SEW TERRIFIC WINDMILL FABRICS HAS SOMETHING FOR ALL AGES Writer / Angela Cornell Photography Provided
Broadcloth is a preferred material for many people who sew. This sturdy, lightweight fabric is often used for quilting, but is frequently used in many other kinds of crafts as well. To the Amish, who make their clothes from broadcloth, it’s more than preferred - it’s essential. Lorene Hostetler, the owner of Windmill
Fabrics, has been sewing most of her life. “I’ve always enjoyed sewing,” she says. “I enjoy sewing pants. That’s my favorite part.” This certainly comes in handy in her own family, since she has six sons. The desire to have her own shop is something that has followed Hostetler for most of her life. “As a little girl I often played store, and I 60 / THE LAKES / DECEMBER 2020 / TheLakesMagazine.com
always would have liked to have a store just to wait on the customers,” she says. Little did she realize as a girl that her dream would eventually come to fruition. A few years ago Mary Yoder, the owner of Yoder Sales, a small store outside of Topeka that specialized in fabrics, approached Hostetler and her husband about the possibility of buying the business. A good friend of Hostetler’s,
