Creative Nudge – eQuilter’s *Quilts for Japan* Project

If you've been watching my blog, you've seen the updates I've posted from our friend Shizuko in Japan. Even though events in North Africa have taken over the news this week, you and I know that help is still needed in Japan, and the recovery will go on for a long time.

As I wrote in my Saturday night newsletter, our eQuilter project "Quilts for Japan" is off and running…. in fact we've already received quilts here in Boulder in our office, and also at Mission of Love in Youngstown Ohio.

To all of you who have written to say that this project is your Creative Nudge to get going on a quilt – thanks for sharing your inspiration with us!

We're putting up a project page this week, with all the details. You'll be able to access it from the bottom left corner of our home page. It will also be included at the bottom of all our newsletters.

In the meantime here are the guidelines for our community project for Japan:

eQuilter *QUILTS for JAPAN*

eQuilter is partnering with Mission of Love to deliver one or more shipments of disaster relief supplies (medical, educational, and basic needs) and donated comfort quilts, to the people of Japan.

Through MOL's participation in the Denton Program, we have a commitment from the commander of an Air Force base in California, to ship the supplies and quilts from California to Japan.

QUILT SIZE:
I'd like to suggest that you make small personal-sized quilts for a child or small adult. That could be from 46" x 60" for a child's cot quilt, to 60" x 68" for a lap quilt, or 65" x 85" for a small twin size. We'd like to request full/double size quilt as the maximum size. See our project page later this week for more ideas.

DEADLINES:
You can drop off the quilts IN PERSON during business hours Monday through Friday at eQuilter in Boulder Colorado by Friday April 23,
OR
you can ship the quilts DIRECTLY to Mission of Love to arrive by Friday May 7th. (Do NOT ship to eQuilter, as this will delay the process.)

SHIP QUILTS TO:

Mission of Love Foundation
2054 Hemlock Court
Youngstown, Ohio 44515 U.S.A

IMPORTANT: If you wish a confirmation of delivery, then you will need to ship with a tracking number.

Mission of Love does NOT have an office staff to handle delivery confirmations, email or telephone queries. Please contact eQuilter, NOT Mission of Love, with any project queries.

They are a grassroots organization and their resources will be focused on receiving, unpacking, and then repacking and shipping the quilts to California along with the disaster relief supplies.

SUPPORT:
If you wish to support this project but cannot donate a quilt, please consider donating money to Mission of Love to help with their costs, and also to increase the amount of medical supplies we can include with this shipment. You can donate with Paypal or a credit card on their site. This will add to the money that eQuilter will give for additional supplies, and shipping from Ohio to California.

Also, when you make a purchase at eQuilter, you can indicate that your 2% for charity will go to Mission of Love.

IMPORTANT: Please read all of this information carefully and if your question is not answered, you can contact eQuilter Customer Service at [email protected]

We will post an FAQ on our project page this week, and try to cover all questions possible on that page!

And now, as a reward for making it to the bottom of this page, I've posted more photos from the Tokyo Quilt Festival as a THANK YOU to all of the individuals and guilds that have responded to our call for help.