Row by Row Experience

[dw]

I thought I should put this over here...still thinking about it as it sounds like fun. Just google it and you'll see.

[farmchix]

I'm not a big fan. I am probably in the minority. I would rather spend money on a pattern I really really like.

[dw]

I have never done this but I like those license plates! The theme is water so I'm not sure I will like any of the patterns. When we go on vacation, I always go to at least one fabric store so I am thinking of an adventure just to get some of those plates.

[Gretchen]

The patterns are free.

You can BUY a kit if you want but you don't have to. If you are like me, you already have fabrics to use.

[Deleted]

I just have to add to the conversation. Beware - in a happy way - of saying to friends who travel and quilt, to go ahead and pick up a row by row for me too, and oh, get the license plate while you're at it. Mistake, expensive mistake. 

A group of ladies picked up Row by Rows for me while they were all over the US last summer. I ended up with 66 kits and 14 patterns. The patterns are free. Not, the kits or the license plates that go with them. Needless to say, I'm not Row by Rowing this year. No, you can't make me! Yes, isn't that one cute. No, No. 

Into it all by, well let's say each kit is more or less $10. License plates are $10 (didn't get all of them). So, do the math. I'm in up to my eyebrows. 

Ok, so what will I do with them all? I'm going to make them into individual quilted pieces and hang them around the quilt room. (it's a garage conversion) 

Might take a while to get them all done.

No one said quilting was an inexpensive hobby. Or for the faint of heart. BTW - I'm still married. But, I've put myself on a restricted fabric diet. Ha!

[Gretchen]

Let me repeat, the patterns are FREE! You do NOT have to buy a kit. Take a picture of the store's row so you can remember what it is like just in case the pattern is not well written.

You do NOT have to buy the license plate either.

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Apr 13, 2015 19:05:15 GMT Gretchen said:

Let me repeat, the patterns are FREE! You do NOT have to buy a kit. Take a picture of the store's row so you can remember what it is like just in case the pattern is not well written.

You do NOT have to buy the license plate either.

If that was for me Gretchen, yes I knew that the patterns were free. But, But, the kits were so very cute. And, all the material is there and, and. . .  Well, you get the drift. I got carried away. 

Yes, if you are in an area with a Row by Row store during the promotion stop by. Interesting stores. Beautiful stores. Just a wonderful time to see and do. Not at all knocking the Row by Row Experience. 

Those same friends of mine are headed to Canada to do 2 weeks of row by row this summer. They tell me their's a place in the car. Nope, nope not going. Nope I say, nope.

[Gretchen]

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as such a smart mouth. 

You do need to check the patterns though. Yoder Dept Store, in Shipshewana, Indiana, row is log cabin with a black horse & buggy appliqued on the top of the logs. However, in the free pattern, they do not include a pattern for the horse and buggy. You either buy the kit or they do have the applique available with fusible backing already on.

I didn't do the Row by Row last year but I did buy a kit at Yoder's because I thought the row was cute. Before I appliqued the buggy, I made  a copy of it on my copier. Now I can make my own.

[dw]

I have had some fun collecting and my husband loves to drive so we have made a couple road trips. He says if I'm busy sewing in the winter it keeps me out of his hair. I think I have 20 plates (a couple coming in the mail). It is amazing how some patterns are awesome and some look like a 3rd grader drew it. It should keep me busy all winter. Looks as though two quilts worth. FUN!