Category Archives: Long Meadow Farms Quilts

Posts about my lady’s quilting business. Quilted items hand made in Vermont and she does all of it herself.

Spending the 4th of July in Island Pond

We took Long Meadow Farms Quilts to Island Pond, VT this forth of July just to see if the tent would blow away this time. Actually that’s not true since we brought both her old station wagon and my old Jeep Cherokee, the latter to which we secured her display tent. The wind did indeed [...]

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Bear bearing sign | A sign of warm weather?

Tis the coming of Spring and with the Spring means a new version of one of the two faithful old folding type signs that adorn the front parking lot of the building where Laurie’s quilt shop is located.
Since it’s arrival, this sign has been many things including a snowman and an Easter bunny holding up [...]

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Another Day at the Quilt Shop

With my lady over the mountain in St. Johnsbury attending the end of Vermont’s Fall Festival in her Long Meadow Farms Quilts guise, I’m spending the day watching her quilt shop. With all the leaf peepers around this weekend I’m hoping to sell them lots of stuff and make my lady’s fortune…or at least a [...]

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The New Quilt Shop-A few Pics

I wanted to post a few “before and after” pics of the new quilt shop before I turned in for the evening. Laurie and I (especially Laurie) have been working hard the last week to get ready to open on June 1st and we actually made it! So here’s some of the results…
Front of shop [...]

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Open Studio Weekend. Last Event at the Old Shop.

It’s Memorial Day Weekend here in Vermont and that means it’s also the weekend of the annual Vermont Open Studio Weekend where artisans and crafters have the opportunity to show off their various genuine “Made in Vermont” arts and crafts to the tourists and put on demonstrations. Tourists and locals alike with map in hand [...]

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Moving Long Meadow Farms Quilt Shop

You all will have to excuse me from publishing any in-depth type posts here for the next week or so as my honey and I are in the midst of moving her quilt shop to a better location and from now until the end of May is going to be a killer for us. We’re [...]

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A Quilting We Will Go

I’m headed to the Quilt Shop this morning while Laurie is on her bi-monthly business run down south (central Vermont that is). Some big changes coming up for shop in the next couple months or so, changes for the better we hope. In the meantime I’ll be gone for a good part of the day [...]

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A 2 Day Snowstorm-Minding the Shop

The Northeast Kingdom is looking forward to a two day snow storm beginning around 10:00 AM this morning and guess where my better half is right now? About 2 hours south of here attempting to take care of the usual quilt shop business that springs up around this time of the year (first sign that [...]

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