We arrived safe and sound at Alice’s yesterday, and this morning we went straight up to the sewing room…. and a very nice sewing room it is too! Alice had a spot ready for me to play with Hannah, her second sewing machine… With a basket full of energy that I doubt I will finish…
Gotham Quilts was a really fun quilt shop to visit… it was near the Empire State Building – if I had known that I’d have gone earlier… but probably not a good idea to go there twice.. I spent enough on one trip 🙂 When we walked in we were greeted by these lovely ladies:…
In amongst all the sight seeing we managed to fit in two quilt shops 🙂 Of course 🙂 I mean really, what is the use of a quilter going to the US if she can’t go to lots of quilt shops???? Right? Right 🙂 First shop was called Candy’s Quilting… There was lots of lovely…
We were also in walking distance to the 9/11 Memorial… so after the Brooklyn Bridge we headed in that direction… We stopped along the way for lunch and I had a Manhattan Bagel: Pretty yummy – it had cream cheese, smoked salmon, tomato and red onion… Not sure what made it typically “Manhattanish” but it…
I’m afraid you’re all going to have to put up with more than one post a day during this trip because there is just so much to blog about… Our hotel is very close to the Brooklyn Bridge.. so after brecky yesterday we walked over there… oh, our hotel doesn’t have a restaurant, so we’ve…