Le Rouvray Is Closing

The American woman who started Le Rouvray quilting store in Paris, left bank right across from Notre
Dame, died last year. Her daughter is settling her affairs which means that the store is closing.

That is very bad news for quilters. She is selling all her stock at discounted prices in an Everything Must Go sale. She plans to keep the website open but what form it will take is not determined as yet. I just had to get some fabric from this famous store before it disappears even though the last thing I need is fabric. So I got some 50 centimeter cuts and one longer piece for the background of the planned Winding Ways quilt.

She is even giving away thimbles to each customer to remember her mother with.


Paris is so busy. This is magnified by the fact that we have been out in the country for a week where the loudest noise was the thunderclaps. Quite a difference in the accommodations as well. We are in an enormous business hotel in Montparnasse, nothing antique or ancient about it.