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Have you gotten around to all the shops participating in the Wyoming Shop Hop 2018?  We have seen many shop hoppers and all are reporting that it has been a fun and wonderful experience.  Visiting the shops, seeing all the fabrics, quilts, notions, books, patterns and whatever else the shop owners have in store for you is definitely the highlight of the shop hop.  But then there are all the prizes yet to be awarded to look forward to.  Each shop will be drawing for a $50 gift certificate or prize to be spent at their store.  Just think, if you were REALLY LUCKY and won at every shop, you would receive $1300 value in prizes!  Most of us would be elated to win at one shop – but your odds increase every shop you visit.

Then there are the Grand Prize and many more lovely items to be given away to those who send their qualified passport in by September 14 to the address that is on the passport.

Here are some of the prizes that will be awarded:

Grand Prize

Babylock Molly Sewing machine – sponsored by the Wyoming Quilt Shop Hop participating shops.

First Prize

Tutto Sewing Machine Bag – size large- sponsored by the Wyoming Quilt Shop Hop participating shops.

Second Prize

Southwest Splendor Quilt Kit – 60″x60″ – Sponsored by the Kalico Kat Quilt Shop in Casper, Wyoming.

Third Prize

Aurifil  Curious Dream Thread Set.  Sponsored by Aurifil Thread

Additional Sponsors and prizes are:

Blank Quilting/Studio E fabrics

Clothworks Textiles

SuzyBee

Weeks Dye Works

Hoffman Fabrics

Benertex Fabrics

Northcott Fabrics

Patrick Loose Fabrics

Shannon Fabrics

Additional prizes are still coming in, so there are lots of reasons to enter the drawing!

For those who submit a passport stamped by all 26 shops, there will be a goodie bag going out your way when prizes are awarded, plus you will get 2 chances to win the other prizes.  Visiting at least 13 shops will give you one entry into the drawing.

Keep shopping – you still have almost 4 weeks left to get those passports stamped!

 

 

 

Wyoming Quilt Shop Hop for 2018 will begin May 29 and last all summer, closing September 4, 2018.  You can download a passport from the home page of our website or pick one up at any participating quilt shop.  Make sure to get your passport validated at each shop, then send it in to qualify for chances at wonderful prizes.  Everyone who visits all the shops will get a prize this year, plus all who visit at least 13 shops will qualify for the drawing for the Grand Prize, a sewing machine, plus other fun and valuable quilting and sewing items.  Every shop will have a block pattern for you – why not chose several, if not all, and make a sampler quilt?  It is going to be a busy summer – so get your plans made to start shop hopping on May 29.  There are 26 participating stores to visit all over the state.  We hope to see you soon!

I know you are all excited to hear who won the drawing for the Wyoming Shop Hop prizes for 2017.  I have called the first and second prize winners, but the rest of the list will get a surprise package in the mail  sometime soon!  If your name is on the list, Congratulations!  We had 77 passports returned.  12 shoppers had visited all 26 shops. We are awarding 26 prizes, plus each of the 26 shops are awarding a $50 value prize.  So you had a chance to win 52 prizes in this shop hop!

We have some exciting ideas for next year’s shop hop coming up… Stay Tuned!

Grand Prize Winner of the Sewing machine was:  Leslie Rouse from Cheyenne

2nd Prize of a Tutto bag for storing and traveling with your machine:  Sandy Hahn of Dubois

Additional Winners who will be getting surprise packages in the mail are:

Delores Worfield of Torrington

Judy Porty from Unity, Maine

Kyleen Gackle of Circle, Montana

Eddi Prager from Douglas

Angela Wylie of Akron, CO

Emily Covey of Rock Springs

Julie Haptonstall of Douglas

Kim Bolding of Panama City Beach, Florida

Paul Benson of Cheyenne

Eve Stahl of Casper

DeAnn Eizenhart of Cheyenne

Marylou Doyle of Hyattville

Pat Mischle of Dayton

Elaine Donnelly of Douglas

Eva Knight of Loveland, Colorado

Mary Ellen Pitcher of Lander

Suzanne Erickson of Newcastle

Evie Cecil of Torrington

Louise Crowe of Casper

Diana Williamson of Cheyenne

Dianne Porter of Unity, Maine

Lisa Millikin of Glendo

Carol Harper, Lander

Mari Eisenhart, Cheyenne

A big thanks to all the shops who participated, to all the companies who donated prizes, and to the shop hoppers that make the Wyoming Quilt Shop Hop possible!

Karen Wisseman, Lickety Stitch Quilts, Lusk

 

As the cooler days of autumn arrive, shop-hopping in Wyoming is over.  I hope you all had a lovely time visiting many if not all of the shops on the Wyoming Quilt Shop Hop trail this summer. We are receiving lots of completed passports in the mail every day, and I want to remind and encourage all participants to get your passport sent in today if you have not already!  It would be so sad to miss out on the chance to win such great prizes just because you failed to get your passport sent in time.  If you have any questions, call Lickety Stitch Quilts during business hours at 307-334-9963.  The shops are doing their individual drawings for prizes now and will be notifying each winner soon.  I plan to post the winners if I can get that information from all the participating shops as soon as possible.

How was your shop hopping experience?  Do you have any suggestions for changes for next year’s shop hop?  Thanks to each person who took the time to visit any of the participating shops this past summer, and please visit again soon.

Sandie Swanson from Kalico Kat Quilt Shop in Casper has donated a kit for this beautiful winter wildlife scene.  The kit includes the fabric to create a 44″ x 56″ quilt top.  Thank you, Sandie, for your beautiful kit. The winner of this will be a very lucky quilter!  Drawing for this and all other prizes will take place after the Wyoming Shop Hop is finished in approximately 1 month. We have already received 2 entries from shop hoppers who have completed their  state-wide shop hop!  Get to hopping, quilters – and don’t forget to submit your completed passport for a chance to win great prizes!

No one in Wyoming will be untouched by the 2017 Solar Eclipse occurring on August 21.  The cities,  towns and countryside within the path of totality expect an influx of hoards seeking to experience the rare phenomenon.  The Prairie Stitcher in Douglas has these cute jackalope T-Shirts and a quilt available for those who would like to commemorate the experience.

The state fair will be here before we know it. There have been some changes that Anna McClure, the Needlework State Fair Superintendent asked me to share on this blog.  I am going to copy her info here:

This years time frame in regards to entering in the Wyoming State Fair is as follows,

http://www.wystatefair.com/assets/docs/uploads/2017-premium-book-06302017.pdf please access this link to view the categories that you can enter in the fair. Needlework starts on page 36. Some specific things I would like to point out:

Entry fee is $2.00

       Entry dates are:SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 – 11:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. 

       MONDAY, AUGUST 14 – 11:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.

        Judging will again be closed. 

        All quilts will again be CQC judged.

        

        Exibit hours are as follows:

        Wednesday August 16-August 19 from 11:00 am – 9:00 pm

 

2-Visit the book website: I encourage you to access the fair book site, as we have added new categories. If you have anyone with specific questions regarding your entry and where it would fit you can always call me at 359-2084, if I don’t answer please leave me a voicemail and I will get back to you just as soon as I can. http://www.wystatefair.com/assets/docs/uploads/2017-premium-book-06302017.pdf

 

 

3-Collaborate for pickup -If you have a group of ladies that would like to enter and aren’t able to make that entry date you can mail them or I would be willing to travel to pickup your entries, if you would let me know in advance you will be collecting entries. You can reach me at 307.359.2084

 

4-Share- If you could please confirm that you received my email and share with any blogs, email groups or newsletters you are a part of I would be so grateful for that. If you would like to discuss anything further please reach out to me via email or phone 359-2084 or email at ladybugs.polkadots@gmail.com and in your subject mention quilt questions I would be happy to get back to you.  I appreciate you and I hope that we can work to create a network of great quilters.

 

Thank you for your time and attention in this matter.

 

Regards,

 

Anna McClure

Needlework- State Fair Superintendent