What a whirlwind of a weekend. Happy as a clam today as I start a new week with some new projects. BUT first......a recap of the road trip to several local quilt stores.
My sister and sister-in-law met at my house before 9 AM, ready to head out to The Wooden Bridge Drygoods in Kutztown, PA. The store was about 30 minutes away, driving through beautiful farmland and historic homes on mostly windy roads. We even were startled to see an Amish Horse and Buggy in our travels!
Here are my travel mates/co-pilots in from of the store.
This store was AMAZING! Not only did they have good prices, but great quality and organized so well. It was easy to find what you were looking for.....IF you knew what you were looking for! The staff was very cheerful and helpful! I had so much fun finding fabrics for a king size quilt I want to make for us. Here are the set of fat quarters, and a few add on fabrics (the purples) that I purchased for this project.
I was also able to find the backing and binding fabrics to finish my table runner and place mats. I think all of us had a fun and successful shopping experience at the Wooden Bridge Store. We loaded our purchases in to the car, set the GPS on my I-Phone and headed to the second store, Ladyfingers in Oley, PA, about 30 minutes away.
This store is in an old historic hotel. So quaint and filled with more modern fabrics that Wooden Bridge who is run by the Mennonites. We were able to go upstairs to look at their classroom, where a class was in progress. I also got a look at the longarm set up they have where individuals can take classes and rent the machine to quilt their projects. None of us had big purchases in this store, as I think we had found most of what we were looking for at the first store. I did purchase a few fat quarters to match fabrics I had at home for some more fabric baskets and scored a bag of "scraps" for $4.95. When I opened the bag last night I was so happily shocked at how large some of the pieces were and look forward to sewing them together for a scrappy project!
We had lunch at a pizza place in Oley before heading home. All in all I think it was a very productive day and I can't wait to go back once I complete some of the projects I have in progress! I have only been retired for about 7 weeks and I am already getting a "stash" of fabrics.
Saturday afternoon I spent washing and drying all of the fabrics I purchased. Sunday I cut the batting and backing for the table runner and placemats. Once the "sandwiches" were pinned together I basted them all so they are ready to start quilting today. Promised my sister-in-law, who hand quilts most of her projects, that I would hand quilt the table runner, but plan to machine quilt the placemats.
Here are the pictures I took to show work in progress of the pinning and basting I did yesterday.
Today I plan to get some sewing done! I am anxious to start my king size quilt, but need to finish this project first. Watch out for progress update later this week!
Happy Crafting!
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