Atlanta Shop Hop, Friday and Saturday

I have to warn you, I did this whole post in reverse. These first shops, were really the last ones, and the ones we did on Saturday. We did get back to Sandy's house by 4:30. It was a very busy two days and a lot of miles were under our belts by the time we were done. This is a picture if wisteria. I have never seen something so gorgeous. It is a vine that grows wild in the south. Unfortunately, it is not always liked. It suffocated the trees, and plants it grows around. Hope you don't mind too much that I messed up.

"Intown Quilters", of Decatur, had a coffee house. This shop is full of bright fabrics. Kaffe is number l. They love to use those wonderful fabrics.

"Stitch'n Quilt" in Mableton was the firehouse. They did not get to make their quilt, but did have the block finished.

At "Little Quilts" in Marietta, the theme was a beehive. They used the honey bee block. You can see the employees were dressed up as honey bees. It was so cute. At "Tiny Stitches", also in Marietta, they were having an engagement party in the "Castle" for Kate and Will. They did not do a "quilt", but a cloth book with each block as a page, and a wonderful story to go along with it. Somehow, I did not take a picture of the castle page. Too engrossed with everything else.

Atthe "Rd Hen Fabrics" in Marietta, their theme was gingerbread house. They used all sorts of candy fabric and rickrack. It was wonderful.

Spring had arrived in Atlanta. I could not get over all the gorgeous flowers we saw.

This is Steve and Sandy's kitty "Motorboat". He got his name because of the purring he does, loud and steady.

"Georgia Sewing & Quilting" in Buford chose home tweet home as their theme. This was our last shop for Friday. It was thought that we drove about 300 miles. All the shops have some distance between them."Patchwork Cottage" in Laawrenceville, was the haunted house.

"Sweet Home Quilt, Co" in Conyers was the schoolhouse.

There are 11 shops in the hop. This years theme was "A Quilter's Tour of Homes". Each show creates a 12 inch block representing a "home"." Patrick's ", in Covington, chose a Lighthouse as thesir theme block. This is the quilt they made using all 11 block patterns.

At "A Scarlet Thread" in McDonough, they chose a greenhouse. When they made their quilt they put their block as the center and arranged all the other blocks around it.

"Quilts and fFixins" in Jonesboro had the barn as their block. All the rest of the blocks were down on the farm.

Whatever the theme was for their shop, they were to decorate the shop accordingly. Some of the shops really did it up, some not as mjuch. You received a free copy of the block, and if you spent $10.00 a free charm to represent the theme. If you did not spend $10.00 you could purchase the charm for $3.00. I think I only purchased the charm twice.