Thank
you for sharing our fabric service with your fellow Fabriholics!
We are getting so excited about Jane
and Cindy coming to teach in our classroom this June and July! I will
be in the classroom too, and we’ll have some summer fun together in our
beautiful new building. Check
out their workshops here, and we
thank Cindy for making this special video sneak peek for one of her fabric
dyeing classes!
As the years go by and more of our mothers and grandmothers are in our
memories, but not at our tables, Mothers Day has bittersweet memories of those
mothers, matriarchs, and mentors who have shaped our lives and given us
treasured traditions.
This weekend was the first time Sophie and I have gone to the Mothers Day Tea
(at a local Victorian mansion owned by the Historic Society) without my mother.
Mom is recovering from a recent hospital stay, and has moved from assisted
living to a nursing home. So we will spend Mothers Day visiting her there, and
remembering those traditions.
Last summer Sophie and I went on a music tour in Sweden, and we realized that
many of our family traditions that came down through my grandmother, were
actually Swedish traditions! (Sophie was named after my Swedish
great-grandmother who immigrated to the US.)
My 2 grandmothers and my great aunt were responsible for my interest in sewing,
embroidery and painting, as a young girl. Being artistic and musical was a
given in our family, and I was raised to think of myself as an artist and
musician. Now that all 3 of our kids have pursued some kind of job or career
related to music, I have to smile, knowing all the music and creativity that
came down from all the grandparents. Paul’s father played trumpet, and his
mother was a painter. When he was a kid, his mom and sister would throw him in
the back of the car and they would all go fabric shopping. So when Paul and I
met, and later when we dreamed up this business, we spoke the same language.
The gift of creative expression that we pass on to others – whether it is our
students, our children or grandchildren, is a gift that keeps on giving. We may
never know how far our gift extends into the future branches of our family
tree, but our creative presence will always be woven into the history of the
family story.
From our family to yours, and from all of our eQuilter staff, we wish you a
beautiful Mothers Day full of the creative gifts of the heart.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
