If you are planning to come to my neck of the woods (Lancaster Pa area) then bring lots of shopping money. There are several great places to shop and you wont want to miss them. I am so lucky to live withing driving distance to any of these fantastic places to shop for fabric. It’s like walking into a candy store, I can never leave with just one piece of candy/fabric!

These stores all carry such a huge inventory of fabrics, its often hard for me to not spend hundreds of dollars. Zooks Dry Goods is one of my favorite shops. I am often smiled at there as I usually have the biggest piles on the cutting table and the ladies all know me. I like to get half yards of everything this way I get a larger variety and it works better for my designs. So save up your dollars and make a shopping trip

• ZOOK’S DRY GOODS
      3535 Old Philadelphia Pk.
  (Rte. 340)
  Intercourse, PA 17534-9999
  717-768-8153  their website 
• M-Saturday 8-5
• closed sunday

Then you have Sauders, also owned by the people at Zooks and they have just as much fabric.

• Sauder Fabrics
  S. Muddy Creek Rd., RD 1, Box 409,
  Denver pa
• 717-336-2664
  Store Hours: MTThF 8am - 8:30pm, W &Sa 8am - 5pm, Closed Sunday

If you are out that way you might as well drive up the road a few miles to Bird In Hand and visit the  Bird in Hand Country Store

• Bird-in-Hand Country Store
  2679-B Old Philadelphia Pike / PO Box 259
  Bird in Hand, Pa
  17505
  (717) 393 - 5321
• call for their store hours.
• They carry lots from Primitve to Japanese Sateens, MODA, hundreds of Homespuns & Flannels, Moda’s brushed homespuns, Hoffman - cotton prints & batiks, Bali Fabrications, Marcus Brothers, Maywood Studios, Alexander Henry, RJR- Thimbleberries, reproduction fabrics, Robert Kaufmann, Benartex, P&B, Kona Bay, Momen House, Seven Islands, Rose & Hubble, South Sea Imports, Nancy Crow, and so much more!

You will be amazed at the thousands of fabrics to choose from.

They are located next to the Bird-In-Hand Junction

Look for the FABRIC SOLD HERE! sign on the building.

And out in Lititz is Weavers Dry Goods, this is also another fantastic place to shop. Bring lots of money and your comfy shoes.

• Weavers Dry Goods
  West Brubaker Valley Road
  Lititz, Pa 17543
  Store Hours: No Sunday hours.
  Specializing in: An extremely large selection of Cotton Fabrics, traditional to contemporary. Also sells other fabrics for the plainer Amish/Mennonite community.
  Located in Lancaster County and owned by Mennonite family, it’s a quilters dream. Because they are owned by Mennonites there is poor lighting in the shop, very typical of shopping in Amish or Mennonite shops, but you will be glad you came. Clearance barn in back with sales the last Fridays and Saturdays during the summer.

Then there is Marian’s Fabrics a little closer to Maryland but worth the visit.

• Marions Fabrics
  15021 Molly Pitcher Hwy
  Greencastle, Pa 17225
  (717)597-3266
  Store Hours: Mon - Thurs 9-5
  Fri 9-8
  Sat 9-5
  Sun Closed
  Owner: Marian
  Specializing in: Large supply of quilting fabrics, homespuns, flannels, wools, polar fleece,denims and dress fabrics. Designer/Brands include: South Seas Imports, Benartex, Fabric Traditions, Rose & Hubble, Northcott, RJR, Kings Road, Spiegel, Maywood Studios, Marcus Brothers, Chanteclaire, Andover, VIP, Springs, Fabri Quilt, and Robert Kaufmann.
  This store sits in sight of the northbound PA Welcome Center on I-81. They will do mail order and are especially helpful in looking for just the right fabric!  Very close to Hagerstown MD!

These are the best shops in the area and they all have a large selection of fabrics. I would also mention GStreet Fabrics in Rockville Md, but I have found them to be very pricy. Their prices on almost every bolt start at 9.99. There was the new Market Fresh fabrics out and at GStreet they were 13.99 a yard. I found them at Zooks for 6.49 a yard, a whopping difference. Their batiks, which I collect a lot of ran 9.99 a yard, they run from 5.49 a yard to 6.49 a yard at Zooks. While a nice shop with lots of unusual fabric, if you are going for quilting fabric then I highly recommend the other shops listed above.