We have a huge batch of comfort quilts ready to be shipped out to Caribbean hurricane victims on Monday, thanks to a connection made through the owners of Timeless Treasures in New York. You may recall that we partnered with Timeless who offered the use of their warehouse, to distribute 1500 of your donated comfort quilts after Hurricane Sandy. Our usual distribution channel which Mission of Love would have used for Puerto Rico, is not available due to cutbacks on this government program. So this batch of quilts is going to Miami next week, and then will be hand-carried to St. Maarten which experienced similar devastation and flooding from Hurricane Irma.
Today we had another fantastic group of quilters show up for our Charity Sewing Day. I just love these women. They show up and sew like crazy, and this pile of quilts just grows and grows. They take home fabric and come back a month later with finished quilts. We have a fantastic partnership. I provide the fabric, the space, the coffee and cookies, and they just crank ’em out!
We had a lovely slide and video presentation from members of our local CU chapter of Engineers Without Borders. You may have seen the photos I posted recently of the mothers who received your donated quilts, in the earthquake-devastated area of Nepal. We had a professor and 2 engineering students come and tell us about their New Years trip. The next student trip will be May 15, so we are asking for another batch of donated quilts to be here by May 10, for this 11 week working trip by the engineering students.
International quilt celebrity and artist Lisa Walton will be here soon, and we have students coming from locally and out of state. Come meet Lisa and find out why she was picked to be the first international president of SAQA! (Studio Art Quilt Associates)
The Registration Page for the Love Your Mother Contest and Exhibit is LIVE, but you have until the May 15 deadline to make a quilt and try for the top prize of a newly introduced model BERNINA 570 QE machine. The juried exhibit will premier in Houston!
I saw my first Robin of the season today.
I think Spring is really coming this week!
(Watch for the Midweek Creative Nudge and the Spring Equinox message.)
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
