Downtown Glendora Quilt Shop With Eight Rooms: The Sew N Sew

The Sew N Sew is the kind of fabric store you have to walk through room by room. Tucked into the Glendora Village Plaza at 160 N. Glendora Avenue, Suite E, the shop spreads its stock across eight small rooms, and its own website counts more than 20,000 bolts of fabric. Quilters drive in from across the San Gabriel Valley for the selection, the Kimberbell embroidery projects and a calendar of cheap, sociable classes.

The first trick is getting inside. The shop sits in the Glendora Village Plaza, but its entrance does not face Glendora Avenue, and the website tells visitors to come in through the courtyard. Free parking is behind the plaza, so most regulars leave the car there and walk straight into the courtyard rather than circling the avenue looking for a storefront that is not there.

The directions the shop published for the 2026 SoCal Quilter's Run spell out the drive. From the 210, exit Grand Avenue and head north to Foothill Boulevard, turn right, and continue east to Vista Bonita, one street past Glendora Boulevard. Turn left on Vista Bonita and go half a block past the grey house on the left to a public parking lot. The shop is in the plaza on the north side.

Once you are inside, the layout is the point. Instead of one big warehouse floor, The Sew N Sew is a run of connected rooms, each lined with shelves of fabric, and the effect is closer to browsing an old bookshop than a chain store. Give yourself time to walk all eight before you pull a single bolt, because the colourway you want may be hiding two doorways back.

The store's contact page lists the manufacturers it carries, and the list reads like a quilter's wish list: Hoffman, Free Spirit, Northcott, Robert Kaufman, Moda, Alexander Henry, Timeless Treasures, Benartex, Quilting Treasures, Windham, Anthology, Henry Glass, EE Schenck, P&B and Princess Mirah. That range covers everything from batiks to novelty prints, which makes it a good place to finish a scrap quilt or match a backing.

Beyond yardage, the shelves hold kits, notions, books and patterns, and the shop carries the full line of Kimberbell products, the embroidery and sewing design line behind many seasonal projects. If you are not sure what goes with what, the website's advice is simply to ask one of the gals behind the counter for whatever you are looking for, and they will help you find it.

The Sew N Sew is also a machine dealer. The website describes it as the Southern California dealer for Baby Lock, Brother and Janome, and it sells cabinets, chairs and cutting tables alongside the machines. A service request form on the site handles repairs, and the staff can help track down parts, which matters if you sew on an older machine that a big-box store will not touch.

The site lists long-arm classes alongside its machine pages, and its featured products have included the Cutterpillar Glow Elite Mini and the AccuQuilt GO! Big electric fabric cutter. If you are weighing up a larger purchase like an embroidery machine, this is a place where you can sit at one, ask questions and leave with a class date for learning it properly.

The class calendar is unusually affordable. Beginning Bag Making with Pamela costs $25 and runs once a month, with the latest posted session on October 21, 2026. Pamela also leads Social Sewing for $25, aimed squarely at the unfinished projects quilters call UFOs, with an October 28 date on the calendar. Both are small, practical sessions rather than long multi-week courses.

Sit and Stitch costs just $5 and meets weekly in the small classroom at the store, where you bring your own project and sew alongside friends or new faces. The shop asks people to sign up in advance so it knows how many are coming. Friday Follies with Flo has been free to book, with payment made directly to Flo on the day, for help with whatever pattern you want to tackle.

The contact page gives the hours as Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm, and Sundays 10am to 3pm, closed Mondays and Tuesdays and on major holidays. If you have a quick question, a weekday morning call has the best chance of getting through.

Weekday mornings are also the calmest time to browse, before the classroom fills. The shop's calendar is worth a look before you go, since private groups like its Fabric Floosies meet in the space and shop-hop days such as the July Quilter's Run bring crowds. For online orders, the store ships across the continental US and Hawaii and offers curbside pickup.

The shop's location in downtown Glendora makes it easy to turn a fabric run into a slow afternoon. Glendora Avenue through the village is lined with independent shops, cafes and restaurants under mature street trees, and it is walkable from the plaza courtyard in a couple of minutes. It is a pleasant contrast to the freeway strip malls where most Valley fabric shopping happens.

For a longer outing, the San Gabriel Mountains rise right behind town, and the foothill neighbourhoods north of Foothill Boulevard climb toward the canyon roads. Many visitors simply finish with lunch in the village and a second loop through the eight rooms, because the bolt you passed on the first pass is often the one you end up buying.

Address: 160 N. Glendora Avenue, Suite E, Glendora, CA 91741, inside the Glendora Village Plaza. Entrance: through the courtyard, not from Glendora Avenue. Parking: free lot behind the plaza. Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm. Sundays, 10am to 3pm. Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays. Classes: $5 to $25, book online in advance. Ask Karpo in the Karpo APP for more quilt shops in the San Gabriel Valley.