Moons Drug Store, located on the HWY 123 side of building,

#175 Thai Memories of Saffron and Silk

Quilter Jane Oliver

Designer Barbara Shapel

Sponsor Jerry and Kathy Smith

The quilt, called Thai Memories of Saffron and Silk was designed by Barbara Shapel of Washougal, Washington and pieced and quilted by Jane Oliver of Hayesville, NC.

Jane Oliver is a fiber artist living in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. She has enjoyed every minute of a life-long passion for fabrics, fibers, needles, and thread. Her evolution through this medium has taken many forms. The one fiber path she intended never to follow was quilting — until it grabbed her heart in the 1980’s and never let go.

Barbara Shapel is an award-winning quilt artist, teacher, lecturer and author. Today she is known for creating two-sided quilts where the back is a reflection of the front and offers the viewer a different perspective of the same piece. She also works to integrate the quilting line and make it an important part of the overall design of the piece.

Moons occupies several buildings on Main Street, all of them historic.The buildings that house Moon’s Home Medical and Gifts were built in the 1800’s. The middle building, which is home to Moon’s Drug Store, opened as a drug store in 1901 and has remained there ever since.