My next FART will be this Saturday. According to the schedule it should be a more reasonable day, meet/leave around 6:30 AM, home by 4:30 PM. For the shop hop map, it is "Central Region" with shops from Nauvoo to Oneida. Again, a part of the state I have never been. I do have many Mormon friends and so Nauvoo will be doubly interesting to me in terms of history.
I won $100 on a scratch off lottery ticket (that I bought from a $35 winner). That will be my shopping budget for this round, including lunch and contribute to gas.
I like this idea of the main goal being a great trip, and that I can support shops by buying some notions and t-shirts and limited fabrics. I am specifically allowing some fat quarters again in black/gray and/or bowling themed, maybe some small yardage of the dragon fabrics. Edit: Also, if there is a a good coin or treasure fabric I would be all happy!!
I have a number of bowling fabrics and a couple of "favorite items" (like green olives) in a collection of husband themed fabrics. I found this pattern for Hawaiian shirts, I really like the dimensional collar, but the shirts are too short, I will be altering that, and maybe the sleeve a tiny bit... some of the shirts will have piecing/inserts. Don't have any plans on the when, but I printed off the pattern and put it with the collection for the what/why
https://www.modafabrics.com/webfiles...c-sunshine.pdf