2025 has just flown by! So much has happened for Idaho Sewing & Vacuum this past year. Here are the highlights:
The biggest news for the year is that we combined our two locations into one large location on the corner of Overland Road and Five Mile in Boise! In April, we moved into this large location that has so much space that we carry almost everything you would need. It also has a large classroom where we can hold events and our classes without having to rearrange the store to have an event. It has been a transition getting everything organized and laid out. While we are mostly close to having everything in place, we are still tweaking a few areas.
With the closure of the large sewing box chain store in May, we have expanded our offerings of different notions, bias bindings, elastics, trims, and more. We did have some garment and non-quilting fabrics at our old Boise location before, and now at our new space, we have increased the number of bolts and types of fabric we offer.
During the summer months, we restarted our classes, teaching people about their machines as well as different club opportunities to work on a variety of projects.
In September, we held our first on-site event with OESD, learning about a variety of different embroidery techniques. It was a one-day lecture with 2 days of hands-on learning. So much fun!
We also attended the local Boise Basin Quilt show in September, and it was nice to see our customers and the projects they had entered into the show. Such a great place to get inspired.
In October, we welcomed Kari from Bernina for our Bernina 990 event. Students got the chance to play on the Bernina 990 and see all the amazing features it offers. The next week, our Bernina 990 owners had the opportunity to learn more about the different features their machine has. Every time I take a class, I learn something new or remember something that is unique to that machine.
November and December have been a whirlwind of fabrics, classes, machines, and new notions and thread! I think we have probably the largest thread selection out of any store in the valley. The store continues to grow and evolve. You could take a couple of hours just to take in everything we offe,r from our fabric selection to AccuQuilt to our “Bag” wall to the variety of sewing machines and long arm quilting machines to vacuums.
If you haven’t checked out our new location, I urge you to stop by and say hi!
So, what’s next for Idaho Sewing and Vacuum?
In 2026, we will be offering a wide variety of classes. We have our classes from January through March posted. Some new block of the months with our new Saturday Sampler starting the 3rd Saturday in January, and a new machine embroidery block of the month from OESD. We will be hosting a new OESD in March with more information to follow, and in September, Christine from Simply Classic will be joining us. We are continuing to work on bringing in new educators and events for this coming year.
Thank you to all our amazing customers who have been with us through this transition this year, and to all of our new customers who found us!
