Crafts on Vacation
Traveling with two men, there's no way we were going to be browsing knitting or sewing stores, but our weekend did turn into quite a "tour of historic crafting." First, while on the Pendleton Underground Tour (highly recommended--I'll be adding more info to my main blog), we saw this: It's a trade blanket made by the Pendleton Wool Mill. Those black stripes are how many pelts it represents--this one being 4 pelts. Wool as a form of currency!!!! It turns out I don't have a stash after all--I have a nest egg . This may have been my favorite part of the entire weekend! If you have any interest at all in historic clothing (though not going back beyond mid-1800s--this is the Oregon Territory of the Old West after all), do yourself a favor and visit the Union County Museum . It's got a very lousy website, unfortunately, and it's only open from Mother's Day to mid-October, but we spent two hours there and could have easily stayed longer. They ...