I found myself in town last night after dark. this beautiful fall scene is in the downtown Purple Haze Store. I’m pretty sure the copper contraption is used to distill oil from lavender.
Category: Downtown Sequim
Town Square
On the corner of Washington and Sequim Dungeness you can find lots of places to shop, meet friends, and see Sequim. I planned to have a coffee and do paperwork at the Hurricane while I was waiting for my car to have an oil change. I ended up meeting a friend and having a great chat.
Today is the last day of the APNQ quilt show in Seattle. It is hard to describe the quality of quilts…they are outstanding.
A New Building on Bell Street
You hear a great deal about the downturn in the housing market, the economy going south, and other concerns for our economic well being. There are those in Sequim who are doing their best to keep people working. I don’t know what this building will be…but I’ll do some sleuthing and see if I can let you know.
Over The Fence – Repost
I’ve included other posts about my favorite garden store, but I’m not sure if I’ve told you how I envy the owner because this huge rooster belongs to her. I would love to own him and have him in my garden…but truthfully, I don’t think he is for sale. Click for a previous post of “Over the Fence”.
Blue Whole Art Gallery
On my walk downtown Sunday evening, I spotted this piece. I’m not sure I would buy it for my home, but it certainly was well lit and caught my eye.
The Good Book
Next door to Hurricane Ridge Coffee Company is a very nice store called The Good Book. It was nice to see their window display had not yet caved in to the Christmas season.
Flower Baskets
Each year agricultural students at Sequim High School design and make these wonderful baskets. Some hang from the street lights…others like this one sit on the ground. A quality flower basket is not cheap to produce. Local businesses help sponsor this project. This one was sponsored by Hurricane Coffee Company. Wooden barrels of lavender will go out this week.
4 more days until the Lavender Festival and the Quilt Show
I am home after a week of sewing, classes, finishing UFO’s, quilt shows, shopping, etc. etc…and I am inspired. Since 1991, with one exception, I have traveled to Sisters, Oregon for the Quilters Affair and Quilt Show. I am never disapointed. Today I have included three thumbnails of projects I worked on while there. The first is the quilt pattern “Square Dance”, by Martha Thompson. The fabrics had been cut out for a long time…once I finally got it pieced, I discovered the yellow was too bright for the other fabrics…so it turned in to a perfect quilt to practice machine quilting. After the show, I will block and bind it.
The second thumbnail is one of the reasons I love digital photography. If you are unsure of block or value placement in a quilt, simply take a digital picture and you can instantly see where you need to make a switch. Can you tell where the value placement is incorrect in this wall hanging?
The third thumnail is a pattern I tested for Beach Garden Quilts a couple of years ago. At the time I was having a devil of a time with my points. It was put away and it was only last week that I finally got it all put together. The pattern is called Eagle Harbor Summer. I love the secondary patterns it creates. None of these quilts will be in this year’s show…tomorrow I will show you ones that will be.
