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It’s hard to believe it’s almost time for the Jingle Bell (Shop) Hop in Northern California. Those of you in the East Bay/San Francisco should get your running shoes by the door, the car gassed up, and be ready for a spirited long weekend (Thursday, November 19 – Sunday, November 22). There are 14 shops excitedly getting ready for all of you California quilters.

Enjoy wandering through each of the stores, checking out what they have to offer. Participating stores are Always Quilting, Color Me Quilts & More, In Between Stitches, Ladybug’s Quilts, Quilter’s Cabin, Quilter’s Studio, Quilts & Things, Sew Central Quiltworks, Sew Ewe Quilt, Sew Many Quilts, Sisters ‘N Stitches, The Laurel Leaf, The Quilter’s Inn, and Thimble Creek.

Wow! The Jingle Bell Hop Grand Prize is fabulous. Check it out! The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate from each of the participating stores, bringing the grand total to a $ 1400 shopping spree. The second and third prizes are great too. Those winners receive a total of $750 and $370 (respectively) worth of gift certificates. To win, you must visit all of the stores.  Don’t just rush in, get stamped, and leave. That’s missing the point of having a shop hop. Pace yourself so that you can enjoy visiting 3-4 shops each day (it’s a hard job, but someone has to do it). Check out the fabrics each offers, the different patterns and books, and the different types of notions featured at each. In addition, each shop has a special goodie basket to be won. These prizes are superb quilter-friendly shop-hop gifts that any quilter would love to have.   Hopefully, you’ll be one of the lucky winners. 

We are pleased to support your local quilting shops in the Northern California area. We have sent each store a packet of complimentary patterns to give out as quilters’ prizes.  If you are one of our recipients, we’d love to hear from you. Have a great time at the Jimgle Bell Hop.

For more information and names and addresses of each store, go to http://www.jinglebellhop.com/shops.html

Tennessee Quilts, a magnificent quilt store in historic Jonesborough, is currently exhibiting the quilt Memories of Monet by Joen Wolfrom.  We think you’d love to take a quilt field trip to Tennessee Quilts to see Joen’s quilt and browse through the shop’s amazing 8000+ bolts of beautiful fabric. Tennessee Quilts is one of the best quilt stores in the U.S. You’ll love it!  They have also joined over 100 fabric and quilts shops in the FabShop Hop, a virtual shop hop offering some great prizes (more info).

BTW, Joen will be teaching a 2-day color class and a 3-day design class at Tennessee Quilts November 10-14, 2009. If you’re interest in either class, contact Tennessee Quilts or register online.

Tennessee Quilts
114 Boone St
Jonesborough, Tennessee
http://www.tennesseequilts.com
linda@tennesseequilts.com

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I spent mine at Nancy J’s Fabric Shop in Wabash, Indiana, promoting my new pattern, the Snap, Grab & Go Tote and Quilt Ensemble.  Nancy’s shop and 12 other shops in the surrounding area are having a Shop Hop this week.

First, let me tell you about Nancy’s terrific shop. Nancy J’s opened in 1980 and has grown to 4000 bolts of fabric! They specialize in tone on tone, bright novelties and contemporary prints. They have so many fat 1/4’s that they have a “Fat Corner Pickin’ Patch”…It’s great! They are open Mon-Fri 10am to 5:30pm and Saturday 10am to 5:00pm.

Now back to the Shop Hop. It runs till Oct. 24th, so you have time to participate. You pick up the free passport at any one of the participating shops. All 13 shops must be visited during the Shop Hop week and passport stamped at each shop to qualify for the prize drawings of gift certificates and baskets. The shops are :

Creative Stitch Quilt Shop, North Manchester, IN
Nancy’s Stitches, Kendallville, IN
Lowery Sewing Center, Warsaw, IN
Sewing Treasures, Angola, IN
Heaven On Earth, Wabash, IN
The Country Cupboard, Van Wert, OH
A Quilt Of Many Colors, Leo, IN
Edwards Sewing Center, Fort Wayne, IN
Caroline’s Cottage Cottons, Rome City, IN
Engine House, Berne, IN
Cozy Cabin Quilts, St. Marys, OH
Nancy J’s, Wabash, IN
Quilts N Gifts, Bluffton, IN

Now go out there and start hopping. See ya later.

Quilter’s Dream in Willimantic, Connecticut will feature a selection of Larisa Key’s quilts, including Ticonderoga Star, during the September 12-20 Connecticut Shop Hop.  If you’re in the area, be sure to pop in to see her wonderful quilts.

General Information

The Connecticut Quilt Shop Hop is starting up this weekend!  Join in on the fun of visiting 18 fabulous quilts shops throughout Connecticut between Saturday, September 12, and Sunday, September 20.

Visit all 18 shops and be eligible to win the grand prize of a $250 gift certificate for the shop of your choice or one of 10 $100 gift certificates also for the shop of your choice. Each shop will have a featured item on sale, in addition to a drawing for a raffle basket valued a $150. Registration is just $5 and gets you your passport, a commemorative pin as well as a wonderful tote bag, so stop in and register today.

Participating Shops:

Close to Home (Glastonbury)
Close to Home (Milford)
Close to Home (Unionville)
Coastal Sewing (Old Saybrook)
Colchester Mill Fabrics (Colchester)
Common Threads Quilt Shop (New Preston)
Fabric Tree (Danbury)
Lisa’s Clover Hill Quilts (Berlin)
Newtown Quilts (Sandy Hook)
Quadrille Quilting (North Haven)
Quilter’s Corner (New Milford)
Quilter’s Cove (Durham)
Quilter’s Dream (Willimantic)
Quilting by the Yard (Vernon)
Sew Inspired Quilt Shop and Studio (Simsbury)
The Quilter’s Alley (Ridgefield)
The Yankee Quilter (Oxford)
Thimbles (Woodbury)