hopping

As in Shop Hopping!!

How do you spell success?

Well, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words...

OK, this is not really my

stash accumulation

from one day

of shopping the local shop hop!

Well, part of it is. 

It all started when I pulled out some fabric

that I wanted to add to

whilst I was hopping.

And the pile just grew and grew...

so I took a picture of the fabrics I had on hand.

That picture I carried with me on the shop hop excursion.

Guess I really didn't need to add much for this project, from the look of things!

This is what I really

 picked up

while hopping:

from top left:

miscellaneous fabric that called my name,

wools for the Primitive Garden quilt,

blues and whites for another

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland" quilt,

patriotic fabrics and ribbon for a needle case project,

and needles for wool applique.
(not pictured: 8 - third yard cuts of French General's Lumiere de Noel)

It was a good day!

Visited all ten shops in the hop,

arriving at the first at opening at 9 o'clock in the a.m.

and the last before the 7 o'clock p.m. closing time! 

Had a sit-down lunch at a Chipotle (yum)

and a sit-down Italian dinner after the hop was over.

And then got out all the stuff and drooled.

And planned.

And yawned.

Hopping all day is tiring.