For those of you celebrating the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) around the world, we wish you a happy and auspicious Year of the Wood Dragon! After living in Hong Kong in the 80s, and later adopting a baby girl from China, this has become a beloved holiday.
Yesterday my best friend from childhood had breast cancer surgery. As you probably know, that has been one of our charity choices for your 2% of sales, since we started the program. Both my mom and Paul’s mom were BC survivors, and over the years we’ve known so many who have fought this disease. The treatment and survival rate is better now than when our moms had their surgeries, chemo and radiation…but it is still something that affects our quilting community. We can only hope that over the last 24 years, the $335K that we’ve donated to breast cancer research (collectively, with your help) has led to the new treatments that will help our friends and family who might be diagnosed.
We had 2 tour groups of lovely ladies who make charity quilts this week. Every time I get together with quilters, it is so comforting to be with The Tribe where we are instantly all part of the same quilting family. My trip to QuiltCon is coming up fast, and I am looking forward to seeing many of you there, perhaps at the Award Ceremony Weds night?
Do you know somebody who needs a hug? Maybe you? Then check out my favorite fabric this week.
Also super excited to finally have Veruschka Zarate’s amazing paper-pieced patterns in stock!
I am back in the studio and working on my biggest art quilt ever. Subscribe to my artist blog here, and you can follow along. It is called “Children of War”.
sharing your love for fabric,
Luana and Paul
Travel/Quilt Dates:
Feb 21-24, 2024 – QuiltCon in Raleigh, NC – eQuilter is a GOLD Sponsor.
March 6 – Canadian Quilters Association – Zoom Lecture “Intl Quilt Trends”
April 7-12 Allegre Retreat
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