The business, Colorz for Quilts, is owned by Karen DeVries and Kathy Bardolph. The store is a cooperative effort of skills. Carolyn Abbott's expertise is in the hand-dyed fabrics. Linda Melby is closing her Staples store, Quilting Memories, on June 1 and will be in the machine quilting area of the Washington Street store in Brainerd. The quilt store also carries Cherrywood Fabrics from Dawn Hall.
Plans are to offer quilting classes and include guest teachers, as well as staff.
And customers have already been stopping, including one group going to Fargo. A new construction company, Weiser-Mueller Associates Inc., is opening an office in the former insurance offices next to County Market in northeast Brainerd. Ron and Andrea Rivetts recently opened their nursery and garden center four miles south of Little Falls behind the Hilmerson RV Center. They also provide landscaping. They will also be open through the fall with pumpkins and then through Christmas with trees and wreaths.