Shopping Trip
One of my very favorite places on the face of the earth is a quilt shop in Rupert, Idaho called The Gathering Place. Rupert, what? you say....Trust me, even though the town is small, the quilt shop is not. With over 10,000 bolts of fabric (that's over 100,000 yards of fabric!) and lots of other goodies cutely displayed throughout the store, it's a quilter's paradise. Even though I don't live 5 minutes from The Gathering Place anymore, my mom's house is only a 10 minute drive away from all that bliss. Whenever I get to spend some time there, I make sure to reserve an hour or so for browsing and dreaming.
Well, this trip, I got to do more than just dream about what I would do with the fabulous fabric lining all those beautiful shelves. I just got my last stipend check from the community college for costuming, and I earmarked it all for quilting. I took a couple of patterns I've been working on with me, and then I just let myself be inspired. My kids played happily in the toy corner (who needs toys when there is all that fabric goodness around?) and I slapped bolt after bolt on the cutting counter, feeling my delight grow in relation to the height of that stack. Finally, after an hour I bellies up and had the gals start cutting the lengths for me. When it was all said and done, I'd just about spent my wad, but I had enough fabric for 4 new projects, and countless ideas to incorporate into my new quilt pattern designs.
I've got a bunch of new ideas brewing, and I just survived another drive home from my mom's -- a drive that's supposed to take 3 hours, but somehow ended up taking 4 1/2 this time -- and I've got to make supper, unpack, start the laundry, and get the (grouchy) kids to bed on time. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have time to actually dive into creating something beautiful from all of my new fabric.
Well, this trip, I got to do more than just dream about what I would do with the fabulous fabric lining all those beautiful shelves. I just got my last stipend check from the community college for costuming, and I earmarked it all for quilting. I took a couple of patterns I've been working on with me, and then I just let myself be inspired. My kids played happily in the toy corner (who needs toys when there is all that fabric goodness around?) and I slapped bolt after bolt on the cutting counter, feeling my delight grow in relation to the height of that stack. Finally, after an hour I bellies up and had the gals start cutting the lengths for me. When it was all said and done, I'd just about spent my wad, but I had enough fabric for 4 new projects, and countless ideas to incorporate into my new quilt pattern designs.
I've got a bunch of new ideas brewing, and I just survived another drive home from my mom's -- a drive that's supposed to take 3 hours, but somehow ended up taking 4 1/2 this time -- and I've got to make supper, unpack, start the laundry, and get the (grouchy) kids to bed on time. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have time to actually dive into creating something beautiful from all of my new fabric.
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