Get ready for the most exciting quilt shop hop you've ever experienced; with 49 quilt shops waiting to fulfill your quilting adventure! This spring marks the sixth year for the Circle of Friends Montana Shop Hop, the largest quilting shop hop in the United States. Each year we strive to bring you the latest products and the best fabric shopping experience in the world.

Montana boasts seven shops having been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Quilt Sampler Magazine as exceptional quilt shops.  But better yet, we want you to see all of these fine shops!  Explore the beauty of Montana and shop 'til you drop at the finest quilt shops in Montana.

This April 18th through May 10th 2008, see our world famous quilt shops with your friends and family. The more shops you visit, the more you can win!

Go..Go..Go! Print your passport now, or grab your passport at the first store you shop or print the map and shops listed below as your passport and take it with you to each store to be stamped for verification.

There are three Mystery Quilts this year. One mystery is in the North and Southwest circles, another is in the North Central and South Central Circles, and the third Mystery Quilt is in the Big Sky and Eastern Circles. Visit each shop in these groups and collect all the mystery clues and purchase kits from each shop for their respective mystery. There are unique patterns at each shop;  make a memory of your Montana Shop Hop adventure!

Each store has great prizes to win!  Each circle you complete, makes you eligible for the First Prize in that circle and puts you in the drawing for the Grand Prize, a Babylock Quilter's Edition Sewing Machine offered by Glacier Quilts of Kalispell, MT.

Here are the rules: There are six First Prize drawings, one for each circle
in the shop hop. Each circle you complete enters you into that First Prize
drawing. To be eligible for the Grand Prize, you must complete at least one
circle. Each additional circle you complete gains you one more First Prize
& Grand Prize entry. Complete the Eastern Circle and get two entries for
Grand Prize! You can only be eligible for the Grand Prize by completing at
least one circle. Second Prizes can be won by those who shop 15 or more
stores during the shop hop without completing a circle.

We'll be updating the list of prizes soon!


*Grand Prize winner is responsible for IRS taxes.