Some more flimsy finishes

The benefit to setting aside blocks as you finish them, is that one day,                                                                                                                        when you have the spoons,                                                                                                                                                                                              you finish them all at once and look like the biggest quilting hero ever!                                                                                                                              I finished this flimsy from Shop-hop 2010 and even used up all the fabric!

I also finished this Shop-hop 2009 flimsy                                                                                                                                                                I was given the blocks years ago by Susan at the shop in Woodinville                                                                                                                    They came in a box with other stuff from someone who was destashing, or moving, or had passed.                                                                                                                                                               The store got a lot of things like that.                                                                                                                                                              Since Susan is affiliated with Stray Threads Quilt guild                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

2"short! AAAAAgh!

                                                                                                                      We would go through the boxes and separate them into piles                                                                                                                                                     which would then go to their respective committees within the guild                                                                                                                                     Then someone would either come pick them up                                                                                                                                                                     or we would take them to a meeting, whichever came first.                                                                                                                                          Anyway, provenance aside I got the blocks for this shop-hop   

                                                                                                                      all finished with about a fat quarter left of the ground fabric                                                                                                                                             It was not enough for the top and bottom border  -.-      !                                                                                                                                                     EVEN THOUGH I measured a bunch of times! pooh!                                                                                                                                                       But, There was an extra block! Woo-hoo! Oh fraptious day!                                                                                                                                       Enough to rip apart and piece a 2.75" x 5" piece to complete the border!   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I win!

 on the back

Not pretty on the back,                                                                                                                                                                                                           but you hardly notice it on the front. Even in a close up!                                                                                                                                                 So that's 2 more flimsies on the pile TBQ                                                                                                                                                                         I'mma be a busy girl when It comes to longarm time!                                                                                                                                                       Now there is just the 2018, 2021, 2023, and 2024                                                                                                                                                       and somewhere in there I was given the part for the 2014 SH                                                                                                                                           but I don't like any of the blocks for it so...........thinking cap there.

A shop-hop finish!

This year I had a goal to finish at least one           old shop-hop                                                                                                                                                   Here in Washington we have a yearly event called a Shop-Hop.                                                      

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 journey 

that 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!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Hawaii Shop-Hop Pineapple quilt for 2019

So you all have seen some of these pictures before

These are just some of the fun I brought back from our trip to Hawaii's big island in February

If you can go to Hawaii, I recommend going in February,

The hotels are not full of tourists,

The weather is cooler than the summer but still beats the hell out of snow

And the Big Island Shop-hop goes on for the entire month!

For anyone familiar with Western Washington's annual Shop-hop. ( june 21-29)
It's the shops way of thanking customers for their patronage.

You go around to all the shops,
         that are left, (Grumble, grumble, fuss, fuss)
gather a free pattern or a kit if you spend x$ and you have a fun project to do.



Here are all the patterns from the 5 shops around the Island

Row #1 red

Kiluea Kreations in volcano village

BTW each kit had up to 5 full fat quarters to work with so this could all have been done any which way with fabric to spare





Row #2 the yellows

Fabric and Quilting Delights in the Kona hills

And as you can see I did mess  bit with their color way

There was more orange in this row












Row #3 the greens

Top Stitch in Honoka'a

Row #4 the blues

Quilt Passions in down town Kona

 Row 5# the Purples

Kiluea Kreations in Hilo













Here's the flimsy all done with top and background










The top all quilted up pretty,

No binding yet, I'm thinking a dark green










Here's my close up Mr. DeMille!