{"id":46122,"date":"2019-05-25T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46122"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:47:42","slug":"quilt-shop-thimble-towne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/quilt-shop-thimble-towne\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Shop: Thimble Towne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46042\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580682274581948003821783548141-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thimble Town, Visalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other day I wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/visit-to-calico-mermaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calico Mermaid<\/a>. The second shop we visited was Thimble Towne. It was closer to the hotel, but we went to it second. I think SIL #2 was right in going to Porterville first. It was a long drive and I might not have done it if we had visited Thimble Towne first.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46043\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580685468846547134545011062250-1200x803.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thimble Town, Visalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thimble Towne is a large shop. They sell BabyLock sewing machines, have a large amount of fabric, embroidery designs and projects as well as notions and tools for both quiltmaking and embroidery.<\/p>\n<p>It is nice to see shops with lots of fabric. Again, I didn&#8217;t buy anything, but I was tempted by some Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46051\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190517_075921_wm5688181613614041588-1200x703.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thimble Town, Visalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did like the embroidery patterns and projects. They had a number of &#8216;in the hoop&#8217; patterns. I no longer have an embroidery machine, but I like the idea of embroidering something that can be immediately made into a project. The projects were small like key chains and change purses. I might like to have an embroidery machine available to me to make projects like this whenever I felt like it. I don&#8217;t want to invest in a machine, though.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-46122 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15581049438407183820296820504598-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15581049438407183820296820504598-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46049\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46049'>\n\t\t\t\tThimble Town, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15581048226921993668622485312774-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15581048226921993668622485312774-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46048\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46048'>\n\t\t\t\tThimble Town, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20190516_220034_wm7907277053648160294-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190516_220034_wm7907277053648160294-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46047\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46047'>\n\t\t\t\tThimble Town, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15580691987185136956571155195120-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580691987185136956571155195120-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46046\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46046'>\n\t\t\t\tThimble Town, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15580689119934832791562802292923-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580689119934832791562802292923-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Thimble Town, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46045\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46045'>\n\t\t\t\tThimble Town, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The shop had a fair number of batiks. They didn&#8217;t have as many solids as I would expect, but, perhaps, they are not following trends like the Bay Area shops do. I saw a wide variety of fabrics and think that they do a good job catering to different types of quiltmakers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46128\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585496107098546734788290732229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585496107098546734788290732229-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Travel Tote, Thimble Town, Visalia\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585496107098546734788290732229-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585496107098546734788290732229-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585496107098546734788290732229-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travel Tote, Thimble Town, Visalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The shop had a class sample for a travel notions tote. There was no pattern with it, but I am hunting for one, because it looked like a super useful bag.<\/p>\n<p>I asked about a pattern and the shop owner (worker bee?) said that there was no pattern for sale, but that someone taught a class regularly on making the tote. This is not a convenient option for me, but I might try to collaborate with Lynette to make a pattern of our own. It might be a good bag to give to officers.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-46122 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15585497087524206976930591115843-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585497087524206976930591115843-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Travel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-46132\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-46132'>\n\t\t\t\tTravel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15585500288661709335945627803591-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585500288661709335945627803591-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Travel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-46131\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-46131'>\n\t\t\t\tTravel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15585504742375711915872752801573-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15585504742375711915872752801573-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Travel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-46134\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-46134'>\n\t\t\t\tTravel Tote, Thimble Towne, Visalia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I worry that I just like the challenge of making the bag and don&#8217;t really want the bag. After all, I have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/tool-tote-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tool Tote<\/a> waiting to be filled. The tote at Thimble Towne has some very useful features, however, including a small pressing mat, many zipper pockets, slip pockets and mesh pockets. It might work well as small project tote &#8211; or a tote for various small projects. The tote has features that other bags I have made have. I think the construction may be similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/all-rolled-up-tote-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Rolled Up Tote<\/a>, in part. The slip pockets and other pockets could be customized, but I have made similar ones before.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble Town Classroom, Visalia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15580686326881076410119895907266-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thimble Town Classroom, Visalia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thimble Towne also had a large classroom (sorry about the vacuum cleaner! I didn&#8217;t notice it until we were already gone). Not only is the classroom large, but it includes high quality chairs. I also saw cutting and ironing stations set at a good ergonomic height. The shop really takes good advantage of the space they have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thimbletowne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thimble Towne<\/a> has two locations and I recommend a visit.<\/p>\n<p>Visalia Location:<br \/>\n400 West Caldwell, Suite F<br \/>\nVisalia, CA 93277<br \/>\nPh: (559) 627-5778<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Location:<br \/>\n2841 Unicorn Road, Suite 103<br \/>\nBakersfield, Ca 93308<br \/>\nPh: (661) 399-5778<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote about the Calico Mermaid. The second shop we visited was Thimble Towne. It was closer to the hotel, but we went to it second. I think SIL #2 was right in going to Porterville first. It was a long drive and I might not have done it if we had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/quilt-shop-thimble-towne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quilt Shop: Thimble Towne&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[334,346],"class_list":["post-46122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-quilt-shop","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}