Amy Butler Weekender Bag

I'll post a summary of Wednesday's meeting later in the week, but I wanted to get the Weekender Bag info onto the blog as I promised.

For those who weren't there - Sue of Sew Unique Threads (on our shop hop) offered to teach a class for us at her shop on Amy Butler's Weekender Bag.  She will teach it for free if we buy our supplies from her.

Brenda is following up with Sue on a few questions we had.  In the meantime, here is a look at the front, back and supply list of the pattern.

Contact Brenda if you are interested in the class.

(Sorry, but Blogger is being really goofy about where it lets me put the pictures!)

Road trip!

Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delay in getting details to you on our mini shop hop.  I looked around on the web and didn't have much luck finding a lot of other quilt shops in the Battle Creek area.

Our main destination will be Sew Unique in Battle Creek.  Andrea from the Brighton Modern Quilters and I met her at a quilt show in May and thought it would be fun to go and see her shop.  The photo is from their website.

Another possible stop is Quilts at the Marshall House in Marshall.  I wouldn't say they have lots of modern fabrics specifically, but they certainly have lots of fabric.  I found two other shops in the area, Quilt N Go in East Leroy and Quilts Plus in Kalamazoo, but neither has a website so I don't know if we want to give them a try or not.

So I thought we could meet about 9:30 next Saturday and make our way to Sew Unique first.  By the time we finish there it may be lunch time and we could eat and then decide what to do next or we could go on to another shop.  I think things will be pretty flexible.

Let me (Debbie) know as soon as you can if you want to go.  Once I know who is going we can work out who is driving and meeting places.  If you are willing to drive, let me know how many people fit in your vehicle.

I'm looking forward to a fun day next Saturday - hope to see some of you at the Sew-In tomorrow too!

August Shop Hop!

Hi everyone,

Sorry I didn't get this out before now.  I'm polling as to who would like to go on our western MI shop hop.  

The dates we are looking at are Aug 20 or 27.  If you are seriously interested in going, please let me know which date or dates you could go.  I'm also polling the Brighton Modern Quilters and we'll see which dates gets the most people.

So far, we don't have a specific itinerary.  Sew Unique in Battle Creek is one definite destination, but not sure about the rest.  Someone mentioned Fields Fabrics in Holland as a possibility.  Also Quilts at the Marshall House is a possibility -they don't have a lot of really modern designer fabrics, but they do have a lot of great fabric.  If you have any ideas about other shops, please let me know and we'll get the plans organized a bit more.

Please reply about the dates by Friday, July 22 so we can get the final date on people's calendars.  You can either reply in the comments here or send me an email at ehq@sbcglobal.net.  Thanks!