Thursday, April 27, 2006

Let’s Retreat over the mountains to Sisters, Oregon

SISTERS, OREGON... A bunch of quilters from the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild have left this morning to have a retreat in Sisters. Until Sunday the group will be staying in a cabin in that neat little community. It's just over the Cascade Mountains from here in Linn County.

Sounds like fun… The Tollgate Retreat. Sleeping arrangements sounds like more fun… 2 double beds, 4 single beds, and 2 foam pads. But Sue has more… A queen aerobed that will sleep 2. Ten or twelve ladies in a cabin quilting, eating, and talking, talking and talking… Quilters really seem to like that sort of thing.

How strange… Especially when there is some premier fly-fishing just back up the hill in Camp Sherman. The latest Web reports say… “FISHING: Good on the famed Metolius River and there have been some great caddis hatches!”

So quilt on ladies… The cabin provides toilet paper, towels, dish soap and other common household products… So you are all set. All you need to bring is sewing tables and pillows “to make folding chairs more comfortable”.

‘Course they took food and all that quilting stuff! Plus they are just three miles from that little quilt shop, the Stitchin’ Post. As some may know the Stitchin’ Post is the sponsor and home of the 31st Annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. This event, also known as “The Largest Outdoor Quilt Show in the World”, will be held on Saturday, July 8, 2006.

That’s to come… Now it’s just a small quilting retreat and no fly-fishing!