Palouse quilt shop moves

Palouse’s downtown quilt shop has moved uptown. Owner Bev Pearce is now operating Small Towne Quilts from her home in Palouse.

“She’s just had a wonderful store front and awesome clients. All the traffic and all the vitality she has helped add to downtown Palouse will be missed,” said Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove.

“I really accomplished a lot,” Pearce told the Gazette in an interview Jan. 4, a day after the downtown shop closed.

The shop sold dozens of colorful bolts of quilting fabric, quilting supplies and had a quilting machine. Patrons could come work on their quilts at the store and wor...