Sewing in the time of COVID-19 – Week 24
We are deeply saddened by the cancer death of Chadwick Boseman who played Jackie Robinson, the Black Panther, and other inspiring characters. We know many of you feel the same way because you wiped out our stock of Black Panther fabrics. RIP T’Challa.
The other big news is that the House Dress (or you may call it a MuuMuu) has replaced Sweat Pants as the lounging garment of choice during the Pandemic of 2020. The good news is we have stocked up on a variety of patterns so you can make your very own custom MuuMuu or Caftan to get you through the rest of this year. We are restocking some that have sold out, and will introduce some new patterns next week.
I have a photo of my mom in 1968 wearing her red Hawaiian MuuMuu with her hair down to her hips, when we lived in Southern California. I have to chuckle at how these trends come around again. (Scroll down for the photo.)
In response to your voracious appetite for Solids, we have expanded our product range and as of this morning we had 650 Solids in stock!
Similarly, we have stocked Solid/Tonal Hand-Dyes deeply (like Hoffman 1895) and currently have 350 colors in stock. (Scroll down on this page)
Today I was listening to an inteview with Julia Hartz who is the Co-Founder and CEO EventBrite. (On the NPR show ‘How I Built This’ on Planet Money.) Her discussion with host Guy Raz was very inspiring, and they spoke about the innovation that is taking place now because of the pandemic. Ways of communicating with people on the other side of the planet, have sped up technology about 20 years, to keep up with the demand for doing business in a different way. They spoke about the creative explosion of the Roaring Twenties which followed the 1918 pandemic, and it gives me hope to think about the innovation that will hopefully follow these challenging times. As always, I find that seeing the silver lining to the darkest times, or seeing the glass half full, helps me to move from day to day.
We are now on Twitter @eQuilterFabrics for those of you who have quit Facebook.
I find myself spending more time on Twitter these days, so thought maybe you’d like to meet me there!
with Hope for the Future,
Luana and Paul
