I have so many great photos to share of my weekend in New Hampshire with my mom and daughter, Lindsey. For the past few years, we’ve made it up to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, NH. We normally go up and back on the same day which makes for a long car ride. The shop is 3 hours from my home and 2 hours from my mom’s house. Due to a scheduling conflict with my daughter’s summer camp, it was looking like our scheduled trip at the end of July wasn’t going to happen. I brainstormed for a bit and came up with the idea (on Friday!!) to go up on Saturday and stay the night this time! I called my mom and she just happened to be free on Saturday and Sunday too! Next I called the Center Harbor Inn and explained we were making a last minute trip up there to visit the quilt shop and asked if they had any vacancies. I figured they wouldn’t because the Inn and quilt shop sit right on a tourist destination…the beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee. The stars must have been lined up right because they had a room for us AND gave us a ten dollar discount because we were visiting the quilt shop! Lindsey asked if she could come along and off we went!

Because I have so many photos to share, I’ll make this post part one of three and over the next few days, I’ll edit more pics and put them up. Our trip photos include the shop, the hotel, my purchases, our yummy meal at Hart’s Turkey Farm and our stop at Joey’s Diner in Amherst, NH. I’ll also have some short video footage that I’ll put in the video cast this week.

So here we go!
These two pictures are the outside of Keepsake Quilting. They have a beautiful front porch that invites you to sit down and stay awhile.

The shop itself is quite large. It is filled but isn’t crowded. There are quilts hanging from the ceilings and on the walls. The ones hanging from the ceilings are from the quarterly catalog contest the shop holds.

Lindsey found her perfect fabric! I’ll be sewing that into a draw string backpack for her!

My mom is checking out the extensive selection of blue fabrics!

I love the bean bag system at Keepsake. They have a large desk where you can stack the bolts of fabric that you are working with and you just place a bean bag on your stack and no one will walk off with your fabric or reshelve it!

This is the outlet room and they have lots of great finds here!

My mom going back for more fabric cutting!!! We are laughing because she had already done significant damage the first time she checked out at the register! Mom was purchasing fabrics for a quilted jacket, a comfort quilt and some pretty sky fabric for herself.

Mom and I…

Lindsey and I…

So here’s the damage I did at the register…Sandy of Quilting For The Rest of Us did send me a tweet that I was shopping for “all of us” and had permission to purchase whatever I wanted…thanks Sandy…I could have purchased a lot more but I did show restraint since the best part of the trip for me really was getting to spend the night up there in Center Harbor and having my mom and Lindsey with me.

I picked up two hand projects…not sure what it is happening to me lately. I’ve gone from loathing handwork to not being able to get enough of it lately. The blue work sewing machine project will be for my sewing room when it’s complete. The other pattern is for the rugs that you use fabric scraps to make. This is something I’ve been wanting to try for about a year.

I found some neat panels. One is for a music themed quilt that I’ll be making this year and the other is a Norman Rockwell Boy Scout panel that I’d like to make a wall hanging out of for my nephew is about to become and Eagle Scout.

Next is some yardage…Lindsey’s flower fabric, a blue swirl that I couldn’t resist and a piece of music fabric to go along with the previously mentioned panel…

And last, a jelly roll and a book on jelly roll quilts!

Lindsey and my mother are jokesters and on Sunday morning they led me to believe that Lindsey had opened up the jelly roll! I think I made an unrecognizable gasping sound and turned around to see Lindsey holding the “unharmed” jelly roll with a a huge grin on her face!!!!!!!

I’m off to paw my new purchases and continue work on my apple core quilt this morning. I’ll be posting twice more on my weekend get away so stay tuned…
Sandi