As promised, I’m giving you a brief peek at the three shops I was lucky enough to visit while in Tennessee with my family. I would have liked to visit more, but as previously stated, I was there with my family and they can only take so much! And I can only take so much of them taking so much, vicious cycle!
First I went to The Cherry Pit in Sevierville.
What a nice shop. The owner, Jane Washington and her staff are so friendly. Jane told me her husband, George Washington, gets told all the time that he looks like the George Washington, hence the name, The Cherry Pit.
I next visited Machine Quiltin’ by Iva also in Sevierville. (No photo available, & I wasn’t thinking about that at the time.) Iva has the largest selection of pre-cuts that I’ve ever seen in one shop!
Thirdly, I visited Mountain Stitches By Susan (love that name!) in Gatlinburg.
Susan’s shop is part of the Great Smoky Mountains Arts & Crafts Community. So, not only does she sell fabrics, patterns & the like, but 52% of her sales have to be made by her own hands. She has a quilting machine in another shop across the boardwalk where she machine quilts the quilts she sells in her shop.
What a neat place to visit. While I was in Susan’s shop, my family found a great little ice cream shop across the way from Susan and we had some fantastic hot fudge malts made with locally made ice cream, yum!!
Also as previously stated, we used the GPS my brother, David, bought me for Christmas. Thank goodness for that! Not only did it simplify things A LOT, for instance it also took us around Gatlinburg to get to Susan’s shop. That’s a cool little town, but the traffic is really heavy with walking traffic constantly crossing the street. We ate there one night, went putt putt golfing one night and shopped there several times during the week we were in Tennessee. Cool place to visit and people watch!
If you get the chance to go to the area do it. There are even more quilt shops really close by. Maybe next time!
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 