Thread: Great weekend - Quilt Shop Hop

Just got back today from a quilt shop hop in NW lower Michigan. My (as the younger generation say) BFF and I left Midland Friday afternoon and drove to Gaylord. Spent the night at the cottage and Saturday we went to quilt shops in Charlevoix, Bellaire, Williamsburg, Traverse City and Interlochen. Today we stopped a quilt shop by Farwell on the way home. It was a good weekend - beautiful drive, great weather and quilt shops! At one of the quilt shops we were talking with the owner and she said the shops she had talked to did not sell all their passport bags including her shop and this year there wasn’t as many participants. She wondered if quilt shop hops were dying off. Hope not because we enjoy this one.

I'm in northeastern IL. DD and I have shop hopped in the past, but haven't at all this year. Finances are tight and we're both trying to shop our stashes (or each other's).

Sounds like so much fun. I know some States I have lived in have day bus trips that included lunch, my only deterent was the 6:30am departures. I buy mostly from the internet now as it seems quilt shops charge at least $2 - $3 per yard more. I know they have overhead of keeping a store going where as selling by mail may be a cheaper way for fabric warehouses to operate.

Your DGD would love a trip. My 16yo DGD has come with us a few times. Sometimes she goes in with us, sometimes she doesn't. She is not a quilter; DD and I have tried to get her interested, but so far, no luck. Darn it!