Come Fabric Shopping With Me in the USA 🇺🇸 (Is It Actually Any Good??) | FABRIC SHOPPING IN AMERICA

Thanks so much for visiting Beehive and sharing such an amazing review. Hope you have been enjoying your time in Austin. 💕

Welcome to America, I'm so happy you found some fabric you liked, and I hope the rest of your stay is lovely, maybe you can go to a Botanical garden.

It’s funny that one of the first fabrics you touched at JoAnn’s is the fabric I used just a few weeks ago to sew my first ever garment which I made from your boxer shorts pattern! 😊

As an American it's so fun to hear your comparison! As I watch your movies I've often wondered how our fabric shopping compares to yours, so I was very excited to see this!

This was very validating to me. I don’t know anyone in my life who can really get as excited about and ‘fall in love’ with a fabric like me. I thought I was just very strange. To hear your excitement and how you just couldn’t resist or had to have the fabric in your life in just some small way….is so relatable. Thank you for helping me not feel so weird.

I moved here to Austin in 2020 from Hawaii. I never been to that BeeHive fabric shop. Imma go check that place out.

The long skinny "bark cloth" from Austin Creative Reuse looks like a table runner.

There's two Joann's in the austin area and it looks like you drew the short straw; the other one was recently renovated and the whole store is much nicer imo. Most of the fabric stores in the area are just quilt shops. To my knowledge, there arent a ton of apparel-focused fabric stores anywhere around. If you go back to Joanns, dont pay full price! Joanns is known to be more expensive than Hobby Lobby (their biggest competition in the area fabric-wise), but they constantly have really good coupons on their app to knock down the price.

That Joann fabrics is not your typical Joann fabrics because all the ones in my area have everything by category. There is nothing randomly mixed in other than the clearance section and even at four different ones that are in my area. It’s still pretty much buy fabric type. This could be why the four in my area that I go to are not going out of business, they’re always busy.

Yep, just was in Joann’s on Thursday, and they’re doing a lot of clearancing, so the untidy shelves was likely a reflection of that in preparation for bankruptcy. In its day some of the stores were just as beautiful as the first shop you were in.

If you have time, you should definitely check out the Goodwill stores in North Austin and round Rock for fabric. The St Vincent de Paul thrift store is another place to find fabric. Hope you're enjoying Austin. Welcome!

That long rectangle with the orange & yellow flowers looks almost identical to a couch we had when I was growing up. (70s of course!)

Our Walmart stores have a fabric department and I have found some beautiful yardage.

I love that as you travel the fabric you buy in each place becomes your souvenir. Such a cool way to remember your trip!

Take both pieces from the last shop for one special pillow as a remembrance of your trip. So vintage

As others have said, the way you described Spotlight is the way Joann's usually looks. I have one near me and it is super organized. They're in a bad spot financially so they probably don't have enough workers to keep up with the load. Also, I think that the rectangular fabric you found is a table runner. It's very pretty and I imagine it was used as part of an autumnal table setting.

Yay, glad you got to check out some fabric shops in the USA! You can also find some nice fabric/vintage sheets while thrifting as well. I love vintage prints, and really enjoy feedback patterns, which they make replicas of. Did people in Australia have feedbacks that were printed in patterns for people to make clothing out of?

Loved your fabric choices from JoAnn,s . I love their fabric and can usually find what I am looking for. They do carry some lovely fabric. There is a wide price range . How fun to shop for fabric in another country .

Janelle!!! If you see this and you’re still in the USA, you MUST go thrifting at Savers!! It’s a chain secondhand store and they have everything from clothing, fabric, housewares, magazines, sewing goodies, decor, the works! I go there for just about anything and everything lol! 💙💙💙 vintage bedsheet CENTRAL!

Hope that you and Matt are enjoying Texas, Janelle? I loved seeing the US fabric shops. I’m dreaming of an ordered sewing area, and I watched, “5 Things in my Sewing Room that Just Make Sense”, a vlog by Pattern Scout. I thought of you and your new sewing area that you are fixing in your new home. There are some great tips there! Except I would channel the power through the floor to the centre table! Also, I’m looking forward to your next Japanese Pattern make. Have fun, regards Susan at Hobart. (P.S. The spoon fabric would make a great Japanese style apron?) ❤