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hsweany 06-30-2012 04:00 PM

If I owned a quilt shop......
 
it would be called " Never Square."Try as I might my quilts never are a perfect shape. What about you? Just for fun....

KarenR 06-30-2012 04:03 PM

I'd have to call mine UFO

LivelyLady 06-30-2012 04:26 PM


Originally Posted by KarenR (Post 5329340)
I'd have to call mine UFO

Me too....definitely

QuiltnNan 06-30-2012 05:28 PM

mine would be So Many Quilts.... So Little Time

kkdolls 06-30-2012 05:47 PM

I would have to be so many quilts, so little times partner because that is definitely me

auntpiggylpn 06-30-2012 05:48 PM

Mine would be "So Many Fabrics, Not Enough Time"

The quilt police might lock me up but I never worry about my quilts being squared. I'm not entering them in a competition or show; they are going to people who love me and my quilts!

Neesie 06-30-2012 05:51 PM

I have many squares but few quilts. :p Guess that makes me not quilty(?).

tesspug 06-30-2012 06:34 PM

No one I ever gave a quilt to said, "Oh, no thanks, that's not square." Maybe "Love and Pieces" for a quilt shop.

teddysmom 07-01-2012 03:05 AM

That would be stressful for me if I had to square it up perfectly. I quilt to relieve the stress, not add stress!

happyquiltmom 07-01-2012 04:15 AM

I work at a LQS called "Caroline's Cottage Cottons", in a 1870 brick cottage. The house next door is for sale. My DH said, "We should buy it and start a quilt shop called Cindy's Cottage Cottons." Heehee

I would NEVER want to own a quilt shop! I love working in one, but would not want the responsibility and long hours that go with owning one.
Cindy

twoxover 07-01-2012 04:16 AM

mine would be "Never Enough Fabric"


i no longer worry about "square". what's square??

judylg 07-01-2012 04:26 AM

If I were to open up a quilt shop, only dreaming here. Somehow I would incorporate a bed and breakfast and call it ....
QUILT YOUR DREAMS Bed and Breakfast. Speaking for myself when I am out shopping at quilt stores, the clock does not mean anything. lol Trouble with my theory not many understand a true quilter.

JabezRose 07-01-2012 04:26 AM

I think, "Your Stash" would be a fun name.
Like, "Where did your get that fabric?"
"Your Stash".
Or, Where you been shopping?"
"Your Stash".
"What is your favorite fabric store?"
"Your Stash".
"That is a beautiful quilt, you must of paid a arm and leg for material."
"Nope, was shopping in "Your Stash".

auntpiggylpn 07-01-2012 05:14 AM


Originally Posted by happyquiltmom (Post 5330244)
I work at a LQS called "Caroline's Cottage Cottons", in a 1870 brick cottage. The house next door is for sale. My DH said, "We should buy it and start a quilt shop called Cindy's Cottage Cottons." Heehee

I would NEVER want to own a quilt shop! I love working in one, but would not want the responsibility and long hours that go with owning one.
Cindy

I've been to Caroline's Cottage Cottons in Rome City!

Sunnye 07-01-2012 05:21 AM

Mine are never square either, but I would have to call my shop something like: Never Straight or Always Crooked
Since I can never cut or sew a straight line!

sewgray 07-01-2012 05:31 AM

I would name my shop "Good Intentions"

Neesie 07-01-2012 06:51 AM

How about Quilty People?

Gladys 07-01-2012 10:36 AM

I like the never square. That is one of my problems too. It seems so hard for me to square anything up much less a whole quilt.

Gladys 07-01-2012 10:37 AM


Originally Posted by JabezRose (Post 5330278)
I think, "Your Stash" would be a fun name.
Like, "Where did your get that fabric?"
"Your Stash".
Or, Where you been shopping?"
"Your Stash".
"What is your favorite fabric store?"
"Your Stash".
"That is a beautiful quilt, you must of paid a arm and leg for material."
"Nope, was shopping in "Your Stash".

LOL Jabez that was funny.

SunlitenSmiles 07-02-2012 04:05 AM

MY favorite all time quilt store name is "Cotton Ball" it is in Morro Bay, California.
My Daughters' favorite is "Cotton and Choclate" in Thousand Oaks, Caifornia

IMHO "Your Stash" is a great name.....I might have to travel just to shop there !!!!!!!

Latrinka 07-02-2012 04:31 AM


Originally Posted by auntpiggylpn (Post 5329598)
Mine would be "So Many Fabrics, Not Enough Time"

The quilt police might lock me up but I never worry about my quilts being squared. I'm not entering them in a competition or show; they are going to people who love me and my quilts!

Amen to that!

DebbieG 07-02-2012 04:37 AM


Originally Posted by tesspug (Post 5329697)
No one I ever gave a quilt to said, "Oh, no thanks, that's not square." Maybe "Love and Pieces" for a quilt shop.

Exactly....no one's ever said they didn't want them because they weren't "right" in whatever way.....PLUS, the whole point of your boarders is to square up your quilts....at least that was what I was taught!

Aprilisslowlylearnlytoquilt 07-02-2012 04:46 AM

I think I would want mine to be called *Let One be Done* lol, thats my story now... so many things started, and cut out, but none done , I like all of you some to do, so little time, i still work so fitting every thing in is so hard .....

dd 07-02-2012 04:59 AM

I always thought mine might be "A Time to Sew" as in Ecclesiastes 3:7 - There is a time to tear apart and a time to sew together. I also thought of "Dorcas' Purple Cloth". Jesus raised her from the dead but she was also a seller of purple cloth. I can't find the line right now.

Lavada 07-02-2012 05:03 AM

Would never own any kind of store but if i did i would call it get busy and quilt

Debbie C 07-02-2012 05:04 AM

I think I'd call my shop "We'll Keep You In Stitches" and I love the idea of a combination Quilt Shop/B&B!

karenpatrick 07-02-2012 06:06 AM

Before I started quilting, my fantasy was always to own a greenhouse/tea room/book store. Those were my 3 favorite pass times at that time. I would call it "Hobbyville." Now I fantasize about owning a fabric store/quilt retreat place/workshop place. I guess I would call it "Everything Quilting."

SandScraps 07-02-2012 06:12 AM

I would call it "Quilting Dreams come True"

Amythyst02 07-02-2012 06:34 AM

Oh I think the B&B is a great idea!!

Nanaquilts44 07-02-2012 06:52 AM

I think I'd call my store "Can I please have some more?" because of the fabric addiction that plagues so many of us.

Happy Linda 07-02-2012 06:56 AM

I'm with teddysmom, "I quilt to relieve stress, not add stress"

catmcclure 07-02-2012 07:47 AM

I used to live in a small town in Missouri. There was a small neighborhood bar that burned down. The only thing that was left was a storage building next door. The owner put in a charcoal grill and started serving beer and hamburgers. The customers decided to rebuild the bar themselves. After a couple of months the bar was up and running again. The customers called themselves the "Cockeyed Construction Company" and their motto was "If it's straight and true, we didn't build it."

deedum 07-02-2012 03:25 PM

Quilt n Scraps

cheaha39 07-02-2012 03:27 PM

Mine would be "what pattern"

MadQuilter 07-02-2012 03:28 PM

Mine would be "Not for the Quilt Police" coz rules are just guidelines that can be followed but are not a must.

mom-6 07-02-2012 03:37 PM

I've always wanted to have a gift shop named Memories and Dreams. I would have a combination of handcrafted items, original artwork of friends and miscellaneous nifty-gifty stuff.

PS Stitcher 07-02-2012 05:09 PM

Mine is going to be called The Sassy Stitcher!

ging10ging 07-02-2012 05:17 PM

Mine would be So much fabric so little time. When I go to my LQS they are always working on quilts or waiting on customers and it looks like fun but I'm sure when the orders come in and it needs putting away and pricing it's probably more stress than I want to deal with now that I am retired. Sue

Cybrarian 07-02-2012 06:15 PM

Mine would have to be "Dump Truck List", that Bucket left the building long ago...no one would know it was a quilt shop though, so it would just be me, the fabrics, and the people stopping in looking for truck parts-hhmmmm....

kathyd 07-02-2012 06:23 PM

I like the suggestion "Your Stash" It's always good to use up Your Stash when making a quilt so this just perpetuates the possibilities!


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