These are some of my other purchases. I am saving animal skin fabrics to make a quilt someday for my daughter. The blue fabric is for a Hawaiian themed quilt I have in the planning stages. The Warm Tater batting is to make a few microwave baked potato cookers. The Shape Cut ruler is something I have wanted for some time and I decided to use my 40% off coupon from Joann’s to purchase one.
Category Archives: quilt shops
A Short Trip
Alberta Holiday – Part II
We left the reunion location in Alberta on August 2nd–the Monday of the August long weekend. We headed home via Kelowna.
While in Kelowna, we had opportunity to check out the local quilt shops. First up was Findlay’s. http://www.findlaysvacsew.com/ This shop is primarily a sewing machine dealer. They have a few nice shop samples and some yard goods, but the selection is limited.
Our second stop was Linda’s. http://www.lindasquiltshoppe.com/
Seriously, an hour would never have been enough time to do this shop justice. The staff here were fantastic. I was treated to a tour of the shop, including the classroom.
This was a nice shop, but it didn’t have near the selection and samples as Linda’s.
Alberta Holiday – Part I
We had a bit of a holiday at the end of July / beginning of August. My husband’s family was having their family reunion in Alberta over the long weekend in August. We headed out from home on July 29. We started out early in the morning (5 am) to ensure we beat any long weekend traffic. We found that we had the road to ourselves until about 11 in the morning. By the time we hit Salmon Arm we were in need of a gas station. My husband spied a Chevron across the highway. When we turned to go around the block so that we could easily enter the lot, we passed by a quilt shop! Given that we were already stopped, my husband agreed that I could have a few minutes to look around in this shop.
http://www.sewingbasket.ca/
This is my husband patiently reading the paper in our truck in front of the quilt shop.
During breakfast on Saturday morning at the reunion, one of my husband’s cousins approached me because she had heard I was a quilter. It turns out that she is a quilter too–from Saskatchewan.
This is a very nice shop and well worth the stop. The shop is owned by designers, Joanie and Kelsey Morrow. This very talented mother and daughter team have a great selection of ready made quilted items for sale as well as country styled fabric on the bolt and their own patterns. We were given a tour of the back room and shown the unique creations of this talented team of designers. I fell in love with three of their patterns.