Last week we were a corporate sponsor for a fundraiser for the Nepal Earthquake and Doctors Without Borders. On behalf of our customers, we made a $2000 donation targeted to relief efforts already on the ground in Nepal. The fundraiser brought in a total of $113K.
As a result of our continued networking on this effort, I can now invite you to begin sending comfort quilts for earthquake survivors.
We will collect them here at the eQuilter warehouse, and they will travel to Nepal in a variety of ways over the next approximately 6 months. Some may go on a plane as cargo, and some may travel in the suitcases of volunteers who are going to help. My Nepalese friends say that quilts are needed for the upcoming winter season and they will welcome these donations.
As always, I will work carefully with trusted partners to make sure that the quilts go directly to those in need. You might want to do a little research online to see the colorful culture of Nepal – i.e. bright colorful quilts are preferable. Lap quilts, twin and double quilts are most needed. As details come into focus we will put up a relief project page with guidelines.
Feel free to share this information with your quilt guilds who might have interest. Quilts can be shipped or dropped off at our eQuilter warehouse in Boulder, Colorado.
Please note that I will be at the last few days of Quilt National just before Labor Day weekend – giving my “International Quilt Trends” lecture and power point presentation. If you have not seen this bi-annual show at the Dairy Barn in Athens Ohio, I invite you to come see the exhibit and attend my lecture in September.
You may have heard about the 4 tornadoes and flash-flooding that hit just north of us a couple days ago. The tornadoes were very close to some of our staff who live in Longmont, but none of us were impacted directly. Thanks for your concern! Yes that is a very freaky event for this area, but so were the September 2013 floods here. People are certainly talking about Global Climate Change, and wondering whose weather we’ve had here lately! Not normal Colorado spring/summer weather, for sure…
We’ve been watching that Kevin Costner classic “Dances with Wolves” at our house this week, somewhat inspired by all the Native American fabric designs that rolled into the warehouse this week. It is still a great movie! 4 hours long including the Intermission…beautiful cinematography.
I’ve been saving up my United and hotel points all year so….
I will be back in Vienna Austria June 11-18. (Yes, this coming week!) If you live in Vienna and would like to get together, send an email to eQuilter and they will forward your message directly to me. My boys (26 & 18) are coming too (Mason speaks German) so if you have young adults who might like to meet them, it would be great to have local friends for them too. Last time Mason went to Vienna he met up with the son of a Viennese business contact of mine, and they had a great time. Quilters are so friendly and we love to meet you wherever we travel!
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