Just came home from a short Alaskan Cruise and found the best quilt shop in the tiny town of Skagway AK. They have fabrics kits, boolt, special cuts of fabrics I have never seen befoe -- good quality and good prices as well
They have animal prints - bears, moose, whales etc - wooded scenes - birds - northern lights and for those of you who also knit and crochet - alaskan yarns
check this out: www.quiltalaska.com
www.changingthreads.com
their fabrics are high quality and not real pricey (1/2 yd for $5.25-$5.50) and they have some unusual kits as well. They ship USPS - what a great surprise I came home to !

Thanks for sharing! I hope you had fun on your cruise, that is one that I want to take someday.

Thanks. Hope you enjoyed the cruise.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing. Would love to do the AK cruise one day.

oh my goodness- $5.25- $5.50 a half yard is (good prices) in your world??? i am so sorry---
that comes out to $10.50-$11 a yard!!! that is WAY EXPENSIVE in my world.
a really really good sale would make those prices maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of my willingness to even look...at those prices i can not afford to even click on their web site...wow-

everything is more expensive in Alaska!!

Hope you had a fabulous trip!! :D:D

I just checked out their site. They have some beautiful Northen Lights fabrics. I just emailed them and asked if they do swatches as I would love to make a quilt one day and use some of the northern lights oh yeahhhhh.....

You are definitely hard core! Go on an Alaskan cruise, and check out the quilt store!

I hope you enjoyed yourselves - I've seen brochures and talked to people who've gone, it's supposed to be beautiful!

Lots of wildlife! Thanks for sharing!

Went and looked at the first website, wow what beautiful fabrics they carry. Found a couple I wouldn't mind spending that kind of money on, IF I was better at quilting and had specific project in mind, like for a quilt for a gift for a wedding or something like that. But mostly they are out of my price range. Thanks for sharing the sites though.

Did you find any other shops while ashore in other towns/ I loved the one in Juneau

I hope you enjoyed your cruise to Alaska as much as the one I went on several years ago! It was an experience I will NEVER forget. If I could afford to do it again, I would do it in the blink of an eye!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks for the link!! The store looks amazing! :D

Love the fabrics.

Thanks for sharing......a trip to Alaska is also on our "list" and it is nice to think there will be some quilting diversions on the trip.....

neat shop! thanks for sharing!

DH and I also took the Alaskan cruise several years ago. Great trip. Every place we docked, I looked in the phonebook for the fabric shops. When we were there, I found very few.

HEY THANKS FOR THE LINKS!

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A QUILTER, WHEN????? YOU TAKE A CRUISE AND FIND A SHOP!

:D Julie

I found that shop and two more at other stops on my cruise to Alaska 6 or 7 years ago. We are going again the end of July. I hope I have a chance to hit them all again. I made a wallhanging from some fabric I purchased in Alaska on my previous cruise. It hangs in my TV room as a pleasant reminder of that cruise. Naturally everything in Alaska costs more since it all is either shipped or flown in from the lower 48 or elsewhere. Many places in Alaska are only available by small plane.

Thanks for sharing the info. My dh and I are taking the Alaska cruise in July. Can not wait. I am for sure going to stop there.

I like to get things as a remembeance of where I have been - and what better than to find something that I love that I work into my house! much better than a mug made in China!! - The different fabrics were amazing to me - which is why I wanted to share the find ! - and in a town of about 3000 people !

Yup, been to that shop when DH & I took an Alaskin cruise. Just loved all their animal prints. Thanks for posting. Lost their site address & still need some speciality fabrics to finish wall hanging I'm planning on making for DH.

Thanks for sharing! What beautiful fabrics!

I have a few quilting friends that lived in Alaska and they still order fabrics from the shops there. They enjoy all the wildlife prints and make wonderful quilts from them!

aren't they great..I miss living in AK...most of the shops pool their resources and special order those fabrics just for their AK shop kits. Thanks for reminding me that the fabrics I need for my cousins AK quilt are best found in AK....

in Ketchikan the quilt shop deliberately opened at the docking station!...Juneau has one but it is out by the airport, Valdez has one but it is not near the ports, there are a few out there, but not many at the ship ports...

HA>..nearly everything you find in the tourist shops in AK are made in China...which is truly sad because there are such wonderful artists and craftsmen in AK...Juneau is the only town where the PORT area is in the Arts disctrict...they planned it that way!

Yes Alaska is beautiful and you cannot explain it to someone who has never been there. Have a daughter who is a paralegal and spent numerous trips there for the Valdeze oil spill case and said you have to go, so we did, four days on land and 5 days on cruise ship.

my husband and I had this trip planned for last year, we booked Norwegian Cruse Line and had a balcony room booked, tours all booked then we both lost our jobs oh it was so maddening. everything went wrong!!!!

This is not Wal-Mart fabrics, and the "good" quilting fabrics have gone up in price. And getting that fabric up to Al. cost a lot more than it shipping to the regular states. I went to the site, beautiful fabrics, and if there were something I liked and couldn't find around me here in Ca., I would order it(and I probably will find something). Good fabrics and good thread, equal a good quality quilt, I have seen a lot of "junk" ones that the fabric came from WM and Jo Ann's, if you are going to quilt, use good stuff, otherwise, it shows it.

We went on the Alaska cruise a couple of years ago. You are right it was wonderful and the quilt shop was a nice bonus!

WOW! Thanks for sharing... this is excatly the type of fabrics I have been interested in lately!!!

I took a cruise last year and ended up purchasing 3 "bear" kits. A year later, I am asking myself, what am I going to do with 3 bears, I am sure my family will take them off my hands once I complete them. I loved the shops.

I am so glad to hear this! We are leaving next week for an Alaskan cruise and I had already scoped out all of the quilt shops. This one is one my list!! I'm glad they will ship it home because I was trying to figure out whether to take an extra suitcase! :lol:

Want to go on an Alaskan cruise .. Hope u had a great time

Me too. We went in 2005 and loved it. I hope I can do it again someday.

Nice links. Thanks for sharing them!

Sounds like the kind of trip you don't mind ending when you have all that neat fabric and "stuff" waiting at home

Not just in Skagway - almost all Alaskan towns we visited had exquisite quilt shops - the best batik selection I have ever seen-I really added to my stash - even though we travelled in a teeny 19' motorhome! Fabric was 'stashed' everywhere. I think the long winters in Alaska must inspire quilters, but I loved it!