The Journey for Fabric in the Amish Country of PA

 For the record ... I was gone a little over 24 hours

so that qualifies bringing something back for everyone.

 The westies received a bag of healthy treats.

Poor Wilson received air fresheners for his car.

{I should have thought to buy him a jar of  homemade 

jelly or something like that - oh well, next time}

 Our trip started out crossing the Conowingo Dam.

We are now on our way to PA.

 We were in the Amish Country in under an hour

from my sister's house.  Living on the eastern

shore on 'flat ground' it was nice to drive

the small rolling hills of Lancaster County, PA.

 Stop One ... This shop was okay.  We

both made tiny purchases here.

 Stop Two:  We made a healthy size $ purchase here

and I think the Amish man was happy.

Good selection of fabric.

 Deb ... saying hurry up with the picture

taking ... I want to fabric shop!

 We took a break for lunch.  This village is

full of tiny shops and places to eat.  It's also

directly across the street from our Stop Three!

 Stop Three:  We hit the mother-load!

The Old Country Store has been teasing me with 

e-mails for the past six months and finally I'm

here to see if they are as good as they seem.

Ohhhhhh ... Yesssssssss!

 The lady who cut our fabric makes these for the store.

I love sock monkeys and was tempted to walk out

with one ... but I thought about the money I would 

spend on the sock monkey vs. the money I could

spend on fabric ... the fabric won.

 This is a beautifully organized store.

 Help me ... I'm dizzy with fabric choices.

 The main room.  There is another room

off to the side with Xmas and Novelty prints.

The Sale fabric was stacked top & bottom on 2 tables 

Every bolt of fabric at the Country Store is top quality.

Once you start hanging around with quilters you quickly

learn the difference between cheap and high quality fabrics.

I pulled out a nice selection of sale fabric to be cut

[as did Debby].

 Stop Four:  Me in front of Zooks

This is down the block from the Old Country

Store.  We pulled a stack of bolts to be

cut ... and from here we went back over

to the Village to get an ice cream and

kettle corn ... and decide if we wanted

to drive another 45 minutes to hit two more stores.

 Debby loves Kettle Corn so she picked the

corn cob to stick her head in.

 After re-grouping we decided to save the other

two stores for a trip in November.

 I was worried I wouldn't see any horse & buggies.

Of course, they were all over the place.

 It was a quick and easy ride home and definitely

a lot faster then the horse and buggy method of travel.

 Some of the fabric that I will be including in my

donated gift basket for the Guild's fundraiser

in November.  I'll add some good chocolates and maybe

a nice bottle of red wine.

The name of my basket is ...

'I SEW FOR CHOCOLATE'

 Selections from the Amish Country fabric stores.

 58+ pieces of various yardage.

The most yardage in one single cut: 4 yards of Xmas fabric.

I purchased these the night before our PA trip.

Deb and I went to Michaels which was fun.

All this was on sale!