Quilt Shop: The Dysfunctional Quilter; Whitehall, Montana

We visited the Ringing Rocks earlier today, and I'll tell you all about that in tomorrow's post. After the Ringing Rocks, we visited a quilt shop. All-in-all, the best kind of day. Here's the storefront.

If you look to the left of the door, you can see a bulletin board. There, I saw these funnies.

As you walk through the front door, this is what you see.

Just to the left is a whole wall full of quilts.

This was a small shop, square-footage-wise, but they had a lot of wonderful stuff in there. It was a relatively small inventory of fabric, but I loved everything I saw. In this grouping are some of the fabrics I used in the Summer Holiday quilt.

In the middle of the store was a table with lots of precuts. That's the store pup on the floor there. S/he was very sweet...appears to be a black lab puppy.

Oh man...was I tempted by these stripes...you know it!

And I loved this sunflower panel alongside the polka dots there. Wouldn't those two be cute in a quilt?

They had some lovely metallics.

These shelves contained holiday fabrics for Halloween and Christmas.

Included among them were these pretty Christmas metallics.

Don't you love a good remnant bin? I spent some time rifling through this.

Remember the quilt shop fabric I purchased in Boulder City as a backing for my future Quilty 365? Here it is made up in a bag.

This Christmas quilt was made from two jelly rolls.

If I didn't already have a sewing box, this pretty one would have come home with me.

Toward the rear of the store was a classroom/workspace/longarm area.

There, I saw this quilt. Is that cute, or what?

And this one.

They had a good supply of embroidery patterns and quite a few from local artists. The ones below are by Jana Davidson. You can find her website right here. She's actually from Oklahoma, but she was a new artist to me.

This next one was very tempting, but I passed it by. I'll probably wish I had it eventually. Blueberry Backroads' website is right here.

This next one is for you Padsworth. I'm so glad you came through the hurricane okay. This designer's company name is Hissyfitz Designs and you can find her website right here.

Finally, I was mightily tempted by this design from Laura Heine, another local artist. You can find her website right here.

And how about this...

This one was hanging above a door. The cat caught my eye, but I just thought it was pretty darned cute.

Well...I could have gone absolutely crazy in that store, and I did purchase more than anticipated. I will show you in just a minute. When we got back to the RV for our afternoon shot of espresso and bite of chocolate, this was my Dove fortune.

Okay. Well, I wouldn't want to tempt the Dove fortune gods, now would I? Fortunately, I'd already taken care of this. I purchased a yard of this one.

This is going into my Quilty 365. You might recall that mine is going to be made up from regional prints from the quilt shops I've visited (and will visit) all over the country. Being a small shop, this one didn't really have any "regional" prints, but these barns made me think of the journey thus far. They are in all sizes, and so I can cut the size I need for my quilt...size yet to be determined. Kind of depends on how many fabrics I end up with.

And then, I bought five yards of this one. This seems like a perfect back for the Sundresses quilt that I just started. I love all the colors, and I'll be able to use matching fabrics on the quilt top.

As a reminder, the Sundresses quilt will look like this when its finished.

So...that was a lot of fabric for my very first quilt shop of the trip. I'll have to pace myself if I'm going to have room to store my fabric purchases over the next many months.

Well...this was just a great little shop. There is one other quilt shop in Whitehall, but we're only visiting this one. The name kind of got me, and it was well worth the visit.