Creating community
One Stitch at a Time
The space
Home Is Where Stories Begin
Carrie has lived all over the world, but Tulsa is home. It’s the place she always comes back to.
Stitchcraft’s location wasn’t chosen for convenience. It sits at a crossroads, close to both the country club neighborhoods and the new housing projects nearby, the perfect spot to pour into the community. Carrie wanted a space where people who may not always run into each other in day-to-day life would be able to form relationships over the art of stitchcrafting.
When you venture into Stitchcraft you’ll notice a proud nod to the women’s suffrage movement whose slogan was “Give Women Votes” and whose palette was Green, White, and Violet. Stitchcraft honors these brave women and the generations of women, like Carrie’s mother, grandmother, and family friend, Angie, who first put a needle in her hand.
Our Mission
The Heart of StitchCraft
Stitchcraft is our answer to a world which has gotten a little too remote. No Zoom calls or screens between us. Just cloth, coffee, crafting, and community. This kind of authenticity that only happens when you’re sitting shoulder to shoulder with someone.
Stitchcraft is more than a fabric store: it's all about cloth, coffee, crafting, and community.
Meet Carrie in person. Visit us this September.
Our Story
Where it all begin
Carrie didn’t grow up dreaming of owning a fabric shop. She grew up watching the women in her family sew.
Quilting and sewing are traditions in Carrie’s family. Every family member owns treasured quilts spanning decades and generations. Making clothes and household items is both a creative and functional pastime for the women in the family. In fact, Carrie still has some of the clothes her mom made for her when she was in elementary school, as well as her senior prom dress.
Her mother, grandmother, and a family friend first tried to teach her to quilt when she was ten. It didn’t take, not yet. What did take root was time spent with a woman named Angie, an elderly family friend Carrie visited often as a kid. Angie was tough as they come, the kind of woman who lived to 101 and never seemed to slow down. She kept a massive Doberman at her side, trailing her everywhere like a sweet little shadow with a very loud bark. Every visit, the two of them would sit down and sew together. Looking back, that’s where it really started.
A Life of Service
Her own path took her somewhere very different first. Right out of high school, she enlisted in the Air Force and served eight years as a combat special operations medic. She separated from service after 9/11, and that’s when she went to college, then graduate school, eventually building toward a career as a government scientist. It was the job she’d worked toward for years, and she finally got it!
A New Chapter Begins
During her academic career as a biology professor, Carrie returned to quilting as a way to escape the stresses of her demanding profession. And then, quilting became more than a hobby. It became a part of her self-expression, artistry, and way to share love and caring to the special people in her life.
In June of 2025, Carrie was laid off along with a wave of other government scientists. It was a hard season. But it also cracked something open. She had been quietly thinking about opening a shop like this for the past three years. When two more local fabric shops, including a Joann, closed their doors, ideas turned into plans. After talking through the idea with her mom and her close friend, Chris, Stitchcraft was born. Carrie would build the thing she’d had with her all along:
Community through stitching.
