Hello Friends, it has been awhile since I sent you a Midweek Creative Nudge. We’ve been up to our eyeballs processing orders and restocking PPE supplies for the sewing volunteers making facemasks all over the country. To all of you who have been part of this historic effort, we are honored to have served you, and humbled by your prodigious output!
Many of you have followed the story of our youngest child – our daughter Sophie – since we adopted her during the SARS epidemic in April 2003 – and our return to visit her orphanage in China a year ago. Now during the COVID epidemic, she has finished her high school career without a senior prom or graduation ceremony. Tonight on her school’s online Award Ceremony, she received the National Honor Thespian Award and the Areta Kalogeras Orchestra Award for Excellence. Congratulations to all the students who have received recognition at the end of this challenging year.
Sophie has been working in our warehouse full time along with our amazing eQuilter staff for the last two months. She’s been accepted to the Music Education program here at CU Boulder, and we don’t know what will happen in the Fall. But she knows that she has lots of quilting aunties out there in the sewing community, and we want to thank all of you who have sent her letters and cards.
To all of you families with high school and college graduates this Spring of 2020, we send you our love and encouragement. You graduates will be stronger and wiser because you had to grow up a little faster. You will always be special because of this, and your community is fiercely proud of you.
When you have 45 minutes for a cuppa and some eye candy, I’d like to share this video of our ‘virtual tea’ with the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln Nebraska, regarding our fundraiser for Earthworks, and the acquisition of my activist quilt Rocky Mountain Poison. There is also a sneak peak of the upcoming exhibit “For the Love of Gaia”.
You may also enjoy seeing Sophie grow up in this collection of videos, including the first one here interviewing curator Marin Hanson at the Chinese Quilt exhibit in IQM. This was soon after Sophie had shaved her head on St Baldrick’s Day to raise $5K for children with cancer.
I know many of you will be thrilled to know that we just received another truckload of
beautiful Aurifil Threads and several types of elastic including a new BLACK elastic. If you have not seen our Facemask Info Page, be sure to check it out for lots of mask-making tips. You can search for ‘COVID’ to see what specialty mask/PPE products we currently have in stock.
All of us at eQuilter wish you health, peace and comfort in these troubling times.
We will get to the other side of this…together.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
