Daylight Savings
starts the morning of March 10th, so don’t forget to “Spring Ahead”
and turn your clocks forward an hour, if you are in a state that participates
in this bi-annual exercise.
March 10 is my mom’s 82nd birthday, and eQuilter’s 20th Anniversary!
20 years ago Paul flipped the switch on our website, and we welcomed the world
to visit our webpages full of colorful big bold fabrics! Back in those days
quilt shops were full of mostly small scale “ditsy” prints that were
washed out or dirty colors. I went to about 40 quilt shops around the country
and decided there was something missing. We opened our business with
contemporary, ethnic, wildly COLORFUL fabrics and the rest is history!
There are so many people to thank for our 20 years of success, but I’d like to
start by thanking our wonderful staff who make this possible by showing up 5
days a week, and sharing your delight in these beautiful fabrics.
I’d also like to thank all of those in the industry who have supported us
through the years. Your friendship and guidance as we grew, and as the industry
changed, has been a great gift. You know who you are.
My biggest thanks goes to my husband and partner Paul, who left his manager
position at another company to come run eQuilter. You don’t see his face, but
you see his creative and technical genius on every page, and in every brilliant
tool on the website. He also runs the Free Pattern program and has become quite
the quilt designer!
Unfortunately I’ve spent the week going from ER, to hospital, to a rehab
nursing facility with my mother. Here at the end of the week she is stable and
there was a place at a great facility 10 minutes from our home, so I am looking
at the bright side. We are spending this weekend moving her things out of
assisted living.
We are
approaching $1.6 million raised for charity, and all of us at eQuilter
thank you for supporting our charity program, and our family-run business. This
week I have an invitation to a very special event in Atlanta and Plains GA,
thanks to our charity program, so I will be sharing that with you in a week.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
