I am excited to be in the process of opening a new quilt shop (yeah!) in 
I have been browsing through catalogs, meeting with sales reps and ordering up fabric (See my pink skulls fabric photo below!) and notions. (Fun!, but time consuming!)
NO NAME YET!
However, the shop is yet to be named—I am asking for you help! Do you have a suggestion…for a name?
My business partner, Pamala, and I agreed that we would like the word “fabric” in the name. Please email me your suggestions at quiltersbuzz@gmail.com by Sunday. If we pick your name, we will send you a whole bunch of great stuff!
Our shop is open now, but our official grand opening will be in late March. Lucky for me, the podcast quilting queen, Annie Smith, stopped by (on her cross country quilting adventure tour) for a podcast interview with me and a quick tour of the new shop. She posted the interview and photos of our shop on her Simply Arts site.
In browsing my supply catalogs, I keep running across the word mercerized and I have always wondered what the heck does being mercerized mean…and maybe you have too. I have seen it associated with fabric, thread and even ric rac.
And I am the jumbo Ric Rac queen…I have 30 colors of it available for sale now ($1.49/yd) at the new shop and on my www.CranberryQuiltworks.com website—(Thanks Mike!) It was just listed on the website today!
Anyway, back to the mercerization…
My new FaceBook friend and Aurifil thread guy, Alex Veronelli, sets me straight:
Says Alex:
Before dying any cotton, we need to proceed to its mercerization. What is mercerization: it is a treatment for thread mostly used to give cotton a lustrous appearance. . Mercerized cotton is a cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide (NaOH).
Who knew?
Oh yeah, we will be carrying Aurifil thread at the “un-named” shop--it is the best for piecing.
It is so fun when the UPS man comes with boxes of goodies.
Find us at:
“Yet To Be Named Quilt Shop”
714-223-1701
