The Registration Page for the Love Your Mother Contest and Exhibit just went LIVE March 1st, but you have until the May 15 deadline to make a quilt and try for the top prize of a new BERNINA 570 QE machine.
The juried exhibit will premier in Houston this fall and I can’t wait to see what you all are making to show how you Love Your Mother Earth!
On Monday it was announced that Jaftex is acquiring Free Spirit (who had announced earlier that they were closing) so that is good news for all you Kaffe and Tula fans. This means we will receive collections that were already on order, and will be able to order future collections (under new ownership) when we go to Quilt Market in May.
We have now reached another milestone in our charity program – $1.5 million donated to charity – from the 2% of all sales. We appreciate your business which supports our ongoing efforts to help those in need.
This week we sent an extra $3000 check to Mission of Love to help with an upcoming Denton Program airlift of food and other supplies to indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala. On April 9 the Air Force will fly an ambulance and firetruck to Guatemala, and in June MOL will have another airlift including building, educational, sewing machines, material and medical supplies; 60,000 pounds of Aid. Kathy and I are discussing the trip to distribute donated quilts and supplies for Puerto Rico hurricane victims. She has already sent supplies to the devastated Dominican Island community.
If you went to QuiltCon, you couldn’t miss the quilts by the kids of the Social Justice Sewing Academy in the Kids section of the exhibits. I had a nice long chat with their development director this week, and we are going to get involved with supporting their work. I hope to host one of their events this summer in our new classroom. In case you missed my Midweek Creative Nudge, I’ve posted more photos from QuiltCon including the SJSA quilts.
(www.sjsacademy.com)
As you probably noticed at the top of this newsletter, this week we are celebrating our 19th anniversary since we started our business in the basement of our home. Our actual anniversary is March 10 (which is also my mom’s birthday) so I’ll be talking more about this amazing journey in next weekend’s email.
I have so many exciting things lined up in the pipeline for eQuilter and also myself personally, which will be revealed in the next year….our 20th year of business! Seriously, how did that happen?!?
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
