Quilt Shops: Sew Creative - Ashland OR

I've been in this store a few times and there is always something new to intrigue me. 

Sew Creative
115 E Main St, Ashland, OR 97520

Window Lace

I started crocheting when I was about 10.  Nothing spectacular, some afghans, baby and toddler clothes, etc......This window lace lasted about fifteen years before it finally fell apart from constant sunlight exposure..

NP - Grand Canyon

"We have had another wonderful experience together. Let those who will, buy lands and hoard money; we will have our memories, glad memories of golden experiences together." Margaret Gerke 1915

The Grand Canyon was part of the English Trip in 1929.  

It was one of the places that made Grammy and Grampy fall in love with Arizona.

Hermit's Rest 1929

1929

1929

We stopped in the Grand Canyon on a trip to visit Grammy in Green Valley in 1982, and both Jess and Andi spent a week camping there with their class when they were in 7th grade.

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Grand Canyon of the Colorado River - Thomas Moran

"...keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. Leave it as it is. You can not improve it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and all who come after you as one of the greatest sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.  
Theodore Roosevelt 1903

Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite

Atlas Obscura Guide to the Grand Canyon

Puzzled

For Quinlan

CSP - Samuel P Taylor

The last of my 4th of July park visits, Samuel P Taylor State Park is in the coastal hills in Marin County.  It was crowded the day I visited, and I'm sure that if you want to camp you would need to make reservations way ahead.  There are also cabins that can be rented.  

Much as I love the ocean, this is my favorite terrain, creeks, ferns, trees .... lots of  green.  I couldn't resist a bit of a hike.

For Tim and Denise

This is another early quilt (1990) that I had totally forgotten about......It is on the bed in Tim's office now.


Like most of the early quilts it was pieced and then hand quilted.....a few were machine quilted using stitch in the ditch.

NHS - Fort Point

I started out planning to join  a City Guides walk across the Golden Gate.....but crowds are never my thing and it was looking crowded...so I walked from the bridge down to Fort Point. It was a grand day and a wonderful hike!!!

Fort Point, built between 1855 and 1863 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, was designed to protect the city's commercial and military installations from foreign attacks.

There is a small lighthouse on top of one of the fort's staircases.  Standing 28 feet high, it was built in 1863.  It was the third lighthouse on the site.  I will be honest I didn't see it at first, it is barely visible to the hiker.  But looking at pictures from our Bay to Bridge hike in 2014, I found a great picture of it,

Bay to Bridge Hike 2014

The websites below outline the history of both the fort and the lighthouse....but only walking will give you the feel for the area!!











NPS - Fort Point National Historic Site
Fort Point - Wikipedia

US Lighthouses - Fort Point

Lighthouse Friends - Fort Point 

Wikipedia - Fort Point

Pictures 2019 CAT

Roof of Fort Point- Taber #2811

Double Up

About ten years ago I had this great idea....I was going to do a double sided quilt and do all the quilting on my very small Janome Jem.  It was an experiment, I added rows and quilted as I went.  I turned out, a fun quilt but both the machine and I were worn out by the end.  I now rent a long arm for all LARGE quilts although I still do lap quilts on my home machine.


I kept this quilt and use it on my bed a couple months a year with one side up or the other.

Quilt Store: Country Lady - Roseburg Oregon

In all the years I've traveled through Oregon I had never stopped in Roseberg.  It had a wonderful downtown street and a great quilt store.  While some stores are fun to see once this is one I definitely could stop in again.

Country Lady Quilt Shop
611 SOUTHEAST JACKSON STREET
ROSEBURG, OR, 97470
541-673-1007
http://www.countryladyquiltshop.com/