Another South of the Border Run-Part 2

Woke up in Roseburg and decided to check out where Grandma Dee's Fabric
Quilts Stitchery Inc. was before breakfast. Figured we'd find someplace
close to eat and then go to the shop. Even though it was to open at 10, the
shop door was open at 0915! Better yet, they let us peek in. What a
wonderful organized shop. All the fabrics are laid out from light to dark
in their colour. They happened to have a display of dolls through the
store. Some wonderful ones. She had a few of elinor peace bailey's and has
elinor coming to teach shortly.
Next stop in Roseburg was Calico Junction, this shop has an amazing amount
of samples on display. Their quilts and stuffed dolls are great. Found a
cute pattern for a crow, rooster, hen and turkey. Unfortunately they didn't
have any in the shop, but will send me one in the mail.
Next stop was in Ashland and the shop called Quiltz. Large shop with some
great fabrics, saw a cute set of pens that had wooden kitchen implements
[spoon, fork, etc] for the handles. Got a list of the shops participating
in their September shop hop.
Drove down to Yreka and stopped in at Wooden Spools, very nice owner working
in the shop, knows her stock very well. Also in town is Woods'n'Threads,
smaller but also a nice selection.
Drove over to Mount Shasta, in 1999 when we drove through this area I wasn't
aware of the quilt shop here. There were also some amazing forest fires
burning in the area that prevented access to Yosemite from the west so we
headed east from Sacramento [farther south].
Sew Unique is in a house with a great organization to the rooms. She is
starting a banner of the month. So far she's done geraniums for June, fire
crackers for July, sunflowers for August and about to do apples for
September. Their website is http://www.sewuniquecreations.com/
Just down the road is Weston's Quilting and Craft Centre. She has not only
quilting, but beading, knitting and other craft supplies. Another nice
little shop.
Next we headed off the I-5 and went down to McCloud to find Custom Quilts.
Beautiful scenery along the way. She's located in a nice shop and was busy
marking a log cabin quilt to be machine quilted. Found a pretty Bali Batik
in a colour wave I don't usually go in.
Back and down to Redding California where we found a room for the night and
then went exploring. Found Sew What! Nice and cool in there. Mom bought
me a Mary Engelbreit sewing basket that was on sale for 40% off! It's going
to be a present for either Christmas or my birthday.
Next we found Sew Simple, they were having a small panic attack realizing
the boss was away and they weren't sure if the staff working the next day
had keys to open the shop! Great selection of flannels. Just down the
street is The Posie Patch. They had some great fall samples, one I liked
had a selection of fall leaves. She also had done a 4 seasons Art to Heart
hanging I want to do, she still has Summer, but inspires me to get mine done
this winter.
Found a restaurant called Ruby Tuesdays for dinner and from our waiter found
out where a mall was. We wanted to do some air conditioned walking. Oh my
gosh, Penny's was having a 75% off purses, I got 4! Just let's say I saved
over $95 on my bill. Mom bought two for herself.
The next day we drove down to Red Bluff to check out In Stitches, very nice
lady owns the shop was very helpful. In fact she recommended a couple of
Antique shops to check out. Next we went off along SR32 to Chico, and
checked out Honey Run Quilters. I think it was a mother and daughter
running the shop. Got a scrap bag of Bali Batiks for about $1.75, with some
very large scraps, perfect for appliqué. The daughter made a recommendation
of some Antique shops and explained how to get to Paradise!
Ended up in a Sally Ann Thrift shop where mom spotted a Hawkeye Picnic
Basket with the tray in mint condition, in fact they even had the box! A
great find for $35! Also found an old broken star quilt done in solids.
Not sure of the fabrics, could be poly/cotton blends, but the colours
appealed to me. The star has a yellow centre and then radiates out into
orange, navy, red, purple, green, navy, pink, blue, orange, yellow. The
background is blue and then had green borders with a green and blue
isosceles triangle border. The backing is muslin and is quilted in black.
It has Arch Quilts Hawkeye NY on the label. Couldn't pass it up, probably
not that old, but looks like it could be. I think it has a poly batt in it.
Back to the car and headed off to Paradise. Debbie's Quilt Shop has only
been opened for a year. Some of her fabrics at regular price were very
inexpensive. Found one for $4.35/yard!
Back to I-5 and off to Willows, unfortunately the shop closed at 4 and we
got there just before 5. Decided to bypas the shop in Colusa and head down
to Sacramento. Mom found a place in a book, turned out to be close to the
state fair but they were booked. Stayed at a Doubletree in just across from
the Arden Mall.
Wow, what a lot of scenery we saw today!
Next stop Auburn and Macato's Orchard!

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.

Just a small correction: the website for Sew Unique in Mt. Shasta isn't
www.sewuniquecreations.com. It's:

http://users.snowcrest.net/sewunique/index.html

and, even though the shop is wonderful, their website isn't up to date.

Laurie G. - who claims Yreka/Mt.Shasta as her soon to be home town!

shhdesigns wrote:
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Drove over to Mount Shasta, in 1999 when we drove through this area I wasn't
aware of the quilt shop here. There were also some amazing forest fires
burning in the area that prevented access to Yosemite from the west so we
headed east from Sacramento [farther south].
Sew Unique is in a house with a great organization to the rooms. She is
starting a banner of the month. So far she's done geraniums for June, fire
crackers for July, sunflowers for August and about to do apples for
September. Their website is http://www.sewuniquecreations.com/

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.








--
Laurie G.
"If you're not going to snort, why even laugh?"

Both addys will work, I cut and pasted the one from their homepage and just
checked it and it still works. The second one is 2000 page, the one I gave
you is 2002.

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.


--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.

"Laurie G." wrote in message
m...
Just a small correction: the website for Sew Unique in Mt. Shasta isn't
www.sewuniquecreations.com. It's:

http://users.snowcrest.net/sewunique/index.html

and, even though the shop is wonderful, their website isn't up to date.

Laurie G. - who claims Yreka/Mt.Shasta as her soon to be home town!

shhdesigns wrote:
snipped
Drove over to Mount Shasta, in 1999 when we drove through this area I
wasn't
aware of the quilt shop here. There were also some amazing forest fires
burning in the area that prevented access to Yosemite from the west so
we
headed east from Sacramento [farther south].
Sew Unique is in a house with a great organization to the rooms. She is
starting a banner of the month. So far she's done geraniums for June,
fire
crackers for July, sunflowers for August and about to do apples for
September. Their website is http://www.sewuniquecreations.com/

--
Sandi in New Westminster B.C.








--
Laurie G.
"If you're not going to snort, why even laugh?"