FORKS — An umbrella parade, music, art and quilts will celebrate Rainfest in Forks today through Sunday.
A variety of vendors will show their wares at the Fabric of the Forest Quilt Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Forks High School auxiliary gym at 191 Spartan Ave.
The Far West Art League Art Show will be open all three days at Bank of America, 481 S. Forks Ave., from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Quilter Kim Diehl — who has been featured in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine and has recently published her fifth book on quilting, Simple Graces — will teach classes today and Saturday and lecture at a trunk show tonight.
Both today and Saturday’s classes — which are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Department of Natural Resources Conference Center, 411 Tillicum Lane — will focus on applique work. Each costs $50.
Today’s class was filled by Thursday, but a few spaces remain in Saturday’s Gathering Garden Class.
To sign up for the class, phone Rainfest organizer Marcia Yanish at 360-327-3770 or email marcia@centurytel.net.
The trunk show will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. today at the Department of Natural Resources Conference Center, for $15 per person at the door. Diehl will offer some quilts for sale.
Tonight will be a Forks Community Orchestra performance at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 250 N. Blackberry Ave.
The performance will be 7 p.m.
Saturday
On Saturday, umbrella decoration will begin at 10 a.m. at the Forks branch of Peninsula College at 71 S. Forks Ave., followed by the Rainfest Parade at noon down Forks Avenue.
A communitywide garage sale will take place throughout the day.
For more information and to find out how to get a map, phone 360-374-6332.
Maps will be posted throughout the community as well.
The Forks Open Aire Market RainFest Sale will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Almar Building, 41 Bogachiel Way.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., a Relay For Life Baked Potato Sale is scheduled at the Bank of America.
Rainfest Archery Competitions will be held at the Old Mill Archery Range, 100 LaPush Road.
The youth shoot will begin at 12:30 p.m., and the adult shoot will start at 1 p.m., with registration at noon. Competitors pay $5 for the youth shoot and $10 for the adult shoot.
For more information, phone 360-374-4090.
Saturday night at 6:30 p.m., Chris Cook, editor of the Forks Forum weekly newspaper, will lecture on the wreck of the Nikoli at JT’s Sweet Stuffs, 120 S. Forks Ave.
