As a deep purple twilight falls in the distance, this dramatic quilt design shows a colorful garden illuminated by the light from a window.
Your Free Quilt Pattern starts with a brilliant floral painting by artist Chong-A Hwang, then adds in 3 Hoffman Hand-Dyes and a Solid Kona Black, plus a coordinate floral for the border.
This 64″ x 71″ quilt design makes a beautiful windowpane wall hanging, or a stunning quilt coverlet for a youth or small bed. We love the sumptuous colorplay of complementary hues in this quilt…it is sure to bring gasps of admiration when displayed in your home!
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Many thanks to
felting teacher Dawn Edwards and our new friends at the Handweavers Guild!
After a rollicking good time with the felting fanatics in our classroom this
week, I am tying up loose ends in preparation for our trip to Tokyo next week.
This will be Sophie’s first trip to Japan and the quilt festival there. She
will also be traveling to Birmingham with me in August, to help me set up and
run the “Love
Your Mother” quilt gallery at the Festival of Quilts. That will be
about a week before she moves out to go to college!
I bet a lot of you are into genealogy, as I am. In fact last week I ordered a
gorgeous 60″ square panel for eQuilter, with a tree that I think will be popular
with those who quilt and work on family trees! Here is a 24″ x 44″ panel we have in
stock now.
I finally broke down and sent for my DNA report. This morning I woke up to 2
emails from distant (4th) cousins, and realized that my DNA report was
completed and posted. I have been continuing the work my mom was doing on our
family tree. I like to connect my travels to my genealogy. I learned to sew
(and be generally crafty and artistic) from my Swedish and German grandmas. My
love of photography comes from my English-Irish-Scotch grandpa. Music runs
through the whole family tree. It is cool to think about how these talents and
interests will continue down the family tree from my ancestors, to my kids, and
beyond…
We had a lovely visit this morning from Karla (Cherrywood Fabrics) as she was
driving through on the way to Road to California. Karla is the amazing person
who organizes the Cherrywood challenges that you may have seen in Houston. This
last year it was the Bob Ross challenge. Prior challenges include Prince, Lion
King and Wicked. Her next challenge theme is Princess Diana! If you go to R2CA
be sure to stop and tell her hello, and check out the Bob Ross exhibit. Her
husband wrote an essay on Wetlands in the new Endangered Species companion book. (My Polar
Bear quilt is in there too.)
Some of our eQuilter customers from around the world have reached out and asked
to meet up in Tokyo. If you’d like to meet up in at the quilt festival please
do send us an email in the next couple days. We arrive the evening of Jan 25,
and will be at the show for 3 days. I tend to be there at the beginning and end
of the day, because it gets so crowded in the middle of the day. We are staying
at the Tokyo Dome Hotel. And yes….I will be bringing back the 2 show books
again. Let us know if you are interested and we will email you when I get back.
If you’d like to see photos from previous Tokyo Quilt Festivals or the
Birmingham Festival of Quilts, check out my photo
albums here.
Luana’s Travel Calendar:
Jan 24-Feb 2, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival
Feb 19-22 – QuiltCon in Austin TX
Mar 18-27 – Wilderness Congress – Jaipur India
June 17-21 – Quilt Canada – Edmonton
June 26-27 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE
July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love
Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
This week’s exclusive eQuilter Free Quilt Pattern is an ethereal White Tiger portrait that will take your breath away, set in a misty Winter landscape. Is this the ghost of Tigers Past or Future? This magnificent big cat strides across an alpine vista, framed in snowflake coordinates and a Hoffman Hand-Dye.
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January 15 is National Hat Day, and it is splendidly serendipitous that we have a sculptural felt hat-making workshop with the Handweaver’s Guild in our classroom for the next 2 days. The teacher Dawn Edwards took a tour of our warehouse today, and we plucked the Summer issue of Fiber Art Now off the shelf…with a photo of her granddaughter modeling one of her fabulous hats. Gosh I just love when those things happen!
Some of you with excellent memories may remember a newsletter I sent out in April 2018, about visiting a sheep farm with Sophie. While we were there, we witnessed a lamb being born. The owner of the farm is also part of the Handweaver’s Guild here, and she’ll be bringing her wool to the class today I suppose. There is a lovely circular quality to our relationships with creative people, I have found.
For 15 years, before we started eQuilter, I was part of a weekly figure painting class. Every week I would take my easel and oil paints, and paint a portrait or figure from a live model in 3 hours. For many years my work in plein air, still life and portrait painting, taught me invaluable lessons about light, color, and design. Everything we have ever done in the Arts is there for us as we explore new ways to share our ideas visually. You never know where that next great inspiration will come from…perhaps the color of a child’s ice cream cone, reflected lights on rippling water, a tangle of color threads on our sewing room floor.
When you look at the world with an artist’s eye, you see things that others miss. Aren’t we lucky?
sharing your Passion for Fabric… Luana and Paul
p.s. Yesterday was National Dress Up Your Pet Day, hence the Hats and Pets above. Please note: No animals were harmed in the making of this e-newsletter.
Luana’s Travel Calendar: Jan 24-29, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival Feb 19-22 – QuiltCon in Austin TX Mar 18-27 – Wilderness Congress – Jaipur India June 26-27 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
This 44″ x 62″ quilt design is set with a Solid Black background so the colors really “pop”, showing off the Avian block vignettes, and sets of bouncing Flying Geese triangles. Snap this up for your favorite ornithophile, or to add a happy swish of saturated colors to your room!
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Enter the Zen Garden of this Asian-themed collection in this week’s free quilt pattern. Hear the soft whisper of the Ginkgo leaves as they flutter gently to the ground, in this beautiful view of a Japanese grove.
You will use 5 different fabrics from the Haiku collection, in shades of Bamboo, Pine and Celadon Green. This 61″ x 80″ quilt makes a small bed quilt or a soothing wall hanging or room divider, perhaps for a meditation or sleeping space.
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Sophie and I have been spending a lot of time together lately. This weekend we are in the warehouse processing orders (just like old times in the basement of our house!) because of our big yearend sale. This last week Sophie got her drivers license, after many hours of me in the passenger seat as she practiced with her driving permit. In a couple weeks she will be coming to the Tokyo Quilt Festival for the first time. She is preparing for her college auditions which will be February. She is graduating from high school in mid-May (the same weekend as Spring Market) and before we know it, she’ll be moving out of the house into a college dorm in August. So many of you have shared in our story of adopting Sophie and watching her grow up in our family business. Can you believe she is almost grown up and out of the house??
This week we are hosting the Boulder Handweavers Guild, and we will have a wool felting class happening in the classroom, making a sculptural felt hat. We are also happy to be hosting more classes for CQC and FRCQ (our state guild and regional art quilt guild) in 2020. Our beautiful new classroom is set up for sewing, painting, dyeing and general textile merry-making…and we are bringing in national teachers for more eQuilter workshops in the next several months. It is very exciting for us!
Our extra 9000 sq ft in our new warehouse has been rented out, and construction is starting for our new tenants. If you come to visit us in the next few months there will be lots of activity on the East side of the building. I received an update from Kathy Price at Mission of Love about their projects for the next few months. She writes:
March 11; Mission of Love will be going to Tecpán, Guatemala to build a home for the orphans, place safe electricity and make addition for a disabled man and his family, and start a Maya Traditional School for language and weaving. Two Denton airlifts have been approved and just waiting for the Department of Defense to notify me that the C5 cargo planes will be available to deliver our Mission of Love humanitarian aid already inspected and ready to be transferred to the Youngstown, Ohio Air Base. 30,000 of corn also has been donated and will be given to the Maya in need of food. Continuous support will be given to the sick cancer children at the House of God, Guatemala City.
Doctor
Rick Scheetz is planning to be well enough to lead a surgery team to continue
our cleft lip / pallet surgeries in March at Metropolitan Hospital with Doctor
Edgar Moran.
We
have a Denton airlift going to the Mesquite Indians of Honduras, via Norma Love
Foundation.
In
April we will be going to the Pine Ridge Native American Indian Reservation to
build a home for Percy White Plume and his family. We will be sending two
53 foot trailers of construction material and humanitarian aid also. This
aid will assist in furnishing a foster care home, directed and founded by
Barbara Dull Knife.
So
our year will once again be filled with lots of humanitarian aid being
distributed to Honduras, Guatemala and Pine Ridge Native American Indian
Reservation.
God
willing, all will be accomplished and the promises that were made will be
fulfilled.
With
love and gratitude,
Kathy Price
Director, Mission of Love
eQuilter Classroom: Jan 15-16 – Dawn Edwards – Nuno Felt Hats March 6-8 – MJ Kinman – “Unicorn Rainbow” & “Elizabeth Diamond” Gemstone Workshop April 13-15 2020 – Susan Carlson June 1-5 2020 – Paula Nadelstern – Kaleidoscopes & Quilts Luana’s Travel Calendar: Jan 24-29, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival – 1 day with Lisa Walton’s Japan Tour Feb 19-22 – QuiltCon in Austin TX Mar 18-27 – Wilderness Congress – Jaipur India June 17-21 – Quilt Canada – Edmonton June 26-27 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
These freshly washed quilts are flapping in the breeze, drying in the morning sun and attracting colorful songbirds from the nearby grove of trees. Don’t you wish you were here?
In this 51″ x 51″ exclusive eQuilter Free Quilt Pattern, we’ve combined Songbirds prints from Elizabeth Studio and Timeless Treasures, with 3 different Stonehenge textures from Northcott. You can almost hear the twittering of the birds, and the rustling of the leaves.
This cheerful quilt design is sure to bring a smile on a rainy day. These bright fabrics are fun to sew with, while we are waiting for the first signs of Spring. Enjoy!
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Long ago and far away there was a magical land where Unicorns danced and played under the sparkling colors of the Unicorn Rainbow. This was not the kind of rainbow you’ve seen with the ROYGBIV colors….no this was a magical rainbow with turquoise, lavender, aquamarine and orchid pink and mint green. As the rainbow appeared the sparkles became multicolored diamonds that fell to the ground and shimmered under the hooves of the playful unicorns.
You are invited to come join the Gemstone Diva MJ Kinman, as she introduces her newest version of her Elizabeth Diamond Quilt – the Unicorn Rainbow Diamond Quilt! This exclusive diamond quilt workshop is only being offered at eQuilter this March, although you may also make her tonal Elizabeth Diamond quilt in this 3 day workshop if you wish. Today, MJ is giving a free intro webinar through Sulky, so we do expect this class to fill up.
This shimmering diamond quilt uses traditional piecing with freezer paper templates to create each precise facet. This isn’t your typical paper piecing! Iron-on templates adhere to the front of the fabric and be easily removed after piecing. Original Elizabeth pattern includes color charts for four tonal colorways, full instructions, freezer paper templates, and paper copies to create one diamond quilt. eQuilter class will include instruction to make this exclusive Unicorn Rainbow quilt design.
Come join us in the magical land of Unicorn Rainbows and make your own 48″ x 48″ Diamond Quilt!
If you just can’t wait until March for MJ’s workshop, we have another wonderful opportunity for you next week. We are hosting the Boulder Handweaver Guild’s guest artist Dawn Edwards who is teaching a 2 Day workshop on “Fantastic Felting and Nuno-Felt Hats”, creating one-of-a-kind sculptural merino wool hats. There are still a few seats left so if you can make it, contact our Customer Service and they will give you information about signing up through the Handweavers Guild for this unique class. The class is on Weds and Thurs next week, Jan 15-16.
Luana’s Travel Calendar: Jan 24-29, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival Feb 19-22 – QuiltCon in Austin TX Mar 18-27 – Wilderness Congress – Jaipur India June 26-27 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
These adorable Mama and Baby Owl vignettes are featured in this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, charmingly illustrated by Japanese artist Kayomi Harai.
This 58″ x 70″ quilt design is perfect for a youth bed, and will give your little owlet sweet dreams, set in soothing colors and a delightful forest and flower garden.
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