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10A • July 31, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com ‘Crazy’ quilters flock to Row by Row challenge laughed. “Because we’re all crazy!” By Erick Bengel EO Media Group Wanna score some fat quarters? How about 25 fat quarters, a whole stack cleaned and creased and ready to cut? Think you can handle it? There’s some local quilt shops and fabric stores that can hook you up. Ah, not so fast: First you must have the Row by Row Experience, an annual com- petitive quilting craze that took off in 2011 and has since gone viral (yes, quilting can do that, too). Here’s how it works. Each participating store has designed a pattern for a row of quilting blocks based on the year’s theme; the 2015 theme is water (“Row by Row H20”). Visit eight of these stores. At each one, pick up the free pattern, or buy a kit with the fabric already pre- pared. Make a quilt by stitch- ing together the eight rows in some creative con¿guration. Take your ¿nished quilt, bound and labeled, to any participating store — if it’s the ¿rst ¿nished quilt to ar- rive, those fat quarters are yours. (A fat quarter, by the way, is a wide quarter-yard of fabric; 25 fat quarters — 6 and 1/4 yards of fabric — can equal $75 worth of fabric and more.) Row by Row kicked off July 1, and participants can collect row patterns through Sept. 8. They have until Oct. 31 to bring their quilt to a shop that hasn’t seen a winner yet. “Last year, I didn’t know what it was, and when I re- alized what it was, I signed up right away,” said Eda Lindstrom, owner of Custom Threads in Astoria. For her store’s design, she chose a Rabid quilters DANI PALMER/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Julie Walker, owner of Center Diamond Fabric Store in Cannon Beach, holds up their Haystack Rock pattern for the Row by Row Experience. Columbia River scene with breaching orcas. A few blocks away, at Lydia Sorenson’s store, Homespun Quilts, the design is a group of ¿sh and Melly¿sh swimming around corals. On average, the stores see between ¿ve and 10 Row by Row enthusiasts per day. They have sold hundreds of kits. And, at both stores, those prized fat quarters are still sitting there, waiting to be claimed. “It’s a great marketing scheme,” Sorenson said, smiling. Fighting for scraps The queen quilter behind the Row by Row Experience is Janet Lutz, owner of Calico Gals in Syracuse, N.Y. Lutz, noticing how on- line sales had hurt traditional quilt shops, founded Row by Row four years ago to boost the sales of brick-and-mor- tar shops during the summer months. (Quilting, after all, tends to be a “winter sport,” she said.) Thanks to word of mouth — the “power of the people,” she said — the idea snow- balled very quickly, grow- ing from 20 stores entirely in New York to 2,655 stores in all 50 states and several Canadian provinces. Oregon and Washington Moined the movement last year and now, respectively, have 81 and 101 stores participating. “People loved it,” Lutz said, adding she continues to be surprised by how popular Row by Row has become. “People plan their family va- cations around Row by Row.” One couple who recently visited her store had taken a “Row by Row vacation.” They had driven from Kentucky to Maine and were winding their way back, stopping at one quilt shop after another in state after state, Lutz said. Some retailers compared Row by Row — now a trade- marked business — to an old-fashioned shop hop writ large. Lutz prefers a different analogy: “It’s like a wine tour for quilters, but instead of sam- pling wines, they’re getting patterns for a quilt,” she said. “The quilt becomes a memo- ry of the trip they’ve taken.” Travel is only half the sto- ry. The other is the sheer Moy of collecting, a common char- acteristic of the consummate quilter. And not Must patterns; as a side venture, many stores involved in Row by Row are selling quilted license plates as collectors’ items. Custom Threads’ plate reads, “RIV- ER CITY QLTS”; Homespun Quilts, “QUILTER 4 LIFE.” Julie Walker, the owner of Center Diamond Fabric Store in Cannon Beach, is sell- ing a plate that reads, “SEW BEACHY.” Asked why a quilter would want to add yet another collectible to the Row by Row Experience, Walker Many people play, but few can win, so it’s almost better not to experience Row by Row solely in pursuit of fat quarters. Remember: Quilt- ed art is functional art. Quilts can warm your body, festoon your wall and get your Christ- mas shopping over with. The beauty of a nation- wide theme like water is that, though the quilts are fash- ioned in different locations, they are connected by their imagery. Row by Row partic- ipants collaborating on a quilt can do their work separate- ly, and when they unite their handiwork, “all the pieces ¿t together,” Lutz said. Walker’s Haystack Rock pattern — which, coinciden- tally, she commissioned be- fore his year’s water theme had even been chosen — would pair nicely, for ex- ample, with the North Head Lighthouse pattern available at Boardwalk Quilts in Long Beach, Wash. How they would pair with the toilet pat- terns of two other Washing- ton stores is anybody’s guess. Quilting “speaks to the artistic part of all of us, but you don’t have to be an art- ist,” said Teri Keizur, owner of Boardwalk Quilts and the Row by Row coordinator for Washington state. Though it isn’t likely that the Row by Row Experience will continue to grow in the U.S. — because, of course, there are only so many quilt shops around — “I don’t think it’ll get any smaller,” Keizur said. “People that are quilters get pretty rabid about quilting.” For more information, visit www.rowbyrowexperi- ence.com and www.rowby- rowexperience.com/oregon. Local author Dueber comes full circle in new fantasy ‘tritrilogy’ By Dani Palmer Cannon Beach Gazette Peter Dueber’s “tritilogy,” a three-decade oeuvre by the lo- cal author, took center stage at Cannon Beach Books on Sun- day, July 11 the kickoff of what he hopes will be a long Mourney. “The Enlightened Journey of Eff C’effsky” is the ¿rst in his “Journey” series, planned to be nine books, thus the tritrilogy. The ¿rst begins with Eff C’effsky, a young boy who ¿nds himself in an orphanage with no memory of how he got there. He feels that he’s been somebody somewhere else, but it’s unsure whether his “weird, disMointed dreams” are more than they seem. Dueber said it’s about “a Mourney of deciding” between two parallel worlds: the one Eff is surviving in the 1950s, ca n n on bea ch GAZ E T T E DANI PALMER/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Cannon Beach resident Pe- ter Dueber signs a copy of his new book, “The Enlight- ened Journey of Eff C’effsky.” where he constantly faces bullies, and the other in more of a fantasy realm. Whether that fairy tale sto- ryline has already happened or is concurrently happening or is even real is for readers to decide. “Hopefully it’s painted well enough that you want to be in both worlds,” Dueber said. “More than anything, I want to inspire people to become themselves and take chances.” Dueber said he wants his readers to be able to see them- selves in and care for the char- acters. The series will feature several of them, but Eff will carry the reader through all the books. “The idea is to bring the reader full circle,” Dueber added. Dueber mapped the full storyline out over three de- cades. Book two is sitting in a box. His oldest child, Mol- ly, refused to let Dueber re- hash any bedtime stories, so he would tell her tales from the “Journey” series, using what he came up with to fuel his writing. It’s wonderful, he added, to ¿nally see it in hardcover form from Outskirts Press. Especially with such an in- spirational, imaginative char- acter providing the cover art. Local artist Bill Steidel, known for his fantastical paintings, will do the cover art for Dueber’s books. Steidel was one of Due- ber’s father’s best friends and “like an older brother to me,” Dueber said. Many of the characters in Dueber’s books are actually based on friends and peo- ple he knows in and around town. Many of the locations in the story are also based upon local points, such as the Needles and Haystack Rock, along with a few others that may not be as well-known. Others use more distant loca- tions, particularly Scotland, where Dueber goes for quiet and inspiration. He sold the retail shops he once owned in town to focus on his writing, though he can still be caught working in the Oil and Vinegar Bar. The book is available at the Cannon Beach Book Company, Duebers, Voyages Toy Company and online at amazon.com. US Bank would like to congratulate Elaine Norling on her retirement, and thank her for her many years of loyal service to US Bank and the community. M A R K ETPL A C E T o pla ce a cla ssified a d ca ll 503-436-2812, log on to w w w .ca n n on bea ch ga zette.com or stop in a t 1555 N . 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