Wish Upon a Quilt

Wish Upon a Quilt in Raleigh has built one specific, unusual claim to fame — a wall of more than 350 spools of Glide Thread, which is the kind of depth of thread selection most shops simply don't bother with, treating thread as an afterthought next to fabric. Here it's clearly not an afterthought; there's even a Thread of the Month Club for quilters who want a steady rotation of new colors showing up rather than hunting them down themselves.

As a Janome dealer, machine sales round out the retail side, and the online store runs around the clock, so Raleigh's normal shop hours don't limit when you can actually place an order.

For any quilter whose thread stash is thinner than their fabric stash — and that describes most of us — this is a shop worth knowing specifically for that wall alone.