About Us

Our Fabrics.  Your Stories        

Stacks of fabrics entice the eye with their multi-patterned, multi-hued beauty and draw the touch of hands eager to transform them.

We at Undercover Quilts understand that when other people compliment you on a quilt, a blanket for the new addition or a wall hanging, they’re actually praising your storytelling abilities. Because when you transform that fabric, you embellish it with your heart, your soul and your story. You are a storyteller. We want to help you tell your story. Everyone has a unique and interesting story to tell.

Our story is still unfolding.  After 25 years in the South Arcade building at 1st Avenue and Union in downtown Seattle,  we have moved to a prime location at the North end of the Pike Place Market at the corner of 1st Avenue and Virginia Street.   We are still evolving and adding new fabrics, patterns, quilts and notions!

Our History

Ours begins with Owner Linda Hitchcock’s childhood fascination with antique quilts. She collected and sold antique quilts at national antique and craft shows for years. In November 1990, when there were only a handful of quilting shops in Western Washington, Linda opened a downtown Seattle shop, selling new and antique American-made quilts. In 1993, she expanded into a full-service fabric store adjacent to the historic Pike Place Market. We are downtown Seattle’s only quilt and fabric store.

What's your story?

Linda's Story

"When I was young, I can remember my mother and my grandmother exchanging pieces of their ‘scraps,’ small pieces of fabrics from their many sewing projects. My grandmother always had her quilting frame up in her bedroom, and it always had a quilt on it that she was quilting. She made a lot of quilts, probably 30 or more. We never slept under anything other than a quilt. My father passed away under a quilt made by my mother and one made by his mother. My grandmother made me two quilts. One, a Sunbonnet Sue quilt, when I was a child, and a wedding quilt, made from scraps from all of my clothes and hers." 

Undercover Quilts Owner Linda Hitchcock