Shop Hopping along...

Monday, Lisa and I went on a quilt "shop hop".  We hit 5 quilt stores across NC and one in SC in one day.  It was pushing to go to that many.  We hit the local shops today and tomorrow we will try to pick up 6 more shops mostly in SC.  The farthest is 2hrs and 40 minutes.  There are 14 shops in all.  Each shop designs a block and a quilt from blocks from all the shops.  They sell their block and you get a block at each store.  Here is the quilt Lisa and I will probably make with our blocks.  It was designed by one of the local shops, A Stitch in Time.  The picture is at an angle to get the best color.  The actual colors are much brighter.

The quilts in each shop are all very pretty and if you want to see them, go to NC shop hop 2012.  None of the pictures do the quilts justice, but they are all much brighter.

We bought a magazine with a pattern for a candy corn table topper and decided to make it while Lisa is here.  We picked up the background fabric today and then spent a good hour going through all my scraps and fabrics here to make the candy corn.  We needed 12 oranges, 12 yellows and white.  Guess we will buy 2 more yellow pieces tomorrow.


As we looked through all my scrap bins of fabric, Miss Emily was shopping for pieces she liked.  Tonight, she laid all those scraps out and said she was going to work on her a new quilt.  It was cute how she laid all those different size pieces out to fit together.  She did a good job finding a hole to put the fabrics in to sew together.  Lisa and I both suggested she let one of us cut the pieces into squares and then sew them together...she finally agreed.  

Lisa won the daily prize at the Asheville quilt shop on Monday and we will need to go back to pick up her prize, maybe next week.  They told her it was fat quarters and magazines so that is fine with her.  We have Waynesville and the other 6 other shops in SC.  It will be a busy day tomorrow...but fun.  


Gotta go to bed so I am not tired for all that fabric "eye candy" tomorrow.  Until we meet again....