Sew Chateaux

I heard from several of our chapter members who visited the new quilt shop in Lisbon, so Barbara and I decided to take a trip out there ourselves to see the shop. For those who may be curious as we were, Sew Chateaux is located at 8 Oak Street, but it's actually right on the main street in this lodge building. A sign at the front door directs you to a  side door at the left of the building. 

There are a couple of parking spaces on the main street in front of the building, but if you turn right at the corner of the lodge, there's a parking lot, and that's where the side door is. 

 

The shop is nothing like I expected. I thought it was going to be more of a gift shop, but it's definitely a quilt shop--two rooms with lots of notions, lots of beautiful fabrics, patterns, and a few items that you wouldn't expect to see in a quilt shop, like paints. Not sure what those were for. 

Precuts are plentiful. There are no loose fat quarter cuts at present, but owner Michelle plans to have those available at some point in time.  

 

 

A lot of quilt shops have sort of their own flavor, be it modern, primitive, traditional, and so on. Sew Chateaux has its own flavor too, but I'm not sure what I'd call it. There was a big section of bolts of Tim Holtz's Eclectic Elements in all the different colorways plus fat quarters bundles; a collection of William and Morris type larger scale prints; a collection of Gustav Klimt's painterly fabrics; background fabrics, Christmas fabrics and Halloween fabrics in non traditional styles and colors. Not many blenders that I could see, but I might have missed them. There were some quilt kits too. I did buy a bundle of Gustav Klimt fat quarters in neutrals, golds and blacks with lots of gold metallic.

 

First time in a quilt shop I've never been to is a little overwhelming, especially if you don't have a shopping plan in mind. Rather, this was an exploratory trip, and I was happy with what I saw. I'll definitely be visiting again.