking at the fabric at an online shop and you should be fine for colour matching.

Hope you have some nice shopping expeditions!

-- Jo in Scotland

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Jo in Scotland

Hi,

The shops in Stirling are Kings fabrics which is in a basement near the M&S end of the Thistle centre and Pembertons which also sells Husqvarna sewing machines.

There is a shop in Linlithgow which my sister in law took me to last time I was up. She had found it by accident and thought that it was a 'must see' for me! I bought fat quarters for my nephew (8) and niece (6), start them young !

Hiya,

This is Jo, in Dundee (and have been for 11 years!)

I take it you've tried the Sewing Station out in Broughty Ferry? It's tiny but it's local and she carries quilting cottons in novelties and blenders.

There is Mandor's in Glasgow as someone mentioned. It's either on Renfrew street I think (one of those "R" streets not far from Queen Street rail station). There is - or used to be - a fabric shop in Edinburgh. I've not been but I've heard about it. A google search might bring up the brick-n-mortar address, or they might have organised a website by now.

There is a shop up in Aberdeen I visited a few years ago. It's not in the centre, but you can get a bus out there. It's closed on a certain weekday (Monday or Wednesday or something) so do a check before you go. I was shut outside staring longingly in the window the second time I went! It's not much bigger than the Sewing Station, but is bright and friendly and I found a fabric that I thought had been discontinued.

There are a few sewing machine/fabric shops in Stirling. Megwen in Bath took me round those because her brother lives in Stirling and she knows the city better than I do. They are not "quilt stores" by any means, but they sell some fabric, and some cushion forms and buttons and things. If you will be in Stirling anyway, or have time between trains, then stop by. I can't remember the names, but Megwen would know, or do a search for "fabric shop Stirling" in Google or similar.

Then there is the famous craft shop outside Letham, Angus (not Letham, Fife). It is signposted from Letham I think. It's not in Forfar or even in Letham, but outside the village. Letham Craft Shop. They have everything in there, but it's well crammed in. A true "Aladdin's Cave". They have quilting cotton, FQs, panels, and also printing supplies, yarn, stamps, books, scrapbooking materials, doll parts, topiary forms, patterns for knitting and crocheting, etc, etc. Plan to spend at least an hour or two there, and take a list!

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I buy most of my stuff from online shops. Even with the shipping, it is cheaper from the US (especially now the dollar is so low). I have occasionally had a colour that wasn't quite what I was expecting, but that is rare. Make sure you are using a good, newer monitor when you are looking at the fabric at an online shop and you should be fine for colour matching.

Hope you have some nice shopping expeditions!

-- Jo in Scotland

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Megwen Woodham

Mandors in Renfield Street I think, not Renfrew Street.

There is another good one called Kaleidoscope which is at Dobbie's garden centre in Milngavie. Not cheap though, their average is about £12 a metre.

Have you been to the shows at Ingliston? There are always lots of traders there with a huge selection of fabric all in one place. Well worth the admission price.

Morag

Hiya,

This is Jo, in Dundee (and have been for 11 years!)

I take it you've tried the Sewing Station out in Broughty Ferry? It's tiny but it's local and she carries quilting cottons in novelties and blenders.

There is Mandor's in Glasgow as someone mentioned. It's either on Renfrew street I think (one of those "R" streets not far from Queen Street rail station). There is - or used to be - a fabric shop in Edinburgh. I've not been but I've heard about it. A google search might bring up the brick-n-mortar address, or they might have organised a website by now.

There is a shop up in Aberdeen I visited a few years ago. It's not in the centre, but you can get a bus out there. It's closed on a certain weekday (Monday or Wednesday or something) so do a check before you go. I was shut outside staring longingly in the window the second time I went! It's not much bigger than the Sewing Station, but is bright and friendly and I found a fabric that I thought had been discontinued.

There are a few sewing machine/fabric shops in Stirling. Megwen in Bath took me round those because her brother lives in Stirling and she knows the city better than I do. They are not "quilt stores" by any means, but they sell some fabric, and some cushion forms and buttons and things. If you will be in Stirling anyway, or have time between trains, then stop by. I can't remember the names, but Megwen would know, or do a search for "fabric shop Stirling" in Google or similar.

Then there is the famous craft shop outside Letham, Angus (not Letham, Fife). It is signposted from Letham I think. It's not in Forfar or even in Letham, but outside the village. Letham Craft Shop. They have everything in there, but it's well crammed in. A true "Aladdin's Cave". They have quilting cotton, FQs, panels, and also printing supplies, yarn, stamps, books, scrapbooking materials, doll parts, topiary forms, patterns for knitting and crocheting, etc, etc. Plan to spend at least an hour or two there, and take a list!

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I buy most of my stuff from online shops. Even with the shipping, it is cheaper from the US (especially now the dollar is so low). I have occasionally had a colour that wasn't quite what I was expecting, but that is rare. Make sure you are using a good, newer monitor when you are looking at the fabric at an online shop and you should be fine for colour matching.

Hope you have some nice shopping expeditions!

-- Jo in Scotland

Reply to
Morag in Scotland

Mandors in Glasgow.

Others are good for a smaller range of things (the quilt shops in Melrose and Linlithgow, or Edinburgh Fabrics).

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I will add one not to try: we were in Perth looking for such and spotted one across the road called "Needles".

It turned out to be a tattoo and piercing studio.

Opportunity for a combined business there.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

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