This week some twenty-something friends were complaining to me about how fast Christmas came up this year. *Snort!* I told them, it only gets worse. It is hard to imagine that the end of the year comes faster every year, but that seems to be what most of us experience. Wasn't it just a couple months ago that I was making my list of goals for 2013?
Today we recorded our kids and their music teachers playing a Christmas song for you all, and I'll have it up on our video page this weekend. Ruby wandered into the performance and kind of stole the show….
I want to personally send out a thank you to all of you who have sent us messages in the last week – too many to respond to individually – but we just love hearing how many of you love and depend on the service that we provide. It is important to support your local quilt shops, but we are here for you if you don't have a LQS, or if you need something special that is not available in your area.
Although we feel very lucky to have a job where we work with gorgeous colorful fabrics every day, we know it is because of you that we can do this kind of work. When we carefully choose hundreds, actually several thousand fabrics at Quilt Market, that will ship to us over the next several months, we are always thinking of YOU. Often when previewing new collections, we get a little breathless, giggle and exclaim "Oh! The quilters are going to LOVE this one!" …. and, you DO.
The cherry on top is that our mutual love of fabrics can raise so much money for our charity program, which hit $1 million last year and is still going strong. Our charity program was inspired by the loss of our daughter Hanna, 18 years ago on Dec 22. On that day I swore that somehow, some good would come from our loss, and that is how we decided a couple years later to donate a percentage of sales to a group of charities, many of which directly support families living in extreme poverty or dealing with disasters. We directly support several programs that help orphans and children living in dire circumstances, and we've been told several times from the organizations that we've saved the lives of hundreds or thousands of children with our contributions.
We couldn't do it without you, so I thank you for supporting our business and our charity program, and you can share in this great accomplishment. The total raised is now at $1,153,000.
Many thanks to all of you who have rushed comfort quilts to us this year, and over the last 12 years since we started our quilt relief program on 9/11. Recently 6 quilt groups sent 10 special memorial quilts for Sandyhook Elementary which are to be displayed in the Newtown Community Center. eQuilter and Mission of Love have worked together to distribute over 15,000 donated quilts over the years… and again I must give you our most humble thanks for allowing us to distribute these bundles of love to those most in need.
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