Augusta Sewing Center

Augusta Sewing Center has been the CSRA's sewing destination since 1974, which means it was already established fabric-shop royalty before a lot of today's quilters were born. Fifty-plus years in one community is the kind of number that tells you a shop figured out early what its customers needed and kept delivering it.

The Bernina showroom is a genuine draw on its own, and pairing it with a Baby Lock line gives shoppers real choice between two respected machine brands rather than a single house option. Machine repair keeps both running long after the sale, and Kimberbell embroidery products give machine-embroidery quilters a reason to stop in beyond straight piecing fabric.

The quilting cotton selection holds its own alongside all that machine business, worth noting for a shop that could easily have let fabric become an afterthought to equipment sales. If you're anywhere in the Augusta area, a shop with this much history is worth seeing in person.