This weekend is the blog tour for Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day! I decided to take part because I LOVE my local quilt shop, Sew Modern. I'm not the usual quilting story in that I came to quilting through the internet. Flickr and blogs brought on my love affair - not taking a class or a shop I visited. I didn't have a local quilt shop until I was an avid quilter.
Sew Modern was opened up by a friend and fellow LAMQG member.
Next thing you know, the LAMQG is meeting there...
...and quilting there!
It's pretty much the clubhouse! Aren't we lucky here in LA to have such a wonderful shop to spend time in?
Nothing can replace the sense of community that seeing people in person provides. When I am at Sew Modern I always run into my quilting friends. Everyone loves catching up over some sewing machines and rotary cutters!
And I haven't even mentioned the FABRIC! Being able to see it, touch it and mix & match with the bolts is a sort of fun that you can't have when you're shopping online.
So don't forget that January 24th is Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day. I hope that you'll hit up yours!