When Liz was at a quilting retreat www.vinalestonnac.com/ she discovered a new store in Temecula - The Wool Lady. It sounded interesting and we needed a day trip, so today we drove the sixty miles to see Ruth Molina's shop, the local quilt shop and have lunch. And then I dropped her at her house and came home for a nice long nap. It was a great day!
Temecula's "Old Town" maintains an atmosphere of early 1900s and some of the buildings are very old. Others are new, but built to look old. I don't know which this is, but it certainly looks rustic and charming.
Ruth has stocked the shop with a great selection of threads, patterns, notions, kits, gift items and wool fabric.
She hand dyes much of the fabric (this past weekend was all yellow and gold) and also has bolts to choose from. Anyone who is interested in wool applique will find irresistible fabrics.
Of course, I was interested in anything purple and should have asked Liz to take a picture of me in my purple shirt and hat next to these purple flowers. I did get her to help me look for purple "stuff".
She helped me look through this washtub - for purple buttons. We filled a little baggie, but rejected some others - you can see them laying on the top layer. I'll look through my button boxes/bags/jars for some more. Looking for buttons, a life-long addiction.
Liz looked at some patterns, fondled some fabric and found balls of the exact red perle cotton she has been looking for to finish a project in progress.
There are lots of samples and kits, some displayed in great old "shabby chic" furniture.
Old and new combine to present something interesting to see at every turn.
Perle in skeins and on balls. Hand dyed ribbons and threads.
Love this sign hanging on the porch outside the shop.
Here is the information about the shop - open every day except Sunday - when Ruth does some dyeing.
Diagonally across the intersection is Quilter's Coop, the local quilt shop. These signs on the windows are the only indication this is a quilt shop.
But on the inside there are great displays of fabrics and other needs for quiltmakers. There seemed to be two sections - one will appeal to the "modern quilting" aficionados.
Nice quilts, lots of fabric choices. They also have a good sales room, including a big box of fat quarters with reduced prices.
Another section of the shop seems devoted to reproduction and country fabrics.
Patterns and books for every taste and quite a large selection of notions.
There are several new additions to the purple basket, including the buttons and some fat quarters. It is filling up, but there is always room for more - I'll just find a larger basket!
3 comments:
Es una preciosidad, es una pena estar tan lejos nos veríamos muchas veces al mes,
Suerte con la tienda
Besos Mamen
It's gorgeous, too bad we would be so far many times a month
Good luck with the store
Mamen kisses
Rats...I don't think either of these stores were there when I was there 6 years ago....:( It would have been fun!
The Wool Lady just opened this summer sometime. I think Quilters Coop has been around for years, but not in the same location. At one time there were four quilt shops in town, but rare is the community that can support more than one shop these days.
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