Category Archives: Museum

Quilt Visions 2020 – “Trends in Contemporary Quilting”

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Luana

Virtual Lecture via Zoom Link on Saturday, October 17th, 2020 at 4 pm PT $15 per household, $10 for Members with coupon code Event link will be sent separately within 48 hours of order confirmation. VAM welcomes Luana Rubin of … Continue reading →

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1010 in 2020

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Luana

Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 30 Today was World Mental Health Day, and I decided to support my own mental health by participating in our state guild’s Fall Retreat which was of course held virtually through Zoom. … Continue reading →

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Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 20

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Luana

If this was a normal time, Sophie and I would have been in Birmingham UK for the Festival of Quilts this week. We had a gallery space to exhibit our “Love Your Mother” quilt project, and it was to be … Continue reading →

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Stay Home and Quilt

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Luana

Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 15 This weekend I was supposed to be in Lincoln Nebraska for the Opening Reception of the environmental-themed exhibit “For the Love of Gaia” ….as a guest curator for the International Quilt … Continue reading →

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A Better World Video and London Christmas

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Luana

Here is a link to our 3rd video from Houston, with Lyric Kinard narrating a tour of “A Better World” exhibit. If you look closely, you might catch my portrait of Kathy Price, the director of Mission of Love, one … Continue reading →

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Asking for Your Help

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Luana

This quilt was made for the 2016 exhibit “Water is Life” which premiered at the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland. It has traveled around the world to tell the story of ‘Rocky Mountain Poison’ – when the Gold King Mine … Continue reading →

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Free eQuilter Pattern – Valkyrie

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Luana

You might need to turn on ‘Flight of the Valkyries‘ by Wagner (from the opera Die Walkure from the Ring Cycle) to fully appreciate this one! On a Monday morning when you prepare yourself to face the week, this Norse … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – Heart & Mind

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Luana

We just got home from the Sacred Threads event Monday night, and our weekend gave us a lot to think about. Somehow we had several conversations about Left Brain and Right Brain, so it seemed appropriate to share this quilt … Continue reading →

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Hello from Washington DC!

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Luana

Sophie and I have been attending the Sacred Threads weekend event in Herndon Virginia near Dulles Airport. In addition to seeing the quilt exhibit, there is a concurrent SAQA event, and Quilt Alliance activities going on during these few days. … Continue reading →

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Creative Nudge – An American Story

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Luana

Over the last week I’ve been going through a few dozen boxes of family possessions from my mom’s old house, and my grandparents house. As Mom has aged and declined, she has moved to smaller spaces with simpler possessions. I’ve … Continue reading →

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