road trip

yesterday a quilty peep invited me on a road trip to visit a couple of shops on her want-to list...one i had been to before and the other was new to me.  we skipped up to PA just across the state line and drove past endless cornfields and open meadows to find this...

a barn quilt on steroids!   covered nearly the entire side of the building!  a cute shop called sewnplace in fayetteville, PA....nice little shop, good selection of fabrics and notions, very friendly staff.  and did i mention?  a serious selection of kaffe fabrics too....the other shop, also down country roads and thru sections of gettysburg battlefield, called needle and thread.  a larger shop, more sale fabrics, lots of dressmaking fabrics as well, plus plenty of civil war era fabrics/notions/patterns, even hoops for your costume!  some free fresh produce greeted us at the entrance!  we lunched downtown at "gettysburgers"....because after a week of chicken a change was needed.  back to the city in time for the bookmobile and 2 kaffe fassett books for me!  ***  afternoon sewing consisted of rainbow scrap challenge blocks for september...purple!  skipped august as was just too busy.  where has the year gone???

again had to pull a few purples from stash for enough strips to make these.  ***  mr. mailman brought another squishie, again "scraps" offered by an online quilty friend.  a collection of downton abbey fabrics that my daughter, DA's most ardent devotee, will swoon over.  mom will probably get recruited to make something....maybe highclere in HSTs?   i thought i ordered a daughter who quilted but my request got ignored...LOL!

after a few hot days, the week ahead promises to be more comfy.  not that the 90-degree days are gone but hopefully only sporadic from here.  one just gets to the point where enough is enough.  time for soups and chowders and long pants again. i absolutely love autumn!