As we slowly work our way through this transitional time, hopefully out of the pandemic, it is normal to go from high gear to exhaustion. A couple months ago I said to Paul – I wish I could take a week off just to sleep. Well, I got my wish but not the way I wanted. After a week at the nursing home managing my mom’s movement to a more intense level of care, the next week I had a pinched nerve and back spasm and spend the holiday weekend and most of last week flat on my back in bed. Yeah, be careful what you ask for. If you’ve been spending a lot of time in a chair on Zoom, be careful that first time you get back out to your pre-pandemic activities!
If you live in Colorado, please visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, to see Barbara Yates Beasley’s current exhibit! We’ve put together an interview video with Barbara on our video page – check it out if you have a few minutes. Her animal portrait quilts are amazing.
We’d like to give a warm welcome to Lindsye, our new warehouse manager. She fits in with our brightly colored fabrics, because she has bright pink hair. With her background at the Denver Art Museum, and managing at our local Pier 1 (until it closed during the pandemic), she brings an appreciation for art and textiles to our team. Also – small world – her dad was the conductor for a summer camp orchestra that Sophie attended a few years ago!
Also I’d like to brag a little about Sophie – she has finished her freshman year at CU Boulder as a music education major – and has made the Dean’s List. She’s working at eQuilter over the summer. Tonight we’re going to our first live music concert in over a year – a “Tiny Deck” concert on the back patio of her previous violin teacher’s house up in the mountains. This is the teacher who led Sophie and a group of students on a Swedish Fiddle Tour 3 years ago. We are looking forward to some folk fiddling and Nickelharpa tunes among the pine trees this evening. I hope you are also enjoying some post-pandemic activities this weekend that will fill your heart and soul with creative juices.
Next weekend I will be giving an online lecture “International Quilt Trends” for the Dairy Barn, as a Quilt National fundraiser. I hope you can join us.
…sharing your love of fabric,
Luana and Paul
Quilt Calendar: (fingers crossed!)
June 13 – Zoom Lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Quilt National/Dairy Barn
July 29 – Aug 1 – Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK
“For the Love of Gaia” quilt gallery
Aug 7 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” for Birmingham Festival of Quilts
Sept 27 – Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters Guild – Lecture.
Oct 23-30 – Houston Quilt Market & Festival
Dec 4 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Quilt Canada
Jan 12 – Apr 9, 2022 – New England Quilt Museum (NEQM)
“For the Love of Gaia” quilt exhibit
Sat, March 19 – “International Quilt Trends” power point lecture – NEQM
