I am writing to you from Houston Texas, where the Quilt Market (trade show) has started today. It has been 4 years since I attended this show in person. I am here to preview and order fabrics that will ship to us over the next 3-6 months. It is always exciting to see what new trends and ideas the designers have dreamed up to entice us in the near future. Next week is the International Quilt Festival, and eQuilter is sponsoring 3 special exhibits, as I mentioned in Wednesday’s e-newsletter. However I don’t have much to report, because I am dashing this off before I go to the first day of Market!
In the meantime, our fellow chocoholic-fabriholics will be happy to know that our first chocolate shipment of the cold-weather-season is arriving Monday, so you can start to place your orders for our artisan chocolates (including Vegan chocolates) over the weekend. There has been a recent discovery of some chocolate brands that have higher levels of heavy metals, so I want to assure you that we have reviewed that report and none of those brands are in our selection of high quality imported chocolate products. If you are not familiar with the eQuilter chocolate program – we discovered long ago there is a short list of things that most quilters love besides fabric: Cats, wine, and chocolate! We can’t sell you the wine, but we are heavy on the Cat fabrics (as per last Wednesday’s newsletter), and we know you can’t wait until the cooler weather allows us to stock and ship our chocolates. It is not unusual to receive orders for a spool of thread, and 5 chocolate bars. Shhhh – We won’t tell!
A reminder that I’ll be hosting an informal talk in the ‘Women’s Voices’ exhibit here, on Thursday Nov 2, from 11 am to 1 pm. My quilt “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” is part of this historic exhibit. Please stop by and say hello!
Watch for my e-newsletter on Wednesday morning, with a report on Quilt Market Trends.
sharing your love for fabric,
Luana and Paul
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Travel/Quilt Calendar:
Oct 27 – Nov 3 – Quilt Market/Festival – Houston TX
(Artist Speaker in “Women’s Voices” exhibit on Thurs Nov 2)
