| It has been a week since I flew home from Cuba, and I’ve made a big batch of Cuban Black Beans to get me through my backlog of emails. (If you’ve had authentic Cuban Black Beans, you know what I mean!)
Here in Boulder the leaves are turning, my tomatoes are turning red, and I am watching the weather report for freeze warnings, so I can harvest my prodigious forest of Basil at the last possible moment. A few days ago I was in a coffee shop and I overheard someone saying that Christmas is less than 3 months away. I can’t think about the holidays yet, but I am looking forward to cooler weather for sure. I am working on a couple art quilts, and looking forward to seeing a couple of my quilts on display in Houston this year. Tonight Sophie and I are going to a fundraiser dinner at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. My quilt “Arches National Park – Bobcat” was based on a photo of one of their animals, and the quilt will ultimately be auctioned to raise money for the Sanctuary. I am presenting a copy of Donna Desoto’s catalog book “Inspired by the National Parks: Landscapes & Wildlife in Fabric Perspectives” to the sanctuary director Pat Craig. The book is now being featured at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and the National Parks quilt exhibit is touring the country as part of the US Centennial Celebration of our National Parks. We are temporarily sold out of the book but it will be back in stock shortly so let us know if you want us to hold a copy for you. I hope to see many of you next Thursday Oct 6 while I am visiting the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio. Please join us for lunch and my power point lecture “International Quilt Trends”, and then a gallery tour of “Mastery: Sustaining Momentum” by Jane Forrest Redfern, the Executive Director. This is a *fundraiser* event for the arts center, which will host Quilt National again in 2017. Details and Tickets are available here. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it is a cause that is close to our hearts. My mom is a survivor, so was Paul’s mom, and it has affected so many loved ones over the years…I am sure you have a similar story. In addition to our Breast Cancer fundraiser fabrics, remember you can choose the National Breast Cancer Foundation as your charity of choice when you check out here at eQuilter. We have raised over 285K for breast cancer research, out of the almost 1.4 million that the eQuilter charity program has raised in total. We have some friends in the industry who are fighting this disease now …. sending hugs to you now…. you know who you are. XOXO. Sharing your Passion for Fabric… |
