COUNTRY QUILT CREATIONS Custom and Ready-Made Products Are Available at Local Quilt Business Writer / Lois Tomaszewski Photography Provided
Delores Schwartz, owner of Country Quilt Creations, is happy to be a source for quilting supplies as well as finished quilts. Schwartz was widowed only months after purchasing an existing quilt shop and relocating it to her family home in Bremen in August of 2012. She had visited a local shop to purchase fabric and found out the shop would be closing. The owner was interested in selling it.
Schwartz celebrated eight years in business this August. The store features many different fabric choices, backing and batting, sewing notions, patterns, rotary cutters and thread - just about anything a quilter would need.
Her husband Jacob, whom she met in 1992 when her mother and There are also several quilts created by a pool of 10 local quilters, Jacob’s father married, passed away in November of 2012. He supported her idea of buying the shop’s inventory and establishing a which are available for purchase. Sizes range from a throw or lap quilt up to a king-sized bed covering. quilt shop at their home. Jacob and Delores renovated an area of their home to accommodate Schwartz also offers opportunities for customers to preserve the shop, replacing cabinets with open shelving, removing walls and memories by ordering a custom-made quilt. One customer needed some repairs done on a quilt that her husband’s late mother made, a pantry, and making other alterations in the space. so the woman could give it to her husband as a gift. A memory quilt made from a deceased loved one’s clothing is also a popular way to “[ Jacob] put this in place so I would have something here, remember a departed friend or family member. something that was home-based,” Schwartz says. 54 / THE LAKES / DECEMBER 2020 / TheLakesMagazine.com
