{"id":64457,"date":"2024-12-21T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=64457"},"modified":"2024-12-15T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:18:19","slug":"birch-fabrics-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/birch-fabrics-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Birch Fabrics Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64451\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133237_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64451\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133237_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Birch Fabrics outside\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133237_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133237_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133237_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birch Fabrics outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I visited Birch Fabrics back in October and forgot to post about it. The last time I <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/birch-fabrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited <\/a> was over 10 years ago. I thought I had been there since then and it is possible. I may not have written a review on those in between visits. It is also possible I have just purchased from their online store. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>They have moved to a new space away from downtown and nearer to their warehouse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133428_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64452\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133428_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Birch Fabrics - first room\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133428_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133428_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_133428_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birch Fabrics &#8211; first room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The space is MUCH smaller than their previous space, just two small rooms. DH was with me and we also found it a little hard to find. The sign is pretty small.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the space is super clean and well organized. It was very quiet. There was one person working and she was cutting for online orders.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly they had Birch Fabrics, including Charley Harper fabrics, but I saw some Tula fabrics also. There was a small number of notions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64454\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_135613_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64454\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_135613_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Birch Fabrics - 2d room\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_135613_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_135613_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_135613_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birch Fabrics &#8211; 2d room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One thing I found was a couple of different Sun Hat patterns. One was the Sew Hungry Hippie <a href=\"https:\/\/sewhungryhippie.com\/products\/bardot-hat-printed-pattern?_pos=1&amp;_sid=0591f35ed&amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bardot Bucket Hat pattern<\/a>. You know that my first <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/finished-sun-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sun Hat<\/a> didn&#8217;t work out very well. I had been thinking about this pattern and was glad to be able to see it in person. You can buy it at Birch, but also on the SHH website.&nbsp; On the website, they also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/sewhungryhippie.com\/products\/2333830?_pos=3&amp;_sid=0591f35ed&amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video course<\/a> and SVG files for separate purchase.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64448\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_182953_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64448\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_182953_wm-sm-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Birch Fabrics, 2024\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_182953_wm-sm-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_182953_wm-sm-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_182953_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birch Fabrics, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyway, the second room had all of the Charley Harper prints. I have to admit I went a little crazy with those fabrics. I bought quite a few pieces and they are not my normal purchases. I really liked the Charley Harper fabrics, but I tried not to buy them all.<\/p>\n<p>I might make myself an Atlas Zipper Pouch with the turquoise bird fabric. I bought the fish fabrics to make DH a Hackney. I haven&#8217;t gotten to it yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d visit this store again, especially now that I know where it is. Small, but mighty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Birch Fabrics back in October and forgot to post about it. The last time I visited was over 10 years ago. I thought I had been there since then and it is possible. I may not have written a review on those in between visits. It is also possible I have just purchased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/birch-fabrics-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birch Fabrics Again&#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":[530],"tags":[334,346],"class_list":["post-64457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","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\/64457","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=64457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65073,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457\/revisions\/65073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}