My First Fabric Based Bus Trip- Eastern PA Fabric Shops

I really feel like I can call myself a fabric addict now. 

I went on a bus trip, sat on the bus for 2+ hours just to get to the destination, and woke up before 5am to get to the meeting point, all to BUY FABRIC! Oh, and look at tons of really awesome quilts too.

Wanna know where I went??

Lancaster, PA, of course!

Here's the shops that were on "the list":

• Sauder's
• Burkholder's
• The Old Country Store
• Zook's
• Bitty Kinna's
• The Quilt & Fabric Shack, Bird-In-Hand, PA
• Log Cabin

I think that Burkholder's, Log Cabin, and Zook's were my favorite, and in that order. Sauder's and Zook's had the best prices by far, and had a really big selection too.

I didn't get into Bitty Kinna's, but heard from the other ladies on the trip that it was quite nice.

Burkholder's was so pretty to just walk inside and look around. They had the store so well organized, it was almost like fabric heaven. They even had a playground outside, genius!

This is what one of their isles looked like, I wish they had a photo of what it looks like once you walk in the door, breathtaking. Just look:

(Photo from Burkholder's site)

The new "thing" in fabrics is fruits and veggies. These fabrics were everywhere! I got a FQ pack at Burkholders that was folded up like a 6 point star, so very cute. Here's a pic of the vast selection (so yummy, hehe):

(Photo from Burkholder's site)

I even took my soon-to-be eight-year-old (her birthday is next month), and she had fun too! She was much more well behaved than I even hoped she would be, woohoo! Kit had to come along too, of course.

I'll post a few photos of the goodies I got soon.

Sauder's had the cheapest prices of all the stores we ventured to (and I bought almost all of my fabric from this shop). The shop itself felt like someone's basement, with an attic room that housed their bolt sale. I totally didn't have a problem with it, but it just didn't give it any bonus points for me. Thanks for the Beatle's Panels for only $2 each! yea.

In the downstairs of The Quilt & Fabric Shack, they had lots of notions for really cheap! I found some sleeping bag zippers for only $8.75! For reals...

For lunch, we ate at the Kettle Cafe. They had a soup of the day that was Chicken & Corn soup, ohh so yummy!! And, my little LuLu had a chicken nugget meal which she got a coupon to decorate a gingerbread cookie, much fun!

We finished up the trip with dinner at CiCi's pizza. It was fun and totally great for kids. Miss LuLu got to veg out and watch SpongeBob, she was very happy.

Can't WAIT till next year's trip!!