Quilt Shop: Quiltique, Henderson, NV

Oh my goodness! What a fabulous place! And it was so much fun to meet up with my friend Heidi there yesterday. There was so much color and so much to look at, and I could not stop taking pictures. I have a lot to show you, so let's just get to it, shall we?

My quilt shop app led us right to the front door:

Just after I took this picture of the storefront, Heidi walked up. Do you think the camera gave me away?

Here's a link to their website. As we stepped inside the door, this is what we saw. (Sorry for that little bit of blur. I was so excited!)

The thing I love most about a quilt shop is that there is so much color! Just look at this row of Kaffe Fassett fabrics right at the front door.

On the other side was a whole wall of pretty batiks.

And check out all these stripes and polka dots. 

I'll admit, my credit cards were heating up at the vision of so much fabric. What a fabulous inventory in this store. These below were all flannels. Heidi pulled out the cutest bolt of orange giraffes.

Heidi came in armed with a bag of hexi blocks she was trying to match up to a good background. Most of the bolts in the image below are all cat fabrics.

Half of the store was devoted to machine sales.

In the back of the store was a nice roomy classroom. (Someone got their finger over the lens. Amateur!)

To the right of the classroom was a whole room(!) devoted to sale fabrics. (That's Heidi there.)

There were some great prices on yardage.

And they also had bundles of "chunks and hunks" at 40% off. Some of these were rather large.

This was a stained glass block. I just loved all the color in this store.

Here's a cute pattern...this one was set up for a child to take along on a road trip, but they had another one that was made to be a sewing kit you might take along for a class or a retreat.

The pattern was for sale here, and I was tempted mightily.

There were so many beautiful quilts on display. This one was just inside the front door.

This next one must be a newer BQ pattern. I don't think I've seen this configuration before. Maybe I'll seek it out and get to work on that Corvette fabric I've had for so long.

Wouldn't this be great for a little boy?

Many of these were available as kits.

This was their 2015 Row By Row. As a person from the rainy Pacific Northwest, I was tempted again.

This next one was hanging just inside the front door, and it makes me think they knew I was coming. It was supposed to be a block-of-the-month starting in June. I asked if I could just buy the pattern and not do the BOM. Well. Don't you know they had exactly one pattern available. For me. I rest my case.

It was too cute for this cook to resist. The fabrics are all listed on the back, but I'm going to have fun choosing my own, I think.

At the register, they had these postcard sized patterns for free, and they came with 20% off any jelly roll you wanted to buy...or not...the pattern was free, regardless. There's a new one each month.

After we made our purchases, we asked the store employee to take our picture, which she did happily.

Heidi was so sweet and thoughtful. She brought a gift of these back issues of magazines for those times when we're without internet, and she brought a bundle of fabrics from her own stash. She chose some that would be great with my blue jay quilt...the one I'm going to start on as soon as we get back, I swear!

As for me, I spent way too much money in here. For one thing, I found this fabric that I fell in love with. It's a large scale print, but if you notice right there at the front, one of the shops is the "Quilter's Inn." And there are other sewing-related storefronts included in the scene as well. I bought all they had: 4 7/8 yards remaining on the bolt. I think this will make a perfect backing and border fabric for the Quilty 365 I want to make that will feature regional prints collected from quilt shops all across the country.

And, absolutely, could life go on if I didn't have a half yard of this one?

As for my regional print, this one will represent Quiltique on my Quilty 365. I figured with all the blooming cactus in the area, this was the perfect choice.

I'd already made my purchases and was waiting for Heidi to finish hers when I noticed these lapel pens. As it happens, I have a "collection" of these. Have you ever noticed how a collection just sort of happens to you, even when you aren't planning to start one? Well, at some point, I started picking these up when I could find them. They aren't available at every quilt shop. At home, I have a doll quilt where I stick these when I get them home. There are about two dozen by now. Anyway...I definitely needed that too.

Here's their business card.

So what a great shop and a great day!!! I'm so glad you suggested it, Heidi! Meeting up with you was a real treat, and it makes me so grateful for my community of blogging friends. I've only met a few of you, but I'm hoping to meet many more friends in our trip across the country this fall. Meeting up is like meeting up with a friend I've known all my life.

Well, what about us? Do you love us too?

These are my bookend cats. They've become the best of friends, but mainly, Sadie loves Smitty. Whatever Smitty is doing, Sadie wants to do it too. She runs alongside him, bumping him, and nudging him. He tolerates this well.

The only other picture I have for you today is this quilt block seen in the historic section of Boulder City. We went to the Boulder Dam Brewing Company for a pub dinner the other night and then walked around a little bit. There was some great street art, none of which I photographed, with the exception of this quilt block. I do have my priorities.

Mike just now left to go wash his truck. It's his baby, you know, and he must keep it clean. I'm just about to hit the shower. Simply because we're here, we're going to drive out to Hoover Dam today and spend a little time at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Then we have a few errands to run before coming home. We're fresh out of tequila, for one thing, and with new additions to the collection of shot glasses, this is something of an emergency.