Found It In Quilt Sampler Magazine

Last week when I made the trip to two Indiana quilt shops with a group of friends, I discovered that one of the shops - Back Door Quilts - had been featured in APQ's Quilt Sampler magazine. Such a distinction is a pretty big honor, and I wondered if I might have that particular issue in my collection of magazines. I did, and wanted you all to have a look.

First, I pulled out all the Quilt Samplers I have amassed. Very few things in my quilting room are neat, tidy and organized, but my magazines are lined up in chronological order, so this was an easy task.

Next, the browsing began. I began getting APQ magazine (and all the related magazines) in 1999. I searched into the 2005 issues before locating it. The cover shown above is from the spring/summer issue.

Here's the spread on Back Door. Very interesting to read about this store's background. For those of you unfamiliar with how each Sampler issue works, all the stores featured provide a unique-to-them pattern for a quilt. Let's see the one Back Door used.

Back Door Baskets looks fantastic! I have been finding myself more and more drawn to basket quilts lately, so perhaps I was meant to find this pattern. And who doesn't love a blue and white quilt?? This has potential written all over it.

You can click here to read about our visit to Back Door. Also that day we visited Pohlar's. And here's a link to what I bought.

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Day Trip to Indiana - Part 2

The first part of this quilter's journey appeared on Saturday's post, which you can read by clicking here. Today, I will share the second part of our trip - the store in Greenwood, Indiana, called Back Door Quilts. We'd planned to go back in the winter time, but were snowed out, so Friday was our reschedule date, and what fun we had! Five of us went to see what mischief we could find, and bargains, too.

Back Door Quilts did not disappoint. We had to make several u-turns to find them, but we made it and were well-rewarded with eye candy all over the store. Never have I seen so many samples made up and displayed as I have in this shop. It was a quilter's heaven, for sure. I saw in one of the display cabinets a certificate identifying them as a featured quilt in APQ's Quilt Sampler. I am going to dig in my stack of issues to see if I have it. Stay tuned for that.

I took a ton of pictures, so I won't waste your time with my talky-talk. Instead, I will just let you enjoy the same eye candy that we all enjoyed on Friday afternoon. Just look all those samples on display. It was really great seeing so many and it definitely gave us all ideas for projects we just had to have. You know how it is, I trust.

Can you guess that I also did my part in boosting the local economy here, as well as in Liberty? I have a nice little stack of new stuff all set to share with you tomorrow. I hope you'll come on back to have a peek.

Happy Quilting, Friends!