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Shop Hop (part 2)

Home again, home again…jiggety-jog.

But ohhhhhhh—

…the winding highway we cruise-controlled…

…the quaint cottages we coveted…I mean, wished we lived in…wait…is that the same thing? Oh, whatever…

…the silky fibers I couldn’t keep my hands off of…stopped trying, actually…

…the amazing baby versions of the ABC song we sang…

…the basket full of prizes we get to keep…hee hee hee…don’t worry, I’m not trying to rhyme…

…the hollyhocks we sniffed–that is, until a bumblebee the size of a seagull showed up…

…the “finger-dancing” we did to all the 70’s music we could stand…

…the peaceful river we rested by…being careful not to disturb the residents…

…the fabulous old, old stuff that I sincerely tried to keep my hands off of…alas, in vain…

…the pretty porches we got to play on…I’m having one of those someday–I tell you…

…the 300-ish miles of people-less land we drove through…I mean, around…

…the millions of quilt-y things we took pictures of–for inspiration—which by-the-way, still look really hard to make…

…all to end up here—at this most beloved and sought after door…

…to turn in this card filled with a million stamps proving that we have driven around the world 3 times in the last couple of days…and now…

…will be resting these for a while as we dream of all the stuff we will most certainly win…

that…and about getting a touch up on the Iced Cranberry polish.

It’s time.

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Quilt Shop Hop


Let me just start this post off by saying–right up front–I’m not really a quilter. There. I said it.

Oh, I have loved to sew since my mom helped me make a skirt in the 7th grade, but quilting has always been a bit scary to me. All that precision…all those pieces. Yikes. Though I have had dear friends and now dear daughters that are quite wonderful at it–this particular bug has just not ever bitten me.

So when April suggested that we go on a Quilting “Shop Hop” that would take us all over the state—the fact that I agreed had nothing to do with my love of, or ability to–quilt.

It sounded like a great adventure with some people I’m pretty fond of–so we packed up the little doo-dads and headed out.

The idea is that if we visit every shop in the “Hop,” in the end we’ll have all the little town patterns we need to make the “Around the Town” quilt.

We ended up at 10 different quilting shops today and we have 5 more to scope out tomorrow.

So far, we’ve enter 11 drawings and won two prizes, received 6 free gifts, and collected 10 of the patterns.

Not to mention the piles of assorted cookies and brownies and popcorn and homemade bread we’ve consumed—all for the cause.

Each shop has designed their own version using the same patterns in their own particular style–so we’ve tried to take pictures of them all as we go.

We had such a fun time running around to all the different stores and having them stamp our “Around the Town Passports.”

Each store is giving away $100 worth of quilting prizes–so just think—16 stores, with 3 of us entering each contest–that’s 48 entries! The odds of winning something are pretty good! Wahoo!

To Be Continued…

 

 

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