Tennessee Quilts

Tennessee Quilts sits in Jonesborough — Tennessee's oldest town — and stocks around 8,000 bolts of fabric, which puts it solidly among the larger shops you'll find in this state or any other. Walking those aisles takes a while, and that's part of the appeal.

Every July, the shop hosts its own QuiltFest, and it's also home to the Hoffman Challenge exhibit, a rotating display tied to one of the best-known fabric challenge competitions in quilting. If you time a visit around July, you'll get to see the shop at its liveliest, with quilts on display that you won't see anywhere else.

Beyond the fabric and the events, they offer machine quilting services, so if you've got a stack of finished tops waiting for someone to quilt them, this is a shop equipped to help you catch up.

Jonesborough is worth visiting for its history alone, and Tennessee Quilts gives quilters one more good reason to make the trip — an 8,000-bolt shop in the oldest town in the state is not something you find twice.