Today we’re very excited to share the ultimate list of fabric stores in Canada! Originally compiled by @peachysewist for her former blog, I was honored when she reached out and offered to let us take over the post in her stead. This is such an amazing resource for fellow Canadian sewists, filled with amazing local shops. Enjoy!
"As a child, I used to tag along with my mom when she went to Fabricland. I’d feel each fabric with my hands and be in awe of all the different colours, patterns, and textures. The prices were good, the employees relatively friendly and interested in your projects, and the entire place had almost any tool or notion you could want. When I started sewing in a few years ago, the only fabric store I really knew of was Fabricland and I’d bus all the way out to the store whenever I got the chance. I then found out about the online sewing community and was introduced to a whole new world of smaller fabric shops, knowing that the quality of each product and the overall care and love in those stores far surpassed any big retailer I was shopping at. In smaller retail environments, employees ask you what you’re working on and are incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to projects.
I wanted to put together a list of Canadian online shops because it’s not always easy to search these places, and I’ve been absolutely eaten alive by international import duties, international shipping, and conversion rates. I once purchased some fabric from a great fabric store in the USA and had to pay over $150 in duties and shipping. It was nightmarish, especially when you’re already bought a few hundred dollars of fabric and all you want to do is support these small businesses." – @peachysewist
Online fabric stores in Canada
Adventures in Fabric – A new online shop in Calgary that carries quilting cottons, linen blends, knits, rayon, and flannels as well as patterns for the garment maker and quilter.
Along Came Quilting – A wonderful online fabric shop that specializes in quilting, with a fantastic and diverse range of fabrics and patterns.
Among Brenda's Quilts & Bags (ABQ) - Based in Strathroy, Ont., ABQ is fully stocked with everything you need for your sewing project: patterns, machines, fabrics, notions, and more.
Angry Ballerina Fabrics – Based in Montreal, QC, this shop offers over 100 colours of jersey knits! You can also find specialty prints and take advantage of their print on-demand services.
Anthropocene Fabrics - Based in Waterloo, Ont., curates a small selection of high-quality textiles with a focus on sustainability. Their fabric collections are prepared holistically so that you can create coordinated, in-season pieces
Atelier Espace Fabrik - Based in Montreal, QC., offers a wide selection of magnificent fabrics and accessories dedicated to textile arts and sewing. Whether you are a sewing enthusiast or a fiber arts enthusiast, you will find everything you need for your creative projects.
A Threaded Needle - Based in Maple Ridge, BC. A Threaded Needle exists because Susan Fletcher believes deeply in the importance of both making things by hand and of having made-by-hand things in our lives. Specializing in Sashiko supplies, dyed yarn fabrics, and hand stitching supplies.
Becks Fabrics – From quilting cottons, flannel, knits, and home decor fabric – you can find a wide variety of fabrics to suit all of your projects from this online Ontario shop.
Bibs and Boots Fabric – Adorable fabric store with a wide range of prints! They specialize in knits but have a wide range of products. Great selection and great designs.
Black Rabbit Fabric – Fantastic fabric shop with a wide range of wearable fabrics. They have a lot of jerseys and knits! They carry lots of fabrics that I haven’t seen anywhere else- along with a ton of notions and goodies.
Blackbird Fabrics – A popular online garment fabric shop in Vancouver with a wide range of fabrics, some patterns, notions, and tools. They focus a lot on sustainability and transparency.
Blended Thread Fabrics – A custom print shop based in Saskatoon that offers a wide range of custom printed apparel textiles; designed in Canada and ethically printed overseas.
Bra-Makers Supply – A wonderful shop in Burlington, Ontario that exclusively sells materials and patterns for undergarments! They sell a wide range of tools, notions, and patterns.
Brightside Fabric Co. - a small, Canadian, mom-owned business that aims to bring you only excellent quality solids and prints.
Bundlebarn Fabrics – A modern quilt shop that carries a wide variety of stunning collections. You can also find bra supplies and plenty of sewing notions!
Christina’s Fabrics – Christina’s Fabrics, located in Uxbridge Ontario, is a great store with lots of products to look through. They’ve turned their offline store into an online shopping experience because of Covid!
Core Fabrics – Founded by the designer behind Closet Core Patterns, Core Fabrics specializes in beautiful, sustainable, and high-quality garment textiles.
Craft De Ville – A Montreal shop focused on modern quilting cottons with a selection of Essex linens (great for both bags and garments), jersey knits and poplins.
Daily Like Canada – From the Youtuber behind Sewing Therapy, Sara’s Etsy shop carries a beautiful range of cottons, linens, sewing notions, and washi tape.
Darrell Thomas Textiles – This shop has the absolute dreamiest collection of fabrics, including tons of designer textiles, super friendly service, notions, patterns, buttons, and machines!
Dinkydoo – Dinkydoo is an awesome fabric store in BC that specializes in quilt fabrics! They have a lot of different products both in-store and online. They have a super fun social media presence as well as incredible customer service.
Discovery Fabrics – Discovery Fabrics have a lot of outdoor, athletic, and swimwear fabric! If you’re looking to make an outdoor jacket or need fabric for an outdoor project, look no further. Located in Campbell River, BC.
Dressew – A longtime staple of Vancouver, BC, Dressew finally has an online presence! They carry a wide range of fabrics of all types, as well as zippers, buttons, and any other trims you may need.
Earth Indigo – If you’re on the hunt for absolutely beautiful natural fabric, Earth Indigo is where to shop. All of their fabrics are organic, environmentally conscious, and fair trade!
Elégante Virgule – Fantastic fabric store with a focus on quilting fabrics. They have a lovely range of quilting fabrics that you may not see anywhere else!
Emerald Erin – Look no further than Emerald Erin if you’re making lingerie or swim! They have the more gorgeous lace, mesh, and specialty fabric. They also sell bra and underwear making kits so you can get sewing right away.
Emmaline Bags – An Alberta shop that carries a large selection of metal handbag hardware, sewing patterns, bag-related sewing notions, interfacing, fabric, & zippers specifically chosen to help today’s bag maker.
European Textiles – Founded in 1979, this Hamilton-based shop has an extensive selection of home decor, kids, quilting, and apparel fabrics.
Eweknit – More than just a knitting shop, Eweknit sells a variety of fabrics for garment sewing, quilting, and a range of notions! They also sell a beautiful range of knitting supplies and books. Located in Toronto.
Fabric + Flow Textile Co. – Fabric + Flow is a small online shop that carries custom prints and a variety of knit and woven garment fabrics.
Fabric Spark – A quilter’s heaven! With an incredible selection of quilting fabric (and some garment fabrics as well), Fabric Spark is a go-to for anyone looking for gorgeous cottons, notions, or quilt patterns.
Fabricana – A longtime presence in BC, Fabricana offers thousands of fabrics for garment making, quilting and home decor, as well as notions, trims, and patterns.
Fabrications – Not to play favourites, but I adore Fabrications in Ottawa. They were my first indie fabric store and used to be right around the corner from me (very dangerous). They have a wide range of fabrics, notions, tools, patterns, and pretty much anything you need!
Fine Fabrics Canada – Fine Fabrics Canada has a good selection of fabrics and patterns on their online shop, as well as a big selection of patterns.
Five Arrows – A very cute fabric store from PEI with a beautiful range of fabrics (some that you don’t see too often in Canadian shops)! They carry patterns and fabrics.
Former & Latter Fabrics – Another relatively new, high quality online fabric store based in Western Canada. They specialize in garment fabrics and carry beautiful fibers that are hard to find elsewhere!
Funky Monkey Fabrics – An online-only store based in Ontario focused on affordable, quality fabrics and sewing supplies.
Gala Fabrics – A Victoria-based shop that has been run by the same family for three generations. They specialize in importing materials and natural fibers from all over the world to suit the modern sewist and quilter.
G.k Fashion Fabrics – A huge selection of garment fabrics in a wide variety of colors and substrates, from basic linings to high end silks. All products are Oe-ko-Tex certified.
Heirloom Bohemia – Heirloom is a sewing and textile studio based in Kelowna, BC. They offer a wide range of sustainable fabrics and patterns for garment sewing, macrame supplies, basic weaving tools and punch needle supplies.
Les Tissées – A modern and trendy Montreal shop that specializes in garment fabrics and sewing notions. They offer frequent sales and reward program for repeat customers.
L’oiseaux Fabrics – This company’s instagram is filled with beautiful fabrics and good reviews of their service! They sell lots of absolutely stunning array of knits, wovens, and quilting cottons. They sell a fantastic variety of notions and children’s patterns as well.
Mad About Patchwork – A modern quilt shop that offers quilt fabric by the yard, fat quarters, bundles, pre-cuts, quilt kits, and quilt patterns! You can also find flannel, notions and tools, and sewing machines.
Mimi Fabrics – Mimi fabrics is a great site with a lot of fantastic products. Lots of beautiful knits and wovens, and she carries quite a few notions, trims, and children’s patterns as well!
Nelson Stitch Lab – Located in Nelson, BC – Nelson Stitch Lab is a public sewing studio and fabric store that offers a wide range of fabric, patterns, and workshops for children and adults!
Oh Look, Fabric! – An Ontario shop that offers modern quilting cottons, handmade goods, and local sewing workshops.
Ottawa Valley Fabric – A wonderful fabric store with lots of different designs! They focus on quilting fabrics with over 470 pages of fabric on their website. They also carry patterns and some accessories.
Our Social Fabric – Our Social Fabric is an amazing non-profit fabric store selling donated deadstock fabric and fibre arts supplies online and in-person. Their fabric, notions and supplies are priced at up to 75% less than regular retail prices, and they accept donations of clean, unsewn fabric and sewing related materials from the film industry, theatre, manufacturing and individuals.
Out of Hand Quilting – A wonderful collection of quilting fabrics and garment/dressmaking fabrics along with any sewing notion you can think of. Shop fabrics, supplies, kits, patterns, and books!
Overseas Fabrics – A lovely fabric store that opened their doors in 1993 and have been selling a fantastic array of items since! They are family-owned and carry an amazing range of fabric for clothing, quilts, upholstery, and anything else you need. They also sell lots of notions.
Patch Halifax – A super cute shop with a small online store that carries garment fabrics and quilting cottons, along with a few patterns and notions.
Piece Fabric Co. – An Alberta shop with both an online and retail space that carries a great selection of fabric, patterns, and notions! Their staff can put together a custom bundle for you and help you find the perfect supplies for your project.
Prairie Love Knits – The ultimate shop for garment knits. They carry jerseys, french terrys, sweater knits, waffle knits, and swim fabric in a wide variety of colors and prints.
Pure Linen Envy – A fantastic website that exclusively carries linen! Pure Linen Envy has competitive prices and a gorgeous gallery to inspire you to make linen goods.
Rick Rack Textiles – A garment focused fabric shop based in Calgary with a very cute selection of fabrics, indie patterns, and other great accessories!
Riverside Textiles – Riverside Textiles, located in Toronto, has a variety of stunning premium, organic, and eco friendly fabrics. They have a fantastic collection of fabrics, tools, buttons, elastics, threads, and anything else you need. A great website full of products.
Simplifi Fabric – A large collection of eco and organic textiles including both a huge range of wovens and knits. Simplifi also carries a big selection of patterns and notions. You can spend hours on here!
Sitka Fabrics – Sitka fabrics in Port Alberni, BC is a fantastic shop with a big selection of fabrics. Their knit selection is especially vast with some textiles you won’t find anywhere else.
Spool of Thread – This amazing Vancouver shop has so many stunning fabrics, notions, and patterns! They carry a huge range of indie patterns, quilting cottons, and garment fabrics.
Stache Fabric & Notions – Stache is a fun, unique and modern online fabric and notion shop specializing in high quality, 100% cotton fabric for quilting, fashion, and crafts.
Stacked Fabrics – An online quilting shop with a wide variety of modern quilting fabrics. You can shop by designers, substrates, bundles, colors, and more!
Stitch Happens – Stitch Happens is a fabric store and sewing studio in Windsor, ON offering a curated collection of textiles featuring a selection of environmentally conscious, athletic and silk textiles.
The Common Thread – A small (but growing) online fabric shop based in Ontario. They mostly cater to the modern quilter but some fun garment fabrics are making their way into the mix as well!
The Fabric Club – Also known as Club Tissus, The Fabric club carries everything from fabric (think quilting, garment, and home decor,) to knitting supplies, sewing notions and a big pattern library.
The Fabric Snob – Look no further than Fabric Snob if you’re on the hunt for knits. They have a big selection of one-of-a-kind knits, lots of tools and notions, a few wovens, and some sewing machines as well!
The Spool Sewing Studio – My local Courtenay shop! The Spool Studio offers modern quilting cottons, knits and wovens for garment making, and a great selection of notions, patterns, and kits.
The Workroom – This epic store in Toronto carries a variety of gorgeous fabrics including quilting cottons and garment fabric, some that you can’t find anywhere else! They also have a huge selection of patterns and books.
Thread Count Fabrics – Located in Souris, Manitoba, this shop boasts a wide range of gorgeous quilting fabric. They also sell knits and some woven fabric as well. They sell a huge list of quilt patterns too!
Tissus For You – Tissus For You is a lovely online store with a variety of gorgeous fabrics. They mainly focus on quilting cottons and flannel, but also have a wide variety of other goodies!
Two o Nine Fabric Studio – Two o Nine is a very special shop with a small but robust online etsy store. They are in Surrey, BC.
Weave and Woven – This beautiful shop has so many gorgeous prints with a focus on florals! This website carries mostly quilting cottons with a few other textiles along with a few patterns and other notions.
Thank you again to @peacysewist for sharing this incredible list with us.
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Happy sewing!
Helen
