Country stores

Fact: A country store is a retail store usually located in a rural community, that sells a wide variety of merchandise but is not divided into departments.

Mary Sue in A Scarlet Thread

Yes, I know it's been a long time and many things have happen since the last blog. First we would like to wish you all a very happy New Year!

Our latest adventure of the New Year started on December 29 and continued through January 2, of 2010.

It all began when Liza, Mary Sue and I decided we would go shopping for quilting fabric. My husband Charles told me about this quilt shop in McDonough Ga. called A Scarlet Thread. We decided since we were going to be in the Atlanta area that we would just go to as many quilt shops as we could. ( A total of 4 in all).

Our first stop...A scarlet thread. This was a beautiful quilt shop with over 7000 bolts of fabric. (Hence the smile on Mary Sue's face). We did a little damage here, but we knew we had 3 more stops...

Next stop was In Town Quilters in Dacatur Ga. We were surprised at the selection. We made a few purchases and off we went.

We drove to our third destination...Sweet Home Quilters Company in Conyers Ga. This shop was an old house circa 1900. Liza loved it! They had some really nice sales here. We also learned about the Conkerr cancer. org project from SHQC. This organization provides colorful pillow cases to children of all ages that are under going cancer treatments across the nation and has expanded to other countries. We picked up the brochure about this organization and decided we would participate and make pillow cases for the kids too. Sweet Home Quilters Company is a drop-off site for the cases.

Are last stop on this shopping journey was believe it or not, Patrick's feed and seed in Covington Ga. When I was researching our possible destinations...I came across Patrick's feed and seed. I put it on our list of stops just out of curiosity. Wow...we were surprised! First, we couldn't find the place..Mary Sue called them from the Cell phone for directions. She told the man we tried finding it was our GPS. (His response was, "is that one of those satellite things?" in a thick country accent) We cracked up at this of course and thought oh my, what have we gotten ourselves into. Turns out, this Feed and Seed not only has all the farm supplies you need, it has a ton of candy and over 3000 bolts of fabric. Not to mention the Atlanta areas largest selection of flannel fabric. This was much more than feed and seed.

We had the great day. Mary Sue and I decided one day we are going to open a quilt shop.. She suggested we call it A Stitch in Time...May suggestion was Two Crazy Stitches... I can hear the customers now telling their friends...."what did you do today?" response..."Oh, we went to see those two crazy stitches down at the quilt shop."