Pink Monkey recently traveled with us to Alaska, stopping along the way in Haines, Alaska. Haines is a little, but beautiful Alaskan town located along the Inner Passage. We walked down a main street:
past a pretty garden between two small shops
when we stumbled onto Material Girls Ltd:
Material Girls Ltd. was a small shop
packed inside with beautiful fabrics, fun quilt patterns (many of them Alaskan themed), and had a whole room dedicated to beautiful yarns and knitting/crocheting supplies. We especially oohed and ahhed at the Alaskan batiks.
Rhona Nelson, owner, was friendly and helpful and wished us well for the rest of our journey. If you’re a quilter or a knitter, you will enjoy a stop here.
We walked back to our hotel, remembering to turn left at the carved whale which was propped outside the police department’s muddy parking lot
and stopped later at Chilkat Bakery and Restaurant, which we loved. They have American fare, a whole Thai food menu, and a bakery selection of pastries that they make right there. They’re beautiful and so yummy.
You never can tell, in Alaska, what rich, warm treasures await inside the structure’s humble, rustic exteriors.
Haines is a quiet little town; quintessentially Alaskan. Charming.
And Material Girls, Ltd. is the same.
It almost appears to be frozen in time. Alaskan themed batiks, very appropriate.
I could not have imaginined such a thing as Alaskan batiks (is it an oxymoron, as the one evokes ice and snow and the other more balmy breezes and warm water?). But there it is. You (and we) would never have known if you hadn’t stepped inside that wonderful little shop.
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Funny that you’d think of that – the batiks being an oxymoron when Alaskan themed – you’re so right! And yes – it’s so fun to find little out of the way treasures as we travel.