Fabric Stores
Firecracker Fabrics
Firecracker Fabrics is a cute little sewing shop connected to Cut & Sew Studio in Pittsburgh. We specialize in mid-priced natural fiber apparel and craft fabrics, and our mission is to make sure that all of our customers feel welcome, supported, and seen.
1745 Chislett Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Blue Bar Quilts
Our focus is on modern quilters and makers and the fabrics they love. Blue Bar Quilts is a welcoming Modern Quilting Community – We invite anyone with an interest in quilting, sewing and creating to join us!
6333 University Avenue
Middleton, Wisconsin
Gather Here
Part sewing studio, part fabric and yarn shop, gather here is Cambridge’s only stitch lounge, created to cater to your fiber craft goals. We believe there’s a maker in all of us just waiting to come out and play.
1343 Cambridge St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Knit & Bolt
Knit & Bolt opened their doors in 2017 to keep the maker community in Northeast Minneapolis thriving. Knit speaks to the shop’s focus on indie dyers and work-horse yarns. Bolt speaks to the shop’s quirky and unique fabrics.
2833 Johnson Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
DIY or Dye
DIY or Dye is a radical fabric shop and haberdashery based in Leeds. We are committed to combining craft with fat positive, queer and feminist politics.
Garment Sewing Patterns
Muna and Broad make modern, beginner friendly sewing patterns for plus-size sewists.
Quilt Sewing Patterns
Ben Millett offers modern quilt patterns and tutorials under the label “Not So Straight”, which reflects both his quilting lines and his late-blooming identity. The projects are meant for everyday use and display, sometimes both at the same time.
Embroidery and Cross Stitch
Junebug and Darlin
Junebug and Darlin specializes in making modern queer cross stitch kits. We use cross stitching as an avenue to subvert the norms of traditional medium and empower new makers to take the needle into their own hands.
Dropcloth Samplers
Dropcloth Samplers is a line of hand-drawn embroidery samplers, printed and ready for you to jump in and start stitching right away. Designer Rebecca Ringquist is a queer/bisexual artist who started out life in the midwest and has migrated east and then west. She currently lives with her two kiddos in rainy, beautiful, Portland, Oregon.
Tailors, Alterations, and Custom Clothing
Terrance Williams is a handmade accessory and clothing brand that uses ethically sourced and sustainably produced materials.
Sweetlime Alterations has existed as a Queer Tailoring resource to Cleveland, Ohio, since June 2014. They’ve received so much joy from providing people outfits that best reflect their clients’ wishes and gender presentations.
Hidden Opulence
Hidden Opulence is a Design House that’s focused on apparel sustainability and upcycling, serving both existing apparel brands and the general public, founded by Drea Johnson. Drea’s purpose is to create a comfortable, fun, and inspirational alterations environment for not only the local community, but especially those who are POC, identify as queer, or simply need more support embracing their own bodies.
Babbletuck
Babbletuck is a small textile arts and garment company committed to sustainable fashion, mending, custom garment work, and teaching others the skills to make and care for their garments and textile pieces. We craft clothing, wall art, masks, cloth hygiene products, jewelry, and other adornment. We are open to barter, skills trading, and pay-what-you-can.
Glitter Grandpa
Custom threads and sewing tutorials for queers!
Heartland Stitchery
Heartland Stitchery is making comfortable personalized embroidered clothes for you to feel good in. Our designs are minimal, political, and/or pop-culture influenced and all items are available in any size, at no extra charge. Every item is made and packaged by a married lesbian couple, and every purchase supports us, our 3 cats, and our 47 plants.
Aqua Underwear
Aqua Underwear is a Salt Lake City, Utah based underwear project striving to prioritize queer, gender, and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) inclusion. All underwear is handmade by Mel Martinez (she/her), a queer Chicanx sewist. Aqua Underwear offers an alternative to the typical gendered underwear and standard sizing that leaves many bodies and identities out, and instead creates affirming customizable styles for a variety of identities and bodies!
Educators and Maker Spaces
Bringing (virtual) sewing classes to queers everywhere.
We are all about supporting queer designers and entrepreneurs here at SewQueer! If you are a designer or business owner who identifies under the broad queer and trans umbrella and would like to be included in our directory, please email us.