Plus we offer a Free exclusive 53 x 65″ quilt design! Start with the Hummingbird Concerto panel, piece the borders with coordinating Thistle Purple petals & Clearwater Blue hand dye, then finish with the dramatic wildflower ombre. You’ll enjoy the glorious hues of this exceptional hummingbird quilt !
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
This week I am excited to share that my art quilt “Invisible Borders” will be exhibited at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this October, in the debut of a new artist exhibit group:
Soul Stories: Threads of Existence
We are visionary art quilters, weaving the threads of ancient myths, archetypes, and cosmic energies to illuminate the sacred narratives of the human soul. Through our collaborative creations, we offer a portal to the mysteries that connect us all, inviting the world to journey with us through the divine tapestry of existence.
Our exhibit will travel to a museum and other venues in 2026, and beyond. I am honored to be part of this collaboration of 20 fiber artists.
On the top of the above collage, I have shown a detail of my piece “Invisible Borders”, which tells the story of what happens when a wolf family passes over the border of a National Park like Yellowstone, into unprotected territory. You can see the full piece on my Gallery Page.
In addition I will have a 2nd piece “250 Years of American Wilderness” in the Landscape category at Houston Quiltfest. It celebrates the history of our National Parks and public lands, and honors the park rangers and caretakers of these precious resources.
This quilt will travel to a Semi-Quincentennial museum exhibit in 2026. This is the 3rd Semi-Quin piece I have made for museum exhibits opening in July 2026, for our nation’s 250th birthday. You can see this also on my Gallery Page.
Hopefully you are also making your own historic Semi-Quin quilt to document this moment in our nation’s history. We have plenty of topics to potentially put in a quilt that will become part of history. What would you wish to document in such a quilt? Imagine for a moment…what would you like to express to viewers 50 years from now, at a 300th anniversary exhibit of historic quilts?
I have included a beautiful new Forest quilt backing, and 2 exclusive Wolf-themed panels, in the fabric collage above. We hope you like them!
It is always good news when we get the notice that our quilts got into a show. I am very excited that I will have 2 quilts at Houston this fall. Right now I have 3 art quilt UFO’s in process in my studio, so that is how I will spend the first part of my summer…finishing up those pieces and starting a 4th piece that is already formed in my head. What are you working on now?
Today I attended a fundraiser luncheon for the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden. David Taylor was our comedic Master of Ceremonies, and it was his birthday too! The museum is expanding (amazing!) so we were there to support this success story.
I’ll have some fun news to share next week in my Wednesday Creative Nudge e-newsletter. In the meantime as the school year wraps up and we make plans for summer travel and celebrations, perhaps you too are starting to plan new projects with deadlines looming this Fall, or for the holidays.
Our fabulous Gilded Stallion fabric is Back in Stock, by popular demand! Gallant and proud, an elegant horse, gilded in gold, prances freely under the midnight glow of the full moon.
Plus we offer a Free exclusive 51 x 65″ quilt design! Start with our exclusive Rubin Studios Gilded Stallion panel, then add our Midnight Sky borders, and miter the Native American blanket print, and enjoy the power and freedom of this exceptional horse quilt !
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Plus we offer a Free exclusive 60″ x 72″ quilt design! Start with our exclusive Rubin Studios Kitties in Rome print, then add our coordinating Kitty Fur, vintage book pages, and antique books & potions fabrics. Fussy cut the Library of Rarities Map print to make the corners, add a Hoffman Hand Dye border, and enjoy a feline world-traveling adventure!
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
I am going to get a little bit personal in this email. Today is the 30th wedding anniversary for Paul and I. In case you don’t know, Paul and I are not only parents to 3 talented wonderful young adults, but we are also business partners in eQuilter. We married in May 1995, outdoors at Chautauqua Park with the Boulder Flatirons as a backdrop.
When you hit a round number it is worth sitting back for a moment and thinking about all that has happened, and what is to come. Paul and I met in 1994, and within 2 weeks we knew we were going to get married and have a family. We were looking really hard for each other, and when we finally met, that was it. We bonded over our mutual love of Star Trek, Monty Python, and the 4 cats we had between our 2 households. (Today we have 2 dogs, and 3 rescue cats.)
In the late 90s Paul was managing an audio company, learning code and starting to design websites. In fact he constructed the Boulder Philharmonic website and maintained it for a few years back then, which nobody at the Phil remembers after all these years.
I left the fashion industry and New York City, moving back to Colorado in 1990. I was always thinking about what I could do next – involving art, color, design, and fabric. A year later I was looking at magazines in my local supermarket, when I stumbled across the quilt magazines. I immediately recognized that this was what I had been looking for!
When I met Paul a couple years later, I had been visiting quilt shops all over the country. (As one does….) I came to the conclusion that none of them had what I wanted. (big bold bright contemporary and ethic prints) One day in 1998, as I watched him designing websites for other businesses, I had an idea…..
And the rest is history.
We are still having fun running this crazy business together, and we hope that our joy comes through in the art, color and design that we share with you!
Plus we offer a Free exclusive 59″ x 67″ quilt design! Start with our exclusive Rubin Studios selvedge to selvedge single border print. Then piece the borders with our coordinating allover Aurora Trees fabric and Hoffman Hand Dye. Our rich Pine Forest 108″ wide fabric is the perfect backing for this captivating northern lights quilt.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
There are many ways to celebrate Mothers Day. A new baby brings the joy and excitement of a First Mothers Day. A multi-generational celebration may bring a grandmother, a mother, and grandchildren together.
As our children grow up and move out, and perhaps we have lost our own mothers or grandmothers, Mothers Day may be wistful and bittersweet. However the love we received from our mothers, grandmothers, or the mother figures in our stories … lives on in how we go through life and how we love others. And so often each of these scenarios are accompanied by a quilt. A gift we receive. A gift we make. A gift we treasure and then pass on to the next generation.
Plus we have a Free captivating 48″ x 63″ quilt pattern! Start with our exclusive Rubin 29″ x 44″ digital panel. Then piece the borders with our coordinating Celestial Galaxy print and Hoffman Hand Dye. Our Star Bright Space 108″ wide fabric is the perfect backing for this heavenly kitty quilt.
…from the ‘Fabulous Pets’ collection by the Rubin Design Studio, designed exclusively for eQuilter.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Many of you share another great passion with me, besides quilting –
World Travel!
I’ve been watching Paul develop a new collection that I like to call “Great Kitties of the World”, and tonight we are introducing…..drum roll…..ROME!
It was just a few months ago that I led a Textile and Costume Tour in Italy. The colors, textures, and graceful designs that we experienced there, have filled up my Creative Juice Tank and it is still flowing out in unexpected ways in the art studio. So I am greatly enamored with this trio of wide-eyed fluffy Italian kitties, and the skyline of Bella Roma in the background. I have many fond memories of visiting the Italian Quilt Guild in Rome several years ago. Hugs and kisses to my quilter friends in Rome – you know who you are!
Saturday I drove back from Southwest Colorado, after spending a week working on a new Bear-themed art quilt, at the Alegre Retreat in Gateway. It was a wonderful week of camaraderie with old and new friends.
Tuesday evening I attended a fundraiser event for the Colorado Bear Coalition at the Governor’s Mansion in Denver. We donated a bundle of bear-themed fabrics for the silent auction. I finally met one of my conservation heroes – Dr Marc Bekoff – who collaborates with Jane Goodall on the Roots and Shoots program. You may have read that Kathy Price from our longtime non-profit partner Mission of Love is also involved with Jane and Roots/Shoots in Pine Ridge South Dakota.
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