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.