Our shop hop here in northwest AR gives you a pattern for one of the blocks in the quilt. Each shop makes their own quilt and makes up kits of the material they use, which you can buy. You go to each shop and see which one you like best and buy that kit.
The shop hop is to get people to come to see the fabrics the different shops have. The one I worked in have a lot of greens which eveyone was wanting.