Category Archives: Travel

Creative Nudge – Zebra Crossing

Nature inspires us with color, pattern, and design…and Zebras are a great example of this creative inspiration. On the endless plains of the Serengeti, Zebras are migrating by the hundreds of thousands…and their distinctive Black and White stripes never fail … Continue reading

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Jambo (Hello) from Africa!

Hello from the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. It is Saturday night, and my last night before I start my long journey home. (1 day cross country to Arusha, then 3 flights home through Ethiopia and Frankfurt.) We … Continue reading

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Happy New Year from the Serengeti

I am writing to you on New Years Day from the Serengeti Plains of Tanzania Africa, because when this email goes out Wednesday, I will be totally off the grid for a few days. This trip has been a great … Continue reading

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Gratitude and Dreaming

Happy New Year from the Serengeti! Tonight I am writing to you from Tanzania, where I am spending New Years on a photo safari at the Great Migration of the Serengeti. Yesterday I went to a market and cherry-picked a … Continue reading

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Classes and Creative Retreats at eQuilter in 2018

We hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend – to our friends around the world! Speaking of which – by the time you read this I will be somewhere between Frankfurt and Tanzania. I’ll be posting photos on my flickr … Continue reading

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Gratitude and Dreaming

Our eQuilter Elves have been working hard this last week, getting out packages to customers around the world. We had our Ugly Sweater Day and Secret Santa exchange, ate cookies and celebrated the season. If you have a package on … Continue reading

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The Year is Unwinding Fast

The quilting industry lost one of its icons earlier this week. Judy Murrah lost her battle with cancer on Monday, and especially for those of us who knew her as the head of Education in Houston, it is a sad … Continue reading

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Creative Nudge – Hot Cocoa Weather

As the year winds down and we are making plans for the holiday season, many of us are hoping for snowy weather to get us in the holiday mood. This year in Colorado we haven’t had much snow yet, in … Continue reading

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For Wild Hearts

This time of year I feel like I should be up in Churchill with the Polar Bears. My next trip there is a year away, (please join me!) but I find myself going through photos from previous trips, and thinking … Continue reading

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Creative Nudge – An Autumn Garden

As you may know, I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years, and continued to travel to Asia (including China) for many years while working in the garment industry in New York. Eventually my love of Chinese art and culture … Continue reading

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