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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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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