I went to my favorite LQS and bought some fabric, as I was checking out the clerk asked if I was doing the shop hop, I said 'no', and she asked me again. She finally pulled the sheet out and said she thought I probably would want to start the hop at this store. She gave me fabric for the block, a pattern and then I could pick out a holiday fat quarter. This shop always has great fabric on 50% offf clearance. For example they just had the hungry caterpillar coordinating fabric on sale.