Spring break

How do you prepare for the spring? I apparently sew a lot, attend more meetings than I should, and squeeze in a whirlwind trip to Ohio to buy new things for my favorite customers. Ohio you say? Why? Because it is the home of one of the largest fabric warehouses in the midwest. I can bring you along for the ride.

Let's begin with the hotel with a business traveler's view!



That's right, when I travel, I travel in style. As you can also tell from the picture, it was a nice, warm, balmy 82 degrees. Surely the snow in the picture is meerly an illusion that is if I can see around the back of the sign that was directly outside of my window. Nothing but the best!

I entered the warehouse at 9 in the morning and almost spent an hour just in the templates room looking for the ever-popular tumbling block pyamid template. Go ahead, find it in the picture:



If you didn't find it, don't worry. I did--it's in the shop!

Then it was onto fabric. I had a shopping list from some of you out in cyberspace: more kids' flannels, more cheaters, something to go with the Nearly Insane quilt I started 5 years ago and from the lovely ladies at the church, the cheepest 60 inch polyester batting I can find. In the photo below, you can see what the oversized, larger-than-life cart looked like a the half-way point.



On the way home, the classic travel around Chicago moment happened at the exit of the Indiana toll road when at 11:45 at night, the car in front of me had to write a personal check to get off the toll road. Neadless to say, the tollbooth operator was not happy at the giggling that happened in the verhicle that pulled up to pay its toll. Ah! Only in Indiana! I wonder who they had to make the personal check out to? And what do you think the odds are that it bounced?

You don't have to wait to see all the goodies I bought on my spring shopping excursion. I will have a lot of them with me at the Cedarburg Quilt and Antique show. Stop by & say hi. (and you don't have to pay a toll)