{"id":68452,"date":"2025-11-13T06:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=68452"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:47:12","slug":"another-sew-creative-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/another-sew-creative-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Sew Creative Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sew Creative, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As mentioned the other day, we stopped in Ashland to visit Mary<\/a> and rest in between driving to Portland. On our way out of town, we stopped at Sew Creative. The last time<\/a> I was there was 2021. No masks this time. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

This was the first shop we visited on this trip.<\/p>\n

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Sew Creative: front to back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The shop was pretty much the same as last time, though with new fabric and supplies. I enjoyed the people working there. They were cheerful and helpful.<\/p>\n

The tile on the floor is very striking. It is easy for me to tell which photos are of Sew Creative! I have always liked black and white tile. I forgot they had it in this shop. The shop is STUFFED with all manner of fabric, patterns, notions and quiltmaking supplies.<\/p>\n

The front of the shop was set up to invite a person in. They have a small selection of books. I noticed that many quilt stores are not carrying as many books as they once did. Thanks, Amazon. <\/p>\n

The small garments were very appealing. I have one small great niece and was tempted to make her something. I resisted as we all know that will never happen.<\/p>\n

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Sew Creative: front to back – further<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were in the process of changing displays, so the beautiful table was empty. I really like gate leg tables. The staff were cutting fat quarters, I think, in the back. You can see they had a free demo behind the table next to the check out desk.<\/p>\n

An impulse buy when I was checking out was the All Pacific Northwest Shop Hop magazine<\/a>. It isn’t pictured below for some reason and I loaned it to Mary. I am not going to make any of the projects. Too much green and brown and panels and trees. There were some good ideas in the patterns for settings, especially for setting blocks in the corners. I might be able to use some of them for the BAM BOM. The best part was the list of quilt shops. It wasn’t complete, but there were a lot of shops I didn’t know about. The one I visited in Albany<\/a> with Mom was not listed, for example<\/p>\n

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Sew Creative: 2d front to back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the other side of the patterns you see across from the table was a selection of fabric. Last time I found some linen\/canvas bag fabric<\/a> in this area. No such luck this time. <\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean I didn’t see some appealing colors and motifs! LOL! I found some of the fabrics I bought at Family Threads<\/a> on bolts here. There were also some nice greys, for which I am always on the hunt. There was soooo much to look at in this shop that I am seeing things in the photos I don’t remember from when I was actually there. There were quite a few people in the shop and that was a little distracting.<\/p>\n

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Sew Creative: notions & embroidery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love their notions. Sew Creative has a good selection and I saw that they had improved their selection of embroidery thread. This went with the wool felt I saw, I think. <\/p>\n

The display piece on the left of the photo was crammed with various notions. There was a good selection of needles and I probably should have stocked up on the Chenille needles I use for hand sewing, but was too distracted to think clearly.<\/p>\n

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Sew Creative: Notions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was pleased to see some Creative Grids rulers I hadn’t seen before: a 18.5 x 12.5 inch ruler<\/a>** and a 12.5 x 24.5 inch ruler<\/a>**.  The latter is called “The Big Easy,” which made me laugh. Neither of these are must haves, but recently I have thought they would be useful.<\/p>\n

Sew Creative has a good selection of rulers, both small and large. They are largely Creative Grids, but I saw a few other brands as well. I saw a couple of the Jaybird Quilts rulers I used for the Journey to Nebula Sew-a-Long<\/a> in which I participated a few years ago.<\/p>\n