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Tuesday 10am - 5pm Wednesday 10am - 5pm Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 5pm

Hometown

Visit Kent's most colourful quilt shop! 1800+ fabrics, FQs, wadding, haberdashery, books, workshops and gift vouchers.

Online ordering now possible on our website! Specialist patchwork and quilting shop in the historic cathedral city of Rochester. We sell fabulous fabrics for quilters and textile makers and we also teach regular workshops in quiltmaking and other textile crafts. Ask for a Loyalty Card when you shop with us - a full Loyalty Card means you can choose a free metre of fabric - hurrah! Note that we are also open one Sunday a month. It’s usually the third Sunday (Farmers’ Market), but can vary in Festival months). Check our FB posts for the latest updates or call us to check…

17/10/2026

💛Thought these gorgeous zingy fabrics would get your attention! We’re rounding off our anniversary week thinking of our lovely online customers. Simply use code 18 when you check out and we’ll give you a splendid 18% saving on all metre fabrics.

This offer is valid now and lasts until 23.59 on Monday (at midnight we turn into a 🎃). Orders will be despatched when we reopen on Tuesday, or choose ‘Store Pick up’ if you’d prefer to collect from the shop.

(Valid on all metre fabrics - excludes precuts such as jelly rolls, charms and sweet treats). Please note it’s always quicker for us to cut long quarters, rather than fat quarters, so thank you for choosing this option where possible). ✂️

16/10/2026

Our hardworking plain denim fabrics now have some new friends - railroad stripes, plus jacquard woven prints. Still utilitarian, but with added decoration. Wide width, excellent prices and until Saturday you can save an additional 18% in our anniversary offer when you buy 50cm or more!

So put down that spade, shovel, pick axe or paint brush and shimmy into town to nab a bargain. We’re open today and tomorrow 10-5.

12/10/2026

All together now “I am seventeen, going on eighteen, I’ll depend on you”. Yes, can you believe it, Hometown is one year older. We celebrate our 18th birthday this week. Would you like a present from us to you?

Of course you would! All this week instore you can save 18% on full price fabrics on the bolt when you buy at least 50cm per fabric. The offer applies to all our books and dress/quilt patterns too.

And if you come in dressed as a nun or in lederhosen, well you certainly deserve a bonus loyalty card stamp too for your full appreciation of the references here!

Not forgetting all our lovely online customers and your brown paper packages tied up with string - there’ll be a celebratory code for you this coming weekend. Watch this space…

The streets are alive with the sound of sewing…

11/10/2026

Diversion*

Woke up this morning after a really vivid dream of friends from long, long ago and time spent when living in the UAE. I’ll ruminate (what a lovely word…) on its significance, if any, while I get pleasantly diverted and distracted, as is my preferred course of action, on my favourite day of the week (day off).

* trivia - this road sign photo is from long ago, about 1997-98. At one point I was living in Abu Dhabi, but commuting daily to Dubai, along the main coastal road. It was a fast two lane highway, with little traffic as you whizzed through the desert, but with the added hazard of speed bumps at various points. Heaven help you if you didn’t slow down in time… I’m sure the bumps have long gone; it’d be like having speed bumps on the M25!

10/10/2026

How good are these? Smashing student kawandi stockings from our first two workshops. There were whoops of satisfaction last night from all our stitchers as they finished sewing.

The final Kawandi Stockings workshop for this year is booking now - two sessions starting at the end of October. So put your best foot forward and head to the website now for more details. These are so fun to sew - you won’t stop at one - student Sarah is currently sewing seven!

08/10/2026

“I didn’t see you pick that up.”

Classic comment from a quilter yesterday as her friend oh-so casually handed me this Cottage Cloth fat quarter bundle. When fabric looks this good, it picks you…

Andover Fabrics

07/10/2026

817. Can any of you guess what this number signifies in this afternoon’s to-do list?

Suggestions in comments please (just don’t message Sally, or she might leave work at lunchtime…)

06/10/2026

All change in the shop today. On the to-do list between customers, we’ll be moving all our Halloween fabrics to the front 🎃, removing the last of the sale, changing one of the windows, unpacking several huge deliveries, teaching this evening … phew! 🍪 🍪 🍪 And people think we just sit and look wistfully at fabrics! 😂

03/10/2026

First and last. It’s the first Sunday of October tomorrow, so that means we’re open 11-3, which is good as it’s the last day of the you-know-what. There are still plenty of bargains to be had … just saying!

02/10/2026

Tough week? Here’s 13 seconds of fluffy, colourful calm for you. Our gorgeous wreath gets a lot of daily squidging from customers. Originally made by Jackie, it’s just returned from Marina’s pompom hospital. Now back on our front door, it’s ready to greet you…

Fancy making one yourself? We have pompom makers and wreath frames (each £2.25) in store. Just add odd balls of yarn for your own squidgy bit of heaven.

Address

62 High Street
Rochester
ME11JY

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.hometownrochester.co.uk/

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