I hope you had a great St. Patrick's Day, especially if you are of Irish descent. Here in Boulder we had lots of great Irish music and dancing…but I am staying away from Pearl Street tonight when the mobs of college leprechauns with green beer slosh their way through the emerging tulips. I'll be home listening to my Celtic music collection, thank you very much!
St Patrick's Day really got me in the mood for our upcoming tour to Ireland, and especially the first Irish Quilt Festival. A couple nights ago, after I sent out an email, I got a midnight call from Ireland! Jim West, the managing director of the Irish Quilt Fest called to tell me about some exciting developments with the event. Today he sent out a St Paddy's newsletter and I wanted to pass on this message from him:
"…..the early booking discount on all the tours, classes, workshops and day trips will end on April 1st. I highly suggest you go to the festival website and choose the ones you would like to do while you are in Ireland. A few of the workshops and classes are already sold out, and many of them have just a few spots remaining. So while there is still availability and still the early booking prices, visit our website www.IQFOI.com and take a look at all the wonderful things you can do while you are in Ireland!"
So if you've been noodling about whether to jump on and join my tour, be sure to get that early booking discount! I still have just a few seats left on my tour bus…and there is a Land Package price available as well.
Here in Boulder the trees are just barely starting to bud out, but with a week of weather in the 70's, I can see them plumping out more and more every day. There is a lovely horse pasture with a backdrop of the mountains, that I pass every day on the way home, and the field is quickly turning green. My tulips are pushing up and I am watching for those blooms to pop out soon. This time of year is always so exciting … I never get tired of watching Nature waking and exploding with color.
Spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, 2012, at 1:14 A.M. (EDT), which means the official Spring Equinox will happen a little before midnight here in Boulder on Monday night. I am flying to Las Vegas Monday night, and will attend the textile trade show there on Tuesday.
This last week I had a wonderful visit from 2 student members of the University of Colorado chapter of Engineers Without Borders. They told me all about their recent trips to Rwanda, and the work they have done at the L?Esperance orphanage and school near Kigali. We are trying to hatch a plan to help another organization in Kigali which is taking street children into a new orphanage and building a school. We are hoping maybe to help with the school, and maybe even have a quilt drive for these kids, as we did for Haiti and Ethiopia in the past.
This year I hope to work with EWB and Mission of Love to do another quilt drive for orphans, which is something I discussed with Kathy while in Ohio last weekend. This week, Kathy's organization loaded a C5 Cargo plane with 85,000 pounds of food, educational, medical and building supplies for our friends in Guatemala. The Mission of Love building team will arrive March 21 to continue building WAY-bi (House of Dreams) for the children who are dying of cancer. If you are interested in making quilts for children who have nothing, or even volunteering on an aid mission, watch this space!
These are just 2 of the charity organizations you can choose when you finalize your eQuilter order. We like to keep you updated on what your charity dollars are doing around the world. Thanks so much!
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