Three awesome shops and one massive haul: Fabric shopping in Seattle 

You missed one of the best ones - Pacific Fabrics! Thank you for showing me one I didn't know about!

As a Seattleite I’m glad you got to see how lovely our city can be ! Spring can be tricky . Such fun fabric choices.

JoAnn's filed for restructuring bankruptcy, so they'll be staying in business under new ownership. Happy news for me, I live near one and shop there weekly!

“Fabric for Less” in Renton is a warehouse fabric store with affordable prices

Enjoying your perspective and words! Americans just call it all flannel, whether it is cotton or wool, it's all flannel. And those are toads (not frogs) in cowboy hats. Glad you enjoyed my city!

A few insights on JoAnns: all the patterns are in the drawers. You find them from the number in the books for the patterns you like. They always have a weird smattering of patterns on the racks. No rhyme or reason for what goes up there. So it wasn’t that the shelves were bare. Second, their sales can be deceptive. On the big sale days like Mother’s Day, Black Friday, etc, they give you huge percentage off coupons for regularly priced merchandise but literally everything in the store is marked down so those coupons are useless.

If you're up for a bit of treasure hunting, let me recommend Seattle ReCreative, a creative reuse store with all sorts of notions and fabric bits. I believe there are now two locations -- one in the Greenwood neighborhood and one in Georgetown, in the south end.

For the last twenty or so years, the quality at Joann has gone down, down, and down. I don't even buy fabric there anymore for the most part. They have Kona cotton, some decent denim, and all of the interfacing you could want, but the rest is of very poor quality. I once bought some of their quilting cotton and could not get a finger hand sewing needle through it even with a thimble! Since there is nothing like it in the UK, I can see why you would go there. I just wish that you could have seen what they sold 20 or 30 years ago. Lovely stuff. The other places looked intriguing and I will definitely check them out the next time I'm there. I enjoyed the channel, so I subscribed. Cheers!

I've lived in Seattle my entire life 65+ years!! Best state in the USA - Ocean, sound, mountains, lakes, and the desert!

So glad you had fun! I guess we should appreciate our Joann’s🤗

The Joann's in Bellevue that you visited is the one that I go to. They have been low on a lot of their inventory, especially the crafting areas. You're correct, the Michaels store next to Joann has a lot more selection, and they have more recently added fabrics to their store. If you ever have a chance to go to Hobby Lobby in Issaquah, try them. Their fabric department is not as large as Joann, but they have a large variety of crafting supplies and home decor. I was born in Seattle 64 years ago, and have lived here my entire life. It is a beautiful city, and it was nice to hear your comments about your experience here. Thanks for sharing!

A majority of the patterns are stored in the filing cabinets that the pattern book was sitting on. They are filled! They only display the New Look patterns on the shelves by themselves (where you said they look a bit thinned out).

Glad you enjoyed Seattle and I am equally excited to learn about the fabric shop in Capitol Hill. Will have to make time to get down there and check them out myself.

Great video, I love the froggy fabric. I really like that you model your makes.

Thank you for such a lovely review of my hometown. I miss it so much. You don’t even know. I also appreciate that you have introduced me to two new fabric sources that I didn’t know about . There’s a good chance they weren’t there the last time I was there because it was years ago that I had any time in Seattle. Excited to go back again in the summer and check them out. I spent most of 45 years there and I know exactly what I am missing. I live in Saudi Arabia now for a while. It’s very different.

Oooh the frog fleece - I had to pause and go order some. And it was on super sale too. Thanks for the inspiration!

I loved the tour! Beautiful fabrics! I can’t wait to see what you create with them.

I’m loving your channel and personality. Great haul!! 🥰

This was so great. I love how you described all the shops. I have never travelled 😢 this is wonderful. Hopefully for my 50th I might go somewhere fun. Loved this video ❤❤

Great fabrics you bought.

I really enjoyed watching your video as we are hoping to do a coastal tour and visit Seattle some day! Off to Florida in August and Joanns is one of my favourite stores, although it always feels weird looking at thick fleece when it’s boiling outside! 😂

Some awesome fabrics there, those cowboy frogs are so cool. Love your Jarrah Sweater design choices.

Lovely, fun video with lots of yummy fabric. What a treat to go fabric shopping in Seattle…..I’m quite jelly! I’m looking forward to seeing your makes from this amazing haul.

Great choices. Thanks for sharing.

Fabulous vlog Kate. Thanks for taking us along to Seattle :)

Thanks for a brief visit to the city which was our home for 3 years and sew happy you found treasures to take home. When were there around 2007-09 and the fabric store in the Pike's Place Market was more of a quilter's spot. This new shop is so interesting and actually a better fit for the location. Enjoy sewing up your new fabrics!

Gorgeous fabrics, love the cowboy fogs thanks for sharing your haul xx

I am so glad you enjoyed our amazing city. Nice purchases! Happy sewing!

I love your Jarrah, I've made loads of different ones and cant see me falling out with it for a long time. Wow what a fabric haul. I'm interested to see what you make with that double brushed poly as its very popular with sewers from the U.S and they rave about it. You really are a natural at this whole vlogging malarky Kate. I'm really enjoying your content.

Loving your channel!

Lovely choices. My daughter and I went to Spotlight after I saw your last video. We bought the Simplicity S9469 and fabric.. as well as other patterns and fabric. 😂

Excellent video thank you, particularly as we’re off to Seattle in July.

Several other fabric stores such as pacific fabrics. Joann fabric is also online and has coupon deals that can be shipped Glad you had a chance to visit seattle

SO happy you visited our fabric stash. Some of my fabric is in that store

Bonus points for use of “stratovolcano” and NOT calling it “Pike’s Market” ❤ Glad you enjoyed your visit.

Glad you enjoyed your shopping, nice to see the prizes that went back with you. On a side note, sound quality is ok, but the volume is not. I had my sound up as much as it would go and still struggled to hear. (I can usually hear a mouse squeak from the next room lol)

Just subscribed! Glad you enjoyed Seattle. So much to do & see. If you come our way again you must visit the quilt museum in LaConner. Charming artistic little town!

Thanks for the fabric store shopping tips in Seattle. I get to visit there every so often and will check these store out. :)

Great haul!! Some really unusual fabrics!! Want the cookie fleece! 😂. Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to see the froggie Pogonip! 🐸

I have two Joann stores near me. I recently went to the one that's a bit farther away than the one by my house. It's like walking into two different stores. They're arranged quite differently, with one having a lot of fashion fabrics as soon as you walk into the door, and the other one focusing more on quilting cottons when you walk in. It's difficult to explain, but the feel of the stores are just different, and they do have some different stock (which is why I went, the one store had a fabric I wanted that the closest one didn't). They -always- have big sales and coupons, and some sections can be stocked much better than others, depending when you go in. I do hope they stay in business, but I'm tickled to have discovered we have an independent fabric store about 45 minutes or so from where I live. I'm newish to sewing, and thought that Joann might be the only physical resource I was going to have in my area. I'm loving the feel of being in that store, and their fabrics are wonderful. I haven't really been making garments yet (just some pj pants for my partner) but I've discovered a love of making hats. Just finished my third bucket hat, and I made two of another style of hat this winter. I love Madcap Hats here on RU-vid, and am making a couple more of their hats in the near future. At this rate, I'm going to need to learn to make clothes so I have things that go with my hats. 😀

I jusy found you and this is the first video I saw! I live bear Seattle and it always warms my heart to see visitors really loving their stay! That JoAnn's location is one I go to occasionally... with the ulterior motive of the food court 😋 and yes, without a plan JoAnn is choice paralysis! Even with a plan, I almost always end up with things I didn't intend to get. Anyway, subscribing now and looking forward to more of your videos 🥰

Hi Kate, SEW glad you were able to fabric shop! Did you get that? 😅 I loved in Oregon for 9 years and we had the beautiful West Coast views too!❤

Well, I love the black flannel with the magic themes. Those were my winners you showed me the frog. I love frogs and flowers and pink. You will definitely not find that one in the UK. I subscribed for the frogs so I hope you don’t disappoint me. 😊 I quite like the top you are wearing. I think it’s one I’d enjoy making. You did a lovely job with it.

Hey you were in my town! Glad you had a good time here. I visit that Joann's often. When you come back check out these shops, Pacific Fabrics in SODO (stands for South of Downtown) is a locally-owned place that's been around for ages. It's a bit of a drive but Quilting Mayhem in Snohomish (north of the city) is incredible, a huge place with loads of fabric, not just quilting cotton but a nice selection of garment fabric as well. Seattle Recreative in the Greenwood neighborhood is a sort of thrift shop for crafty stuff, not just sewing but yarn, art stuff, jewelry supplies and needlework. There are other places but it seems from your video you won't be visiting again for a while. I enjoyed your video and even though I am primarily a quilter I like watching garment folks as well.

Nice choices, in locations and in fabrics. Both of those green-based fabrics will look lovely on you! Next time, might want to take a ferry and visit some shops west of Seattle. I especially like Quilted Strait in Port Gamble and (a bit of a trek) Shibori Dragon west of Tacoma.

Hmmm, I always like Pacific Fabrics but its south of downtown and (if still in business) in an old factory warehouse, sort of grungy but they've got great stuff at fair prices.

Joann’s actually does have some wonderful rayon and Tencel fabrics. Every store I’ve seen has a rayon and spandex (maybe a bit of poly) sweater knit…love it so much went back today for more. So delightful to wear. I’ve also found a rayon cotton flannel mix, divine, but hidden in all that flannel. Finally, in the denim department they have a 100%Tencel, behaves like rayon but less damaging environmentally, but really lovely, and have gone back in the past for matching prints f the same makeup. All that doesn’t help you now, but may help someone else. Take care.

I like to research before I travel. There are at least 4 Joann's in Seattle and you missed Pacific Fabrics in Sodo! In the Beginning (now only online) and Pacific have the best quilt fabrics.

I live near Seattle. Your shot of Mt. Rainier looks like it could have been taken very near my house. It's amazing how many comments you have from Seattleites.

Drygoods Designs was one of my favourites and a local one to Seattle is Pacific Fabrics. Another awesome place. :)

I live not far from Seattle and had never heard of those two independent stores. I guess I'll have to go!

I ❤ the AvoCATo fabric. I buy batiks at Joann's. On sale + 20% off, under $7/y. Can't afford the quilt shops in my town, $17/y for Kaffee, Tula, etc...

I just put that frog fleece in my shopping cart at Joanns (I live in Texas). Even though its 37 C outside...maybe I need fleece pajamas?

The Federal Way Joann’s store is very empty. Terribly sad as it was once packed with great craft & sewing items.

The Federal Way Joann’s store is very empty. Terribly sad as it was once packed with great craft & sewing items. You just missed The Quilt Shop Hop and the Row by Row program.

I love your channel, but i have my volume set at its highest and i still cannot hear you. 😪

What kind of work do you do?

I just don't see Seattle as a safe place

If you want a real washington shop-hop experience, we have better fabric stores than joanns(sorry love but yech) We do actually have 35 great fabric shops all up and down highway 5 please for the love of everything holy let a native show you a good time! Your pocketbook won't thank me but you will

May I say to slow down your video.