Strawberry Fayre

Strawberry Fayre Strawberry Fayre is a specialist mail-order Patchwork and Quilting fabric business run by Alec and Jenny Hutchison. www.strawberryfayre.co.uk

Strawberry Fayre was started in 1972 by Alec and Jenny Hutchison as a craft shop and traditional village industry in a brewery complex in Stockbridge, Hampshire, selling locally made crafts including patchwork quilts. Patchwork became very successful and Strawberry Fayre held annual exhibitions of antique and contemporary quilts in the ancient granary barn behind the shop, which doubled as the fur

niture workshop, and quickly gained a reputation for quilts and four-poster beds. By 1979 enough interest in patchwork and quilting had been generated to invite visiting speakers from America and to form a patchwork and quilting organisation. Strawberry Fayre invited Beth and Jeffery Gutcheon, U.S.A. to give a workshop tour of Great Britain in June 1979. Filming of the Stockbridge workshop went out on BBC TV and the presenter was Jenny Murray. The following year, 1980 Strawberry Fayre invited Michael and Judy James, U.S.A. who introduced us to the concept of “The Art Quilt”. The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles was started in August 1979. Alec and Jenny were Founder Members and Jenny served on the committee for 10 years, the last 4 as President. Membership rose from 60 to 5,500 in that 10 year period. In 1978 Strawberry Fayre opened a department selling American fabric and quilting accessories, the first of it’s kind in the country. Strawberry Fayre are indebted to all those wonderful quilters and quilt collectors who helped us in those early days. Alec and Jenny shut their shop in Stockbridge in 1981 and continued Strawberry Fayre as a mail-order fabric business, operating from an historic granite mill within The Dartmoor National Park. Strawberry Fayre is no longer open to the public and is now mail-order only.

14/12/2023

Jenny is retiring but the remaining fabrics are going off with her son Jamie & his wife, Joanna, who both teach textile workshops. A fitting home for them!

Last Strawberry Fayre Stall tomorrow at the Flea Market, Chagford. Hope to see there! Here’s Jenny on the cover of Moder...
14/12/2023

Last Strawberry Fayre Stall tomorrow at the Flea Market, Chagford. Hope to see there! Here’s Jenny on the cover of Modern Mother magazine, March 1973, in the Strawberry Fayre shop in Stockbridge, Hampshire!

Strawberry Fayre Stall Retiring!Jenny will take the Strawberry Fayre Stall to Chagford Flea Market, Jubilee Hall, Chagfo...
21/11/2023

Strawberry Fayre Stall Retiring!
Jenny will take the Strawberry Fayre Stall to Chagford Flea Market, Jubilee Hall, Chagford TQ13 8DP this Friday Nov.24th, Dec.1st & Dec.15th. Plenty of bargains!
After that Jenny & Alec will be retiring!Thank you to all our lovely customers who have supported us for the past 50 years!

Here’s some quilts from the recent exhibition at Cowslip Workshops, Launceston, made by Janice Gunner, Liz Hewitt & Magg...
22/07/2022

Here’s some quilts from the recent exhibition at Cowslip Workshops, Launceston, made by Janice Gunner, Liz Hewitt & Maggie Relph.

Here's a photo of the lovely quilts
26/05/2022

Here's a photo of the lovely quilts

26/05/2022

Lilly & I are so proud of our Students who came & made small quilts/wall-hangings, on May 14th 2022. Everybody finished their piece & went home with a Seaside quilt or a plaid quilt with applique flowers.

Jenny Hutchison & fellow quilter, Lilly McKelvie will be giving a quilting workshop, creating a small quilt/wall-hanging...
21/04/2022

Jenny Hutchison & fellow quilter, Lilly McKelvie will be giving a quilting workshop, creating a small quilt/wall-hanging. Sat.14th 2022, 10am-4pm in Chagford.
Details www.proper-job.org/workshops
A fun easy day, using re-cycled fabrics.
Jenny has a Stall at Chagford Flea Market, if you'd like to chat about the workshop

Jenny & fellow quilter, Lilly McKelvie will be giving a quilting workshop, creating a small quilt/wall-hanging. Sat.May1...
21/04/2022

Jenny & fellow quilter, Lilly McKelvie will be giving a quilting workshop, creating a small quilt/wall-hanging. Sat.May14th. 2022, in Chagford.
Details www.proper-job.org/workshops. A fun easy day, using re-cycled fabrics.
Jenny has a Stall, Strawberry Fayre Fabrics, at Chagford Flea Market, if you'd like to chat about the workshop.

Here's the poster for the Green Hill Open Exhibition, where my quilt, The Three Cats, is on display, starting April 7th ...
03/04/2022

Here's the poster for the Green Hill Open Exhibition, where my quilt, The Three Cats, is on display, starting April 7th -June 11 2022, Wednesdays - Saturdays,
10am -4pm.

Jenny Hutchison, from Strawberry Fayre, is so pleased to say she has had a quilt chosen for Greenhill Arts Open Exhibiti...
15/03/2022

Jenny Hutchison, from Strawberry Fayre, is so pleased to say she has had a quilt chosen for Greenhill Arts Open Exhibition.
Greenhill Arts, Fore Street, Moretonhampstead, Devon TQ13 8LL 01647 440775
7 April - 11 June 2022. Open Wednesday to Saturday 10a.m. - 4p.m.
Detail below of "The Three Cats" by Jenny Hutchison

Very proud to say my quilt, "The Three Cats" has sold!

Here's some quilted Christmas gifts made by Jenny Hutchison. On sale with quilts & fabrics on the Strawberry Fayre Stall...
25/11/2021

Here's some quilted Christmas gifts made by Jenny Hutchison. On sale with quilts & fabrics on the Strawberry Fayre Stall at Chagford Flea Market at The Jubilee Hall, Chagford TQ13 8DP to-morrow Friday Nov.26th 9 - 1pm. Lots of other lovely stalls, pastries, bread, antiques, plants & bric a brac. See you there!

We were sorry to hear that Una Stubbs had died. Here's a photo of the filming of Worzel Gummidge, with Aunt Sally played...
21/08/2021

We were sorry to hear that Una Stubbs had died. Here's a photo of the filming of Worzel Gummidge, with Aunt Sally played by Una Stubbs walking into our shop, Strawberry Fayre, in Stockbridge. Followed by Jon Pertwee, playing Worzel Gummidge. It took ages to clear up the straw!

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