Wilson's Your Favorite Quilt Shop

If you're driving through Hagerstown, Wilson's Your Favorite Quilt Shop is worth pulling off for. This is the kind of shop that does double duty — you'll find bolts of fabric on one side and a full sewing machine dealership on the other, which means the people ringing you up actually know what your machine can and can't do.

The shop keeps finished quilts on display throughout the store, so you can walk the aisles and see what a pattern actually looks like sewn up before you commit to yardage. That's not a small thing when you're trying to picture how a layer cake or a jelly roll will behave once it's pieced.

Classes here run the full range, from absolute beginners threading a machine for the first time to quilters working on more advanced piecing and quilting technique. Whether you're shopping online or stopping in, it's a shop built around teaching as much as selling — the name says "favorite" for a reason, and regulars in the Hagerstown area seem to agree.