I love doing a shop hop. The one that covers Southern Indiana includes about 9 shops. You buy a passport for $5 and then have one full week to visit all 9 shops. The shops meet and select a specific line of fabric for that particular year. Each shop designed a block made from the fabric selection. Then, each shop designs a quilt of their own using the nine blocks.
For the shopper, each shop sells one block to the quilt for $5. After visiting all nine shops, you have the original nine blocks of fabric + pattern for that block in a zip loc bag. You can decide which shop's pattern for a quilt you like the best and make it. Usually the quilt pattern is another $5.
Each shop had a goody bag for us with contained coupons for a future visit and a % off; like 20% for your next visit. The shop hop visit also had a discount you could use on any one item on the day of your hop visit. They each had bottled waters and some kind of snack for us. It took us 2 full days to visit them all and we spent the night in a motel. It was so much fun!