Then we got home and I looked it up. Then I stopped at the first quilt shop, which happened to be closed, and saw their row by row quilt from last year hanging in the window and now I'm totally hooked. I dragged my boys to ten quilt shops this week, seven on one day.
If I'm counting right, there are eighty-nine participating shops in Oregon alone. I've already done the ones that are closest to home and I'm not sure how many more I can get to, but I've already got more than enough patterns for a quilt. And some of them are absolutely fantastic -- do you see Sasquatch in the upper right hand corner?
My only problem is that it's impossible not to see rows from other impossible-to-get-to places and fall in love with them. A shop in North Carolina has possums on their row! One of my younger sons aspires to be a wildlife rehabilitator an is more than a little obsessed with possums. I need that row.
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The Row by Rows are fun. You can contact the shop in North Carolina and in November when the Row by Row ends perhaps they will be willing to sell you the pattern or even their kit. I did a couple last year from shops which were closed when I was traveling.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the explanation of this! Have you been to Center Diamond in Cannon Beach? I love that shop.
ReplyDeleteWhich shop/location in NC? I'll be there in a couple of weeks, and if I am close, I can pick one up and mail it to you.
ReplyDeletethat is what i love about quilters always willing to help.
ReplyDeleteI just returned from vacation where I picked up 7 or 8 (I lost count) license plates and patterns in 5 different states. I got duplicates for a friend, too. Some of the rows are really unique but I'm not sure if I'm going to make them. I will, however, try to do something with the plates. One shop had already run out of her initial order so she promised to mail to me.
ReplyDeleteDitto on Joy's question. I'll be hitting some of the western NC shops in August. I looked through the NC rows and didn't see a possom. And most of the shops are going to sell their rows, some even taking pre-orders now, so they know how many kits to make. I know I'm ordering both rows, and the tree trunk filler, from the shop in Cary, NC!
ReplyDeleteVery funny on the NC row. Can you believe someone turned in a finished quilt the second week of the row by row at my LQS? The quilt was bed size too.
ReplyDeleteIn my 20 years of quilting I've never done a shop hop. Maybe next year.
Let me know if there's something around me that you want. I'll happily pick it up.
ReplyDeleteThe possums are at Valleytown Quilt Shop in Andrews, NC. I'd send emails to the gals who offered to pick it up for me, but you're both no-reply bloggers. :-(
ReplyDeleteCraft Warehouse has a different pattern for each store location. I like the one from Gresham. It has a Sasquatch. Fabric Depot has some roses.
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