The City Quilter

Specialties

New York City shop for quilters, sewers & other fabric artists with more than 4,000 bolts of 100% cotton. Plus wool, felt, & silks for crafting projects. We offer more than 150 different classes every year. You’ll find hundreds of notions, patterns, kits, & books. We are a BERNINA sewing machine dealer, & also offer feet, accessories & software, as well as provide support & education.

We repair & provide routine maintenance for all sewing machine brands.

We feature Japanese fabrics, Sashiko products and Sashiko classes.

Our shop specializes in New York-​themed fabrics, patterns and kits, including prints designed by and exclusively available from us.

The class offerings include: appliqué; hand & machine embroidery; dyeing; bag-​making; design; and a very wide range of quilting-​related classes, from art quilts to baby quilts, and from traditional log cabins to Japanese-​inspired.

History

Established in 1997.

Since its opening in Feb, 1997, The City Quilter has served New York’s quilters & other fabric artists. In product terms, this means that the shop’s fabrics are contemporary, exotic, bright, lively, sophisticated, with lots of batiks and hand-​dyed cotton.

Black may be a New Yorker’s favorite color, but that certainly isn’t the impression you get walking into The City Quilter. The shop offers what the staff calls «color therapy.» Owner, Cathy Izzo, observes that «We provide a respite from the gray city & the intense days so many of our customers experience.»

Cathy was a producer of the prime time movie at CBS & a freelance producer before founding The City Quilter. She became an avid quilter in her late 30’s, so she’s a good example of a city quilter.

NY Magazine named our classes the «Best in New York.» The NY Times profiled us in Fall 2011, referring to it as «the heart of New York’s quilting community for nearly 15 years & a destination for fabric lovers from around the World.»

Meet the Business Owner

Cathy I.

Business Owner

Cathy spent 11 years at the CBS Television Network, with the last 8 as a Programming Executive, responsible for the CBS Prime Time Movie. After that she was a producer, media consultant, and editor.

She started quilting in 1991.