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Happy "Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day"

I hope no one is reading this! Rather - I hope every one of you are out visiting your favorite quilt and fabric shops and showering them with appreciation and love!

A little bird told me that Marie at Cool Cottons has cookies to share! If you are in Portland today - be sure to visit!

Cool Cottons! If I were to be exiled to a desert island and could take only one fabric store - I would take Cool Cottons!!

The shop is incredibly warm and inviting; the owner, Marie, is always ready to assist - brilliantly I might add - with fabric selections; the shop carries only very good quality fabrics; and the inventory of beautiful fabric bolts is arranged by color families.

When my first check arrived for sales in the Pumpkin Patch gift shop, my sweetie suggested that I should use the money for something I really wanted - something just for me! A treat - not craft supplies! Or socks! So I ordered something I have been waiting four years to own - one of the sweet little fairies created by master doll maker, Cynthia Toy.

We have a winner!

I wrote all the names on slips of paper and my very impartial sweetie drew a name!

(I use this method for selecting a winner because several readers respond to the newsletter version of GBSN and I don't want to exclude them!)

The winner of the September Shopping Spree has a shop that actually was featured in the July Shopping Spree!

Michele Pacey!

Mega Crafty is opening a shop on Etsy!

And the pdf tutorial and pattern for this adorable Halloween jack-o-lantern party invitation (or greeting card) is the very first item for sale!