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Al. Throw some scrollsaw magazines in your car to read.  So when you are sitting in your car waiting while she goes in and looks through one more quilting store you just passed.  Believe me, I know!  Oh, and start building shelves to store boxes full of material and patterns.  Believe me I know!!🥴🥸🙄

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We road trip all over the country and have found quilt shops out in the middle of nowhere

my favorite was while driving from Blackhawk Colorado to deadwood South Dakota we stopped overnight in a city called lusk lusk wyoming

trust me there's nothing in the town but it had a large active quilt store

we also visit a lot of the stores my wife orders from

 

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Well done.  Never saw that one on Steve's site.  I have a SIL that is addicted to quilting and so I have made a few signs for her.  Check out Sue Mey for some real interesting ones.

I have made the "Love to Quilt" a few times.  I stack cut 2 at a time and she has uses as Raffle Prizes at her club.  

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PS:  In regard to posting too much I can't speak for Travis the more you post the better.

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Well, the material is easier to store than baskets!  My wife was into Londonberger Baskets once,  became a seller, went to conventions, and made a trip to visit where they made them.  I remember once when my daughter and her husband came for a visit.  He is in the bathroom, and yells out, "Oh my God there are 17 baskets in the little bathroom!"

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2 hours ago, Scrappile said:

Well, the material is easier to store than baskets!  My wife was into Londonberger Baskets once,  became a seller, went to conventions, and made a trip to visit where they made them.  I remember once when my daughter and her husband came for a visit.  He is in the bathroom, and yells out, "Oh my God there are 17 baskets in the little bathroom!"

when we went down to biloxi a few years back, I think the second or third time, my wife made me drive to a small town hamilton missouri....the home of missouri star quilt company. this woman started out of her house, then her son brought her to internet, and she is one of the largest retail dealers of quilting supplies in this country.....the town has maybe a dozen stores owned by her company, its actually all there is there, besides a restaurant and a small motel, which she probably owns also. was out of my way, but my wife had to go. in july we will head down to nc and stop outside of ashville, weaverville, another one of my wifes favorite stores, and we were glad to hear she didnt suffer damage during that hurricane in ashville, as weaverville is only a few miles north of ashville. 

and out of all the stores weve visited, the only store we found a nasty owner was in chicago. its like she didnt want us in there spending money, so we left. and we have found stores in the corn fields of nebraska, south dakota, in the mojave desert over in arizona, near the airport in reno nevada, and so on and so on. 

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1 hour ago, Allen levine said:

when we went down to biloxi a few years back, I think the second or third time, my wife made me drive to a small town hamilton missouri....the home of missouri star quilt company. this woman started out of her house, then her son brought her to internet, and she is one of the largest retail dealers of quilting supplies in this country.....the town has maybe a dozen stores owned by her company, its actually all there is there, besides a restaurant and a small motel, which she probably owns also. was out of my way, but my wife had to go. in july we will head down to nc and stop outside of ashville, weaverville, another one of my wifes favorite stores, and we were glad to hear she didnt suffer damage during that hurricane in ashville, as weaverville is only a few miles north of ashville. 

and out of all the stores weve visited, the only store we found a nasty owner was in chicago. its like she didnt want us in there spending money, so we left. and we have found stores in the corn fields of nebraska, south dakota, in the mojave desert over in arizona, near the airport in reno nevada, and so on and so on. 

Chicago? Where's that? No reason to visit Chicago.

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