Day Two

On day two of our great adventure, as I said in the last post we spent the night in Sun Prairie and visited JJ Stitches in the morning.  There is so much to see there.  When we finished up there we decided to have lunch before we hit the road.  We walked down the street to a Mexican restaurant and had a great (and super-cheap) lunch.  Then we were on our way to Menasha!  Lisa Bongean has suggested that we stop in Ripon at a primitive shop.  I had the name wrong, so we had a little trouble finding it.  We first stopped at what was supposed to be a quilt shop (according to the Quilter's Travel Companion) but was now a coffee shop, and they directed us to the primitive shop.  It was just full of very cool stuff and also had the most wonderful puppy mascot that greeted us!  After taking in all of the primitive goodness and stretching our legs a bit, we were back on the road.  We arrived in Menash early in the afternoon - I gave Lisa a call and discovered that she and the girls were at her house (formerly known as The Gathering) sewing, so we headed that direction.  Lisa gave us the full tour and told us to stay in any of the rooms that we wanted (except her bed or Luke's room!).  As many of you know, the house is just wonderful!  Here are some pictures of the bedrooms upstairs...

Nice, big, walk-in shower

 Aren't all of the quilts wonderful?  I think I could have spent the rest of the day just looking at the different fabrics in each one.  But...we wanted to get to Primitive Gatherings to check out all the goodies there. I didn't ever take any pictures of the shop - not sure why because we were there every day for the next three days!  This is what I purchased on our first trip there...

I already had the pattern and wanted to make this quilt, so where better to buy the kit of fabrics than Primitive Gatherings!  We were at the shop for quite awhile - some of the girls wanted to see my jewelry, so we got that out and they picked some pieces that they wanted.  When we finished up there we went back to Lisa's and moved all of our stuff in.  We decided to sleep downstairs in the basement - I will show you pictures of that on my next post.  It was supper time already, so we ran and grabbed a sandwich and went back to the house to stitch.  We decided to only bring hand work with us, so it was easy to get right to work.  I took my Pink Lemonade quilt to hand quilt and also some of my wool Summertime blocks.  We just hung out and chatted and stitched and all of a sudden it was almost midnight!  Waaaayyyy past my bedtime - lol!  And that was the end of Day Two.  And a wonderful day it was!!