The Old Country Store

The Old Country Store in Intercourse, PA is one of my all time favorites.  I first went to that store in 1988 when we went on a family trip and camped near by.  I had been quilting a little before that but that is around the time I really got interested in it.  This was I believe the 4th time we have been here and I enjoyed it just as much as I always have.  Of course I found some good buys.  The old Country Store is now selling some items on line – for the fabric this is their fabric bundles of fat quarters.  They are not sold as inexpensive as when you buy by the bolt but the prices are not bad.  If you go to the link above and then go to the on-line store you will see what they have.  I can tell you that the photo’s they show are very close to the true colors of the fabric as what you see pictured is what they have in the store and I looked at all of them.

Besides the store mentioned above we also found “Zooks Dry Goods” that I had been told about.  Zooks doesn’t have a web page but if you are in the area and looking for it – it is across the street and down a block from the Country Store.

I had items in mind that I wanted to find.  I mentioned awhile back that I want to make the applique quilt called “Little Brown Bird”.  The Old Country Store did not have the amount of yardage that I needed for the background fabric – 8 yards, but I did find it at Zooks.  It is a light ivory of the moda marble line and would you believe they sell it for $5.99 a yard!  On the page with this link it sells for $8.25 a yard.  It is actually an ivory but the marbled part is kind of light beige so you can see some texture.  I got the 9 yards on the bolt that they had.  I saved at least $35 on it when you add in shipping and handling if I had to order it and have it sent to me.

Besides the partial bolt of the moda marble ivory I also got 4 – 8 packs of fat quarters in graduated colors in the moda marble line for all the flowers and leaves and things that go in that quilt.  I will also pull fabric from my stash for these and possibly still have to find bits and pieces to make the baskets with and other odds and ends in this quilt.

I got a bar of homemade soap that is supposed to make your hands soft as can be at the Old Country Store and a couple notions.  Not a bad haul for one day!!  I totally refrained myself from buying books and patterns of which I have plenty and really, really do not need any more ideas!!

Here is a photo of my loot — Mike has not had time to go through all the photo’s taken today or the ones from Gettysburg.  Hopefully I can get some of them up tomorrow or the next day.  The lighting for this photo was a little off and the fabric on the bolt shows up white here, it really does have a bit more color in it than that!  – it is laying on the bed in the camper on my log cabin quilt that I bring with us.  It has pine trees in the center – one I designed myself.