This week I attended a fundraiser for our local Colorado Music Festival, and found myself 2 seats away from this weekend’s guest artist Olga Kern, Van Cliburn Gold Medal winner. The topic of world travel came up, and I was able to add a few nuggets of detail to conversations about South Africa, Moscow, and New Zealand. The host finally asked “Who are you?…and…. I want your job!”
Indeed I am very lucky that my work includes traveling overseas to quilt festivals, and that my photography allows me to share the quilts I see around the world, with other quilters on the opposite side of the globe….including so many of YOU, and your own gorgeous quilts! (Made with fabrics from eQuilter, of course…*smile*)
Our own piano was moved from the house to my eQuilter studio yesterday, because our floors are being ripped out and refinished later this week. Hilarity shall ensue, no doubt. In the middle of the madness, Sophie and I are going to the Not Fade Away / Sacred Threads event in 2 weeks.
eQuilter is a sponsor for *both* of these events, so I can’t wait to meet up with all the passionate talented quilters attending this conference and exhibit!
A few weeks later I’ll give a power point lecture, and then moderate a panel on quilt trends, at the Birmingham UK Festival of Quilts. I know I will see many of you there, and also at the quilters’ outing to see Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford that Saturday night.
And Olga Kern? After a short private performance of several powerful Russian pieces, over dinner she shared that after practicing for 8 hours a day, sometimes she has pain in her neck, shoulders and arms…not unlike many intensely dedicated quilters who I know. Perfection can take a temporary toll on the body, but oh the Beauty that comes from that suffering! We get an ice pack, or a heat pack, and return to the keyboard or the sewing machine!
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