Michigan Stash Dash

I have been MIA lately and I'm sorry about that. 

 Life continues to be very busy over at my house! 

 I did make the time to go on the Michigan Stash Dash 

with some of the Wednesday night quilters, Shirley and Barb.  

We had an excellent time!  

I tried to restrain myself and did ok, still need to work on it but not too bad overall. 

 We went to 7 shops! 

 I'm going to share what I bought at each shop. 

 Photos of some of the shops are on my Flickr if you want to see them.

We started at the Lake Street Mercantile and that's where we took the bus from.  

They did a really nice job and kept us on time and home early!  

Also the BEST chocolate doughnuts I have ever had!

The first actual stop was The Quilting Season in Saline.  

A small shop but nice. 

 They had homemade cinnamon rolls waiting for us there! 

They also had this amazing rug!

This is what I bought there. 

 A half yard of MSU Spartan fabric that I don't own. 

 Imagine that?

 

The next stop was Bits and Pieces in Wayne.  

This is where I bring my Bernina for her yearly spa visit.  

I stocked up on a few essentials while there and talked with my sewing machine boyfriend, 

Jay, while I was there.  

(He is the person that gives my machine her spa treatment and he is fabulous!!)

Next stop was Quilt-n Friends in Sterling Heights. 

They had a very nice shop, but I didn't buy anything there.

I can't remember which shop came next but I think it was Sew Elegant in Fort Gratiot. 

 (but I could have this one mixed up with the next one, but whatever you get my drift right?)  

This shop has a LOT to choose from, but I restrained myself! 

Just look at that butterfly from Hushabye!! 

 They still had quite a bit of Hushabye left too (see photos in my Flickr).

We stopped at Sew Together in Richmond too and I bought a Frixion red pen and this magazine.  There is a great pattern for those mermaids from Kellie Wulfson in there!

There was quite a bit of time from the second to last and last shop 

so we did some of this while on the way to it.

Mother and daughter, so adorable!

The last stop was my favorite (and I knew it would be).  

The Quilter's Garden in Fenton. 

 If you haven't been here you should go.  

Fabulous shop!  

I found LOTS to love here.

Some peacock fabric for pillowcases for DD1 for Christmas.

This great wreath pattern that I have been looking for for a long time.  

I need to try these, especially the Halloween one!  

And look at that adorable apron! 

 It is just screaming for some vintage modern!

I refrained (just barely) from the pattern for this ironing board cover but will probably buy one later.

I didn't buy these patterns but I was tempted. 

 An owl, frog, pig, cat, dog, raccoon and more.  

Can you see that flip flop in the bottom left of the tree (blue and yellow) so cute! 

 Made from a regular flip flop and they put some kind of base over it and 

used twisted the yellow for the part you slide your foot into.  

I didn't happen to see a pattern for that but we were not the first bus there.  

I may have to track that down, they were really cute!

Then they had this wallhanging.  

It was so cute!!  

Reminded me of the Peanuts gang.  

They were out of the pattern and the kit too. 

 I'm on a list.  

Will see how that goes.

I did buy the newsprint for the hats though.  

How could I resist?

All in all a very successful and fun day!  

Shop hops are such fun aren't they?

More soon!!

~XOP~