Portland Spring Quilt Market

Shelley Stokes of Cedar Canyon Textiles asked me to help her and Mary Brandt in the Paintstik booth at Spring Quilt Market in Portland, OR. Then Shelley got sick, is getting better, but decided to just teach and not have a booth. But since the room was paid for I could still come along.

First, flying from Newark to Portland leaves a lot of time to hand quilt, read and watch two movies (thank you Continental). And when the flight has many others in quilting, you also get to talk to some of them. Got to sit next to Rayna Gillman (fabric printer extraordinare) and chat a little with Mark Lipinski.

When you don't have to set up a booth, it means you have lots of extra time. After Shelley and Mary picked me up at the airport, we checked in at the Convention Center. Saw where the booth wasn't going to be and checked on some other locations. Then we headed downtown for lunch and a visit to the world's largest bookstore, Powell's City of Books. Believe the claim. It's almost a full city block and three floors of books, used and new. Wish we had more time there. Really wish I had gotten a picture of the pillar outside the entrance. It's a stack of books.

Yesterday, we drove out to Multnomah Falls, one of the larger falls in the US (excluding Hawaii) and a little of the historical highway where we saw several other falls.

The day was gorgeous, but the falls are better seen in the afternoon, when the sun is shining into the canyon.

Did I say it was a beautiful day?

Thanks to Mary Brandt for some of the pictures. She certainly has a good eye.
Today Shelley does a Take and Teach before the show opens then we have the rest of the day free.
Be happy