Home Again Home Again Jiggety Jig
Can you believe this view from my parent's deck (brought a bit closer by my new camera's telephoto lens!) They can see 5 mountain peaks from there. We had a great time visiting Nana and Pappa in Bend, Oregon. I shopped every quilt shop and one excellent knitting shop there, tons of thrift stores and ate way too much and drank just a few, lol, margaritas, a drink I cannot get here in the Emerald Isle without importing (and with liquid restrictions these days, ugh...not worth it!).
We played dominoes, the current family game craze for our extended family in Maryland and Oregon, every night, the kids loved days of playing pretend with nana while mommy had a few shopping excursions and Daddy got to ski a few times. Dave and I went to Sisters for the day, check out this cool quilt mural on the side of the public bathrooms, lol!! Can't wait to make it to Sisters for the Outdoor Quilt Festival one year. We had a great time! 
Look at this beautiful waterfall, Multnomah Falls, just outside of Portland, beautiful!! 
I did a little shopping, lol! I got some great knitting project goodies (socks and moebius baskets!) at a great knitting shop. I got Lorna's Laces for some nice socks, Manos de Uruguay for a felted basket. And some silk Noro for a shawl, yummy yarny goodness! I also got a set of Denise interchangeable needles, which are very cool!
Since I am a scrappy quilter, I didn't go crazy on fabric, but picked up a lot of scraps and FQs (lots of pink ones for Aine, lol!) I got some cool retro Amy Butler prints, but those will be for bags. I still love my repros for quilts, and check out the left part of the photo, all those were part of a 1 dollar scrap bag of repros and some osnaburg, very nice!I've got lots of tales of thrift store scores, are you interested in hearing some? I'll save my next post for some photos of cool quilts I got while thrifting! I wish I had been more organized to blog while on holidays, but the days just flew by!!
This is my year of family quilting, and I feel my aunt needs to be added to this list after the beautiful gift she gave me and Dave for Christmas. She is from Pendleton, Oregon and gifted us with this beautiful native american wool blanket from the Pendleton Woolen Mills. This is my aunt whose daughter, my cousin Chrissy, is still slowly recovering from her accident where she received a severe brain stem injury in May. We were told that Chrissy smiled at her little baby over Christmas, what a great sign!!
posted by Cathi at 12:06 AM
15 Comments:
I love knitting moebius cowls. They are not only fun to knit, but to wear.
Welcome back Cathi, you sure got some bargins! Glad you had a good trip.
Jodie
Welcome home. Good to have you in blogland again. Have missed you. It must have been a wonderful trip. The photos of the mountains are marvellous.
Welcome back. It sounds as if you had a ball.
So glad to hear that your cousin is making progress!
It sounds (and looks) like you had a wonderful trip. Your parents' view is awesome.
Welcome home, Cathi! We missed you! So glad you had a grand time back home...And had time for shopping too, such goodies! Your photos are FAB--the west looks so beautiful! Super news about your cousin--hope the miracles keep conituning for her. Happy Days! :o)
It sounds as if you had a marvelous time-those photos of the local scenery are incredible, what a delight! Looks like you also helped the local economy some!
Sounds like a fabulous trip! I'll look forward to hearing about your thrift shop experiences.
Looks like you had a fabulous time here. Your folks sure have a beautiful view. Are they outside of town a little bit or right in town? I knew you'd have fun in all the quilt shops there. Aren't you glad you got to Sister's too? They have so many neat shops in addition to Jean's. Did you find more yarn? I guess I should look in the pictures again. I was so busy noticing what fabrics you bought that I forgot to notice whether or not you bought yarn!
It was so much fun getting together. I hope we can do that again the next time you visit.
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Welcome back. Glad you had a good trip. Looks like you saw lots of pretty things, and inspirational too. And really good bargains to boot. No worries about not blogging during the trip, you needed to take the time to really enjoy every second of the experience.
Fun days with the family absolutely should just FLY by with little thoughts to Blogging!!! Of course, now that you are back home, things will settle back down into your routine and you will get a chance to upload some photos and share all your thrift shop finds with us!!! Sounds like you all had lots of fun!
Cheers!
Evelyn
Welcome home! Sounds like a wonderful trip, and I can't wait to hear about your thrift store finds!
What a great holiday! Looking forward to hearing about your op-shop finds too :-)
Those pictures are beautiful. I love the Pacific Northwest. I'm glad you had a good time on your trip home. Looks like you got some good shopping in. That's always my favorite part of a vacation too. :o)
I'm so happy to hear of your cousin's progress no matter how slow.
Can't believe how cute the Goodwill Houses are!
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