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 fact today we had smoke from the fires in California. We might get a dusting in a couple days, but what we really need is a nice big dump so we can bake cookies, drink hot cocoa, and send the kids outside to make a snowman….so we can quilt!
We are closing out a bunch of Christmas and Winter fabrics this week, so I thought I’d feature some of those fabrics along with Enid Weichselbaum’s fabulous quilt “Happy Alps” from the Houston Quilt Festival. Enid was inspired by the Alpen-themed travel posters of the 50s and 60s, with their bold colors, simple shapes, and stylized landscapes. This quilt just made me smile, and I can feel that icy wind biting my cheeks when I look at Enid’s winter scenic quilt.
We can see that the Season of Giving is in full swing at eQuilter, because the stacks of donated quilts for Nepal, and Hurricane communities, are really piling up. Soon we’ll be shipping out quilts to Mission of Love, and CU students will pick up quilts to hand-carry to a Nepalese mountaintop. We’ll continue to make, collect and distribute comfort quilts for disaster relief into the New Year. Many thanks to those of you who have generously donated your time to make a quilt for someone in need. That is the true spirit of the holidays.
I have a dear friend whose father was 13 when troops rescued him from a concentration camp at the end of WWII. Now he is nearing the end of his life story, but she has flown home to Israel, to spend Hanukkah with him this week. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa this time of year…we wish you the time to hear those precious stories from the elders in your family…and time to tell your own precious stories to the children drinking hot cocoa around the holiday table.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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Event & Travel Calendar:
Dec 29 2017 – Jan 5 2018 – Tanzania Africa Wildlife Migration Tour
Feb 22-25, 2018 – QuiltCon – Pasadena, California
Feb 26 – Marty Ornish CQC workshop @ eQuilter Classroom
Mar 1 – May 15 – Registration for ‘Love Your Mother‘ Quilt Challenge
April 5-7 – SAQA Conference San Antonio TX
April 14-15 – Lisa Walton workshop @ eQuilter Classroom
May 11 – eQuilter Chromazone – Color Marketing Group
Nov 14-20, 2018 – POLAR BEAR Tour – Join me in Churchill!
