Originally Posted by
Dodie
I am not a quilt shop owner but I do want to put in a word for them as so many quilt shops does a battle to stay in business and I personally know that the shop owners half to work very hard at this with so much on line stuff and they have got to design this pattern every year and spend hours cutting kits and it really does help their business as people plan their vacations around this and I for one love the row by row experience but there are many patterns out there that I love but am unable to travel to but I can only make so many anyway and I get to the stores closer to me and get more than I ever can make and if these same stores were to start putting these patterns on line after the first of Nov. they would defeat their very purpose as so many people would just wait until then to get them I fully respect the quilt shops and what they are doing and plan at least 2 more road trips next month so just have fun and enjoy the ones you can collect and appreciate your quilt shops I would be totaly lost without them
I agree with you 100% on this, I love this event for shops, if I were in the states, I would be driving to as many shops as I possibly could helping to support them. While I am not likely to buy a kit, I would most likely buy fabric, supplies, something to show my support. We need to keep our Quilt Shops in business and wanting to stay in business also, while their is a lot you can buy online, their is nothing like walking into a shop and seeing the actual fabric, feeling the fabric, looking thru a book, or seeing the actual pattern. You can't do this online, and most of the time you don't see the actual colors of the fabric. So Quilt Shops are necessary and I would support this 100% if I were in the states, as it is, I can't, everything I buy right now is 100% online. I simply have no choice, but in November, I'll be doing just like last year, calling shops and ordering patterns.
