In April 2009 we rode our motorcycle on a Blue Bonnet Quilt
Shop Hop in Texas. Each shop we visited gave us a fat quarter and a quilt block pattern. After the 2nd shop, my mind was spinning on what kind of quilt I was going to put together from our trip.
I love Sunbonnet Sue so I thought it would be neat to tell the story of our trip using her and Sam throughout the quilt. Each shop we visited is depicted in my quilt and I actually made little tags and sewed onto the buildings with the names of the 12 shops. We stopped at a few wineries along the way and they are some of the buildings as well (the ones with cork fabric roofs). A lot of the shops on the blocks depict something that stood out to me about each shop. For example, the bldg. with the circus scene was the host shop and "Circus" was the theme in their shop. Their employees were dressed as circus characters and animals. The various other blocks in the quilt are the free patterns we were given. I tried to use the bluebonnet fabrics I collected along the way as much as possible in these blocks. It even rained on us one day, thus the block with Sue playing in the rain.
We had a wonderful time on our 1st ever shop hop and can reflect on it often while enjoying our memory quilt.