Originally Posted by jrhboxers
You will probably want to plan to spend some time in Shipshewana, Indiana. Great Amish community with LOTS of quilt stores. But my favorite place to buy fabrics is Yoders, which is kind of like an Amish Walmart. One half of the store is 'dry goods' - fabric, clothing, fabric, shoes, fabric, patterns - a quarter hardware store and a quarter grocery store.
DH LOVES the hardware part. If you are looking for ANYTHING unusually or that you just can't find anymore, Yoders has it. He purchased his hand-crank meat grinder there and LOVES it. We have found other things like iron skillets (at a great price) and oil lamp hardware.
I was at a quilt shop there and a lady was having a hard time buying a quilt. Her mother had left her some money and she had decided to buy an Amish quilt. The one she was looking at was $1000. It was breath-taking. She had been back 3 times to look at it. Something within me knew she should have it. We talked a bit and I told her if she bought it everytime she wrapped it around herself or slept under it, it would be like her mother's arms wrapped around her. She bought it.