What a fun day we had yesterday! It was a beautiful NC day, warmish but with a nice breeze... the company couldn't have been better... MamaSpark and Sara were great company and made the fabric shop hopping so enjoyable! Another member of the party was Sara's four-year-old son who has to be the best-behaved young man ever. You would not believe how much he seemed to enjoy fabric shopping and flirting with all the women he came across! What a cutie!
Our first stop was Wish Upon A Quilt in NW Raleigh... and we were there just before the shop opened. Let me tell you that there were other folks waiting besides us! This is one dangerous shop but I was good about sticking to my shopping list... two light tone-on-tone fabrics for throws I will be making.
One cream/tan with a white clustered-feather print and a white with white snowflakes...
This shop has more FQs than any other store I've been in... sorted into trays by color. You could spend hours looking through them all. I was good but when I came across a bin of 1/4 yd cuts (with a discount for buying 10) I succumbed.
MamaSpark and Sara found lots of goodies as well!
This is a great quilt shop... in addition to tons of blenders, lots of FQs, good prices, friendly staff, and toys & books for tag-alongs... definitely a shop that I need to visit more often. The only negative is that it is 1.5 hours from my house to this shop.... hmmm... maybe that is a good thing. *lol*
What bargins you found on the Shop Hop. Years agp I went on a two day shop hop with friends, traveling N. California and S Oregon. Such fun to visit new quilt shops.
ReplyDeleteYou did GOOD!!! I love fat quarters :D
ReplyDeleteI lived in Raleigh near Wish Upon a Quilt from 2006 to the summer of 2008. I miss that shop! It was not as big then, but still wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great day to hang out with blogging buddies, Lucky you! Love those 1/4's ~
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Good thing you had a list, and good on ya for sticking! I really like your FQ selection; one of them reminded me of a piano keyboard.
ReplyDeleteIt was a GREAT day! Thanks for being my driver too!!
ReplyDeleteI can see that you had a great day, what a beautiful fabrics..
ReplyDeleteGreetings from acros the big pond
Sounds like a GREAT shop - glad you had fun!!
ReplyDeleteThey have Online Shopping though. I see some nice fabrics in the FQ's that you bought. Good for you having a shopping list, it keeps you focused.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great time!! I love the fat quarters you bought!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you got to go Wish Upon A Quilt. I subscribe to their newsletter and have often thought it would be a fabulous shop.
ReplyDeleteI always approach a shop hop with particular things in mind to help control my spending, but there is always some bargain that gets the best of me. Well, our intentions are good. : )
ReplyDeleteI wish I lived closer to that shop - sounds great.
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Yes I did love that shop the best too,but I agree probably good it is far away;) They were truly amazing workers too! The selection will definitely be hard to resist:)
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