Tonight’s Free eQuilter Pattern combines our Steampunk southwest prints with our bold Steampunk Stallions panel. Our Steampunk and horse fabrics are wildly popular, and this exclusive design combines both themes into one fabulous Steampunk Stallions Quilt!
To make this magnificent 75″ x 75″ design, you’ll begin with the dramatic 43″ x 44″ panel, and then add the coordinating horse allover and stripe prints, Steampunk gears and solid black for the borders.
This breathtaking quilt design will have a commanding presence as a wall hanging, or make it into a Lap quilt for an escape into fantasy Steampunk Stallion dreams!
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.
For most of us, cats are never-ending source of comfort and amusement. Many of you have found your way to my “Fabriholic Kitty Club” on Facebook, despite the zillions of other cat-themed pages. Our friend Doug from Kona Bay Fabrics advised me, our first year of business – “Cats outsell dogs 3-to-1” – haha and he was right! In our house we don’t have to decide whether we like cats or dogs better, because we have 2 dogs, and 3 rescue cats. Our daughter Sophie Quinn adopted a 5 yr old calico tortie several months ago, and she texts me cute photos of her furry friend, in the middle of the night. And I don’t mind! So for those of you fellow ailurophiles (cat lovers) I thought I should feature this embarrassment of feline riches in our warehouse right now.
I love spotting wildlife in our suburban rural neighborhood, and in our Rocky Mountains. I travel one mile from our house, past Celestial Seasonings tea factory, to our warehouse. About once a week I have some kind of wildlife sighting, like a fox, raccoon, or hawk. A week ago a pair of Bald Eagles flew right over my car! Today I had a little bunny next to my car. We’ve had a pair of Blue Jays in our back yard this week also. Occasionally we’ll have a bear or bobcat wander through. A little closer to the foothills our neighbors see plenty of deer, and the rare wandering mountain lion. We feel so fortunate to live in a place where our lives sometimes overlap with the wild creatures around us.
Speaking of snakes…
As I write this, it is Chinese New Year’s Eve….Jan 29 is the start of the Lunar New Year. It is the year of the Snake. When I lived in Hong Kong there were elaborate parties and fireworks, and we shouted “Gung Hei Fat Choi” as we skipped through the celebrations out on the streets. Later we experienced the Lunar Year in Honolulu’s Chinatown, when visiting Paul’s family there. And of course when Sophie Quinn was small and taking Mandarin lessons, we would book a table at the local Chinese restaurant for the New Year Lion Dance or Dragon Dance. The giant Lion puppet would bob up and down, with 3 or 4 (or more!) puppet-masters, to the beat of the celebratory drums. They are meant to scare away evil spirits, and bring good luck in the new year.
Gung Hei Fat Choi!
I wish you purring kitties and good luck in the Year of the Snake.
Sharing our passion for fabric….. Luana and Paul
Travel/Lecture Dates: Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Solo Gallery @ Kyoto Quilt Festival Feb 28 – Mar 2 Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat
Tonight’s dramatic Free Quilt Pattern features our exclusive Dragon Kingdom scenic panel. Our breathtaking dragon is perched on a rocky height, with a castle and glowing sunset in the distance.
To make this 73″ x 81″ bed quilt, you will start with our giant 52″ x 44″ digital panel. Use our Dragon Icon Stripe and Solid Black to create the border, and finish with Dragon Scales for the binding.
Somebody is going to have amazing Dragon-Flying dreams when they sleep under this thrilling 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 was very exciting in the magazine department because we got 2 incredibly inspirational issues through the door!
Quiltfolk Issue #33 features the state of New Mexico, with Navajo artist Susan Hudson, Terrie Mangat in Taos, Vicki Conley, George Mendoza, Betty Busby and Gail Garber in Albuquerque, and the Navajo Quilt Project…and MORE talented artists from the Land of Enchantment.
It is a PACKED colorful issue featuring our talented neighbor just south of Colorado! And we do have several back issues of Quiltfolk in stock – each issue is a different featured State. (We were featured in the Colorado issue.)
QuiltCon 2025 has a delightful surprise for eQuilter fans when you turn that first page. This just landed on my desk Friday, and I have to tell you the Modern Quilt movement just gets better every year. I am most intrigued and inspired by the COLOR trends that keep evolving in this burgeoning branch of the Quilting Family Tree.
We do have a few copies of QuiltCon 2024 in stock which has become a collector item, in case you missed out last year.
We have compiled a list of relief agencies and non-profits who are on the ground in the So Cal communities affected by the fires. I hope you will join us in donating whatever you can afford to help those who have lost everything.
sharing your love for fabric, Luana and Paul
Travel/Lecture Dates: www.luanarubin.com Jan 21 – Visions Museum Zoom Lecture Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Kyoto Quilt Festival Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat
Here is an exclusive Free Quilt Pattern to delight young and old alike. Realistic mother & baby animal pairs capture the beauty and majesty of African animals who gaze at you, engaging us with their enchanting faces.
To make this 60″ x 71″ quilt design, you will start with our own 33″ x 44″ portrait block panel, featuring leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, chimps, rhinos, hippos and lions. You will finish with the coordinating stripe and 2 safari blenders.
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.
Don’t know about you, but I am in the mood for a little escapism tonight. Would you like to join me for a little walk through the forest?
I feel lucky to have been imbued with respect and delight for the natural world, as I was growing up. We lived in California until I was 10, and my memories of those years are a swirl of Beach, Redwood Forest, Mount Shasta, and a sprinkle of Disneyland on top. Then we moved to Colorado, and every other Sunday my parents would take us for a drive in the mountains. Literally a “Sunday drive”. Often we would go straight to Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park, sometimes sliding down glaciers (that are gone now), stopping for a herd of elk, or searching for trout and beavers in the alpine streams.
Summer music camp at the base of Longs Peak was how I spent 3 summers as a teen. One night we snuck out to a meadow with sleeping bags to look at the Milky Way and watch shooting stars. And oh yeah, one night when I was sneaking back to my log cabin, I came face to face with a juvenile (teenager) bear. We both took off running in opposite directions, after several long moments eye-to-eye. (You can read about that on my artist website blog.)
I did a lot of hiking (and a little cross-country skiing) in our mountains before I blew out my knees. I have some special memories of wildflowers and high altitude pristine lakes. And of course wandering through groves of golden Aspen in the fall, breathing in that spicy earthy aroma of fallen leaves.
Hopefully you have similar memories that you can return to, when it is time to clear your head and calm your heart. I like to imagine that I am walking on the beach at sunset, or wandering along a forest path with the sound of a waterfall in the distance. When I am sewing, I love to work with beautiful artwork of these Nature themes…because they bring forth these memories. Art, color, design and quilting all help me to center into the moment and find a peaceful place.
Right now I am in the home stretch, finishing two nature-themed quilts before I leave for my solo gallery at the Kyoto Quilt Festival. If you’d like to follow along, subscribe to my artist blog here!
We hope that our fabrics bring you moments of meditation and joy as we all sail into 2025.
Sharing our passion for fabric….. Luana and Paul
Travel/Lecture Dates: Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Solo Gallery @ Kyoto Quilt Festival Feb 28 – Mar 2 Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat
Tonight’s free eQuilter pattern features a newlywed couple in Paris. This atmospheric image captures a couple on a picturesque walk, with the summer sky and famous Parisian view in the background.
To make this 50″ x 64″ framed quilt design, you will start with the 29″ x 44″ scenic panel. We love the pop of red against the muted tones in the background scene, featuring the Eiffel Tower. We’ve added two Hoffman Hand Dyes, Kona Solid Black and a Red Hoffman Hand-Dye to create a dimensional frame around this romantic image.
Whether you have poignant memories of a past visit to the City of Light, or you dream of visiting the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, this quilt captures the imagination and spins a beautiful daydream!
…from the ‘World Travel’ collection by the Rubin Design Studio, designed exclusively for eQuilter.
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.
We’ve had over 5″ of snow overnight, with more snow and sub-freezing temps on the way. It is a good time to stay inside with a hot drink, to sew and quilt! I had a ticket to see Itzhak Perlman in Denver tonight, but the icy roads made me choose to stay home safe here in Boulder. However Sophie Quinn is still going since she lives in downtown Denver and works for the Colorado Symphony. (While she goes to school at MSU getting her music ed degree.)
I am finishing a Japanese-themed quilt and starting an environmental-themed quilt this weekend, both of which will go to my solo gallery at the Kyoto Quilt Festival.
We are sponsoring the Best Machine Quilting award at QuiltCon, and I would really like to go to Phoenix for a day or two, but it is right before my trip to Japan. So…not sure if I can make it to QuiltCon.
Tuesday this week I am giving zoom talk for the Visions Museum of Textile Art, and it is a presentation I don’t do to often but it is a lot of fun – an autobiography on my life as a designer and artist. It is the 3rd in their current subscriber lecture series. If you haven’t subscribed yet, the previous 2 lectures were recorded, so you can watch all three!
In case you missed this link last week, I have compiled a list of relief agencies and non-profits who are on the ground in the So Cal communities affected by the fires. I hope you will join us in donating whatever you can afford to help those who have lost everything.
Just watched the last episode of the current Outlander season 7, now anxiously awaiting the final season 8….later this year? Made even more interesting because we visited the atelier who helped make some of the more intricate costumes for the series, during my textile/costume tour last month. The new prequel spin-off series will come out this summer. So more time-traveling romance and COSTUMES this year!
sharing your love for fabric, Luana and Paul
Travel/Lecture Dates: www.luanarubin.com Jan 21 – Visions Museum Zoom Lecture Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Kyoto Quilt Festival Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat
To make this 62″ x 48″ quilt design, you will start with our exclusive, magical 29″ x 44″ jaguar panel. Piece the borders with our rich and vibrant canopy curls coordinate, together with solid black.
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.
Today I feature this quilt by Patty Simmons, which was at QuiltCon in February 2024.
It is called “Lahaina”.
The artist statement: “Wind and fire joined forces to create a perfect storm of devastation to the town of Lahaina, a tragedy for our entire country. I had started playing with the hands and faces fabrics well before the catastrophe destroyed the entire town, not knowing where my quilt was heading. But on August 9, 2023, the day following the total destruction, I knew what this quilt would become: a tribute to the people who were lost and to the hands that helped halt the fire. I created an image of the fire with winds circling to keep it aflame. It is devastating what happens in such a short period of time. 100% of my proceeds from the sale of this quilt will go to Maui Strong Fund to aid with ongoing financial needs of the Lahaina community.”
This quilt spoke to me partially because my community had endured the loss of 1100 homes in just a few hours, on Dec 30, 2021. (The Marshall Fire) Now it speaks to me again, during the incomprehensible losses of the current Southern California fires.
In the future I am sure there will be quilt drives for victims, but right now they need safety, shelter, clothing, food, etc. We are donating to the World Central Kitchen. I have posted a list of local community charities and non-profits in So Cal, who are helping those who are displaced.
Climate change is real. This last year was the hottest year on record. The last ten years were the hottest 10 years on record. The global temperatures have now exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and we see the results. It has been all over the news the last few days. How many more fires, droughts, hurricanes, floods will it take for people to wake up and demand action?
We all need to be talking about this. You can speak through your quilts, as Patty has done here. Many of us are documenting the times we live in…and you can join us…your voice is important too.
Thank you for supporting our family-owned business. We are here for you!
Sharing our passion for fabric….. Luana and Paul
Travel/Lecture Dates: www.luanarubin.com Jan 21 – Visions Museum of Textile Art – Zoom Lecture – Creating a Life Feb 25 – Mar 5 – Solo Gallery @ Kyoto Quilt Festival Feb 28 – Mar 2 Apr 3-6 – SAQA Conference – St Pete, Florida April 27- May 3 – Alegre Retreat
