Shopping

 I really do try hard to keep fabric shopping to a minimum, but occasionally, it must be done.*grin*

We took a little overnight trip, DH and I, to Ohio's Amish Country - basically, that means Holmes County. We are very familiar with the area as Holmes Co. is a neighboring county to where DH grew up. We have visited there often, but since very little family remains in that neck of the woods, it'd been several years since we'd last driven through.

It is a lovely agricultural area, dotted with small towns and expansive farms. Labor Day didn't allow us many options for shopping, but we did lots of sight-seeing. Horse-drawn buggies, e-bikes, clotheslines loaded with fresh laundry, lush gardens, dairy farms and massive barns all contribute to the slow, simple lifestyle exemplified by the Amish.

The next day, we were in Coshocton, DH's hometown, and home of Mercantile on Main, a wonderful local quilt shop that probably needed a few of my dollars to be dropped off there. 

I did my part.

 

I finished the bolt on some wonderful Tilda fabrics - the largest cut just over 1 yard. So I now have Tilda yardage to enhance the Tilda leftovers from the Wensleydale blocks. Denise was as excited to cut these pieces and talk to me about them as she was to cut them!

It should come as no surprise whatsoever that I haven't a single actual plan for using these fabrics, yet they are so very tempting - maybe I will stay as simple as a 9-patch quilt. Maybe I will make some stars, or some churn dashes, or some pinwheels. I plan to add this to the leftovers and come up with something soon.

Now, this shop had a fantastic supply of Tilda fabrics. For a small-town shop, their offerings seemed extensive.

 

In addition to a good variety of yardage on bolts, she carries precuts and packs. At least one sample was made up and on display, perhaps more. It was a true feast for the fabric-lover, for sure. The shop owner even had the new Christmas line of Tilda in the back, ready to be put out just as soon as she prepared some precuts. 

Corey Yoder is from Holmes County, so this shop had a wide variety of her fabrics and patterns available, as well. I noticed an entire wall of 30s prints, and another of reproduction fabrics. All the very current lines are represented in the shop.

 

I reminisced with shop owner Denise about her early days, recalling when the store had more vacuums than fabric. They still do carry the other stuff, but truly, it's definitely a quilt shop now!

Looking from the back to the front.

Looking from the front to the back.

I highly recommend Mercantile on Main, if you happen to be in the central Ohio area. The aforementioned Amish Country is quite a tourist mecca, so there's lots to do and see. Just a county to the south you'll find Coshocton. A visit to this LQS won't disappoint!

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne