When you receive this newsletter, I will somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, on my way to the Pour l’Amour du Fil quilt festival in Nantes France. My power point lecture “International Quilt Trends” is Friday at noon, so I hope to meet many of our French quilter friends there! In a week I will be meeting with quilters in Paris, and visiting Notre Dame.
Last weekend we hosted our Charity Sewing Group, and we had a group of students from CU Boulder chapter of ‘Engineers Without Borders’ come to give a presentation about their work in Nepal. They will be making another trip this summer, and we will be sending another batch of colorful quilts to be distributed to those in need. The last few trips the quilts have been distributed to mothers with new infants in remote mountain villages, who lost their homes to the earthquake. By EWB building clean water sources in these remote villages, it allows girls to attend school instead of spending their days hauling water.
I am also in touch with Kathy Price from Mission of Love. We will be sending fabrics to the Pine Ridge Girls School (on the reservation in South Dakota) to support a new sewing program for these Native American girls. She is filling up a 53 foot trailer with humanitarian aid, school supplies, and donated comfort quilts for the girls. They are looking for an industrial sewing machine to make tipees. The trailer is being filled up in the Youngstown Ohio area, and then will be transported to Pine Ridge, which as you may know is one of the poorest counties in the USA.
If you would like to donate a quilt for one of these projects to help girls and mothers, you can drop off a quilt at eQuilter in person by May 10, or you can ship quilts directly to Mission of Love to arrive by May 15. (Be sure to get a tracking number for confirmation – they are too busy to send receipts when delivered.)
Mission of Love
2054 Hemlock Ct
Youngstown OH 44515
I am sharing a photo of our Charity Sewing Group, showing off the quilts they have created for these projects. The floral frame is a collage with current flower prints at eQuilter. These are the kinds of floral fabrics that are much beloved for Mothers Day gifts…and loved by the mothers in Nepal and Pine Ridge too.
We thank our Sewing Group for their heartfelt generosity, and the beautiful comfort quilts they have made over the last 2 years!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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Luana’s Travel Calendar:
Apr 23-29 – Nantes France (lecture Fri 4/26)
Apr 29-30 – Paris
May 16-19 – Quilt Market
May 24-25 – Dairy Barn – Quilt National Opening – Athens OH
June 11-15 – Quilt Canada Ottawa – (lecture Fri 6/14)
eQuilter Classroom:
June 27-30 – Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli – Altar Quilts & Embellished Garments Workshops
July 11-14, 2019 – Cindy Lohbeck – Shibori, Ice-Dyeing and Ombre Dyeing Workshops
Oct 8-10 – Jacqueline de Jonge – eQuilter Classroom
