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Longtime Grand Avenue fabric shop Treadle Yard Goods has closed amid owner's cancer battle
Treadle Yard Goods, a fabric shop with a nearly half-century-long history on Grand Avenue, has closed as its owner undergoes cancer treatment.
Michele Hoaglund, who bought the store about a decade ago from its founding owners, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer around Christmas, she wrote on the store's social media page. The shop's final day was June 1.
'My focus must be on my health and getting well,' she wrote in the store's farewell message on its website. 'I have enjoyed getting to know so many of you over the years and loved seeing and hearing about your sewing projects.'
Hoaglund could not be reached for comment this week.
Hoaglund, a longtime employee who had initiated the store's class program, took over the store in 2015 from Mary Daley, who had founded it in 1976 with her late husband, Paul.
The shop was known not just for its wide fabric selection but also for its employees' skill at supporting and advising customers' projects, and for its community outreach efforts. In 2020, the store provided free kits for sewists to make their own Covid-19 face masks. Then, in 2022, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Hoaglund organized community sewing sessions to produce more than 200 handmade baby blankets for Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
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