Well, it’s that time of year again. Another year has flashed by, and we are marking another anniversary since Paul and I started this business in the basement of our house. This is our 19th anniversary, which means we are starting our 20th year of business. Seriously, how did that happen?
Fortunately, I married a genius. Between the two of us, we had a lot of dovetailing knowledge and experience when we launched this idea. We both came from entrepreneurial families, and we both like to work hard and be the master of our own destinies.
As you may know, our charity program is one of my favorite parts of our business. Last month we hit another milestone – $1.5 million raised for charity. We have very close relationships with several of our charity recipients, because we want every dollar to stretch as far as possible, and help as many in need as possible.
Our Comfort Quilt program has distributed over 12,000 donated quilts, through our partnership with Mission of Love, and recently also with the CU Boulder student chapter of Engineers Without Borders. I’ve just uploaded photos from a recent trip to Nepal where the students hand-carried quilts up to remote mountain vilages, to distribute to new mothers who had lost everything in the earthquakes. You can see photos here.
To those of you who have made and donated comfort quilts over the years, for hurricane, fire, flood, earthquake and tornado victims…and our first effort which was for survivors of 9/11…I am sending you all a big hug and deep heartfelt thanks. As you know, I promise to make sure all of those quilts are personally gifted to those most in need, and I have to also thank Kathy Price (Mission of Love) for her tireless work in stretching our donations to help those who are most forgotten, most desperate, most hopeless.
Together all of us have made a huge difference in thousands of lives, and I am humbly grateful to everyone who has contributed to these efforts…including those of you who have bought fabrics from us over the years!
My gratitude also extends to our staff, many who have been with us 10 years or more, and we are so happy to have shared this journey with you. How lucky are we, that we get to work with art, color and fabric every day?!? We are blessed.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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eQuilter Classroom & Event Calendar:
March 17 – eQuilter St Patricks Charity Sewing Day! (Please RSVP!)
April 14-15 – Lisa Walton workshop @ eQuilter Classroom
May 11 – eQuilter Chromazone – Color Marketing Group @ eQuilter
March 1 – May 15 – Registration for ‘Love Your Mother‘ Quilt Challenge
Luana’s Travel Calendar:
April 5-7 – SAQA Conference San Antonio TX
April 25-27 – Quilting Arts TV
May 18-20 – Quilt Market – Portland OR
June 27 – July 11 – Sweden
Nov 13-19, 2018 – POLAR BEAR Tour – Register NOW!
