{"id":7921,"date":"2020-09-25T23:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.road2ca.com\/blog\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2020-09-25T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:03:02","slug":"meet-road-vendor-breakwater-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/meet-road-vendor-breakwater-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road Vendor: Breakwater Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Breakwater Fabric?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housed just a few miles west of the Ontario Convention Center, Breakwater Fabric is a quilt shop specializing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaffefassett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kaffe Fassett fabrics<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-singer-featherweight-machines\/\">Singer Featherweights,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rileyblakedesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Riley Blake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/my.modafabrics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owner Rachel Mayfield has been quilting since 1989. She has a passion for \u201cbeautiful fabric and Singer Featherweight machines.\u201d She recalled that she and her husband were once selling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singer_Featherweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singer Featherweights<\/a> in an antique shop in Orange County, California. Leaving a quilt shop one day, Rachel was driving in her car and decided that she could open an online quilt shop to sell Featherweights and quilt shop fabric at quilt shows. Combining this desire with her background in accounting and display, \u201cBreakwater Fabric just all came together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater.jpg\" alt=\"Breakwater Fabric\" class=\"wp-image-7923\" width=\"382\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater.jpg 320w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel says that she LOVES chatting with the quilters who come into the Breakwater Fabric booth at the various quilt shows they attend. \u201cMy customers have become my friends.\u201d Rachel also really enjoys display and she is constantly thinking of creative ways to share new fabrics and notions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater2.jpg\" alt=\"Breakwater Fabric\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" width=\"388\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater2-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How has Breakwater Fabric adapted during the age of COVID-19? \u201cThe biggest change we had to make,\u2019 said Rachel, \u201cwas to open an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/BreakwaterFabrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Etsy shop<\/a> and move all of our online presence to Etsy. This has been great for us\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coming to Road 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breakwater Fabric can\u2019t wait to see their customers in person again. They \u201cso miss chatting and visiting with the quilt show attendees.\u201d Rachel continued, \u201cI feel like we need to reconnect through our love of fabric and share how we\u2019ve been working on our projects since the Corona Virus Safe at Home recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured in their booth will be Moda Grunge, Robin Pickens, and FreeSpirit Kaffe Fassett fabrics along with Singer Featherweights in their booth at Road. They will also have some fun antique sewing machine items to share this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7925\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breakwater3-scaled-e1601100046600.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Road is looking forward to having Breakwater Fabric at Road 2021. To learn more about this online shop, please visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/breakwaterfabric\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Breakwater Fabric? Housed just a few miles west of the Ontario Convention Center, Breakwater Fabric is a quilt shop specializing in Kaffe Fassett fabrics. Singer Featherweights, Riley Blake and Moda. Owner Rachel Mayfield has been quilting since 1989. She has a passion for \u201cbeautiful fabric and Singer Featherweight machines.\u201d She recalled that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}