31 January 2026
Jonathan Dickinson State Park
Jupiter, Florida
Tropical seas quilt.
Marc- Our first mission today was to refill a propane tank before the temperatures tanked to 29 degrees overnight. Mission accomplished thanks to the friendly Ace Hardware of Vero Beach. We came north to Vero to visit with my cousin Armand, his daughter Michelle and his son Michael. They live in Latham, New York when not here enjoying Vero.
We also went to two Quilt shops. Sue found fabric for a quilt she wants to make.
Sebastian, FL
Amazing spiral pattern quilt on display.
Excellent detail.
Hummingbird.
Melbourne, FL
Sue - I forgot that 2 years ago when we went on a Winter trailer camping trip that I was rating the quilt shops we visited in this blog. But I ended up saying they were all really good, so it was a bit pointless. The shop in Sebastian is one we went to 2 years ago and it was a bright shiny friendly place. It hadn't changed. I was looking for a pretty much all black background fabric. Not pure black but black with "a little something." I also wanted rainbow fabrics without much of a pattern. I didn't find it there. They told us they had another shop in Melbourne that was 3 times larger. After we had lunch with Armand, et al, we headed to Melbourne. I looked for quilt shops on my phone and saw that Sew Much Fun was open until 6, assumed that was where we wanted to go, and it wasn't. It is a completely different name, but that didn't sink in. Turns out Sweet Time Quilting in Melbourne closed at 3pm anyway.
Sew Much Fun has only been open a few months and took over from another quilt store. It's pretty good sized, has friendly people, is not quite the bright fresh beautiful place Sweet Time Quilting is, but I found what I wanted. I wasn't thinking about getting batiks, but that's what I got. A Robert Kaufman rainbow fat quarter assortment, and a Robert Kaufman black background with a little something in it - Marc says blue and I say green - a hazy little something that I can barely see. I need to make a disappearing 9 patch quilt for a guild challenge, and this is what I plan to make it with.
Tomorrow morning it's supposed to be 29 degrees. The farmers are very concerned about their crops, and people are concerned about their pipes. Peggy & John Brewster, and Craig & Donna Lewis are getting snow in Myrtle Beach right now. This is nuts. When we came back to the campground today the staff told us to leave our faucets open a bit tonight, as well as our gray water tank. We will certainly comply.
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