Monday, November 16, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Village Needleworks to Close

Tara found this news story in today's Chicago Tribune.   Village Needleworks' lease will be up in February and the shop will close then unless a buyer is found.
 http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/news/ct-dhd-village-needleworks-tl-1119-20151113-story.html

So sad!
http://www.villageneedleworks.biz

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright November 14,  2015 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved. Tara

10 comments:

jhm said...

The link to the Chicago Tribune was a bust. Because I would not subscribe, I could not read.

The link to the shop is at least 4 years old with no mention of closing.

JHM

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Odd. I got it to work for me well before I posted the link. Now it demands a subscription for me, too. I tried Google and found two other links to the same story. I don't know if they will work for you or not. Obviously, they may not work for me the next time either. Here's the first--http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/burr-ridge/news/ct-dhd-gallery-needleworks-store-tl-1119-2-20151113-photogallery.html

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Here is the second link. I know newspapers are going under but demanding a subscription to read even one story is a bit much.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/burr-ridge/news/ct-dhd-gallery-needleworks-store-tl-1119-2-20151113-photogallery.html

Sheena said...

Jane, I was able to read the article. I just had to register, not subscribe...

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Strange! I never got the option to register--just subscribe! Obvously the Trib hates me!

Unknown said...

I was able to see the pics on the second link, but was asked to subscribe on the other links, so could not read the story. If anyone is interested, I am planning on writing a fairly long post on the current challenges facing needlepoint B&Ms, which will include a summary of the response I received from the TNNA regarding certain issues (that IMHO are contributing to industry instability) that I recently wrote to them about. Look for it next week on my little ole blog, needlepointland.com. I plan to articulate (from my personal perspective of course) what the needlepoint retail landscape actually looks like from the point of view of a small brick and mortar shop owner, located in fairly well-to-do part of Florida, where, sad to say, another needlepoint shop is about to close.

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Thanks for the heads up, Erin. Your blog won't work with RSS readers which is how I read blogs rather than chasing a ton of bookmarks, so I wouldn't have known to look for it.

Unknown said...

Hi Jane, Hmmm, I think the following URL should work nicely in terms of RSS
http://needlepointland.com/feed/
however, I have it set up to provide only an excerpt, so that viewers have 2 follow the link to the full text of a post, if they wish to read it. ;-)

Unknown said...

I found a way to read the story without registering. Just use Google cache.
here's the link

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:icbCu3B37UUJ:www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/news/ct-dhd-village-needleworks-tl-1119-20151113-story.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

It's better than nothing! Thanks, Erin.