This weekend I am writing to you from Santa Ana Pueblo outside of Albuquerque, where the Color Marketing Group is meeting for their annual International Summit. Due to the election, the very foundation of trend forecasting has had a seismic shift, so this was a great place to be as we all wondered…what next?
It turned out to be the most perfect place to be for me this week, because now I can start to see beyond the seismic shift, and anchor onto a distant star by which to guide…i.e new future trends.
We have had several inspiration speakers who talk about future trends and the colors associated with those forecasts. Traditional demographics are exploding, which means that designers, business people, and even mothers and grandmothers find that the road ahead is shifting and partially obscured. But trust me, the road ahead is there, and trend-watchers are already carving a route to their goals.
Happily, one of the trends is that companies who are using the power of business as a force for good, are projected to be some of the most dynamic forces in the emerging economy. That would of course include eQuilter because we give 2% of sales to charity, and are almost to 1.4 mil donated to our list of charities.
In addition, with our partners like Mission of Love and Engineers Without Borders, we have facilitated the gathering, shipping and distributing of over 12,000 donated comfort for disaster relief, orphanages, cancer patients, and more.
We have one more of these project this year: our local CU Boulder chapter of Engineers Without Borders is going back to Nepal, and they have room for about 7 more quilts in their backpacks. They will hand carry these quilts to earthquake victims in mountaintop villages of Nepal. If you would like to send a quilt to Nepal, let us know so we can plan for the next comfort quilt project when our Nepal quota is met. We always have another group of people in need of a donated quilt.
Please drop off your donated quilts for Nepal by Dec 9, as our EWB contact will pick them up Dec 10. Thanks!
I am just about to hop in the car and drive out to a remote pueblo, to meet with a group of Navajo elders. I’ve been invited to join them at a local celebration, because of my quilt about water, that was exhibited at the UN in Geneva earlier this year.
Once again I am reminded, you just never know where quilting will take you in this big world! Next week I have a group of quilters meeting me in Canada, to photograph the polar bears.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana
