Each year there is a Missouri Shop Hop in the months of August and September. This year there were 70 shops throughout the state that participated. At each shop, you would get a stamp for your passport and a 5" square fabric that was created just for that location. 

Once the shop hop was over, you have a certain number of days to mail in your passport to have you name submitted into drawings for each region that you complete. If you complete the entire state, you also get your name entered into a drawing for some really good grand prizes.

I had finished one region, so I also received a block for the completed region. 

Each shop created different quilts that you could replicate or create your own design using the shop blocks that you received. Each year has a a different theme and a special fabric collection is created to match theme, which is great because you can design a different quilt each year. Each shop will carry this fabric, but sometimes it goes real fast, so don't wait until the last week to buy or you might miss out on finding any still available.

My plan is to create a design that will incorporate all of my 13 shop blocks as well as my regional block. It was a fun experience in the fact that I got to see parts of the state that I had never seen and probably will never see again.

The shops I visited!

All my loot!

Fabric I chose that was designed just for the shop hop!

Individual shop hop blocks

Individual shop hop blocks