Sunday, February 22, 2009

Up North


During our Quilting Weekend in Tawas City several years ago, we found the Cotton Patch Quilt Shoppe in East Tawas, Michigan. Two very interesting things about this quilt shop:

1. They had an incredible inventory of fabric, supplies and patterns for being in such an out-of-the-way location

2. On display (one of those, "My God, I need to make that!" quilts) were the blocks from the Northern Woods quilt featuring moose, deer, fish and other northern woods themes.
We spend quite a bit of time in the shop looking and talking to the owner. She is able to keep such a wonderfully supplied shop in such a remote location because the bulk of her business is internet sales. She had a "back room" where local women were employed to cut fabric into packets that are sold with patterns.

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