The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District tweets that Windsor Button, 35 Temple Pl., starts a going-out-of-business sale on Feb. 11. It first opened in 1936.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
By Crafting shop s...
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:36pm
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sadness
By Subway Knitter
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:25am
I heard about this yesterday, and I was bereft.
I might have to make a trip up there for one last shop.
Boo greedy landlords...curses on you and your children.
Oh no!!
By A very sad knitter
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:52pm
Now where will I get my buttons?! and where will I get a yarn fix on my lunch break?! This is awful!
TRY WINMILL FABRICS, FABRIC
By anon
Wed, 04/10/2013 - 1:22pm
TRY WINMILL FABRICS, FABRIC PLACE BASEMENT, PLAYTIME AND MANY MORE!
I'm so sad.
By Kathode
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 3:54pm
They had a great variety of yarns, notions and the most amazing button collection. It's really the only shop left in Downtown Crossing from my childhood. What a huge loss. I'm sure some bar or restaurant will move in.
If Bromfield Pen goes...
By Sally
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:17am
I think you'll be right.
WHAT
By anon
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:03pm
100% worst news ever. Every time something I've loved forever closes, I think to myself, "someday, this will happen to Windsor Button, and then I will weep bitter, bitter tears." And now it's happening!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
Aside from Windmill Fabrics
By anon
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:11pm
Aside from Windmill Fabrics does Boston proper still have any crafting, hobby, knitting, sewing, model railroad type shops left?
Grey's Fabric at 450 Harrison
By Miss Modular
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 6:38pm
Grey's Fabric at 450 Harrison is definitely worth checking out. Great selection of fabrics, but far smaller selection of notions than Windsor. Well, I think every other store has a far smaller selection than Windsor Button...
I just need....
By johnmcboston
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 9:03am
It's the notions I'll miss. the little stuff that you don't realize you're out of until you need them. A short trip to Windsor is a lot nicer than a major hike to ac moore... Doubly sad that this due to a plain old rent increase. Like we need another expensive restaurant...
I don't know if you mean
By anon
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 9:22am
I don't know if you mean downtown by Boston Proper, but in JP a store opened recently called Knit & Stitch, they do workshops and such
http://jpknitandstitch.com/
Love Knit and Stitch
By Sally
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:51am
And Greys and Gather and the other crafty/sewing stores that have opened recently. But Windsor Button was a classic and for most of us a nice connection with our mothers and grandmothers who shopped here back when everyone made their own clothing on a regular basis.
Button, button, who's got the button?
By JohnAKeith
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:25pm
No one.
NO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O (part deux)
By MassMouse
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:40pm
I can honestly say my grandmother, mother and all of my aunts shopped there. My Mom would make special trips back here to Boston (from NJ) to shop there. This just STINKS!!
Double Crapola
By massmarrier
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 4:51pm
I don't need them until I need them...and then I really need them. They have it all.
Plus, you can combine a trip there with a drink or two or three at Stoddard.
Sigh.
totally agree
By bostonzest
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:11pm
And, this comes at a time when people are beginning to learn to do things for themselves to save money. I'll miss them.
"a drink or two or three at Stoddard"?
By Charles Bahne
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:15am
Speaking of old Boston stores... where did that eating and drinking spot get their name?
Stoddard's cutlery store, of course. The web says they still have a store in the Nonantum section of Newton.
From a recent Yelp review (according to Google): "If Stoddard's ever goes out of business then Boston is far worse for it."
Talk about things that are gone...
By anon
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:20am
I remember when the Stoddard restaurant you are referring to was Stoddards Cutlery, a downtown Boston institution for years. When they left Temple Place (not all that long ago, really) the restaurant that took over kept the name.
noooooooooooo
By Bummed in Boston
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:30pm
Life is so unfair!!
Bummer
By Michael
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:31pm
1) I hate it anytime a unique local place goes away
2) I just got my Mom a gift certificate for her birthday, and now she's got to come in from far flung Central Mass if she can schedule around the snow :(
This is terrible news. I
By Googie Baba
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:46pm
This is terrible news. I learned to knit at Windsor Button. They had a workshop every Wednesday. You could just drop in and knit away.
Knitting
By Sally
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 6:45pm
I remember being unimpressed by the selection of knitting supplies just a few years ago--very old school, acrylics, etc. and then they brought in all of this wonderful yarn--I wonder if it wasn't just a little too late? Still just so sad to see this place go.
Then it was clearly more than
By Subway Knitter
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:28am
Then it was clearly more than "a few" years since you last visited. In the past decade or so, Windsor Button became a great combination of the old-school bad acrylic stuff (which, yeah, every once in a while you need) with the more upscale yarns.
That's what I'm saying
By Sally
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:54am
Their recent yarn selection was fantastic (compared to the old, fairly scant selection) and they seem to have created a nice community for knitters as well.
Definitely a loss
By Nonymouse
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 1:20pm
I loved their yarn selection, the helpful staff and the classes as well. I took a tatting class there a few years ago, something I'd never seen offered anywhere else. My great-grandmother tatted some beautiful linens that have been passed down in my family, but no one ever learned the skill from her. I was so happy to finally be able to fix some her pieces and make new ones.
Really sad to see Windsor go.
Awful, awful news. I hate
By Miss Modular
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 6:21pm
Awful, awful news. I hate being forced into Jo-Ann's with their sub-par buttons and notions selection. Windsor Button, you will be deeply missed.
So sorry to hear that.
By Sally
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 6:43pm
What a great place. It really is starting to feel as if the Downtown that I grew up with is completely gone.
These complainers should zip
By anon
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:30pm
These complainers should zip it.
More sadness
By adamg
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:03am
Erin McDonald, who writes Knitting in Beantown is, as you might expect, not very happy:
Windsor Button
By Constant Knitter
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:08am
Say it ain't so!
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