Trip to Guthrie, OK

Today our prayer shawl group took a trip to Guthrie, OK. Since we've been to Fort Worth twice on the train, we decided to do something different (and closer). Guthrie was the state capital of Oklahoma when it became a state back in 1907; the capital was later moved to Oklahoma City. Guthrie is about 30 miles north of OKC (Norman is 20 miles south of OKC). It has beautiful architecture, lots of antique shops, bed & breakfasts and a dinner theatre that people come from miles around to go to. Back about six weeks ago, there was a Groupon online for $30.00 of merchandise for

$15.00 at a yarn shop in Guthrie named S.W.A.K. (sealed with a kiss). Several of us purchased one and then the trip was born! It was a beautiful fall day here albeit a little windy!

This was a Fiddle shop down the street from the yarn shop. There were "fiddles" hanging in the third floor windows.

This building was across the street from the yarn shop. It holds a glass-blowing shop and a whimisical gift shop/art gallery. Cool stuff in there!

Here's the front of the yarn shop.

Walking around downtown Guthrie looking at all the historical markers, I came across this one. Interesting....

This was in the middle of town too. Right beside a drug store.

This is where we had lunch. It was very good. We were the only ones in there but we had a group of 12 and took up a lot of the room!

I liked this window on the side of one of the buildings.

I think this was the old state capital building.

This is our group outside the yarn store.

These are my purchases. I bought this little collapsible market basket to put my yarn and projects in on the loveseat beside me at home.

I bought some more needle stoppers and a new prayer shawl pin. I also found these cute little "angel" embroidery scissors at a unique fabric shop.

I bought both of these old spice racks that I'm going to paint and put fingernail polishes and craft paint in. Saw the idea on Pinterest!

At the fabric store, the lady had just gotten in some OKC Thunder Fabric. I bought a yard of it.

Kristen has this Chesapeake Thunder t-shirt that she's been holding and wanting me to make her a t-shirt dress from. I'm going to use the material I purchased to make the ruffle to go around the bottom. Cool, huh?