It’s quiltin’ time

The Latimer Quilt and Textile Center in Tillamook is helping celebrate 100 years of American women winning the right to vote with a special display, “The Suffrage Quilts,” presented by the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild.

A vibrant, living and working museum, the center’s mission is to preserve, promote, display and facilitate the creation of and provide education about the textile arts.

The Latimer Center opened in 1991 in the restored Maple Leaf School, built in the 1930s.

It offers bi-monthly exhibits featuring vintage textiles or contemporary fiber and textile art by local and nationally recognized artists. It also has a research library that contains books, many rare and out of print, a huge quilt pattern collection, and a collection of newspaper needlework clippings, pamphlets and magazines.

In addition to quilting, hand weaving and spinning, there are also numerous works on traditional rug hooking, knitting, crocheting, tatting, embroidery of various types, basketry and other more esoteric uses of fiber as an expressive medium. There is also an onsite gift shop full of handcrafted items, books, yarn and vintage fabrics.

“The Suffrage Quilts” will be on display through the end of February at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center, located at 2105 Wilson River Loop. The center is open on Wednesday and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday by appointment.

Following the current display will be a selection of quilts by Kathryn Beets-Bradley of "Forest River Quilts."

For more information, go to www.latimerquiltandtextile.com or call 503-842-8622.