Kedar Quilts

Kedar Quilts

Waterford, Maine

This shop is very crowded but we still enjoy it.  It is in the basement of a bed and breakfast.  It has many different little room and very low head clearance in some spots!

We just love the way that the fabrics are laid out here.  Not only do the have bolts standing up they also have groups of fabrics that look good together laying down and at different angles so you can see how they look together.  They also place fat quarters that go with each other and the fabrics that are laid out in that particular place.  

Look at all the wonderful groups that are grouped together.  I just think seeing them in different ways rather than just seeing them stood upright all the time sometimes back fabrics a bit more appealing. 

Challenge Quilt!

Look at house nicely she has presented everything.  She is an older women with an amazing accent.  I always love listening to her talk! 

She has goodie bags for sale in her shop for a dollar a piece.  Some goodie bags have different things in them.  She said she sometime puts patterns, large cuts of fabrics, small cuts of fabrics, gift certificates and other notions.  

All three of us bought a grab bag and we each ended up with a different pattern and we each got a fat quarter!

And another fat quarter to add to the collection!

Barking Rose Quilt Barn

Barking Rose Quilt Barn

Cornish, Maine

Gram likes this store and I think it is just because of the name of it!  It is situated in an old barn.  It has uneven floors, wooded and older looking.  

This is their challenge.  

I just really like this sign found here.  I just thought it fit nicely with going on the shop hop about quilting and seeing a sign like this!

And we are out.  Another Shop done!  This women is older who runs this shop but is very pleasant.  Last year she shared her story with us of how she named her shop "Barking Rose".  She once had a Dalmatian who would stand at the door and bark.  So of course this was great for our family with three dogs.  So we liked the story!

And we got beautiful "goodie bags"!  These plain paper bags with a nice stamp on them looks great.

And all kinds of different things in it!

And of course, another fat quarter!

Knight's Quilt Shop

Knight's Quilt Shop

Cape Neddick, Maine

This shop is set up in somewhat like a house.  The interesting thing about this quilt shop is the second Saturday on every month they have a block of the Month program.  We got talking about it and they said that they cap the block of the month off at 250 people.  Can you imagine making 250 kits for each month for the entire year.  

Gram and I participate in a block of the month program and where we go we thought the program was doing well with 25 people.  

This is the challenge quilt that the ladies at Knight's put together.  Every shop took a very different from each other.  

The staff just stays behind their counters one at cutting one at checking out.  Some stores it is nice to see the employees wandering around the store just as we are so we can ask them questions as need be.  

One thing I really like about Knight's quilt shop is the way they bundle and put together their fat quarters.  Some stores just make a pile of fat quarters then group them together.  Knights lay them out all at a different angle so you get to see all of the fabrics at once instead of just a little piece of each fabric.  

And my fat quarter!  The collection will grow quickly as we continue to stop at various shops!

Sanford Sewing

Sanford Sewing Machines

Sanford, Maine

Sanford Sewing Machines is a smaller store with limited fabric.  The have lots of sewing machines, quilting machines, and other notions that are used while sewing.  

The staff was very pleasant and again loved our bags.  

This is Sanford Sewing Machines shop had a different approach to the challenge quilt.

And again.  I picked out a fat quarter.  Fat quarter number 2 and 32 more to go!  Hopefully they will all look good together.  

At this shop we had all gotten at "goodie bag" , some shops gave out goodie bags filled with different things.  
Look at all the little goodies.  And if your bag had a sticker on the inside of the bag then you got an extra present!!!!  And guess just who got a sticker inside their bag.  

I got a bundle of batting!

Well I shouldn't say that I got a sticker on the inside of my bag.  The women put all three bags up on the counter and I looked in them all to see what was in them then I took the bag with the sticker knowing that I would get a prize.  

Mom and Gram were okay with this because they knew that I was doing all the paperwork so they didn't mind.  And they know that if they need any of it to use that they knew where to find it.

Kathie's Quilt Shope

Kathie's Quilt Shopee

Sanford, Maine

We were headed south and thought that we were making such great time that we would change the order that we had originally planned.  So we decided to stop at Kathie's first.  

We arrived 20 minutes before opening, and soon behind us another person pulled in.  She went inside so we figured she must work there.  

We had arrived at our first shop of the year and this would be the debut of the three matching bags we had made for this special "shop hop" adventure.  So this is where the bags were seen together for the first time.  

This quilt shop was in the form of a house.  It was broken up to many different rooms and each room seemed to have a bit of a different theme.  One room had bright new modern fabrics, one with slight more old fashioned and darker fabrics.  One room had all wool.  One room was a clearance room.  

Everything was spread out nicely so that there was space to move around and view everything.  The staff was very pleasant and sociable.  When I see shops like this where everything is so wonderfully laid out and the staff is so pleasant it makes me make a note in my memory that this would be a shop I would visit again if I was in the area.   

This is the challenge quilt that Kathie's Quilt Shoppe had put together.  At each shop the staff had put together to follow specific requirements and each quilt would be judged by all the people who complete more than 15 of the shops.  

Although this shop had a limited selection of fat quarters I was able to find something along my green lines that would be the start of my collection of fat quarters.  

April 20th

Another day, thankfully it was a rainy drizzly day!  

We started out at Nancy's, We drove by a 8:15 and her sign says she doesn't open till 9 but lights were on and she said we could come on in!

We then visited Fabricate in Bar Harbor.  Last year we were not so impressed but this year was much better!

Sewing by the sea in Trenton was next on the list.

Then what we thought was the end.....Quilt Divas in Rockland

But we kept going and visited Cozy Cottage Fabrics in Augusta

And finished the day at Busy Thimble in Litchfield.  

And not only did we finish the day, we FINISHED the Shop Hop!!!!

April 19th

We left home on Tuesday morning at about 5:30 in the morning.  We started our adventure heading north!

After a quick stop for breakfast our next stop was.......  Chapman Maine

Garden Gate Fabrics.  this store is definitly in the North woods.  We got to see the various planets on the way, many windmills, and the trans atlantic balloon sight.  But they are just as cheerful as ever at this shop!
New shop to the list.... Rather B Quilting.  Out in the woods with beautiful views.  A very small but very cheery shop!  

We rounded up a lot of riding with heading to Greenville.  Crazy Moose Fabrics is right in the little downtown of Greenville.  Small but very bright.

We squeezed in Stitches in Newport, one of mine and gram's favorites along the way.  Wasn't sure we were going to get any more in for the day but we did!

We also got to A Straight Stitch in Brewer just before closing time.

And finished out this day a The Cotton Cupboard in Bangor.  Before our journey home!