If you drive by a Quilt Shop Do You Always Stop?
01-02-2011, 08:56 AM
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Several ladies from my Project Linus group and I like to make about 3 trips a year to Marshall Dry Goods in Batesville, Arkansas. We have a route that we travel and make stops at Mountain Home on the way back to Branson. I know we pass by several shops but we just always seem to want to get to Marshall's first. This last trip in November (black Friday), there was little shop outside Flippin, AR, that had a sign Curiosity Shop posted on the front. None of us had ever been inside the shop before. I stopped the car in the middle of the road, backed up a little bit and turned in. We went inside and what a treasure trove of items!!! She had books, Creative Grid rulers, all kinds of fabric for $4.95, great patterns, fat quarters galore and a very clean bathroom. All these years we had driven by this small but quaint shop and some of the best treasures and bargains were right there just waiting for us to gleen. It is on our list of 'must stop' at shops.
01-02-2011, 08:56 AM
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That's the reason DH and I take separate cars on a road trip. Really. I stop at anything that interest me, he aims for the destination. He gets there faster then I do but I ask him what have you accomplished by doing that? I had a great fun trip getting there. He will fly and I'll drive when we visit the inlaws. It's a long trip and I have all the quilt shops and fabric warehouses lined up for me to stop at. Just because he doesn't like to stop and enjoy doesn't mean I can't and I don't have to do what he wants all the time.
01-02-2011, 09:00 AM
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my hubby is awesome about that... Ill be asleep on our road trips ( i usually nap lol.. ) and if he sees a quilt shop, he'll wakes me when he pulls in their parking lot!!!!
01-02-2011, 02:35 PM
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We will be relocating to the San Diego area when we retire in a few years and every time we go down there my hubby will take me to a new quilt shop to check it out. He's such a keeper!! But locally, I almost always stop at a quilt shop I am driving by, even if I don't "need" anything.
01-02-2011, 02:45 PM
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We only have one quilt shop in town and its on the opposite end of town from where I live and its kind of tucked away (it was once her husbands work shop and is between her house and garage). So if I "pass by there" its because I have the intent to go there. But if I'm at a Wal-Mart that has a fabric section I can't resist going there, even when I don't have any money to spend.
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