My sil and I have done a few quilt hops. We realyy have a good time we break it up into two days. A couple of shops we only spent enough time to sign in get card stamped get our pattern bought something cheap which we had to do to get pattern ( which we won't do anymore,) A few shops people very rude , or shops had foul smell. We rated shops from + 10 to a - 10 But we got neat patterns