Fiberworks Quilt Shop and the bridge from the Untouchables movie

We are starting to work our way towards home again. The first day of driving is to get from our campsite in St. Mary’s to a hotel (and a real shower!) in Billings, Montana.

A quick note on a couple organizational things that help on our trips. If we are going from campground to campground, we leave the sleeping bags, pillows, and duffles with our clothes right in the camper. If we have a hotel night, then we just have to grab our duffle bags then. also, Jeff has a neat system so he doesn’t forget to do things with the camper (empty gray and black water, turn off propane tank, turn off the water heater, close the ceiling fan, etc). He has slap bracelets labeled with each one and wraps them around the steering wheel when we are at a campsite. Then he takes them off as each one gets done as we take down the camper. Trying to climb into a closed-up pop up camper on the side of the highway to try to close the ceiling fan is not fun, so this prevents that from happening!

As a quick stretch break on the day’s drive, we stopped at the bridge that was used in the movie, The Untouchables. It looks just like it did in the movie, though the movie portrayed it as at the Canadian border. It was in a very pretty valley with rocks and mountains all around it.

Once we got to the hotel we all took wonderful, hot, long showers. So luxurious! We had stayed at pretty rustic campgrounds and only the last one had a basic shower. We relaxed and all fell asleep early.

The next morning, we stopped at Fiberworks Quilt Shop. Laura Heine is a rockstar pattern and fabric designer in the quilting community and this is her shop and warehouse. She is known for designing collage quilts and I had just bought a couple of her patterns to make this summer with some friends. I was so excited to see that her shop was just a couple minutes away from our hotel!

The shop/warehouse has all her patterns and so many quilts made from her designs. I took a couple close ups of the pattern I just started working on and a couple others I really liked.