I spent 13 hours and two tanks of gas, and picked up 6 rows. Will get the local one tomorrow, and the one near where I work (84 miles away) on Thursday when I need to be in the office. Then I'll have the 8 I want to use this year. Only one of these (the local one) is from a shop row I used in my quilt last year. All of mine as SD rows, and three are from shops I've never visited before.
Last year, I embellished most of the rows I made (last year I used 10) and changed out some fabric in a few of the kits. I had a lot of fun making the rows and doing the quilting.
Here are some of the embelishments I did last year - swaped out teh background fabric for fireworks and stitched with several colors of metalic thread for the starbursts.
This one had a very simple design of a speared fish (Spearfish SD) and I used shadow trapantu to make something much closer to the official city seal.
