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| What's the craziest pitstop you've ever made on the way to a quilt store? Ever made a lifelong friendship while on a shop hop? Quilters the world over have tons of travel memories and stories to tell. Share a couple here! | return to the home page |
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| Spring 2007, my life-long friend, Amy (we met on the way home from school when I was in 1st Grade, and she was in Kindergarten), and I decided that we needed to spend some quality 'girl time' together. Our sons were 18, and nearly out of school -- mine was out, hers was in his senior year. She was half-way through her Master's program at the University of Buffalo. She wanted adventure, so we chose New York City as our destination for an extended weekend. She is a clothes sewer, and wanted to hit the Fashion District and the multitude of fabric shops there. I had one request. That we visit The City Quilter in Manhattan, NYC, NY -- a shop I'd found in The Quilt Sampler. On our way to The City Quilter, Amy and I came upon the filming of The Bourne Ultimatum. We were walking "uptown" along Fashion Ave (aka 7th), and were typical tourists. We paused to take a photo, and the security guards, which appeared to be placed every 10 feet along this one block kept saying "Keep moving! Nothing to see here! Nothing to see!" When we got to the corner we weren't sure which direction we needed to turn (left or right) to get to the shop. We tried pausing for a second to orient our map. The security force was getting nasty. Asking them which way to turn to get to 133 West 25th Street,did no good. I held my ground, oriented the map and said the directions say it's between 6th and 7th. This is 7th. We're right here <*finger pointing at the map*>. So, we need to go left. Wecrossed the street. Luckily, I was correct because there was no way we were going to go near those nasty security people again! Thankfully, the shop was only a few yards down the street -- just past the crowd control barricades. As we were entering the shop, we heard the call "Clear the set ... ready to roll." A few minutes later, we heard some screeching tires, yelling, and gunshots. GUNSHOTS! My girlfriend and I, both smalltown girls, looked at each other. We simultaneously asked each other if that was a gunshot. The other patrons of the store, and the store staff just shrugged and said "They're filming." We laughed because we had come through the set. We knew that. While in the shop, I purchased two of the featured kits that were shown in The Quilt Sampler (one for me, and one to convert Amy to quilting), and had the opportunity to join in a class taught by Cathy Corcella -- featuring her New York Silhouette Kit, a stunning "Hawaiian" wall hanging that caught my attention the second I entered the shop. As we were leaving The City Quilter, headed toward our car parked near the Empire State Building, we decided that the best time to kill anyone in NYC was during filming, because no one would react. They would assume it was all part of the filming. A few months later, in August, Amy joined me in New England for my birthday. We took time out of our busy sightseeing tour to go to a theater to watch The Bourne Ultimatum. (It's not typically a movie that either one of us would watch, but we were excited because we had been there.) We sat through the whole movie, and finally there was "our" scene -- in the last few minutes of the film. We left the theater saying to our companions "Well? What did you think? Did you see us?" Our companions knew our tale and how we were not in the movie, but several people exiting the theater with us thought that we were serious. We were"film stars" for a few minutes as we told the strangers the truth. I'm sure they went to work on Monday and told their co-workers that they met two ladies who were 'extras' in the movie. For Christmas, Amy received a special present. The DVD of the movie, so that she could show her family 'her scene.' I certainly will never forget my first visit toThe City Quilter |
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