聽 聽 聽Less than a year after she purchased Carlyle's popular Sew & Sews fabric store, owner Tanya Robertson will be moving the shop to larger premises at 117 Main Street, to the former 8 Words Cafe Building.
聽聽聽聽 鈥淚'll miss this cozy, more compact space,鈥� says Robertson of the store's present location at 102 Souris Avenue. 鈥淏ut the new location is very similar to this one at the front of the store. It also has vaulted ceilings and room to display quilts and space for a classroom in the back. I'm looking forward to hosting classes in the daytime and maybe some weekends. The larger space and the layout of the new location will allow me to do that.鈥�
聽聽聽聽 鈥淚'm also looking forward to welcoming more walk-in traffic with the main street frontage,鈥� she adds.
聽聽聽聽 Although Robertson doesn't have an exact moving date yet, she says it probably won't be in January.
聽聽聽聽 鈥淲e've got some painting to do and we also will be changing the lighting, which takes time. The building currently has cafe-style lighting, which we need to change, so people can see the supplies they need and the finished product in detail.鈥�
聽聽聽聽 Describing herself as 鈥渁 crafter and a quilter鈥� Robertson adds: 鈥淚'm looking forward to throwing down a lot of ideas that will grow. I'm considering offering beginner classes where we offer a take-home project that can be completed within that one class. I'm thinking about a (quilt) block of the month class, and we've also had a lot of requests for kids' classes. We potentially have the space for people to bring in their machines and come in and meet and sew.鈥�
聽聽聽聽 鈥淚 have a lot of ideas and I'm excited to have the classroom in the back at the new location and I'm hoping Bev (Thompson) will come back to teach some classes.鈥�
聽聽聽聽 Regardless of her store's location, Robertson says one of the most rewarding things about her business is the customers. 鈥淎 lot of our customers are involved in Pinterest-type crafts and using a lot of what we have in stock,鈥� she says. 鈥淲e're the only fabric store within a one-hour radius and I'm a firm believer in shopping locally, so we also stock other items, like regalia supplies for pow wows, vinyl, canvas, and even chalk cloth.鈥�
聽聽聽聽 鈥淣o matter where we're located in town, I want to provide a service and I hope that people can take advantage of that.鈥�
