Sometimes it’s easy to miss things that are completely under our noses, we forget to look close to home for a solution. And that is what happened when I was looking for a quilt shop to visit for Let’s Go Shopping. I suddenly remembered there was a shop I had never visited before that was pretty much on my doorstep. So on a sunny early spring-like day, I headed off to Backstitch in the village of Barton near Cambridge.
Backstitch is to be found in a small shopping complex in Barton, Cambridgeshire called Burwash Manor. The fifteen assorted shops on the site are housed in a group of converted farm buildings; each shop being an independent unique shop. With plentiful free parking and an onsite tea room, what more could a quilter want?
Alice Synge opened the doors to her bricks and mortar shop in March 2014. She had started the business in 2010 as an online business and juggled selling online via the website with her job as a market researcher. Alice has always sewn, particularly in her 20s when she was very much into garment sewing. At about the same time she avidly read blogs, mainly from American makers and was frustrated at being unable to find and purchase the fabrics they were using. This was all the persuasion she needed to start the business, sourcing those modern fresh fabrics she loved so much.
After selling successfully online for three years, the time came that comes to many of us; the time to decide to take a leap of faith. A unit had become available at Burwash Manor and Alice took that leap, gave up the day job and opened the shop. It was to prove an excellent decision and within a year the shop doubled in size by taking on the adjoining unit to provide more space as well as a large classroom area.
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