Road Trip!!!! map at post 17
What a great time we had yesterday. Three friends take their machines to be serviced in Penn Yan NY, Amish country. We had to leave home at 6am and didn't get back until 6pm... exhausting. The repair shop gives out maps of all the quilt related shops in the area. So after having breakfast, we visited 4 shops, then lunch and a couple of more shops. The shops were so varied... one delightful lady owns The Quilt Room and sells mostly finished quilts and items. She let us know that she also offers lunches to groups in her home to enjoy a meal and talk quilts... what a fun idea. Our guilds are thinking of inviting her to come speak to us as she is rather a 'colors' expert. Another shop we visited is mainly a fabric store, but also sells finished clothing related items like hats, bonnets, suspenders, baby outfits. She had a clearance rack of quality fabrics on clearance - $4/yard. [the other ladies were remarking of the prince increase from $3/yard LOL]. Another shop was really a general store with a huge fabric section... excellent prices there and browsing the unusual general items. Another shop was new and was located in an old barn with the date of 1879 on it. And we barely had spare room, but picked up very inexpensive pumpkins and squashes at a roadside stand on the way home. The weather could not have been more perfect and even got a glimpse of the fall leaves just turning on the trees.