Port Gamble's 2015 Fiber and Fabric Event is coming right up! April 25 & 26 will be here before you know it! We have some great things planned this year - we have added an additional venue for vendors, so look for new and more fabric and quilting vendors. New to this year's event will be quilts and dolls from the Hoffman 2014 Challenge, wet felting demonstrations and the Featherweight Meet Up.

We are accepting applications for fabric or fiber items for the show through the end of March - so get your application in the mail soon. We will display anything created from fiber or fabric, quilts, stitchery, weaving,knitting, crocheting, fabric dolls and sculptures, wall hangings, felting, rug hooking, wool applique...and you can probably think of more. The show is juried - we have a limited amount of space, but we do our best to squeeze everything in, so don't let the word "juried" scare you into not applying. There will be two Viewers Choice cash awards of $250.00, one for fabric, one for fiber for the winner in each category.  You can download applications here . Applications can be mailed to the address on the application or you can scan them and email them to me.

When I was a novice quilter I used to yearn over Mariner's Compass blocks. The Port Angeles Library had a wonderful big coffee table book of old maps with compass roses and I checked out that book repeatedly trying to envision a plan for turning those beautiful compasses into a quilt. I tried a few blocks using templates, and they were pretty good, but the process was slow! I tried foundation piecing...but it is just not a process I like much. However - now Robin Long has developed rulers that make a Mariner's Compass block a strip-piecing operation really!  Ruler video and class information below.