Stitcher’s Garden

I have been in many quilt stores and this store was atrocious! The staff was extremely rude and yelled at my mother when she took a picture. Made excuses why they didn’t want pictures take an I believe the truth of the matter was they didn’t want pictures of their horrific store posted online. Who wants to buy fabric that has been sitting on the floor! I sure don’t. I was not about to spend my hard earned money in that store! I am from California and have always been told the people in Tennessee are hospitable. I’d take California people over the people in that store anyway! Extremely sad because this store has a lot of fabric and potential to do really well.

My wife has been looking for oriental patterned fabric for a quilt for our daughter for a while now, and since we were traveling in Tennessee, we decided to do some shopping here. This place is amazing — thousands of bolts of fabric, more or less arranged by type and color. We spent about 2 hours searching out the perfect assortment of colors and patterns for the quilt, the first time I can remember her being able to find everything she wanted in one go.
The owner is a wonderful woman — started out as a chemist in Murfreesboro after college, and, after years as a stay at home mother, decided to follow her joy and dedicated herself to creating what is one of the best quilting stores I’ve seen.
This place is worth a journey — a mast see for quilters. If you’re traveling to Nashville, be sure to take a detour out here to Franklin — you won’t be disappointed.

My favorite quilter loves Stitcher’s Garden. This place has more cloth than any place I’ve ever seen, and it’s stacked from floor-​to-​ceiling. The staff is very knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. I have no idea how they keep track of everything, but whenever we ask for a particular kind of cloth, they know exactly where to look.

This is a great store, I don’t get the bad reviews. This place has so much to see, so many fabrics your head will spin. The staff was nice and helpful too. Go there, you will find a great selection. The fabrics are organized, but there are so many, some are on the floor or on top of the cabinet. I’ve never seen so many fat quarters either. Go if you are a quilter and anywhere near Nashville.

I’ve been in many quilting and fabric stores and have loved many of them for different reasons. I wish I could say that the Stitcher’s Garden was loved in it’s own special way, too. To say that the place is unorganized would be a nice way of putting it. I felt like it was the hoarder’s garden. I was looking for specifically for a variety of kid’s fabrics in fat quarters or smaller cuts… and found it here and there and again over there… and look down there, too. Why they couldn’t have have grouped these together was beyond me. They sold several of these types of kits, and I was looking for 4 different ones. I did eventually find 4 unique sets, but it took some sorting and excavating before I was satisfied that I had what I needed. I checked out the patterns but quickly gave up when I couldn’t find any sort of order or organization.
I enjoy going to different fabric stores and seeing the different things that each one carries. It’s almost like a journal for me. Unfortunately, this was my boyfriend’s first experience in quilt shop hopping, and he doesn’t quite see what the appeal is. He was also overwhelmed by the lack of organization in the store. I promised him that most aren’t like this.
One other observation that I have that is more of a personal preference than something they do wrong is that they rip their fabrics instead of cutting with scissors or a rotary cutter. I’m not going to debate on which one is best or anything, but keep this in mind if your preference leans to cutting.
One positive thing that I can say is that the ladies are very sweet in the store. Maybe if I had asked for help they could have found the sets I needed faster and they know where every single piece of fabric is in the store, but I feel like I shouldn’t have to ask.

Ever seen thousands of fabric options crammed into one store. Well, you can do it here. I was really, really impressed with the amazing selection of fabrics at Stitcher’s Garden. Open 9:30 to 5:00 Monday to Friday, the Stitcher’s Garden has got to be your go-​to spot for fabrics, designs, and patterns, as well as supplies for quilting.
Aside from quilting, it would also be a great place to find fabric for curtains, kids room design, and all sorts of other uses. Thumbs up.