{"id":53037,"date":"2021-06-08T07:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53037"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:45:42","slug":"cotton-cure-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cotton-cure-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Cure Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cotton Cure Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend Amanda<\/a> took me to several shops when we stopped in Portland on our way home. One was called Cotton Cure<\/a>. It was a GREAT shop. It didn’t have the most fabric, but it has a really good variety and the presentation was excellent.<\/p>\n

The quilt shop was in an urban shopping mall type building.  Shopping mall is not quite the right term. It was an older (looking?) building. You had to go into the main door and down a hallway to find the shop. The shop was three rooms, two of which were full of fabric and supplies. LOTS of bag making hardware and supplies.<\/p>\n

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Cotton Cure: entrance and True Kisses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing I saw was the new Heather Bailey fabric, True Kisses by Figo<\/a>. It made me think of my grandmother’s living room curtains. The shop had a variety of different cuts – full yards, half yards, and fat quarters. I think they had wide backs as well. I didn’t take very good notice, so I am not sure. I really wanted all of this line and thought of the variety of pre-cuts, but I restrained myself. I can’t stop thinking about the line, however, so I may have to buy the whole line. I am slightly horrified at how much pandemic fabric buying I have done, so we’ll see.<\/p>\n

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Cotton Cure: bag hardware cabinet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That big green cabinet was full of bag hardware. I almost swooned! It is a really cool looking cabinet, though.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t super convenient as the drawers were hard to pull out and push in, but each drawer had a different type or size of hardware. I would really love to have a shop with a such a wide variety that I could see. I feel the need to stockpile when I see hardware and I never seem to have what I need when I need it. Clearly stockpiling doesn’t work. Is there a shop owner out there who would listen to me and my crazy ideas?<\/p>\n

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Cotton Cure: hearts & floss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cotton Cure: floss detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That heart quilt is on their website as a PDF download called Tainted Hearts<\/a>. It’s fairly appealing, though I am working hard not to buy more patterns until I make a few of those on my list.<\/p>\n

While small, the shop had a great selection of floss. The rolls in the center are Eleganza – the brand that makes Sue Spargo’s floss\/embroidery thread. As you can see the thread is not on spools. The shop also had a lot of the Dropcloth Samplers, which I had never seen before in person.<\/p>\n

On the far right of the cabinets, the shop had other embroidery designs and another brand of embroidery thread. I neglected to see what the brand was. It is interesting that a number of quilting shops are branching out into embroidery.<\/p>\n

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Cotton Cure: thread, cows & wool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They had a lot of thread as well, but some of it was across from the embroidery thread.<\/p>\n

The other item was a large selection of wool felt. I bought a few scraps at Pioneer Quilts for my egg project<\/a>. I talked about the eggs a little in my post called Handwork Week<\/a>. Wool felt can get pricey, but Cotton Cure and Pioneer Quilts both have fantastic colors – not just the primitive folk design colors: brown, tan and taupe. Those are not my colors.<\/p>\n

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Cotton Cure: wool felt & thread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see the wool felt better in the picture, left. They really had a nice selection of colors. Not great for turquoise, but look at those pinks and purples! The yellows and oranges are pretty nice, too.<\/p>\n

This photo shows more regular thread, too.<\/p>\n

The waxed canvas is in rolls in the basket attached to the black & white plaid wall.<\/p>\n