Fabricate

06/25/2026

Quick schedule change: Fabricate is closing at 4 pm on Friday, 6/26 for a family birthday celebration. 🎂 Regular hours resume Saturday, 6/27 at 10 am. Thank you so much!

06/20/2026

Our Fab friend Margaret Parks came by to share this beautiful labor of love (and family history!) She's assembled a quilt top of handmade doilies, hand-stitched embroideries, pillowcase decorations, and hankies--all crafted by her grandmother, mother, aunt, and herself. In between the heirlooms, she patched in vintage feedsack fabrics saved by her family over many years. It's an incredible, multigenerational, matrilineal work, and we're so grateful to have seen in it person.

05/13/2026

Fab friends, it's State of Maine Quilt Shop Hop door-prize drawing time! Watch this little vid to see what Fabricate's giving away--and who won it! We are so grateful to every Hopper who trekked east to shop here. THANK YOU! Happy spring!

04/30/2026

Fab friends, here's an inspiring post and magnificent quilt from Victoria Findlay Wolfe.

Following up on yesterday’s post about Perfectionism. This is my quilt “I AM NOT PERFECT AND THAT IS OK”
All the comments are fabulous. Everyone has their own degree of what is perfect.
Done is perfect.
Close enough is perfect.
Mastering a technique to the best of your ability is perfect.
Striving for perfect is perfect.
Or even if nothing matches …that’s perfect.
Perfect is whatever is good enough for YOU…
And that is OK!
The point is & was… and always will be… create with JOY. 😊
Thanks for all your beautiful comments on the subject. I know sometimes we get caught up on old language in our heads about doing it right, don’t waste, making mistakes etc… just remember. That upside down block isn’t going to hurt anyone. It just made your quilt more interesting. 👍🏻 quilts in the future will talk for hours about your lovely addition. 😊
You can make more.
And you don’t learn anything if you don’t make mistakes!
(Anyone need to hear this today?) I got you.
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VFWquilts.com

04/24/2026

Nessa is playing hooky this weekend (with major thanks to Peter for taking the Fabricate reins!) Today she visited scrapbooking paradise, ie Life’s Memories and More in Three Rivers, MA! 💖

04/09/2026

Our Fab friend Joel stopped by to get some sweet solid cottons, so that he could craft his own design: a 3D, freestanding balsam pillow commemorating Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon cover! 😍 Rock on!