Where to Buy Fabric Now That Joann Is Closed

The short answer is your nearest independent fabric shop, and there are more of them than most people expect: we list 5,449 independent fabric stores and quilt shops across 51 states, on 668 city pages. Joann closed its stores in 2025, and the gap it left has mostly been filled by shops that were already there and that nobody had to drive past a Joann to reach.

Start with independent fabric shops

This is the closest replacement, and usually a better one. Independents cut from the bolt, they will tell you whether a fabric suits what you are making, and the staff generally sew. What they will not do is carry everything, which is the one habit to unlearn from shopping at a big box: ring first, or check what the shop lists before you drive.

Find yours by state, or by what you need: quilt shops (2,623 of them), apparel fabric stores, upholstery fabric stores or fleece fabric stores.

The chains that still cut fabric

Hobby Lobby has the larger fabric department of the two big craft chains and carries quilting cotton, fleece, flannel, apparel and home decor fabric at chain level. Michaels carries much less, mostly quilting cotton and fleece, and some branches have none at all. Both vary branch to branch, so which chains sell fabric by the yard goes through what to expect.

What about buying online

Fine for a fabric you already know. Poor for anything where the hand matters, which is most apparel fabric and all upholstery. If you cannot tell from a photo how a fabric drapes, that is the case for going to a shop.

Work out what to buy before you go

One habit worth keeping from the Joann years is buying enough the first time, because a second trip may mean a different dye lot. The fabric calculator works out yardage from your piece size and the fabric width, and the quilt backing calculator does backing.