Start with our exclusive central digital panel featuring a detailed closeup of this majestic animal, watching and waiting in the forest. Then add the elegant ‘winged’ borders, composed with Northcott Stonehenge tonals.
This 64″ x 72″ quilt captures the nobility of this beautiful and dynamic creature and will be treasured by your bird watcher and wildlife enthusiast friends and family.
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Tonight we are waiting for the big blizzard to hit. They are calling it the Bomb Cyclone. The airport has already cancelled flights tomorrow, and the schools are going to be closed. It is a good day to quilt! Maybe a little hot chocolate too….and a nice long game of Scrabble.
Many thanks to those of you who wrote kind words about my mom. She is out of the hospital and now in a rehab nursing facility close to our house. She is still very confused about what happened last week (in the ER and hospital) but she seems to be out of the woods for now.
Thursday I am supposed to fly to Atlanta for a private event at the Carter Center, and then I’m invited to a smaller event in Plains GA. You may recall that 5 years ago I was invited to meet the Carters because of our charity program. Then I made a quilt portrait of Rosalynn Carter that is now traveling in the “HerStory” exhibit. Last time I was invited to this event, I had to cancel because of the hurricane! So now I am hoping I won’t miss my flight Thursday because of the blizzard. I have just finished a quilt of the White House so the timing is perfect.
Most people think of Habitat for Humanity when they think of the Carters, but that is not their organization. The Carter Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to human rights, alleviation of human suffering, working on health issues and supporting democracy. I particularly like their programs to stop violence against women in developing countries, through education.
We are celebrating eQuilter’s 20th Anniversary this week, and are thrilled to be settled into our new headquarters. Please take a look at our upcoming class dates and perhaps you can join us in our beautiful classroom this year!
The image above is a collage from fabrics we have in stock now, including the 3 “SNOWDAY” words which are made from our new Scrabble panel and other alphabet panels. Now I think I’ll go make that cup of hot chocolate.
sharing your Passion for Fabric… Luana and Paul
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eQuilter Classroom & Travel Calendar:
Mar 14-17 – Carter Center in Atlanta
Mar 28-30 – ‘Love Your Mother’ exhibit at Spring Quilt Festival in Chicago
Apr 1 – Quilting Arts TV, Cleveland
Apr 12-14 – Jean Wells for FRCQ workshop – in eQuilter Classroom
Apr 23-29 – Nantes France (lecture Fri 4/26)
June 27-30 – Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli workshop – Alter Quilts & Embellished
Garments
July 11-14, 2019 – Cindy
Lohbeck – Shibori, Ice-Dyeing and Ombre Dyeing Workshops @ eQuilter – REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN
Oct 8-10 – Jacqueline de Jonge – eQuilter Classroom
Fans of Aquaman and the Little Mermaid will appreciate this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, featuring a dazzling Mermaid riding a huge Seahorse! (Remember the giant Seahorse steeds in Aquaman?) Her hair streams out behind in an undulating rainbow of wavy locks as they glide over a colorful coral reef.
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thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your
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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
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Jason’s dreamy collection features a cool analogous color story, with an atmospheric dotted ombre used for the border. The tonal blenders used for the Circle and Diamond insets, have Celtic and Floral themes.
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One of the colors we love best is Indigo Blue. This beautiful color appeals to almost everyone, and is based on a fermented plant-based dye. The ancient natural dye was used to make the original denim cloth for blue jeans. One of the places we think of when we say Indigo Quilts…is Japan.
This year there seemed to be less of these traditional pieced Indigo quilts in the Tokyo Quilt Festival. In past years we’ve seen these quilts made from recycled and vintage Indigo yarn-dyes, shibori (tie-dyes), stencil prints and yukata remnants. Quilters will go to temple flea markets and buy up these vintage indigo pieces. Perhaps now most of these fabrics are tucked away in quilters’ stashes?
Many customers are surprised to find out that we carry a full range of Sashiko Threads, Needles and Thimbles. After years of traveling to Tokyo, collecting Indigo Boro quilts and vintage Sashiko samplers, I decided we should support a new wave of Sashiko stitching.
The collage image above features a detail of an Indigo quilt from the Tokyo show, surrounded by Japanese-inspired Indigo fabrics in stock now. This includes the new Cotton/Linen Nuno Sashiko Sampler Panels. Enjoy!
(The quilter’s name is shown in the Japanese characters from the artist statement.)
sharing your Passion for Fabric… Luana and Paul
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eQuilter Classroom & Travel Calendar:
Mar 14-17 – Carter Center in Atlanta
Mar 28-30 – ‘Love Your Mother’ exhibit at Spring Quilt Festival in Chicago
Apr 1 – Quilting Arts TV, Cleveland
Apr 12-14 – Jean Wells for FRCQ workshop – in eQuilter Classroom
Apr 23-29 – Nantes France (lecture Fri 4/26)
June 27-30 – Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli workshop – eQuilter Classroom
July 11-14, 2019 – Cindy
Lohbeck – Shibori, Ice-Dyeing and Ombre Dyeing Workshops @ eQuilter – REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN
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thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your
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pattern.
Next weekend we will
be celebrating our 20th anniversary, since Paul and I started eQuilter in the
basement of our home. Paul and I met in 1995, and we started this business in
1999. We raised our kids in this family business, and the years unrolled like a
Jelly Roll falling off a cutting table. Where did those years go?
Our middle child who has had lyme disease and had to leave college 2 years ago,
is finally getting better and contemplating having a life again. My friend who
had the brain biopsy is now in chemo and radiation. My mom is in assisted
living and slowing down. I turned 60 last November and …can’t deny my bad
knees are getting creakier. So time passes and we all feel the years going by.
I never thought I’d be doing the same thing for 20 years, but then again it has
been a wild creative ride and a dream career. Paul and I count our blessings
and never take anything for granted. We come from entrepreneurial families so
running our own business is in our blood.
Sunday is World Wildlife Day, and we’d like to take the opportunity to point
out 2 of our charity recipients that focus on protecting wildlife habitats and
endangered species:
Ocean Conservancy is based in Washington DC, and their work extends to our USA
shores and beyond. From the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico, their work includes
projects like building sustainable fisheries and reducing the trash that kills
marine life. I have visited their headquarters in DC 3 times, to learn about
their projects, and share my concerns about the damage I’ve seen in my travels.
The Wild Foundation is our newest recipient, and they are working to preserve
wilderness areas and endangered species around the world. I have spent time
with their foundation’s president, and was particularly impressed with their
program to protect elephants in Mali (hired 600 rangers to fight poachers) and
in China. (educating about the value of wilderness) They were founded in South
Africa, but are now based in Boulder Colorado.
You can read more details about these, and our other 5 recipients, on our charity
page. We do encourage you to learn more about these very carefully vetted
organizations. Perhaps you will find one that you’d like to support personally.
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Modern Quilters are forging a new path with colors that dazzle and delight. Yes there are the Modern quilts in two-color solids that make minimalist statements, but the quilts that really grabbed our attention at QuiltCon were the ones that went all-out with experiments of COLOR.
It seems that the most daring explorations of chroma are found in the Group Quilt category, where a palette is set and individuals have their own private color excursions, then somehow all of these personal visions are joined together and bound into one bold statement.
Here are 2 examples, along with a couple photos I took in Nashville on a rainy night on the neon Honky Tonk street.
The top right corner is the Best of Show winning quilt, made by By Leanne Chahley of the Lethbridge MQG in Edmonton Canada. Also pieced by Stephanie Ruyle, Felicity Ronaghan, Kari Vojtechovsky, Melissa Ritchie, Diane Stanley, Marci Debetaz, Debbie Jeske, Karen Foster, Hillary Goodwin
The bottom left quilt was the 2nd place winner in the Group Quilts category. Pieced and quilted by Tanya Munro, Yulia Reshetnikova, Marina Lukovneva, Maria Ismangalieva, Elvira Pustovalova, Olga Repina, Olga Stang, Marina Sokhonchuk, Maria Dzreeva, Evgeniya Milyaeva, Clara Stoikow, Olga Vovchenko, Anna Zhuravleva, Valeria Mezhibovskaya, Marina Surmillo, Elena Smolkina…from Dubna, in the Moscow region of Russia.
When we look at these quilts, we don’t think about Solids. We think about the glorious interplay of hues. However these colors were very carefully chosen from a larger Color Palette of Solids.
Start your own Color Adventure with our huge selection of Solid Colors – over 400 colors in stock now – plus color charts and a wide selection of Pre-Cuts. Our eQuilter Color Palette has a carefully curated selection of contemporary blenders for the creative quilter.
You can see photos from QuiltCon, and other recent quilt festivals, on my photo page. Enjoy!
sharing your Passion for Fabric… Luana and Paul
eQuilter Classroom & Travel Calendar:
Mar 14-17 – Carter Center in Atlanta
Mar 28-30 – ‘Love Your Mother’ exhibit at Spring Quilt Festival in Chicago
Apr 1 – Quilting Arts TV, Cleveland
Apr 12-14 – Jean Wells for FRCQ workshop – in eQuilter Classroom
Apr 23-29 – Nantes France (lecture Fri 4/26)
June 27-30 – Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli workshop – eQuilter Classroom
July 11-14, 2019 – Cindy
Lohbeck – Shibori, Ice-Dyeing and Ombre Dyeing Workshops @ eQuilter – REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN
