Best list · 18 sites · updated Oct 2026
Quilt shops and dressmaking fabric stores are different worlds. Use the craft filter to find stores that specialise in quilting cotton or in garment fabric.
Huge online quilt shop with free video tutorials
Missouri Star Quilt Company is one of the largest online quilt shops, known for its free video tutorials showing quick quilts made with precut fabric. It sells fabric, precuts, notions and patterns.
Fashion fabric store with a big library of free sewing patterns
Mood Fabrics is the New York fabric store known from Project Runway. Its online shop carries designer and fashion fabrics, and its Mood Sewciety blog offers a large library of free sewing patterns. It is a good stop if you want a free pattern and fabric suggestions for it.
Curated garment fabric from Canada
Blackbird Fabrics is a Canadian online shop with curated garment fabric, plus its own sewing patterns.
UK online shop for dressmaking fabric
Fabric Godmother is a UK online shop specialising in dressmaking fabric and patterns.
Discount fabric by the yard and bolt
Fabric Wholesale Direct sells fabric at discount prices by the yard and the bolt, including costume, upholstery and event fabrics.
Denver shop for fabric, yarn and patterns
Fancy Tiger Crafts is a Denver craft shop selling fabric, yarn and patterns online, and designing its own patterns.
Online quilt shop with fabric, kits and patterns
Fat Quarter Shop is a large online quilt shop selling fabric, precuts, kits, patterns and notions, with quilting video tutorials.
Modern quilting and apparel fabric
Hawthorne Supply Co. sells modern quilting and apparel fabric, including its own printed collections.
Online garment fabric shop
Imagine Gnats is an online shop for garment fabric and patterns.
Designer dressmaking fabric and indie patterns
Lamazi Fabrics is a UK shop selling designer dressmaking fabric and independent sewing patterns.
Bargain quilting fabric and batting
Marshall Dry Goods sells quilting fabric, wide backing and batting at low prices.
Workwear-inspired patterns, fabric and quality notions
Merchant & Mills, based in Rye, England, sells utilitarian, workwear-inspired sewing patterns alongside linen, wool and cotton fabric and well-made notions. The style is simple and timeless.
Large UK online fabric and craft shop
Minerva is a large UK online shop for fabric, yarn and haberdashery, with a community of sewing bloggers.
Japanese fabric shipped from Japan
Miss Matatabi sells Japanese fabric, including double gauze and designer prints, shipped from Japan.
Modern quilting fabric shop
Pink Castle Fabrics is an online quilt shop with modern quilting fabric, bundles and a quilting community.
London fabric shop with sewing classes
Raystitch is a London fabric shop with dressmaking fabric, patterns and sewing classes.
Berkeley fabric store with garment fabric online
Stonemountain & Daughter is a fabric store in Berkeley, California with a large online selection of garment fabrics.
Merino knits and linen for garments
The Fabric Store is a New Zealand-founded shop known for merino knits, linen and designer fabrics, with free sewing patterns.
18 sites: Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorials, Mood Fabrics, Blackbird Fabrics, Fabric Godmother, Fabric Wholesale Direct, Fancy Tiger Crafts, Fat Quarter Shop, Hawthorne Supply Co. and more.
Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorials, Mood Fabrics, The Fabric Store are free or offer free patterns.