{"id":39497,"date":"2018-02-05T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=39497"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:46:40","slug":"portland-shop-hop-boermas-quilt-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/portland-shop-hop-boermas-quilt-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Shop Hop: Boermas Quilt Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boermas was the last quilt shop we visited and it was amazing. It isn&#8217;t exactly in Portland. It is about an hour and a half away in a quaint town called McMinnville. That day it was pouring rain and I had Mom drop me off at the metro station. I took the metro to the end of the line so Amanda didn&#8217;t have to drive all the way into the city to fetch me. It is a quiet and clean system and it was easy to take some time to write while I was riding.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39497 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515913406068-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515913406068.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39293\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39293'>\n\t\t\t\tBoermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515913321386-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515913321386.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39292\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39292'>\n\t\t\t\tBoermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515913264255-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515913264255.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39291\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' 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McMinnville\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515912768521-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515912768521.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39287\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39287'>\n\t\t\t\tBoermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515903547068-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515903547068.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1515903613300-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515903613300.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Boermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39286\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39286'>\n\t\t\t\tBoermas Quilt Shop, McMinnville\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It was probably the largest shop we entered, though Pioneer Quilts was close if not the same size. I think it used to be a downtown department store at a time when all the major shops were on the main street to make shopping more convenient.<\/p>\n<p>The store was three stories. The upper story seemed to be offices and staff areas. We didn&#8217;t go up there. The basement floor was all sale fabric. They had quite a lot, though their minimum was a yard, so I only bought a piece or two.<\/p>\n<p>The street level floor was full of fabric. The aisles were narrow and full, but the place was scrupulously clean and did not seem disorganized. I could have bought a lot more than I did, but I made quite a dent in their stock. They had a wide selection of fabric styles &#8211; from Cotton and Steel to Civil War, etc repros. They had a large novelty fabric section, organized by theme, as well as about two aisles of batiks.<\/p>\n<p>We had lunch at an American diner sort of place that uses historic buildings to house their eateries. The food is diner style and the building is historic. We also visited a yarn shop. I didn&#8217;t buy anything there though I sort of regret a couple skeins of a grey yarn variegated with turquoise. It was a fun day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boermas was the last quilt shop we visited and it was amazing. It isn&#8217;t exactly in Portland. It is about an hour and a half away in a quaint town called McMinnville. That day it was pouring rain and I had Mom drop me off at the metro station. I took the metro to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/portland-shop-hop-boermas-quilt-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portland Shop Hop: Boermas Quilt Shop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[557,334,346],"class_list":["post-39497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-oregon","tag-quilt-shop","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68429,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39497\/revisions\/68429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}