Although it is a pretty fall day in Chilly Hollow, I am feeling sad. I just heard last night that Stitches By the Bay in Monterey is closing. They've sent a note to their regular customers that starting yesterday, all their in-store merchandise is 40% off. Anything already on sale is marked down to 75% off. They will close for good November 20th. If you live in the area, please head over and tell them how much you appreciated their services and how much you will miss the shop.
http://stitchesbythebay.com/index.html
I also heard that the great Texas stitcher Virginia Maxwell is dead. She is from the first great wave of needlepointers of the 20th Century and was very influential in the 1970s. We owe Mrs. Maxwell and stitchers like her a great debt. We would not have the great choices of tools and designs we do today without their popularizing needlepoint. It is very sad to have a shop and a needlepointer die in the same week, isn't it?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7239906.html
Rest in Peace.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
3 comments:
Good grief! I had no idea Virginia had died, as I don't read the newspaper. I used to communicate with her a lot here in Austin in the last few years, and had no idea who she was when she first bought things from me a few years ago (web page).
I'm sorry to break the news to you this way, then, Judy. She sounds like she was quite a lady.
I read about it this morning and felt very sad. But I wonder what kind of threads do they have in Heaven.
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