Temporary Blogger!: Friday. Tillamook to Bend via Sisters.

PMbTo be continued!!

We started the morning with a very short ride (about 1 minute) to the Latimer Quïlt and Textile Center. Here they have climate controlled storage for quilts and other textiles. Each are stored in boxes labelled with a picture and size of the Quïlt.

They have received quilts in many different ways some just dropped off and therefore they know no history. Others they are donated and so history maybe known. We got to watch a "Quïlt turning" which we had been puzzled about. However it was like a trunk show with the quilts or sometimes just Quïlt tops laid on a bed. The guide spoke about the top Quïlt and gave any information they had and then turned (folded) that Quïlt up to the top of the bed and continued with the next Quïlt.

This first was a table topper made from the silk that wrapped cigars

A quilt top with many bunches of balloons (tiny stuffed yo-ups.)

This next on was tied twice to the front and to the back.

While at the Latimer centre we also a watched a weaving demonstration.

Another bonus was meeting Arlene Sachitora, a local author who just happened to write Quilting mysteries. So several of us now have signed copies of one of her books.

We then drove on to Salem. Many changes in scenery again as we left the coast. Here we had a great stop at GreenBaums Quilted Forest.

On to Sisters. In line for our supper right after our wonderful guide Corilea told us they didn't have tickets for us!'

I was gullible enough to look shocked!

We had an awesome picnic BBQ with about 850 other quilters in the park in Sisters. It was very well organized and we were led directly to our tables by one of the volunteers.

Very quickly they served us all hamburgers, potato salad and watermelon. Kettle chips and the fixings were already on each table. Alex Anderson led us in singing Happy 40th Birthday to the Sisters Outdoor Quïlt Show.

We were then treated to a display and singing from the Gee's Bend quilters.