Quilt Shop recommendations - TX, ARK, MO
 

We will be traveling from near Houston to Branson, MO in June and will stop in as many quilt shops as we can along the way. So I'd like to develop my own personal Shop Hop. I'd like to pick up a FQ in each shop and turn them into a quilt to show our little vacation. I know we'll go through Texarkana and Little Rock on the way to Branson, but don't really know where else.

Suggest away, please!

Honeybee quilt store is on Anderson Mill, just off Research Blvd. It is my favorite quilt shop. People are very friendly and helpful.

When I go to some fabric shops I make notes. Here is my notes on great shops that I have been to in the last year.

Austin Quilt Shops

Honey Bee Quilt Store Inc.---9308 Anderson Mill Rd, Austin
512-257-1269. Monday thru Saturday 9am-5pm-- Tuesday 9am-7pm--Sunday 1pm-5pm.*
Hwy 1 NB *to 183 NB
Exit McNeil stay on Svc Rd to Pond Springs can only turn Rt on it.
Go down to Anderson Mill turn Rt will be on the left.
GREAT STORE!!!

Hancocks Fabrics---13450 North Hwy 183 near Honey Bee Quilt Store
Take Anderson Mill and U turn under Hwy. Will be on rt side.
Huge store with lots of fabric.

Sew Much More---3010 Anderson Ln #J
NB hwy 1 exit at Anderson/Spicewood Springs
Rt on Anderson will be in shopping center on left.*
Great store, not much fabric, more machines. *Bought Texas Longhorn fabric and Grommets purse pattern here. *Also, the fabric pen and labels. *Good store.

Quilt Store Inc.---2700 W Anderson Ln #301
NB hwy 1 exit at*Anderson/Spicewood Springs will be on left in open shopping mall. *Park and walk between building, will be first walk way. Bought guitar material & breast cancer fabric for back of Ms Issac's shawl here. *

Quilt Haus---651 N. Business IH 35 New Braunfels #510---830-620-1382 *Saturday open till 5:30 pm
SW35 exit 188 -- Frontage Rd exit. *Take a left at light onto Business 35 south. *Take first rt onto McKenna, take first left in shopping center. * GREAT SHOP!! *fabrics I got there--shark--tinkerbell words--moda trick or treat layer cakes--midnight cowboy panels--orange/black Halloween checks--green batik for fish water bottle--light blue with stars--Life of the Party pattern.

Quilt Shops DFW

Happiness is...Quilting! *217 N Kentucky, McKinney 972-542-8839
NB75 exit 40A Louisiana
Louisiana down to Wood St
Left on Wood St to Herndon St
Rt on Herndon St to Kentucky St
Rt on Kentucky St will be on Rt

Cabbage Rose 3000 Montgomery St, Ft Worth*
WB30 to Montgomery St exit
Left on Montgomery St
Will be on Rt

There is a nice quilt store there in Branson. Can't remember the name of it -- I've not been there, but have heard others talk about it.

The big outlet square in Branson has a quilt store, not a shop. It sells premade quilts, most quilted overseas. Very disappointing to think it's a quilt shop and find out it's not. The quilt shops in Branson are scattered but easy to find.

There is a nice big quilt shop between Texarkana and Little Rock called Pinwheels on Hwy 5 right off the interstate 30. http://pinwheelfabrics.com/

Lone Star House of Quilts in Arlington, TX : http://lonestarhouseofquilts.com/

If you go anywhere Dallas you have to check these out
Do a search here on Perth stree stores anf scroll on down to Golden D'Or on Harry Hines. I tried to put in the link but every time I posted it it would not show up when I clicked REPLY. But well worth the trip.

Thanks for the suggestions - got a PM that was very helpful, too. I googled quilt shops in Branson and found that 16 shops are listed, but ... as one of you found out - most of them sell premade items. So ... I may make a list and call before get there to be sure the shop is what I want.

Bluebonnet - thanks for your detailed list and for the idea to make one! I'm finally starting to make notes about fabric I order online - what shop it's from and what project it's for. Now I need to start a notebook of shops. My husband loves shop hops and we have done several, but I find now that they all run together. I know I got backing at this one and sock monkey fabric and that one, but for the life of me can't tell you which is which!
Thanks again!