Center Diamond

What a wonderful store, and how generous of you folks to offer more fabric to the customer who didn’t read the directions and ruined her precut fabric buy trying to pre-​shrink it before assembly! If you buy one of the awesome precut kits, don’t pre-​shrink before assembly. When cared for properly, these fabrics don’t shrink. If you must «preshrink», wait until you’ve assembled the pieces, stay-​stitch the outer edges to prevent raveling and wash it lovingly (the way you’d treat your completed quilt — use cool water in your wash and line dry or tumble dry on low.) I get so tired of people not reading directions and then blaming a merchant for their ignorance.
On a more positive note — these folks have soooo many lovely batiks, but that’s not all — they have mod fabrics, cool patterns and a dangerous assortment of buttons (if you’re a knitter, you should visit just for these)! #buttonjunkie.
Nancy
Kirkland, Washington

This is a lovely quilt store, with fabrics nicely arranged, and a good selection of fat quarters and books, to boot. We arrived on a dark and stormy night, so we had the store to ourselves and enjoyed pleasant conversation with the owner.
It was a pleasure to find a good range of batiks, novelty fabrics (I found glow-​in-​the-​dark constellations!), local fabrics, Japanese prints, and others. It was fun browsing through, letting the eyes wander.
The owner was willing to recommend other stores in the Portland area, as well. I have no complaints about the stock or the service on this visit, and would readily return.

I loved this cute store.
My husband and I were driving from Portland to Cannon Beach and I had dozed off. Suddenly I woke up and said, STOP! Quilt store! (It’s my super power.)
There was tons of fabric and the young girl working here was super friendly. I got all kinds of fun fabrics plus a pattern, a layer cake and a charm pack.
I wish I lived closer for both the beach and the fabrics!

I’m updating my review now that I’ve tried to actually assemble the quilt kit I got from Center Diamond. Obviously, I’m not happy with their store cut product… Nothing like getting home, prewashing and pressing all my fabric and getting ready to cut when you find out that WTF — they didn’t cut enough of the fabric. This is not one of those «stingy cut» incidences where a little bit of unraveling and relining of the fabric made it possibly a little shorter — one of the cuts was almost 3 inches too short. Another one was an inch shy. Now I have to go and find the same fabric either at a local shop or somewhere online (and since I only need ¹⁄₈ of a yard in most cases and everyone online starts at half a yard, I’m getting way more fabric than I’m going to need).
UGH. IRRITATING!
I noticed that the girls doing the cutting were REALLY stingy with the cutting (2 yards was as close to 2 yards at the fold line in the bolt as they could get it. If you got an extra inch, they were really charging you for that extra INCH). Look, I’m not saying give fabric away for free, but you should at least make sure that when you’re making a quilt kit, you do give the customers enough to finish the projects and you should also make sure when you’re measuring fabric that you take into account that fabric on the bolt is not perfectly folded and your cut off the bolts are not going to be perfect and there is about an inch of margin error that you need to account for. I know I’m not the only one who has prewashed fabric and then lined it up to find that guess what — the selvege ends where the cuts were made do not line up!
Still a shop where you can find pretty much anything that is sold out in most other places. I’m just not going to buy any kits there and don’t recommend them to others either.

Center Diamond is an absolutely lovely fabric shop! I was warmly greeted when I came in and was pleasantly surprised at the amount of wonderful things tucked into the little coastal gem. Fabric, patterns, books, kits, notions… you name it. I spent about half an hour just trying to narrow down my selections. I’m picky… and I don’t have one complaint about this shop. I will be going back by again before I leave town. Definitely stop by this shop if you are in Cannon Beach. You won’t be disappointed.

Lovely selection of fabrics, sewing & art quilting books, and fabulous buttons to satisfy your creative needs on vacation.