I enjoy reading about the shop hop adventures. I enjoyed meeting new quilters and seeing new ideas and fabric lines. I stopped going several years ago. I realize I bought fabric just because I like the fabric, with no project in mind. So I save money not going. Now I buy kits I like and I do free mystery QAL’s and use my stash off the internet. This way I only add to my scrap pile and not yardage. Works for me.