Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Here it is Tuesday...I got to spend Saturday at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. It was a long day...up at 6a.m. for a two hour drive to Sisters. The show starts at 9 a.m. We walked around for 2-3 hours...and then back to the shuttle, back to the car and home. Good seven hour trip, anyway you add it up.  The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is a big event and it has really spread out to include the entire town. Seems like more businesses participated by having quilts hung outside their business...But, it is along hike. A side note...I do not walk far or well, due to a back injury. So, by the time I have walked with the aid of my cane from one end of the town to the other and then back again, I am done. And my quilts...well, they were at opposite ends of the town. We were dropped by the shuttle behind the famous Stitchin Post Fabric Store. So, the first thing we got to view were the quilt blocks...YEAH! I got to see mine, with a white ribbon. This year, they had a top winner and four runners up. The sad part is that out of 167 blocks, there were only 70 from the United States...the rest were from Japan. Come on American Quilters, we should be able to do better than that. But, the Japanese blocks were beautiful and another look into quilting designs. My big quilts, was hanging not too far from the where that blocks were. I could see it across the parking lot. Now, where was my other one. I had decided that I would walk until I found the second one...at the other end of town. So, we stopped at Dutch Bros for a coffee and rested...then back across town. The past two years they have added a shuttle service from the high school. It is great..we don't have to drive around and around and around looking for parking. And, then the long walk into town. Park at the school, get in the van and you are dropped in the middle of the activities. But, it was such a fun day...the weather cooperated and was not blazing hot. Now, I am awaiting the return of my quilts and my winning (fourth runner up) block!

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