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I have decided to make a Row By Row quilt with rows from quilt shops in or near cities I have lived in. I would appreciate any help in locating stores. The places I have lived are listed below. I have gotten rows for Chicago, IL, Alamogordo, NM, and Ballinger, TX; however, I was an Army brat and need a little help with the others.

Fort Dix, New Jersey
Niagara Falls, NY
Wichita Falls, TX
Homestead, FL

I appreciate any help you can give me.

If you go to the Row by Row web sight you can look up which shops, in which states, are participating tha you can contact the shops directly.

I found these on the Row by Row website. They have a directory for every state.

Auntie's Attic Quilt Shop
1995 Military Road
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
716-297-3636
(their row is AWESOME!)

The Enchanted Quilt
1813 9th. St.
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
940-689-0990

Ft. Dix and Homestead do not appear to have participating shops. You may need to look for one in a nearby town.

Www.rowbyrowexperience.com
It will give you all participating stores in each state. It will even show a picture of the row for each store (not all states).

As the others have suggested, contact those shops nearest the bases.

that is a great page. it also has links for canadian shops & links to shops in european countries who have joined the fun.
but ...the shops are not allowed to mail the rows until the game is over. and that's only if they have any kits or patterns left. a friend was traveling in Ohio & found a great row in a lqs there but it was the week before the game opened. the shop owner told her to call & she'd send one out here to washington state. she called & was told that they can't mail until after the 2016 row by row event ends in the fall.

Some of the shops are a little ridiculous with the rules. The lady you spoke of DID go into that shop in person so they should have mailed it to her now. I'd just say, at this point, sc$#% them and move on.

You can call the shops you want a kit from and pay for the kit now, and have them hold it until the mailing date is open. I did this. If you aren't trying to win a prize, what dif does a few months make? Some of the rows are amazing and some are just downright ugly and unimaginative, and I'm not going to put just anything into a quilt. I want the pretty rows only, of course! So, I look at them all online and then will have to preorder kits to be mailed to me in Oct, or whenever it is that they are free to do that.

I think there's some inequity in all this, since not everyone can travel and not everyone lives in states with a plethora of quilt shops. But... it is what it is.

Please understand that these events are designed as a way to increase (the limited) income for shops by getting bodies into the store, that's why the committees that set the events and rules make the "no mailing" rules. Doing so sort of defeats the purpose. They often also set a "no special sales" limit on the member shops for the duration so that all shops have an equal playing field.

You'll notice that most/many of these events take place in the summer travel season in the hopes of attracting tourists to the shops. Please don't bash them for the way they set up their sales events as it's hard enough to run a brick and mortar shop as it is! Try to find a friend/local resident who may help you out by going in for you, or just wait until the end.

Jan in VA (who is excited to see this progression from the shop hop theme Silver Threads and Quilt Country initiated in Dallas TX 18-19 years ago!)

For your NJ shop, there is Pennington Quilt Works that is participating. Not sure of any others in the state - although I am sure there are more. If you need someone to physically go to that store, let me know. It's 2 minutes away from me and I can pop in any time next week.

That's a very nice offer, NJ Quilter.

Curious--can you get a free pattern if you go into a shop or do you have to buy a kit? How much are the kits?

You should be able to get a free pattern by going into the shop and asking for it. Kit prices would depend on cost of fabrics in the kit. My LQS kit is around $12...

The shops must have a free row pattern for you with or without a purchase.... I visited 14 shops and got all 14 free patterns..... BUT.... just because.... I bought at least one meter of fabric in each shop.... :D

I have been to several shops in my area And the patterns are free, when you buy a Lic Plate, or that was the way they explained it to me. The kits prices vary from $12 to $15.99. About half of the shops were selling previous years Lic Plates ( at two I bought previous yrs plates, I liked them better) The Lic Plates at all (currant and previous yrs) were $5.99.

You do not have to buy a license plate to get the pattern for free, you don't have to buy anything and license plate prices can vary just like kit prices. Last year I paid anywhere from $4.50 - $6.99 for the plates.

Cari

I have seen kits as high as $49 before, because of the quantity of lasered applique cut outs. The most affordable kit I've seen was $10. Patterns are free to walk ins. No purchase necessary unless the shop owner misunderstood the instructions from the row by row experience organizers or chooses to misunderstand....

I visited two shops today. Both had great rows and kits. I was disappointed tho that the one I made a point to go to for a plate didn't have them yet! They must have ordered late. It will be mailed to me but I had to pay $.75 for the mailing. :hunf:

In NJ there is also Olde City Quilts in Burlington NJ

I'm going to pick up the RowxRow patterns for the first time, so far I only have one. I don't get the thing about the license plates though...is that a theme, or ??? The one I picked up was a very simple pattern but no license plate.

The license plates are just cute. I collected them last year and incorporated them into my r x r Alaska quilt (we were there on vacation). This year I'm doing a Texas theme quilt (my home state) and have opted out of the plates.

I did pick up one I loved--"Sew Blessed" from Buda, Tx..

This is my first year doing the RXR. I wanted to do one from my home state. I went to that states row FB page and offered to swap rows from my area. I was able to get all the rows I wanted that way.

Thank you all for your responses. First, let me say that I did go to the RBR website, printed out the lists, printed out state maps, and spent hours trying to match places on the lists with cities on the map. Also, I realize the purpose is to get people in the stores, but I don't have the time or money to travel to all these places. My brother went to the shop in Alamogordo, NM and my DH went to the shop in Ballinger, TX; however, NY, NJ and FL are not close. I did talk to several shop owners, and they explained the rules about mailing. I've waited 63 years to make this quilt; I think a few more months won't bother me much. I have already made arrangement with two shops to mail kits to me and hope to locate a few more. Those of you who have so graciously offered to go to a shop will be getting a PM from me. You are one of the reasons I love quilters and members of this Board.


ores. The places I have lived are listed below. I have gotten rows for Chicago, IL, Alamogordo, NM, and Ballinger, TX; however, I was an Army brat and need a little help with the others.

Fort Dix, New Jersey
Niagara Falls, NY
Wichita Falls, TX
Homestead, FL

I appreciate any help you can give me.[/QUOTE]