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‘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.
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Bookkeeper
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Clatsop Community Action (CCA),
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