The Attic Window Quilt Shoppe Blog

Day 1 at International Quilt Market in Portland, Oregon.  The drive went smoothly (thanks to Diane!).  We had lunch at a great little restaurant in Goldendale called The Glass Onion . . . excellent food if you are in that area.  Arriving in Portland, we were pleased to see that directly across the street from our hotel entrance is a Starbucks, and we are diagonally across the street from the Convention Center entrance, ditto the Max light rail stop.  How very convenient.

We mastered (or at least figured out) the process for buying tickets and getting on and off the MAX line; it was much nicer to just take the light rail rather than to hassle with driving across the river in rush hour traffic, trying to figure out where to park, etc.  We spent the evening cruising the Willamette River on a stern wheel paddle boat.  This was a dinner cruise sponsored by Fabshop Network (an international network of locally owned independent quilt shops) and the three main sponsors, Exclusively Quilters, Quilting Treasures and Square in Square.  The scenery was gorgeous, the dinner was lovely, and there were tons of door prizes . . .of course, we were the lucky ones who won NOTHING!  Ah well, it was still fun and we each left with a bag of goodies, the best of which we will be passing on to our customers as door prizes in the coming weeks and months!



We were on the sternwheeler on the left -- it is powered solely by that paddle wheel.  It's amazing how much control the pilot has, we came into the dock sideways!

Here's Diane with Laurie Harsh, Executive Director of FabshopNet

Sorry it's not a better picture, but we did see a bunch of these "Dragon" boats out on the river -- looked like great fun!

Look at all these great door prizes . . . too bad none of them went home with us!