QuiltQuest: Round Up Week 28: 1 Southern California Quilt Shop Run Day 1

Day One

Friday July 16

Morning - I still did my usual telephone chat/walk with Penelope in the morning while DH slept in. Happens the hotel was across the street from Memory Lane Park with a walking path that went by a golf course.

The park also had a cute play ground for kiddos...

And a very impressive outdoor work out area for adults with lots of pieces of equipment...

I walked 1.5 miles while chatting with my friend who was back in San Diego. Fun!

DH was still in bed when I returned, but quickly dressed and repacked so we were on our way.

We we just a few minutes from the first stop:
#4 Orange Quilt Bee www.orangequiltbee.com

A shop full of beautiful displays and class projects. The lady working at the passport/fat quarter station was actually a happy client who took lots of classes at the shop so they asked her to help out! Isn't that beach house quilt on the wall cute? Unfortunately they didn't have the fabric used for the sand - I would have bought a yard or two - had happy inspiring words printed on it.

I had determined this year to buy a yard of colorful batik from each store, but in the end went back to picking out beautiful whites, beiges and greys...

On the road again to the next shop in Glendora...

This is to show low traffic and the view of the dried out surroundings.

#3 The Sew & Sew www.thesewnsew.com

This is what counts as a cute little town in California - Glendora.

Trees on the main street, parking near shops, and lots of little non-chain places to shop in.

This store has a great selection of fabric - and has hard to find theme fabric. It is not ADA compliant though as there were many steps between areas of the store. All the fabric was marked down for the event so that was very nice!

After visiting the shop, we had coffee and muffins at a place by The Sew & Sew in Glendora. We wore masks when we were in shops or inside - except when we were eating.

Then it was on to the next shop. For this trip we were in heavy traffic. So glad the car air conditioning was working well. There was a lot of stop and go as we made our way northwest.

#1 Cotton & Chocolate Quilt Co www.cottonandchocolate.com

The Shop was beautifully arranged and easy to find different types of fabric and projects.

My husband liked this quilt with the vertical lines - so now I know what style to make for the art behind his home office sofa! Next to it to the right was a lovely yellow and grey double wedding ring quilt.

This pineapple quilt (I think it is called that) is the first one I have seen with black fabric.

As a special treat they included some pieces of wrapped chocolate in with the pattern and fat quarter.

Back into traffic for the next shop!

While we were in traffic listening to the radio, we were hearing about how Covid cases had increased by 15% (I'm not sure what the starting date was or what parts of USA they were discussing). The Los Angeles masking requirement was going to be put in place within a few days.

#2 Quilt Emporium www.quiltemporium.com

Lovely shop. They have a set of marked down fabric on a shelf outside the shop, and lots of arranged fabric. They had a lovely quilt hanging behind the cash register that the owner had made, but there was no pattern to buy....

L - We had Fast food Japanese at a little place in the same center as The Quilt Emporium in Woodland Hills. Our second indoor restaurant.

So much traffic. We couldn't make it to any other shops before they closed. We drove on to Redlands to be near a shop when it opened.

The outside temp was up to 93 degrees.

Stayed in a Comfort Inn in Redlands, it was very nice. Still had water faucets turned off and no breakfast (they said because of covid rules).

D - Ate at a Jamaican Restaurant in Redlands - I had chicken salad - chicken was on rice and beans on lettuce.

There were not a lot of people in the restaurant, so we ate inside - it was beastly hot outside still too.

In 2015 when we drove across the USA to Boston I had chicken salad for one meal almost every day. On the return trip I wished I had taken a photo of the different interpretations of Chicken Salad...