What is the one best option for a sewer (quilter) in midtown Manhattan.

a day or two in the garment district will keep you very busy from store to store with some of the highest and lowest quality fabrics known to mankind

More specifically go to 39th and 40th streets, between 7th and 8th avenues.
Lots of fabric stores

We love cruising around in the Fashion District (formerly the Garment District), but it's so oriented towards clothing that a serious quilter, looking for quality cottons, might be disappointed. But it' still fun! Here's a map, click to enlarge, showing many of the places open for retail customers.

http://www.fashioncenter.com/Map.html

I guess I didn;t make it clear enough. I will be with non-sewers and will only be able to make one stop. Wouldn;t i love to have two or three days!!!

Must it be midtown? There's a place in SoHo that you'd love:

http://purlsoho.com/purl/contact


Or there's this one in Chelsea:

http://www.cityquilter.com/hours&directions.htm

Are there any particular stores in the garment center that people here would recommend? I need to purchase about 50 yards of inexpensive gauze-type cotton..

Thanks!

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Mood Fabrics -- on 37th Street in the garmet district is a huge store with plenty of variety. It's the fabric store featured on Project Runway. Have fun!

Thanks..I will cruise around there one day soon and report back if I find any details of general interest. I am looking for light cotton that I can hang from some kind of wooden dowel to create a shady area on a terrace...