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Yesterday was the official first day of Autumn – the Fall Equinox. Our local weather obliged with a drop in temperature, and we are having a cool rainy weekend. Even though the kids have been back to school for awhile, the changing of the seasons is a welcome relief from the heat, a signal that the harvest has begun, and a turning to indoor activities….like sewing and quilting!
As I am sure you are well aware, there have been multiple recent disasters and those of us not affected by the storms, fires and earthquakes, are trying to keep up with relief efforts…and what is the best way to help.
We would like to open up our classroom to groups or individuals who would like to get together to sew comfort quilts, to be delivered by Mission of Love to those most affected by these recent events. WE WILL PROVIDE THE FABRIC! If you live locally or if you are visiting, and you’d like to set up a single day or repeating sewing day please give us a call or email Customer Service.
If your group would like to schedule a sewing day, we have a local BERNINA dealer who will provide machines. You can of course bring in your own machine as well. We can schedule sewing times during the work week, AND special sewing days on a couple Saturdays in October – on 10/14 and 10/21 – but please call us and RSVP so we know we have enough people to open up on the weekend.
For now lets put out a call for 2 Sewing Days –
Saturday Oct 14 & 21 – 9 am to 4 pm.
Call to RSVP with your contact information.
Please let your Colorado quilting guilds know and pass it on!
Please send us your ideas and lets make some quilts for those in need!
If you are unable to join us but would still like to donate a comfort quilt, I will be announcing our plans for collection and distribution in the near future. In the past we had quilters drop them off in person at eQuilter, or ship them directly to Mission of Love. Because of multiple disasters we are still making our plans, but if you want to donate quilts, I promise we will make sure they are personally distributed to those most in need.
eQuilter and Mission of Love have worked together, to distribute over 12,000 donated quilts for disaster relief, orphans, hospital patients, and indigenous people in poverty. You can see photo albums of these projects on my photo pages – https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/albums
Thank you for considering being a part of our relief effort!
BERNINA has generously donated a new model machine as first prize for the
‘Love Your Mother’ Quilt Challenge, and now Brewer has donated an EverSewn Sparrow 25 machine for the 2nd prize!
To participate in this challenge you must use 1 of the 3 versions of the challenge panel:
North/South Americas
Australia/New Zealand
Arriving soon – AFRICA!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
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Travel Calendar:
Oct 1-11 New Zealand Quilt Symposium – Wellington & Christchurch
(Intl Quilting Trends lecture on Sat Oct 7)
Oct 27 – Nov 1 – Houston Quilt Festival
Nov 9-12 – Color Marketing Group – Portland OR
Dec 29 2017 – Jan 5 2018 – Tanzania Africa Wildlife Migration Tour
Feb 22-25, 2018 – QuiltCon – Pasadena, California
Nov 14-20, 2018 – POLAR BEAR Tour – Join me in Churchill!
