Originally Posted by Twilliebee
You visited my LQS! I'm another 20 miles west of O'Leary towards Tignish. I don't get to the eastern end of the Island often, but other than O'Leary there are only a couple of shops that I know of that try to cater to quilters.
Unfortunately at the moment they are both in a state of flux management wise and seem to be dreadfully overpriced.
There is also a Fabricville which I think would be like a Joann's.
I think my biggest problem is that I'm such a fabric hog and I want a variety of everything. That makes we want to travel further afield to hunt down the fun stuff LOL.
I'm glad you liked it here. If you come again, we'll plan a visit!
I'm sure we went through Tignish last time... isn't that on the way to all the windmills?
O'Leary was a nice town. We visited the potato museum while there.
We stayed at Pioneer Farm both times, a wonderful off-grid little homestead with a cabin for rent, which we'd found online. It was so very special a place... but unfortunately with the economy being very tough, and most tourists turning to the east after crossing the bridge to the Island, they were not able to make a go of it and now the property is for sale. I would call it Totally Wonderful (except for the mosquitos). It's south of O'Leary, right on the water, and there's even a sandbar offshore (which does provide an escape from the bugs). In case anyone is interested in buying the place (with all that water frontage it would be a good investment I suppose) here's a link to their website.
http://www.pioneerfarm.ca Jim and Judy are wonderful people and I just wish that they could have had a happy ending; they certainly deserved it.
I guess they really liked us, too, as we're #1 on their testimonials page. As it turned out, though, we were their final guests.
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