Prairie Queens Quilt Shop

We are located at 14922 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA 95124
Phone (408) 559-6735

Store Hours: Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
Wednesday - 10:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Saturday - 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
We are open one Sunday each month from 12:00 until 4:00 PM.
For 2010: Closed September Sunday for Labor Day, October 3, November 7, December 5

We offer personal service to each and every customer including our out-of-area customers. If you wish to purchase fabric, kits or notions, please give us a call and we will be happy to take your order over the phone. We only charge for actual shipping which is usually by Priority Mail.

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Store Policies

We are sorry, but we are unable to take any returns on cut fabrics, books, kits, patterns or notions. If any item is damaged, we will offer a return or store credit within 30 days with original receipt.

We do not cut fat quarters, but do offer them in single form or in bundles.

Our minimum fabric cut for regular fabric is 1/4 yard and sales fabric cut minimum is 1/2 yard.

See our Classes page for class policies.

Prairie Queens Staff

From Left to Right: Mary, Marie, Elisheva, April, Becca, Debbie, Annette, Mark, and Tiffany.

We had a very special visitor, Mr. Moda, Mark Dunn. He visited the store and loved our fabrics and decor.

PRAIRIE QUEENS INSTRUCTORS

We are thrilled to offer our customers high quality classes with top-notch instructors. Please look through our instructor's bios and see who they are.

Teacher Bios

Elisheva Bailey
Elisheva has been quilting for about 14 years, but sewing all her life. She has had award-winning quilts in the Morgan Hill Quilt Show and several quilts published in various quilting magazines. Elisheva is an employee of Prairie Queens and loves her job. At home, she has a wonderful supportive husband and two children, Rachael and Sarah, aged 10 and 8.

April Basuini
April has been quilting for 18 years. As one of Prairie Queens earliest employees, she is both an employee and valued teacher. She finds joy in teaching others how to quilt and helping them create their own family heirlooms. She enjoys many different types of quilting and has had award-winning quilts displayed in Taste of Morgan Hill. She is married and has three beautiful children, 19, 15 and 12 years old.

Mary Berthiaume
Mary has been sewing most of her life but she has been quilting since August of  2000 because one of her daughters bought a beautiful mountain home in Colorado and said to her, "Mom, my new home would look great with lots of Quilts in it, do you know how to quilt???"  Well, with help of a friend, she made her first quilt which was a King Sized Double Wedding Ring for her daughter and she had so much fun doing it, that Mary was then hooked on quilting for life. In the six years since then, Mary has made over 150 quilts of all sizes and now every one in her family has at least several in their homes. Mary has given lots of them away, but now she makes more challenging quilts and keeps them for herself. Her kids can have them much later.

Keiko Clark
Keiko Clark has been teaching quiltmaking for 7 years. She recently worked for Fig Tree Quilts and assisted in sewing and designing their quilts. Recently, Keiko launched her own pattern business where the designs are simple, yet sophisticated and easy-to-make. Keiko's style is mostly traditional and uses both machine and hand sewing techniques. In the past, Keiko has also designed and made quilts for Japanese fabric manufacturer, Lecien, and her quilts and bags were presented at their booth in Houston, Yokohama, and Melbourne quilt markets.

Bobbi Finley
Bobbi Finley has been quilting since 1977. She makes prize-winning quilts, has a quilt in the collection of the American Museum of Folk Art in New York, and has exhibited at the International Quilt Festival in Houston and American Quilters Society in Paducah. Her love for exploring the history of quilts and their makers has led her to actively participate in the American Quilt Study Group, having serv ed as a board member and co-curator of the study quilt exhibits. Her work has been published in several books and magazines and she is the co-author of Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form with Carol Gilham Jones (C&T Publishing 2010).

Nancy Nemec
Nancy is a self admitted fabricaholic. Her lifelong love of fabric and sewing led her to graduate from Penn State University with a degree in Clothing and Textiles. She began quilting in 2000, and was involved in the retail end of quilting while working at Whiffle Tree Quilts.  She began teaching classes nearly 4 years ago with Dolores Roseveare. She loves trying new patterns and techniques and has designed a few original patterns of her own.  Her favorite classes to teach are easy curves, paper piecing, and anything with floral fabrics. She and her husband Randy are new empty nesters, so she spends her time happily doing what she loves, quilting, reading, playing with her dogs, teaching quilting classes and adding to her fabric stash.

Rebecca Pyle
I grew up surrounded by amazing quilters (Mom, Grandma, Aunt) and have been quilting myself for the last 10 years. I love helping new quilters discover the joy of quilting and all of the fun that they can have making quilts for themselves and for their families.

Dolores Roseveare
Dolores and her sewing machine have been the closest of friends since they met back in third grade. Making clothes went by the wayside when she discovered her passion for quilting in 2000. Since then she has become a class junkie, learning tips and techniques from "The Greats." She and Nancy Nemec have been team-teaching since 2003, bringing creativity, skill, enthusiasm, and fun to their classes. In addition to designing quilts for several fabric manufacturers, her quilts have been featured on the websites of Jane Sassaman and International Artisans, Inc., and in the May/June 2007 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine . Her grown children affectionately gave her a license plate that says it all, "QLTHEAD" (Quilt-head).

Debbie Thornton
Debbie has been quilting for over three decades and is the owner of Prairie Queens Quilt Shop. Her expertise in color and design makes her the owner of a quilt shop as well as an instructor. Debbie is also a master on the store's long-arm and her award-winning quilts have been seen at a variety of local quilt shows.

Penny Tucker
Penny Tucker has been a quilt instructor for the past 9 years, primarily teaching hand-applique and medallion quilts. She teaches a variety of applique techniques in her classes and often uses her own original designs for the project. Penny received a bachelor's degree in textile design in 1982, and has a particular interest in historic quilts. Her original designs have been included in several publications, including Quilter's Newsletter Magazine and Quilt It for Keepsakes.

Beth Upstill
Beth started sewing as a kid with her Grandmother. Her mom got her started quilting about 13 years ago. She has a small hand-dyed wool business and loves crafts, wool appliqué, punchneedle embroidery, knitting, and scrapbooking. Beth has two daughters ages 10 & 12 who are her little quilting apprentices!

Michelle Zeiler
Michelle has been sewing since she was 5 years old. Michelle received a scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising where she received an Associate Arts degree. She managed fabric stores and is a clothing and costume designer. Michelle has also been the Santa Clara County Girl Scout Sew-EZ program coodinator for the past 7 years. She holds a full time job as Fabric, Notions, Crafts sales representative for over 26 years.

Open House Events

We have Open House events three times a year. At that time, we unveil the class schedule for next several months, have the instructors here showing their classes and samples, have lots of food and giveaways. Here are some photos of our teachers from our July, 2009 event.

Instructor: Penny Tucker and our every faithful Phyllis.

Michelle Zeiler, Julia Thornton (Debbie's granddaughter) and Beth Upstill

Carole Hanlon and Carol Irving

Dolores Roseveare, Suellene Petersen, Kathy Hilton and Clarene Dunivin

Prairie Queens Quilt Shop 2010 Retreat in Monterey

In January, Prairie Queens hosted our annual retreat. We had a wonderful sewing room in Monterey, which faced the ocean and had spectacular views. It was warm and sunny all three days and we have a wonderful time.

To see the photos from our retreat, click here!

About our store

We have a huge inventory of the latest fabrics with over 7,000 bolts. We carry the latest patterns, books and notions to satisfy your quilting needs. Come visit our beautifully decorated store.