{"id":36574,"date":"2017-05-04T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=36574"},"modified":"2017-04-30T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T13:48:15","slug":"yoders-dept-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/yoders-dept-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop Review: Yoder’s Department Store"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yoder’s Department Store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yoder’s Department Store is the place that is the main fabric store for the Shipshewana Quilt Festival. I never thought I would go to this place. It’s in Indiana. Do you know how far it is from my house? 5 hours on a plane, 3 hours on a bus, assuming your plane isn’t late and you don’t miss the bus, and about an hour in a car. We went to this store right after Zinck<\/a>‘s and only had about an hour to look around. I was slightly jetlagged, so I had enough time, but I could have spent weeks in that store and not seen everything.<\/p>\n

The other thing I noticed was that the store was scrupulously clean. Where Zinck’s was a little dark and slightly grubby – not dirty, just very basic – Yoder’s was spotless and bright.<\/p>\n

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Yoder’s Soft Goods Section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yoder’s large fabric area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those of you who have not been to Yoder’s, it is a giant building with a few different and separate areas: fabric and clothing, housewares, hardware and a few others. We went into the fabric and clothing section, which also had shoes, table linens, baby clothes, and a few other things. The fabric section took up about half of that space. There was so much fabric that it was difficult to take it all in.<\/p>\n

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Yoder’s Tula Pink & Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I decided to do a circuit around the outside of the department to see what I saw. One of the first things I saw was some Tula Pink fabric.<\/p>\n

This made me realize that I was in a different sort of store. The fabrics weren’t closeouts or remnants; they were the latest fabrics and a lot of them. I saw several lines of Thimbleblossoms fabrics, tons of Moda, all the American Made Brands solids, Kona solids, Bella solids.<\/p>\n