NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK

We didn’t put our feet up after Christmas - we completely redecorated and rejigged the shop! We reopened our even-more-lovely new store on 7 January.

Come and explore! There’s even more space for fabrics, threads and kits, plus plenty of room for customers. In time we hope to run some drop-in mini workshops at our large table on the shopfloor, in order to encourage everyone to start sewing.

GIFT CARDS

Our gift cards are always welcomed by keen sewers. They are available as £10, £25 and £50 cards. Available in-store, by phone on 01634 838880 and now online. They can be used on any products or as payment / part payment for a workshop. They can also be used for online order payments.

Please note lost gift cards cannot be replaced, so do look after them or spend them fast if you think they’ll go astray!

BARGAINS!

As well as our annual clearance sale, we often create a special offer when we get overwhelmed with fabric! Follow us on social media to hear about such events, as they can happen quite spontaneously.

We also sell ‘Yard Sale’ packs. These are metre cuts of fabric, at a great price. Ideal for borders, backing and binding, they’re a great way to keep costs down. Just look for the basket instore as our selection changes daily.

(Please note that Loyalty Card stamps are not given on Sale reductions since they’re such a bargain).

Fat Quarter Heaven!

Each week we put together bundles of coordinating fat quarters. Most packs contain 10 FQs (that’s 2.5m of fabric), ideal for the centre of a quilt.

And the good news is you save 10% instore on the price of buying them individually. (Occasionally, we get carried away and make up mega collections of 20 or more quarters, like the one Mavis is holding).

VALUE FOR MONEY

At Hometown we firmly believe in offering you great quality fabrics at fair prices. We have lovely printed cottons from £7.50/m and most of our range is £12-16.00/m. We don’t have a ‘one price fits all’ approach. If the fabric costs us less, we charge you less.

Why this attitude to pricing? Firstly, we want everyone to be able to quilt and sew. It’s for everyone, whether you’re 10 and spending precious pocket money, or a retired, avid quilter, spending the family inheritance.

We also believe in quality. So, we won’t buy cheaper items if that means compromising on quality. The best example of this are rotary cutters. We stock a fabulous range made by Olfa (the Japanese grand daddies in the rotary cutting world). When you buy this equipment, you want it to last. Marion has an Olfa cutter in regular use that is 30 years old. These tools are well engineered and a pleasure to use. Sure, you may be able to buy a cheaper cutter from a non-specialist for a fiver, but we can guarantee that you’ll soon upgrade to the real deal.

So be confident, that we know our onions or lemons (or the fabric equivalent) when we’re choosing great products for Hometown.

Kawandi Cornucopia

Stand by for a very special exhibition at Hometown. From 26 August - 7 September 2025 you can enjoy the work of the many students who have sewn Kawandi quilts, having come to our workshops over the past 3 years.

Plus, we’ll be sewing a community kawandi during the exhibition and everyone can take part and add some stitching.

Are you in THE QUILTERS’ GUILD?

Quilters’ Guild members have a 10% year round discount at Hometown, on full priced items and workshops, on production of their membership card. You can also use the discount online! Just log into your members’ page online for your QG code.

LOYALTY CARDS - JAN ’24 update

This switchover is such old news now, but we’re keeping this post here so you can see the generous time we gave folk to swap to a new card. Please note we cannot swap or redeem OLD cards for any reason. Thank you. (January 2024).

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You, our customers are loyal, so a big thank you! This is why we have a Loyalty Card scheme which rewards you with free things! You can take as long as you like to fill a card and full cards are then dated and are valid for 2 months.

After 10 years, it was time for an update and in January 2023 we launched a new loyalty card. It’s still red in colour as shown above - we couldn’t change that! You now collect 1 stamp with every £15 of qualifying purchases (excludes sale items, gift cards, workshops and postage costs). When you’ve collected 10 stamps, you can redeem the card against 1 metre of fabric, a book or pattern (maximum value is £15).

When the new scheme was launched, we had a flurry of old cards in for redemption, but this has slowed to a trickle. So, in order to get all the old cards out of circulation, from 1 May until 3 September 2023, if you have a old-style card, we’ll transfer any old stamps to a new card at the new rate, below.

Since May 2020 we’ve also given stamps with online orders (either on a loyalty card or your invoice for repeat purchasers). So keep all your stamped invoices and we’ll transfer them onto a card when you’re next in town. The same rules apply regarding old-style, new-style cards. Just go to this page (read right to the bottom!) and we explain how to redeem it if you’re not local to the shop.

HOw much do I need?

The following is a rough guide to fabric quantities. A cot size quilt will usually need about 1.5-2m for the top and 1.5m for the reverse; quilts of about 60x60in (150x150cm) need about 3-3.5m for the patchwork and 3.2m for the reverse. For a large quilt measuring, say 90x90in (230x230cm), it could be about 5-5.m.

This is an estimate based on block style patchwork. If you have sashing or borders, you’ll need to take this into account and add extra. The more experienced you become, you can double check pattern quantities before buying your fabric, to check they haven’t rounded up quantities.

In-store we cut fabrics from just 20cm, so you can buy just what you need. Online, our quilting fabric and felt is sold in quarter metre quantities.

We cut wadding from just 50cm. We sell a variety of widths (115, 228 and 305cm), so we have a wadding to match whatever the size of your quilt.

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