Cottonwood Quilt Shop

Cottonwood Quilt Shop has been Charlottesville's Bernina dealer since 1995, which puts three decades of machine sales and service behind the name — long enough that generations of local quilters have likely bought or repaired a machine here without ever thinking of it as anything but the obvious choice.

With more than 3,000 bolts on hand, there's a real fabric selection to go with the machine side of the business, so this isn't a shop that treats fabric as secondary to hardware. Classes cover both quilting and embroidery, which is a nice pairing for anyone whose Bernina does double duty between the two.

Three decades in the same college town means Cottonwood has weathered plenty of change in the quilting world — new fabric trends, new machine technology — while staying the dependable Bernina name locals turn to.

If you're in Charlottesville, Cottonwood Quilt Shop is the kind of established, dependable shop worth building a long relationship with, the way its regulars clearly have.