I ask you to understand. I love fabric. I love fabric as much as I love plants. When I moved to North Carolina, finding Randy's Quilt Shop was such a comfort to me. Fabric was a language I spoke in the midst of a foreign land.
I have no idea how many yards of fabric I have from Randy's. Some of them have been sewn into clothes. Some of them have been sewn into quilts. Many have not, but are merely waiting, like treasures to yet be enjoyed.
In loosing Randy's, I feel like I am loosing a friend. There will be a void because I often went there just to look. To absorb the colors, the options, the possibilities. It was an oasis of peace and calm and beauty to me.
Maybe it is fitting that the last pieces of fabric that I bought there, before I knew the shop was closing, like many, but not all, previous fabrics, depicted roses and flowers and birds. Like a garden.
Have a beautiful day.
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6 comments:
How sad! I hope you can find another fabric store soon...
~ K ~
Ruth, I am more sorry than I can say....I understand your feelings of mourning. Fabric and sewing are so much a part of you, as is your wonderful garden. The blue garden fabrics you pictured last are so beautiful! I really hope it won't be long before another quilt shop opens near you, so that you can once again have a place to go to lose yourself for a while and dream of beautiful possibilities.
~Anne~
ruth, i love fabric, too! it's always a little sad when a favorite store closes. i hope you find a new favorite place soon. don't know how far away you are from mary jo's in gastonia but you would probably like that. it's just off i-85...could be worth the occasional trip.
Mary Jo's is awesome! That's where I got the fabric for the bridesmaids' dresses. :)
~ K ~
Do I remember you mentioning Mary Jo's before? I thought about that after I wrote that comment above. Oh well, my memory is iffy these days. Either way, it's full of pretty fabric.
No, Daricia, I've never been to (or mentioned) Mary Jo's before, but after a recommendation from both you and K, it sounds like I need to check it out! :)
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