Where 20-30 stores, along the I5 corridor and west side of the sound, all participate in picking a theme.
Each store makes a pattern to that theme
which draws in quilters for miles around, even internationally!
We have two weeks,to gather in groups of excited revelers, to visit all the shops we can get to,
gather the patterns and any extra fabric we may "need"
get lunch and eventually, put together a quilt.
Don't try this in one day!
It's loads of fun and we gather together to take turns driving the rout.
Sometimes we go for the day sometimes we do more, It's an arduous journeythat takes you from Bremerton to Vancouver on the east side to Port Townsend
Lots of beautiful scenery and lots of yummy, yummy fabric!
This is my completed 2022 Shop-hop top
I didn't get to all the shops in this one so
I made up some of the blocks myself
And here's my sewing space after a couple days of fooling around
It's bound to get worse I've two more sets of blocks to get to!