Hello and Happy Summer!
Last week I shared with you a Quilting Arts TV clip about trends from the Tokyo Quilt Festival. This week you’ll see a 2nd clip which features my own art quilts, including a new Polar Bear quilt from a photo I took up in Churchill Manitoba. Enjoy!
We are very proud and happy to announce the names of the 17 quilters whose work has been juried into the Love Your Mother exhibit –
Mirvia Aranda, Patty Arensen, Debra L. Bowman,
Elizabeth A Budd, Melissa Dessent, Barbara R. Dove,
Linda Garofalo, Becky Grover, Sylvia Hernandez,
Janice Jones, Deb Manowske, Karen Ponischil,
Annette Rowland, Sonia E. Ruiz, Deborah Snider,
Silke Steuxner and Marijke van Welzen.
It is an international gathering of artists who have expressed their thoughts and feelings about what is happening to our Mother Earth, and I hope you will come to see this exhibit premier in November at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. The winners will receive their prizes – including the top prize of a BERNINA 570 QE machine at the Teachers Luncheon on Thursday Nov 8. I hope you can join us there.
Sophie’s new violin teacher has invited her to go on a Swedish Fiddle workshop tour for the next 2 weeks, and I invited myself along as a parent chaperone. I am going to treat this as a creative retreat, and will also be meeting Swedish quilters and doing research on Scandi design.
This weekend we are celebrating Sophie’s 16th birthday! How did that happen?
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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eQuilter Classroom & Event Calendar:
July 16 – 20 – Lea McComas Workshops @ eQuilter
Sept 14-19 – Betty Busby workshops @ eQuilter
Oct 6-7 – MJ Kinman Gemstone Quilt workshop @ eQuilter
Dec 2 – CQC workshop Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Luana’s Travel Calendar:
June 27 – July 11 – Sweden
Aug 5-12 – London & Birmingham UK Festival of Quilts
Sept 8 – Color Marketing Group – Wash DC
Nov 13-19, 2018 – POLAR BEAR Tour
Dec 23 – Jan 4 – China
