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Kansas Shop Hop - part 7

McPherson - home of The Button Hole. This is one fine quilt store. It is huge and has so much fabric and such variety. This was the look to the left when you walked in the door.

The name of the book is Awesome Blossoms by Debbie Wiesner.

Debbie was signing her books here and of course I had to have one.

Some of Debbies' quilts. She was such a lovely person and I loved her use of color.

I have seen this quilt in other places and I just love it.

Isn't this nice looking? I had to have this one, lol.

Here is one of the past Shop Hop quilts they had. I thought it was lovely and would be easy to replicate.

This is a sample of a quilt from Laps from Fats for Family & Friends. I think I have enough beiges and browns in my stash to make this one

And this is Bonita...I kept her running I think and she was so gracious. Thank you again, Bonita!

After we left the quilt store we stopped in a deli down the street and had some lunch. I will continue this part of the story in part 8.

Kansas Shop Hop - part 6

Our next stop destination was Hutchinson. Of course by now we were pretty thirsty so we stopped at the local Starbucks for a brief respite and a little caffeine. Notice the cute Halloween bears they had.

I have no idea where the pictures I took of Hutchinson went to. I know I took more than two, but my camera was acting up and, even though I have 2 batteries, they kept going down very quickly. I guess I was taking pictures and didn't realize they weren't taking.

This was Cottonwood Quilts . Here is a sample of Terry Atkinson's Cheese and Crackers? Something like that, sorry, nor sure if that is the right name or not, but I liked the use of colors here.

Here was one of the ladies cutting my batiks out for me. They really had some good ones.

When we checked out , the young lady that took my money asked me if I had had an accident with my hair, or was that planned? lol ....I told her no, it was planned. Well, she says, my grandmother has white hair and she dyes it black and it comes out purple. I thought maybe that is what you were doing. Kathy and I cracked up!

I loved this. Right in front of the quilt store and around the corners there was an Antique Car Show going on. It was a beautiful fall day, the weather was wonderful, and everyone was having a good time. There is nothing like small town America on a Saturday afternoon!

And that was all of Hutchinson.

Kansas Shop Hop - part 5

Saturday morning started off with a sausage biscuit and iced coffee from McDonald's to go. Our next scheduled shop was a quilt store that was not included in the shop hop because it is a very small store as far as fabric is concerned. But, Demelias has their act together. This store is in Yoder, a small town on Highway 96 between Wichita and Hutchinson. Bob and Cindy Mastro are the proud owners of this wonderful quilt store. You walk in the door and you are instantly surrounded by color. Cindy definitely knows how to put colors together. Here are a couple of the small items she has made samples of.
Here is a cabinet full of tea towels, patterns for same, and lots of samples.

Cute items of clothing samples

This is Cindy cutting some fabric we "had to have".

This is Bob manning the cash register and putting up fabric and keeping the dip samples filled. I bought some Japeleno dip there that was wonderful!!! Don't remember the name but I am sure if you email them they will send you some. They also had some wonderful soup mixed.

After we left here we went 2 blocks away to a quilt store called Nuts and Bolts. This is a small outlet store for The Button Hole in McPherson. Here you can buy yardage by the bolt from 2.50 a yard to 5.00 a yard. I picked up 17 yards for backings. I hope JudyL isn't reading this, lol.

The pictures below are taken right before we got to Yoder. This is a tribute to a father. Very touching. You can read the sign if you enlarge this picture.

That's all for this post.

Kansas Shop Hop - part 4

Our last stop in Wichita was at Hen Feathers . This is Kathy's favorite store in Wichita, and it is a honey. Great displays well laid out in sections and all of the employees knew where everything was.

Now this cool lady is laughing because in the picture below this one, I was taking it from her backside, which she tells me isn't her best side...hmmm, didn't look bad to me, lol. I am so ashamed, I wrote down all four of the names of everyone in the next picture and cannot find the snippet of paper I wrote it on.
Here are the four ladies who evidently are going to remain nameless.
More samples
This was another pattern that called to me. I think I will make it from my batik stash.


This pattern is called Origami. Great looking quilt.



We walked out of this store smiling and very tired. And then headed home for the night. My head was swimming from everything I had seen and I hope I have all of these pictures attached to the correct store.

If any of these samples strick your fancy you can check out the link and I am sure they will be glad to accomodate you.

Kansas Shop Hop - Part 3

This is the third shop we stopped at in Wichita. It is called Prairie Quilts. Kathy and Norma, one of the sweet and helpful women that worked here are contemplating some mischief I am sure, but I don't remember what it was offhand. I think it has something to do with the fabric that Norma is fondling.

Lots of samples on the walls.

For some reason I love funky chickens and this one called my name. I bought the pattern for him.

Here is another picture of Norma and that is Jan. So very friendly and helpful.
Ooops, here are Bill and Paula from Gramma's along with Vicky Nolan, and I don't remember where she is from either. It is a town in Kansas, however. The lady sitting at the desk knew where everything in the store was, but I have misplaced her name also. Really really nice employees.


We have now completed 3 of our 4 stops planned for Friday night. We left this store about 7:30 and headed for the last store left in Wichita. Will visit it tomorrow night.

Kansas Shop Hop - part 2

Gramma's Calico Cupboard was our next stop. This is Gramma, a very sweet lady, and she was in charge of cutting fabric. This store was in an older building and there was a biker bar next to it that could be used for parking, lol.

Gramma's store was full of lots of nostalgia and the following photos show some of her displays.



This charming couple are from a small town in southwest of Wichita and I can't find the name of the town right now but this is Paula and Bill.
More displays of Christmas items.

These stocking appeared to be made from pieces of old quilts. They were really cute!
When we were in The Picket Fence, the store I wrote about last night, we picked up our "passports", and I forgot to get mine stamped. When we got to Gramma's and Kathy was getting our stamps we realized that dingy me had not gotten my stamp. There was a very nice young man who decided to remedy this fact by talking to the CSR. Ok, we are standing there waiting for the CSR, and we have been waiting for a couple of minutes and I ask him, what does CSR stand for?, Answer of course is Customer Service Representative.

Oh, ok, so we wait a little more, and here comes Gramma...the CSR, lol. They filled out my passport and I showed them proof of purchase at The Picket Fence and they were kind enough to write a little note in the proper space attesting to that fact.

I don't remember what I bought there, but I bought something. It was probably a pattern or a book or both because I have a lot of patterns and books that I didn't have before I came up here, lol. I am being real good at this point and have only picked up a couple of batiks.

And there I will stop for this post. It is Sunday night and I am going home tomorrow. Will try to post the next installment tomorrow night.