Quilt Shop Stop: Quilter’s Haven - Rockford, IL
I love to travel and look for quilt shops I haven’t been to yet. This week while on vacation my family took a road trip to Rockford, Illinois which isn’t quite an hour to get to from my town, a suburb of Chicago. I visited 2 quilt stores but will share with you about the second one later.
Quilter’s Haven sits in the lower level of a retail building that looks more cottage than office. The address is 4616 E. State St. and is fairly easy to get to off of I-90 but I almost didn’t make it to the store because the entrance is in the back and the sign out front looked worn as if no-one occuppied the building. Luckily, we got out of the car and saw a sign that the quilt store downstairs was indeed still open. And I am so glad they were.
They were a very cute, cozy store with oodles of stuff I love. One of the best was their selection of batik fabric which fortunately for me meant there were a few discounted bolts in the sale section at the back of the store. Of course, I also bought some regular priced fabric. The other extensive collections of fabric they had were Asian fabrics and flannels. I started to get a little nervous that I might not be able to get out of there with any money to my name so I got my chosen fabrics cut and paid for and bravely left. I’m glad they’re not very far away. That made leaving easier, too.
If you are ever in the area, make sure you stop. You can look them up in the Quilter’s Travel Companion book that you should never leave on a vacation without because you will never know what treasures are on your journey.
Here is a photo of the fabrics I found. The only one that is not a batik is the green on bottom which is from the Earth, Wind & Fire collection from Maywood Studio.
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July 6th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I’ve never been to that quilt shop in Rockford, but they have 2 giant awesome antique malls in Rockford that are worth the trip.
December 31st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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