On Tangley Road near Rice Village there are two needlepoint shops, Stitches in Time and...
Melissa Phillip/Staff PhotographerWalk just north of Rice Village’s modern retail shops and cafes and there’s a sight you might not expect: two shops with little space for anything that isn't devoted to the centuries-old art of needlepoint: thread, needles, ribbon, and beautifully embroidered pillows, ornaments and stockings.
“Each shop has its own personality and style, their own specialties,” said Helen Shultz, who shops at both stores. “There’s always something you can learn from different people.” First they were teacher and student, with Jue taking classes at Laux’s original Needle House store near Lamar High School in River Oaks. Laux, who bought the store in 1994, had been sewing — technically defined as stitching pieces of fabric together — since she was a child. Her family members also could each sew beautifully, she explained, so needlepoint — creating art with needle and thread on a type of canvas — was a way to try something new.
About five years ago, they became neighbors. Laux’s River Oaks location was being torn down and redeveloped. Looking for a new location, she found it in the building across from Jue's shop. “If you have a teacher that tells you they’re the only one in the city, you need to go somewhere else,” Laux advises customers. “Everyone brings something new to the table.”
Shultz started stitching in 2019, when she was pregnant with her second daughter. At the suggestion of a friend of her mother’s, she took a class at Needle House, where she “fell in love” with the art.
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