{"id":60,"date":"2011-06-26T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-06-26T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T03:52:00","slug":"western-washington-quilt-shop-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/western-washington-quilt-shop-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>June 22 to 26, 2011 was the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop.\u00a0 I have seen this &#8220;hop&#8221; advertised in previous years, but I never made the trek before now.\u00a0 This year, with my husband and daughter both working on Saturday, I decided I would venture out and use the &#8220;hop&#8221; as an opportunity to seek out and visit some new quilt shops south of the border.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There were over 50 shops on the list this year.\u00a0 I only visited the 5 shops in the Lynden\/Bellingham area:\u00a0 Fourth Corner Quilts and Calico Country in Bellingham and The Needle &#038; I, Folktales, Fabric-Etc, and Tangled Threads in Lynden.\u00a0 I remembered to take along my camera, however, as I went to use it the first time I realized I forgot the memory card\u00a0at home.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also stopped at Joann&#8217;s where I purchased the following black\/white fabrics.\u00a0 I have a plan in mind for these so they shouldn&#8217;t sit in the stash for long.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RRCR6rF4VGc\/ThUt14qIH1I\/AAAAAAAAGjw\/9PXJOiGqklo\/s1600\/DSC_0049.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RRCR6rF4VGc\/ThUt14qIH1I\/AAAAAAAAGjw\/9PXJOiGqklo\/s320\/DSC_0049.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>These are some of my other purchases.\u00a0 I am saving animal skin fabrics to make a quilt someday for my daughter.\u00a0 The blue fabric is for a Hawaiian themed quilt I have in the planning stages.\u00a0 The Warm Tater batting is to make a few microwave baked potato cookers.\u00a0 The Shape Cut ruler is something I have wanted for some time and I decided to use my 40% off coupon from Joann&#8217;s to purchase one.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-eYf2RV00W-U\/ThUt_u4Sb2I\/AAAAAAAAGj0\/fEuVF5bMJHM\/s1600\/DSC_0050.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-eYf2RV00W-U\/ThUt_u4Sb2I\/AAAAAAAAGj0\/fEuVF5bMJHM\/s320\/DSC_0050.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div>I also purchased a couple of patterns:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dnRoo_g9Ygk\/ThZcFN8XMhI\/AAAAAAAAGk0\/l_b1vwt3caA\/s1600\/10152576.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dnRoo_g9Ygk\/ThZcFN8XMhI\/AAAAAAAAGk0\/l_b1vwt3caA\/s320\/10152576.jpg\" width=\"207\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\ufeff<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-x_fHYD5iF0c\/ThZbHAPs5FI\/AAAAAAAAGks\/i4LdGGNrcXQ\/s1600\/DGBag-Catalog%252520and%252520ad%252520image.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-x_fHYD5iF0c\/ThZbHAPs5FI\/AAAAAAAAGks\/i4LdGGNrcXQ\/s1600\/DGBag-Catalog%252520and%252520ad%252520image.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22 to 26, 2011 was the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop.\u00a0 I have seen this &#8220;hop&#8221; advertised in previous years, but I never made the trek before now.\u00a0 This year, with my husband and daughter both working on Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/western-washington-quilt-shop-hop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,75,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fabric-purchases","category-pattern","category-quilt-shops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}