Keepsake Quilting Trip


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Yesterday we (my mom and 3 daughters) took our annual pilgrimage to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, NH. I didn’t take any pictures of the inside of the shop because I blogged in detail about it in a 3 part series last year. You can read that first post HERE. Part 2 of that is HERE. And part 3 of that is HERE.

Normally, part of this trip is keeping the girls occupied long enough for my mother and I to look at and touch every square inch of the store. This year, the girls are older and they…well, they ditched us! In the same plaza as Keepsake is a book store, a pet shop and grocery store. The girls went to all three, picked themselves up books and coffee drinks and sat on the front porch of Keepsake in Adirondack chairs very happily. It worked out quite well and I didn’t feel rushed at all.

The girls did come in the store long enough to decide that me making them pajama shorts was a great idea. They each picked out flannel in a design they liked and I get to make something new for them…it’s a win! Can you guess which kid picked which fabric?

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Leah chose the pink animal print, Lindsey chose the polka dots and Amanda chose the red plaid.

My mission yesterday was to come home with a creamy fabric for the background of this pineapple quilt and also a light and dark green batik for the leaves and inner border. I think I have most of the other batik fabrics in my stash and from what I purchased at the Maui Quilt Shop when I got the pattern.

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Mission accomplished, this is what I bought…the cream looks better in real life than in this photo.

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I didn’t go too crazy buying fabric for a few reasons. The first being that I have a backlog of projects that I currently have the fabric for already. The second being that most of the fabric there was around $12.60 per yard. That’s a pretty hefty price for one yard of fabric. I do wonder what the market will bear in the future. Will $13 per yard be the limit? My mom was with me and she says that would be her limit. I think it might be mine as well.

Speaking of my mother, she was shopping for fabrics to use in her pyramid quilt out of Cheryl Malinkowski’s Fun With One Block Quilts Book.
This is the quilt she is going to make…

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She picked up some fat quarters to use in the quilt and when she got home, she arranged them on the dining room table and they looked so pretty. She had most of these fabrics already and was picking up a few to round out the selection. I even spy some of my hand dyes on that table!

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I can’t wait to see this finished. Lately, I’m really loving quilts with black solids in them.

So that was our trip! Keepsake never disappoints. The selection is by far the largest around. They have countless notions and always the latest and greatest gadgets. They have tons of books and the gorgeous challenge quilts from their catalog hang gloriously from the ceiling. It is located in picturesque Center Harbor which is next to Meredith. You can’t beat it for a day trip!

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2 responses to “Keepsake Quilting Trip”

  1. Don’t come to Australia to buy fabric Sandi. Our LQS prices are usually $20-$30 It doesn’t stop you buying fabric you just shop more judiciously and carefully. You don’t buy every line that comes out from your favourite designer. I tend to buy for projects these days. Its what makes it hard when there is a good special on. To just grab it whilst it is so much cheaper. However I am learning to not do that. I am just buying what I need for projects… except occassionally when I don’t

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