This week was a major milestone for our company and our staff – it has been ONE YEAR since we moved into our brand new building! You may recall that we bought the land, designed and built the building, and here we are one year later…the trees and grass are growing, and we are absolutely loving our new location. Many of you have visited for tours and workshops, and we are delighted to share our new digs with you.
Today I am writing to you from our classroom, as we host our Charity Sewing Group. This morning we had a presentation by a group of students from the University of Colorado (Boulder) chapter of Engineers Without Borders. They came to show us a video and photos of their volunteer trip to Nepal this summer, to help install clean water systems in remote mountain villages. They carried our donated comfort quilts to these communities that are inaccessible by jeep (i.e. they backpacked the quilts in for the last part of the journey) and the quilts were presented to those in the village who has the greatest need. Many thanks to EWB – CU!
This week we also hosted a group of licensed artists, many of whom have their artwork printed on fabric which we stock. These artists have had a long road to success, and every story about becoming a licensed designer is different.
I am constantly being asked “How can I become a fabric designer” – to which there is no simple answer and no secret to overnight success. However the quilt industry is putting on a program to help newbies find a way to get a foot in the door – it’s called Threads of Success and this seminar is being held concurrent with Quilt Market Oct 25-28 in Houston. I’ll be mentoring a group of 10 fabric designer wannabes, so if you are interested, you can request to be in my group on Monday.
Tonight Sophie and I are driving down to Southeast Colorado – about a 5 hour drive – to the new Wild Animal Refuge. This is an expansion of the Wild Animal Sanctuary, which rescues captive lions tigers and bears from terrible conditions in garages, basements, trailers and roadside gas station zoos … from people who thought it would be a good idea to have a cub as a pet. Yikes!
eQuilter bought one acre of land for the refuge as part of our charity program, and so we are being invited to take a private tour of the 9000 acre refuge tomorrow as Founders. I will take photos because you are all part of this rescue effort, along with all the other donations that are funded by your eQuilter purchases.
Thank you for telling your friends about our charitable projects – we appreciate your support!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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Luana’s Travel Calendar:
Oct 16-22 – Winnipeg & Churchill, Manitoba Canada
Oct 25-31 – Quilt Market & Festival – Houston
Nov 13-17 – Color Marketing Group – Tuscon AZ
Jan 24-29, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival
eQuilter
Classroom:
Oct 8-10 – Jacqueline
de Jonge – Enchanting Stars & Dream
Flight – Registration CLOSING
Nov Charity Sewing Day – TBA
April 13-15 2020 – Susan Carlson
June 1-5 2020 – Paula Nadelstern
