I don’t know what the rest of you did for the 4th of July this year, but I went to visit family in North Idaho, and while I was there, I went to a quilting store called Home Grown Quilts.

Breezi, the store manager’s daughter-in-law, who seemed to be in charge of the store around lunchtime that day, wasn’t just standing behind the cut counter scrolling through Tic-Toc jokes on her phone. Oh no! She was sitting at a Viking Husqvarna sewing machine, making something!

That’s my kind of gal!

She greeted me, answered a few questions about their quilt shops, one of which is in Grangeville Idaho, and the other in Lewiston, Idaho, and then she proceeded to give me a very nice tour of Home Grown Quilts.

Since she took the time to show me around, I thought I’d share my tour photos with you today. As you can see in the image above, Home Grown Quilts doesn’t just sell fabric and sewing kits, they also do custom quilting with their long-arm quilting machine.

Breezi showed me some lovely quilts that were hanging from the rafters, on display, which certainly show off the skills of her mother-in-law, Jody, who does most of the custom long-arm machine quilting. Take a look:

Aren’t those beautiful?!

But of course, I was there to shop for fabric, and Home Grown Quilts had a nice selection of colors and styles.

Lately I’ve been feeling very inspired by vintage-style revival fabrics, and Home Grown Quilts had a nice selection of printed vintage-style cottons that I thought would be really adorable when sewing vintage-style doll clothes.

Take a look at the swatches below and guess which one I bought:

When I saw the pinwheel fabric, I just loved the red-white-and-blue colors, which seemed to perfectly suit the day. (Remember, I was there visiting family for the 4th of July.)

I actually thought the vintage records were donuts at first, which totally reminded me of the donut Halloween costume that I designed for 18 inch dolls last year! But since this fabric is actually showing off vintage records in its little print, I thought how it might be used for a shirt or jacket to go with a poodle skirt for a 1950’s outfit.

Now the chicken wire floral fabric was such a pretty shade of lavender, with those little daisies scattered about, and I love a good purple for making doll dresses. Little girls love purple, and I love chicken wire themed fabrics!

The “Posies from the ’30’s” fabric was such a pretty rosy shade of pink, that I could easily picture myself using it to make a dress for a vintage doll like Ideal Tammy.

As you know, I’ve been designing doll clothes for Judy Littlechap lately, and the Judy Littlechap doll originally had a little hound’s-tooth skirt that one could buy for her, back in the day. How cute would that skirt be in purple hound’s-tooth print?

And as you know, I’ve taught a class on designing your own pants patterns, including overalls. I think it would be super fun to make a pair of overalls for Barbie out of narrow, small-print ticker-tape fabric!

So which one of these six favorites of mine did I actually buy? Have you guessed?

I bought Posies from the ’30’s!

But what should I make with it? Leave your thoughts in the comments section. It’s a very small print, so I’m thinking it would make a very nice dress for Barbie or Tammy.

Choose a vintage pattern you think would work well with that fabric, and/or describe which of the fabrics you would have bought and why! I always enjoy hearing your comments!

The fabrics at Home Grown Quilts were very unique. As Breezi showed me around the store, I just couldn’t believe the cotton prints I was seeing! A lot of them were fabrics I’d never seen at my local JoAnn’s.

Home Grown Quilts also offers classes, retreats, and a quilt walk.

One of their classes teaches you how to make the Twilight Boo-levard Pillow, which lights up. Breezi gave me a demonstration, showing that all the lights in the houses on the Boo-levard blink. It was really neat!

But since most of my followers don’t live in North Idaho, you might be more interested in the kits that Home Grown Quilts has for sale in their online store. The one below shows you how to make your own handbag:

If you want to visit the Home Grown Quilts store in person, you would have to travel to Lewiston, Idaho or Grangeville, Idaho. That’s a bit of a stretch for some of you, unless you have other reasons for visiting the area.

With that said, if you’ve been thinking about taking a relaxing vacation, you might think about attending one of their quilting retreats. Home Grown Quilts has one coming up October 2-5, in Post Falls, Idaho.

Breezi gave me a flyer for the upcoming quilting retreat. Sorry it looks so wrinkled! I had it in my purse all month long:

Of course, if you can’t make it to their retreat, you can always order fabric from the store’s website. I’m thinking about going to the site to buy some of that awesome pinwheel fabric! And maybe the purple hound’s-tooth fabric too… Oh man! It’s hard to decide!

Home Grown Quilts has plenty of sewing notions too, and you can hit them up for custom quilting with their long-arm quilting machine.

So bookmark Home Grown Quilts, everybody! I sure did!

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