Quilt art by Cathie Favret on display at Cannon Beach History Center and Museum

Published 3:05 am Saturday, July 26, 2008

CANNON BEACH – Quilt art by Cathie Favret of Tillamook will be featured at the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum through Nov. 22.

Favret has been fascinated by color and fabric – the medium of her quilt art – since her earliest years. When she was 2 years old, her family moved from Oklahoma to Oregon, where her father worked in the woods. He always brought something home in his lunch pail – a pretty feather, an interesting piece of wood, perhaps a bird’s egg of a beautiful color. Thus, Favret credits her father with teaching her to see possibilities in everyday things. Her mother allowed Favret free access to her sewing scrap bag and button tin and taught her to sew. Though she has sewn for most of her life, she finally discovered quilting in 1980.

After graduating from Seaside High School in 1964, Favret lived in Colorado and then New Orleans, where she met and married her husband, Bob. After his retirement in 1991, the couple settled in Tillamook, where Favret volunteers at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center and belongs to local quilting groups.

The Cannon Beach History Center and Museum is located at 1387 S. Spruce St. and is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays. For more information, call 503) 436-9301 or visit www.cbhistory.org