Southern Camping Trip 2024 / Day 18

St. Marys KOA Campground

St. Marys, Georgia

February 17, 2024 

Beach Quilt using the paper piecing method

Marc-  Our last day at St. Marys Campground.  We started the day off with breakfast at Steffen's Diner, an A+ establishment with great food and good prices.  It was a rainy day so we spent time visiting a hardware store (for new camper keys to replace a broken key) and another Quilt shop to find more  fabric.  We ended the day with a return trip to Fernandina Beach to see a Musical called Billy Elliot.  Set in the 1980's England during the coal strikes and how Maggie Thatcher solved the problem by nationalizing the mines and forcing the miners to return to work.  Billy Elliot is a coal miner's son who is taking boxing lessons in a studio that doubles as a ballet studio at night.  Billy stumbles into the studio one evening to return the keys and is taken by dancing.  He is a dance prodigy and is pushed by the dance instructor to apply to the Britain's Royal Ballet School.  After much push back from his coal miner Dad, Billy is in the end encouraged to try out.  The actors were terrific during the two hour show and we were able to meet all of them afterward.

We did breakfast.

Quilt shop discovery and a plan.

Marc laying out the fabric for this herringbone pattern for a table runner because I (Sue) could not figure it out.

Partially completed table runner.

Sue at work.

Small cruise ship at Fernandina Beach Marina.

Sue makes a friend.

Fernandina Beach Post Office

For those of you who have owned a Volkswagen (Note the license plate).

The Musical.

Meanwhile back at the camper.  A special Wordle word.  (Remember that the quilter's "stash" is a near sacred thing.)

Sue - We went to one more quilt store in Kingsland, GA (town next to St. Mary's).  Beyond Fabric.  This place, like so many I've seen, was nothing to look at from the outside, but pretty nice inside.  They had beautiful fabrics (I even saw swimmers on fabric, and some cat fabric called out to me but I pulled myself away from it), they had a "ribbon room," they also had a room full of upholstery fabric and sunbrella.  There was a very nice woman, Joyce, running the place today.  I bought 2 jelly rolls, and got a one time 20% off deal for my birthday which is not even this month.  You can use your birthday deal any time in a calendar year.  They had a few quilts hanging on the walls.  I told Joyce when I walked in there that I "didn't need anything," but just wanted to look.  2 jelly rolls later, I left.  Beyond Fabrics gets an A.  I will go back next year assuming we are in the area.