{"id":32205,"date":"2016-05-15T05:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=32205"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:58:16","slug":"bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32168\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027032115.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32168 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027032115-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Bolt - front of shop\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027032115-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027032115-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027032115-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolt &#8211; front of shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other shop I visited in Portland was <a href=\"http:\/\/boltfabricboutique.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bolt<\/a>. It is near a really nice neighborhood that reminded me of Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard about this shop, but I don&#8217;t remember where. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect and was pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>This is a small shop and a number of my photos were blurry, so you&#8217;ll get a taste of the shop then you&#8217;ll have to go and visit yourself.<\/p>\n<p>The shop has a respectable amount of quilting weight fabrics. They also have interesting garment fabrics including rayon, knits and non-garment fabrics like laminates.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a lot of indie patterns as well. I think they were mostly garments, but I am sure there were a few bags and quilts as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32169\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32169 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Bolt\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027098759-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was thrilled to find that they had wool felt. Real wool felt. I have seen it online, but have never felt confident enough to buy any without feeling it and\/or seeing it in person. I bought two pieces to make&#8230;something.<\/p>\n<p>The shop also had a wool-rayon blend felt. I bought a number of pieces of that in order to make a kind of garden scene. I got an idea in my head and will run with it when I am done binding Flowerburst.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32170\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32170 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Bolt\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wp-1462027150650.jpeg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bolt<br \/>\n2136 NE Alberta St<br \/>\nPortland, OR 97211<br \/>\n1-503-287-2658<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other shop I visited in Portland was Bolt. It is near a really nice neighborhood that reminded me of Berkeley. I have heard about this shop, but I don&#8217;t remember where. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. This is a small shop and a number of my photos were blurry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/bolt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bolt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[557,334,346],"class_list":["post-32205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-oregon","tag-quilt-shop","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68443,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions\/68443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}