Fabric Warehouse occupies a squat one-story building with a hunter green roof and a bright red door. Once inside, customers wander the meandering spaces that seem to extend beyond what the building’s footprint would allow.
That’s not unlike the business itself, which has changed through decades of family ownership, at 3030 Florida Ave., in Lakeland, with one enduring goal: to foster a community, one stitch at a time.
Fabric Warehouse offers more than 10,000 bolts of fabric and other sewing supplies, but it’s still more than that — a meeting space, for groups such as Ladies of the Lakes and Polk County Crossroads Stitchers, a place for sewing and craft classes and summer camps for kids, and a sewing machine sales and repair facility…