Alma Sue's Quilts

Alma Sue's Quilts has been rooted in Amish traditional style since it opened in Sarasota in 2002, which gives the shop a distinct identity in a state better known for tropical prints than for the plain, geometric discipline of Amish piecing. If that traditional style speaks to you, this is a shop built around it rather than treating it as one corner of a broader inventory.

What sets the shop apart day to day is that experienced quilters actually work the sales floor, so the person helping you choose fabric or talk through a custom or long-arm quilting job has real hands-on experience, not just retail training. That's the kind of help that saves you from a fabric-buying mistake before it happens.

The shop also keeps community charity quilting going alongside its classes, which fits a tradition that was always as much about community as about the quilts themselves. If Amish-style piecing is your interest, Alma Sue's has more than two decades of it behind them.