![Family Threads Quilt Shop](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/family-threads-1.jpg)
I visited Family Threads quilt shop in San Juan Batista before the Retreat. This is a great quilt shop. There was a wide variety of fabrics, lots of patterns, bag supplies, solids and good notions.
The shop was small, but they had a wide variety of fabric. They had many, many panels hanging around the upper part of the ceiling. This is only the second shop I have seen with so many panels.
![Family Threads main room](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230421_120728_wm-sm-225x300.jpg)
The shop also had a lot of fabric. They also had a wide variety of fabrics I hadn’t seen. I saw a lot of novelty fabrics that I have only seen online. Now I know I can go to somewhere relatively nearby and actually look at some fabrics.
The bolts on the floor in the front were a wide variety of polka dots. You can see the main color. The dot colors were all different.They weren’t just white. Yes, I bought a couple of fat quarter packs.
In the photo, right, you can also see the panels mentioned above.
![Family Threads main room](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230422_225722_wm-sm-285x300.jpg)
The isn’t exactly crammed, but every surface was well used. There are also a lot of different textures in the storage furniture. In the photo, left, you can see the interesting sides of the white shelf.
The shop had lots of pre-cuts and not just jelly rolls. The polka dots I mentioned above were all over the shop in fat quarter packs. There were different combinations, too. I saw some monochromatic packs in blue and others with a selection of rainbow fat quarters.
The shop had a good selection of notions as well. I was especially impressed with their selection of Creative Grids rulers. You can’t really see the rulers, which are behind the pre-cuts in the photo on the right. You can see a nice selection of some great fabrics in that same photo.
I was thrilled that I finally found a shop that carries Northcott solids. remember I discovered those at QuiltCon in 2016. I didn’t need any the day I was there, but I’ll go back and get some in the future. The solids room was also the shop classroom. Some people were sewing there the day we visited.
![Family Threads bagmaking materials](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230421_123229_wm-sm-225x300.jpg)
In the vestibule of the solids rooms was where they stored their bagmaking supplies. I was impressed with the setup. The drawers were labelled so it was easy to find different types of interfacing. You calso see straps and webbing stored. I liked this area a lot.
![Family Threads patterns area](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230421_120701_wm-sm-225x300.jpg)
The shop had a LOT of sample bags and other small projects as well as a wide variety of patterns.
All in all, Family Threads was a great shop and I want to visit again.
Get a different view, though. Julie wrote a good post about what she bought, and the shop.
107 The Alameda, Suite D
PO Box 1203
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045
HOURS Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-3, Sun Closed
Tel: (831) 623-0200
Website: https://familythreadsquiltshop.com/