Today I thought I’d share with you one of my most favorite quilt shops. A friend, also a quilter, told me one day about this terrific shop she had visited while on a trip to East Texas called “Stitchin’ Heaven”. I went online to see if they had an online store that I could visit without driving to East Texas and I was really surprised.

You can sit at your computer and order everything you’d ever need right there at www.StitchinHeaven.com! You can order things even I had never heard of!

So I wrote to Debby Luttrell, the owner and founder of Stitchin’ Heaven and arranged to make a drive to the little town of Quitman to meet her and see her quilt shop. I was so excited to meet her and learn how she had grown this shop in a town of only a couple thousand people. I knew it would be quite a story.

However, as high as my expectations were, I never could have dreamed what I saw when I arrived! This isn’t just a little quilt shop - it’s over 7,000 square feet of space! And the walls are lined with gorgeous quilts created by some special ladies such as Lucy Sessions and Dotti Reynolds, among others. Debby employs about 15 people to run the shop and fill orders.

As I toured the facility, I began to see how Stitchin’ Heaven could be so successful even in such a small town. Debby had caught the vision years ago of the power of the internet and her online sales now make up about 70% of their business. So they have the advantages of living and working in a delightful little town while doing business internationally.

Both Lucy Sessions and Dotti Reynolds have been teachers for the Quilting Resource Center videos. They’re very experienced and fun to watch. Lucy’s personality and sense of humor always make her videos interesting and Dotti’s attention to detail and ability to explain her step-by-step processes make her a teacher everyone’s eager to watch.

You can find both Lucy and Dotti (and some other teachers) on our training videos at www.QuiltingResourceCenter.com. And if it’s fabric, patterns, tools, block of the month kits, or quilt kits, just go to www.StitchinHeaven.com to find an exhaustive supply of quilting products. You’ll love working with Linda, the assistant manager, and all the employees at Stitchin’ Heaven, whether in person or online.