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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If the haunting call of the open road is your constant companion, this eye-popping Motorcycle Free Quilt Pattern is for you! (or perhaps your significant other?) Look closely and you will find familiar biker icons, plus references to Sturgis, Laughlin, Daytona, Branson, Laconia, Myrtle Beach, and Route 66.
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This week my kids and
I went to see the beautiful Monet exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. There are
more than 120 paintings in this exhibit, covering his entire career, including
plein air paintings from the Normandy coast, the Mediterranean, London, the
Netherlands, and frosty Norway. My kids were spellbound. The exhibit was so
large it was on 2 floors!
Mason and I visited Monet’s home and gardens in Giverny many years ago, so it
was very special for him to see so many of the paintings created at Monet’s
lily ponds. I am going to try to go back to have a 2nd look at the exhibit, and
to have more time to listen to the whole audio tour. The exhibit runs through
Feb 2 and timed tickets are selling out in advance, so try to book your tickets
before the last minute if you can go.
The
Impressionists were Masters of Color, and we are still learning from them.
When you see one of these paintings up close in person, you see layers of color
that evoke shimmering transparency. Even the paintings depicting snow and ice
are subtle poems of analogous hues and misty values. The explorations of light
and the reflective qualities of water give us much to consider.
I have seen this kind of Colorplay in the larger Gemstone quilts of
MJ Kinman. Her free intro webinar with Sulky is this Wednesday, and we
expect her “Unicorn
Rainbow” & “Elizabeth Diamond” Gemstone Workshop to
fill up after the webinar, so if you want to secure your spot in her March 6-8
workshop we recommend you claim your spot in the next few days!
We’ll be opening up registration for Paula
Nadelstern’s 5-Day ‘Kaleidoscopes & Quilts’ Workshop soon. If you
want 24 hour advance notice before it opens to the public, please contact
Customer Service to be put on the ‘interest’ list for Paula.
We want to send a message to our friends in Australia – we are watching the
news about your fires and praying for rain. The estimated losses of wildlife
are mind-boggling. We hope you stay safe and know that we are thinking of you.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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Succulents are known for low maintenance and long lifespans, making them popular with urban dwellers who work long hours. Succulents’ popularity doesn’t seem to be slowing down, but are now being used for weddings (including boutonnieres) and hanging gardens in commercial spaces. The artful images of succulents are used in all kinds of surface design, including greeting cards, tee-shirts and wrapping paper. It’s hip to be Succulent!
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Happy New Year to our dear friends and customers
around the world. As we enter a new decade together it is a time to celebrate
the gift of sewing and passion for creativity that we share.
We have many stories, surprises, workshops and adventures to share with you in
this New Year. 2020 is a year when you will see
the fruit of our charity programs ripening in unexpected ways. You can
share in our excitement as these new projects are announced in the near future.
Together with your help, we are a Force for Good in the World. We are helping
women start new businesses in Kenya with microloans. We are helping to feed and
house families living in extreme poverty in Guatemala and Pine Ridge SD. We are
helping to pay for Hugging Grannies in Chinese orphanages. We are inspiring
children to make a difference in the world they will inherit. Our close
partnerships with our list of
amazing charities, and other conservation organizations, are fighting to
save endangered species. And we are sponsoring important quilt exhibits that
would otherwise not be seen.
All because of you. Thank you for being on the eQuilter.com Team.
May your New Year be filled with Joy and Blessings.
Luana and Paul
the Rubin Family
and the eQuilter Staff
Boulder, Colorado
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Those rainbow colors are echoed in the coordinates – a splash of color, multicolor pawprints, and jewel-tone butterflies are from the Chong-A Hwang collection. We’ve added in 2 Hoffman Hand-Dyes to anchor the pretty cat design.
This 55″ x 72″ quilt design makes a large lap quilt that evokes the comfort of the Rainbow Bridge, or an uplifting wall hanging for your Kitty Room. For the young cat lover, this would also make a delightful coverlet for a youth bed.
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Most of us will
remember the celebrations of the Millennium New Year as one of the biggest
events of our lifetime. How awesome to witness the turning of the year 2000. We
partied like it was 1999, just like Prince’s song. That song was released in
October 1982. I remember dancing to that song in a disco in Hong Kong and
thinking – 2000 is so far away! Then in 2000 thinking – 2020 is so far away!
Well here we are. Have we achieved 2020 vision? I think not. But who knows what
2020 will bring?
Our industry has changed so much in the 20 years since eQuilter started in the
basement of our home. Back then people were afraid to buy metallic prints
because they thought the metallic would wash out. 5 years ago people were
afraid of digital prints for a similar reason. 20 years ago I could not have
imagined how digital printing technology would radically change the range of
products that we carry. Now we enjoy fabrics printed with permanent
dye-sublimation that bonds to the molecules of the fabric, and have a limitless
amount of colors and no restriction on the repeat length. A designer’s dream!
20 years ago quilters were arguing over ‘what is a quilt’ and ‘what is art’ and
the Modern Quilt Movement was perhaps a twinkle in Nancy Crow’s eye but she
didn’t know it yet. Ha. Now our quilt festivals are full of creative and
technical categories that didn’t exist in 2000. As sewing machines became
digital with computer brains and mind-blowing technical advances, we’ve
embraced the changes and allowed them to feed our passion for stitching in ways
our grandmothers could not have imagined. I think of my grandmothers often when
I am sewing.
More than anything, the internet has brought us together and provided us a new
way of sharing our creative inspirations, and allowed us to find new friends
all around the world. The internet was just taking off when we opened our
little business in 1999, and now it is integrated into all of our daily lives.
When we share things like slow-stitching and hand-applique through the
internet, that mode of sharing has come full circle. That part our grandmothers
could relate to, for sure!
I thank my grandmothers Minnie and Merle, for teaching me to sew and planting
the seeds for my creative career.
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
July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
To make this quick and easy 52″ x 37″ quilt design, you will only need 3 fabrics: the central digital panel, the green jungle fern, and the black stone texture. Be sure to check out our other Big Cat fabrics for wildlife lovers, at eQuilter.com!
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