Retail Partners

We encourage you to shop with Fit for Art’s bricks and mortar retail partners. If they don’t carry one of the patterns you are interested in purchasing, please let them know. If you don’t find a retail store in your area on this list, we welcome your suggestions.

We also welcome inquiries from local sewing retailers to purchase Fit for Art’s patterns through our wholesale program.

Scroll down to access the list of tools and equipment recommended at the 2022 H and H sewing show.

The Confident Stitch, Missoula, MT 59802  Check out their Swatch Service!

A Fabric Place, Baltimore, MD 21209

Artistic Artifacts, Alexandria, VA  22304

Bear’s Paw Fabrics, Towson, MD 21212

Capital Quilts, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Danner’s Bernina Shoppe, Hanover, PA 17331 

Glory Bee’s Sewing Center, Fallston, MD 21047

Tomorrow’s Treasures, Crofton, MD 21114

Pins & Needles, Middleburg Heights, OH

Klassy Katz Fabric Shop, Bartlett, TN 38134

Sew Suite Studio, Summerville, SC 29485

Kathy’s Quilt Studio, Titusville, FL 32780

Thimbles Quilts, Lockport, IL 60441

Quilter’s Dream, Andover, United Kingdom

In addition, these retailers carry the Tabula Rasa Jacket pattern at retail sewing and quilt shows:

Cherrywood Fabrics, Baxter, MN 56425

Laura Murray Designs, Minneapolis, MN 55417

Tools Needed for Garment Sewing

Basic Sewing Tools

  1. Seam ripper, at least one
  2. Sheers, large and small
  3. Rotary cutter and cutting mat
  4. Fine sewing pins, not too long
  5. Pin containers like pin cushions, wrist pin cushions, magnetic pin wants and cups
  6. Plastic clips
  7. Pattern weights
  8. Marking tools that give accurate dots
  9. Tape Measure
  10. Rulers, straight 18″ x 2″ 
  11. Curved fashion 
  12. Small seam gauge ruler
  13. Fine fusible interfacings, several weights
  14. Elastic if projects require it
  15. Zippers if projects require it

Equipment

  1. Sewing machine 
  2. Serger 
  3. Table, raised for cutting, lowered for sewing
  4. Good lighting
  5. Iron
  6. Classic ironing board, over door or table top will do, needs one curved end
  7. Sewing machine needles: universal, jersey, microtex in size 80

Patterns

  1. Independent pattern companies offer good options that do not require ordering from the big four. 
  2. Choose companies that offer good resources for buyers like fitting information and tutorials and possibly provide content for newsletter or social media.
  3. Order patterns that work with the fabrics to be stocked.  Start with simple designs that will assure sewing success.

Wholesale Resources

Tools

    1. Brewer, Nifty Notions line
    2. Wawak
    3. Delaware Dry Goods

Equipment

  1. Bernina, sewing machines and sergers
  2. Laura Star Irons, works for knitters too
  3. Oliso Irons, on the H and H show floor, small and reasonably priced
  4. Brewer, starter sewing machines and other reasonably priced equipment

Fabric Resources

  1. Carr Textiles, utility fabrics and pants fabric
  2. Sextet, knits
  3. Mood Wholesale
  4. Michaels Fabrics
  5. Elliott Berman, Ermani Group
  6. Artistic Artifacts, hand-made Indian fabrics only
  7. Diamond Textiles
  8. Robert Kauffman
  9. Art Gallery Fabrics
  10. SoHo Fabrics/Silk Safari
  11. Style Crest
  12. Speckler Vogel
  13. DG Expo, a place to meet vendors who sell in small lots
  14. MODA

Hope this list proves helpful to you. Download it as a PDF here. Contact rae@fitforartpatterns if you have particular questions and carrie@fitforartpatterns if you want more information about becoming a retail partner.

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