Bonus from the North State River Run quilt shop hop!

Last September, I went to the North State River Run Shop Hop.

I didn't know who would be interested in going with me, so I went alone.....Lol!

All my quilting friends live out of state :)

It was a two day experience, I blogged about the first day here,

and the second day here.
 The next month, I received a phone call from Debbie, telling me that I won a $100 gift certificate to her shop in Paradise!

How exciting!!!

She has an online shop which can be found here.

Out of all the 15?  quilt shops that I went to, I remembered Debbie.

She had loads of personality, and her store's theme was Hallowe'en.

My husband and I went to the Redwood Forest last weekend, and stayed in Eureka.

Paradise was an hour out of the way, but going that direction, was a great excuse to redeem the gift certificate I won.

Debbie has mostly Civil War reporduction and 30's fabrics at her shop.

I chose these goodies!

5 yards of Kona slate, and 5 yards of American Jane (abc's), and two other prints.

What a cute selvage :)

Did I ever tell you that I have a small collection of American Jane fabric?

This will make a great back to a future quilt.

I'll save the selvage for a project, and add the rest to my collection.

Thank you so much Debbie, fellow quilters are the best!!!

North State River Run, continued...

I finished the shop hop, it was a long day.

I drove the back way there, stopping at all the shops on my way to Redding.

I made it to Redding, only to face the 3 hour drive home.

There was one quilt shop on the way home that broke up the time.

I arrived in Sacramento just in time for bumper to bumper rush hour traffic.

I was pretty tired when I got home.

My shop hop passport was full, and hopefully I will win one prize!

This was a cute Hallowe'en quilt I saw.

The fabric was colored with fabric crayons.

I've always loved this quilt, I've seen it in blue and in black before.

Look what I found, a whole shelf of "Sew Cherry", Lori Holt's first line of fabric.

I found a treasure, Sandy Klopp's American Jane "Wee Play" from 2008.

I have a little collection of American Jane fabric, so I bought some fat quarters.

I bought 2 fat quarters at almost every store and these are my purchases.

Thanks for sharing the quilt shop hop with me :)

North State River Run Shop Hop

I really wanted to go on this quilt shop hop last year, but my daughter's little boy was born the night before.  

He was eight weeks early, so I flew to Utah the next morning and helped her by looking after her then two year old little girl.

Rebecca's little boy Benjamin just turned one year old.

I went to five quilt shops this afternoon.

Look at this!  A quilt of Audrey Hepburn!

I think it's gorgeous!

Apparently, you can make a quilt from a photograph.

Isn't this quilt beautiful?

I love the ominous sky with the lightning bolts!

I'm not interested in making one of these quilts myself, but they are works of art!

This quilt shop was in Auburn, and their theme was

 "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

I loved their theme decor!

Cute little cupcakes!

I went to a really sweet quilt shop in Grass Valley.
They had so many bolts of fabric, that half of them were stacked up on the floor.

I've never been to that town before, it was old fashioned.
 I want to go back with my husband and look around a little.

I saw another quilt that was designed from a photograph.

As you can see, it was sewn with patchwork squares.

Tomorrow I'm going to finish up the quilt shop hop.

I'll have more photos for you :)