When personal reasons necessitated a move, Gail sold the business. It is situated within striking distance of the Grand Canyon and Sedona, both favorite tourist meccas. There are hundreds of golf courses and Spring Training Camps for several baseball teams in the vicinity. Within the store, the walls are a feast for the eyes, covered with every kind of thread imaginable. A huge bookcase holds linens and aida fabric and cabinet drawers open to reveal treasure after treasure.
Models ring the walls, many in southwest style, featuring unique and intricate framing jobs.
This is one of the shop's specialties with loyal customers sending their needleart from all over for Gail's special touch. I get to visit with friends every day and play with beautifully colored threads. I help people start new projects and see the finished ones come in for finishing so the circle has been completed. I love to show old and young, women and men, how rewarding stitching can be. She exudes the same intensity of enthusiasm first elicited by Grandma's tin of colored threads when she was just a child.