“Colorado Memories” Shop Hop, Friday through Aug. 8; participating quilt stores
Calling all quilters.
Tour area quilt stores and create a project that honors Colorado at a shop hop. In this scavenger-hunt style event, participants visit each stop and pick up a pattern and a stamp in their Shop Hop passport. Kits with the custom-designed fabric are available, as are finishing kits. After visiting all stores, you get a commemorative pin and can enter to win prizes. Visit Tomorrow’s Heirloom, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, Great American Quilt Factory, Fabric Expressions, Creative Needle, Holly’s Quilt Cabin and High Prairie Quilts.
Wateriffic
Parade of Ponds tickets on sale, $15, online at coloradoparadeof
Xeriscaping’s antonym.
Buy tickets now to see 40 garden ponds throughout the metro area at this annual tour, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 28, and a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 29. Ponds feature bridges, koi, fountains and other personal touches.
Historic Ouray
Author-signing events 7 p.m. Tuesday, Venue Roscoe Fox, 539 Main St., Ouray, and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ridgway State Park, 28555 U.S. 550 between Ridgway and Montrose; 888-313-2665,
High times.
Meet “Ouray, Colorado” authors Gail Zanett Saunders and Maria Jones, who worked with the Ouray County Historical Society on this book, which has more than 200 images tracing Ouray’s history. The book is part of Arcadia’s “Images of America” series.
