Here is our Bi-Annual Service, reminding you to SPRING AHEAD and set your clock forward one hour if you live in a US Daylight Savings Time zone. For the rest of you …enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
I finally hit my limit and had to turn off the news all this week. How wonderful to be able to go into the studio, turn on the music, and work on a quilt project. I’ve been thinking again about how lucky I am to have found this world of quilting, where we can practice the art and craft alone as a healing meditative process, or in a group as a supportive social experience.
Today is not only eQuilter’s 19th Anniversary (since our website went live, and we started our business in the basement of our house) but it is also my mom’s 81st birthday. We had a lovely birthday lunch and then watched a performance of young Irish dancers. Their costumes, and the fiddle music, really got us in the mood for Saint Patrick’s Day next Saturday.
We are having our last Winter Charity Sewing Day on St Patrick’s Day, and we’ll be sewing with GREEN fabrics, but also now our focus is on finishing the quilt tops…getting them sandwiched, stitched and bound so we can get them out to hurricane and earthquake survivors. Unfortunately our 2 wonderful BERNINA dealers are not available this coming weekend, so if you are coming please bring a machine. (Many thanks to Blakeman Sewing and The Presser Foot for providing machines recently!)
The Registration Page for the Love Your Mother Contest and Exhibit just went LIVE March 1st, but you have until the May 15 deadline to make a quilt and try for the top prize of a newly introduced model BERNINA 570 QE machine. (WOW!!!)
This juried exhibit not only will have fantastic prizes, but will premier in Houston and then travel, so please DO enter this contest so you can share in sending a message around the country and hopefully overseas. Remember we do not want you just to embellish the panel, but we want to see you take elements from the panel and creatively re-interpret into your own image of how you Love Your Mother, and how you feel about what is happening on our beloved planet. We already have one magazine interested in covering the exhibit, so DO YOUR BEST and accept the challenge!
Thank you to all of us who have supported our business and our charity programs over the last 19 years. We consider you our friends and part of the eQuilter family, and we feel so lucky to share with you our passion for Art, Color and Design on Fabric.
Just wait til you see what is coming for our 20th Anniversary!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
