FORKS — Snips, strips and string. RainFest 2006 in Forks is stitched together in quilting.
It’s not a mistake that the design on this year’s RainFest T-shirts looks like a quilt, Forks City Attorney/Planner Rod Fleck said.
Fleck drew the design knowing that at the center of the event this weekend will be the AIDS Memorial Quilt display and “Fabric of the Forest” quilt show in Forks High School’s two gyms at 411 S. Spartan Ave.
There also will be three quilting classes on Friday and Saturday led by nationally known quilting teacher Debbie Caffrey.
Caffrey, who was invited to the festival by the Peacemaker’s Quilt Club in Forks, has been featured on Home and Garden TV’s “Simply Quilts” show.
There are still several openings for the two classes on Friday, and one opening for Saturday’s class, said Marcia Yanish, president of the Peacemaker’s Quilt Club.
All of the classes will be held at the state Department of Natural Resources office, 411 Tillicum Lane, Forks.
The first class, which costs $40, is from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, and is one of Caffrey’s well-known mystery classes where quilters don’t know what pattern they’re creating until the end.
The second class, which also costs $40, is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and will teach quilters how to sew Caffrey’s “Journey Home” design.
The third class, which is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, costs $65 because it is an all-day class, Yanish said.
The class is called “Open a Can of Worms,” and will teach quilters how to use their fabric scraps in designing a quilt.
All of the supplies and prep work needed for each class are listed on Caffrey’s Web site at www.debbiescreativemoments.com/supplylist.htm.