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Puppy Love and Textile Exhibits

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Luana

The last two weeks I've been driving the kids to Denver Monday through Friday (for zoo camp, then music camp) and I tried to do all the things that I don't have time to do in Denver otherwise. (It is about a one hour drive from our house.)

Friday I saved the best for last, and now I wish I'd gone earlier! The Denver Art Museum has a new set of textile galleries, and as reported in the New York Times, they are presenting a huge grouping of concurrent textile exhibits known as "Spun".

When you go to see this incredible group of textile exhibits (and YES, it is worth coming from out-of-state!) be sure to get a ticket to see the Nick Cave and Red White & Bold special exhibits.

While I was in NYC the end of March, I saw the Nick Cave costumes and performance at Grand Central Station. On June 28 there will be a Nick Cave performance at DAM, but the tickets are sold out. There is some limited availability for members to attend the dress rehearsal on June 27. (I will be there on June 27!)

In the last two months we lost our beloved doggie and elder kitty, and we recently decided we wanted to bring a puppy into our home. This weekend we brought her home, and we are all in Puppy Heaven. There is nothing like Puppy Therapy to put a smile on your face and joy in your heart. If you are on Facebook and want to see lots of cute puppy photos, check out Luana's Puppy Club! Woof!

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Down Time = Photo Safari

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Luana

This weekend, I am halfway
through two weeks of extreme commuting.
This last week Sophie had Zoo Camp in Denver, and this week Sam has sax
camp at the Denver School of Performing Arts.
Driving to and from Denver Monday through Friday for 2 weeks is not a
pleasant way to spend one's time, and it sure makes me appreciate my
friends who have to do similar commutes in LA and other big cities.
(2-3 hours in traffic per day) Wow, it is so exhausting!

However I decided to make the most of it! I am always complaining that I
don't have time to go to Denver to see the museums and galleries, etc.,
so I am trying to squeeze in as much culture and visual stimulation as
possible these 2 weeks.
I guess this will be my version of Staycation 2013.

So last week I made business phone calls from the zoo parking lot for 2
hours each morning, tried to keep up with my emails on my iPhone, then I
went to 2 art cinema matinees ("Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's", and "Renoir" – I recommend both for those of you who love luscious eye candy), took photos of the animals for an hour or two every day, finally visited the Art Students League in Denver,
sketched animals for a few hours, and was amazed by the number of
pregnant women at the zoo! Because we are members at the zoo, we can go
in 30 minutes before the park opens to the public, and that is when I
got my best animal photos.

Do you take reference photos for your creative work?
Is there a certain time of year that lends itself to taking your
favorite reference photos? This is the time of year when I take my
camera everywhere.
I am taking photos of the snowy peaks of the Rockies and the green
foothills.
I am taking photos of baby animals in the surrounding farmland.
I am taking photos of the masses of flowers that are blooming this time
of year.

These things are so incredibly inspiring to me.
I come home and go through my photos late at night when everyone else is
asleep, and start dreaming up color palettes and creative projects for
the coming year.

Part of being creative is having empty space in one's head, one's studio, and one's life.
It is like staring at a blank canvas, upon which we project images and ideas that well up from the subconscious.
A Staycation is an empty space in your busy schedule.
Leave it empty and see what happens.

What inspires you this time of year?
Feel free to share your thoughts here.

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This weekend is the Irish Quilt Festival, and eQuilter is sponsoring the Spirit Rising exhibit
there.
(made by quilters dealing with some type of physical challenge –
illness, injury, loss of sight/hearing, etc.) If you have photos of our
exhibit, we'd love to see them!

Check out my photos from Quilt Canada – wonderful colors and creativity from up North!

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Handsome Cheetah

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Luana

For some reason I couldn't get this image to load for the Creative Nudge on Tuesday night. Here is the handsome cheetah I refered to in my post. Actually… this might be the female cheetah at the Denver Zoo.

Here are more animal photos:

….and here are photos from Quilt Canada last month:

Here's a link to all my photos sets, if you want to keep going! *wink*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/sets/

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Creative Nudge – A Week at the Zoo

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Luana

The first part of our SAQA Andover design contest is over. After our May Call for Entry, we ended up with 190 designs from 65 artists! I am doing a blind jury now, curating the artwork into a short list before Andover and I make a final collection choices. Many thanks to all of you who submitted artwork!

Many of you are following the progress of Libby at www.caringbridge.org/visit/libbylehman – and the news May 31 was difficult to hear. The doctors have reported that she has lost her speech center. According to them, this means that she cannot speak, nor can she understand speech. Her speech center was located in the right side of her brain where the stroke occurred. Therapy will continue. The road ahead will be long and difficult. More details on the caring bridge site. Please do follow those posts as they are directly from her sisters.

You may wonder why I have a photo of a handsome cheetah this week. Sophie finally talked me into letting her do a week of camp at the Denver Zoo, which means I am driving over an hour from Boulder to Denver in the morning. Monday I drove back to Boulder during the day, which meant I was driving for almost 5 hours for 2 round trips. One day of that was enough, so I am just taking her to camp the rest of this week, and spending my time on creative studies all day in Denver until it is time to pick her up. On the way home today, I picked up a carload of Guatemalan ikat cottons from one of our suppliers. Yippee!

So I have challenged myself to walk the entire loop of the zoo each morning this week, to take animal photo portraits. This is one of the images I snapped this morning. I will add these to my photo archive for future art projects, and I'll post my favorite animal portraits on my Flickr photo page.

I also went to see a fashion documentary film at a nearby art cinema house. "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" takes you behind the scenes at Bergdorf Goodman with the long process of designing window displays, telling the history of the building and the company, and interviewing many iconic fashion designers. The textiles, artwork, and luxe eye candy make this a scrumptious 90 minutes of vicarious retail therapy. You may recall my Hong Kong roommate (then working for Oscar de La Renta) was Halston's head patternmaker during his heady couture days, so I'll have to talk to her about the Halston history in this film.

The first batch of quilt photos from the Quilt Canada show are up – I love all the nature themed art quilts!

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The Space In Between

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Luana

After traveling to 2 quilt shows in 2 countries, (Quilt Canada, and Quilt National/Dairy Barn)
and seeing 25,000 fabric designs at Quilt Market, my brain has been
totally saturated with Color over the last few weeks! Watch for quilt photos from Canada being uploaded this weekend.

I am happy to be home for awhile, even though there is a weedy patch in my back yard that should have been rototilled for a vegetable garden by now.
Happy June!

I've been thinking about the space between Modern Quilts and Contemporary/Art Quilts.
In this world that we live in today, where everything and almost
everyone seems to be so polarized, I habitually and almost compulsively
look for the space in the middle, when 2 sides are potentially
polarized.

Remember 20 years ago when the traditional patchwork quilters often were
polarized with the fledgling art quilt movement? (people used to argue
endlessly online about the definition of a quilt.) Today, sometimes the
modern quilters seem to be at odds with contemporary quilters.

But there is a very beautiful and attractive space in the middle, that
is slowly being populated by very talented and clever quilters.
Whether they like to call themselves artists or designers (or both!)
doesn't really matter.
What I find fascinating is that it is a fertile hot ground for a whole
new genre or school of quilting creativity.
Watch that space.

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OKLAHOMA TORNADO QUILTS –
Kathy Price (Mission of Love) and I are trying to figure out if we will have enough quilts and money for relief supplies by June 20,
in time for our projected June 27 distribution date in Oklahoma.
We want to maximize this truckload, so if you or your quilt group are
planning to send us quilt(s) for this effort by June 20, would you drop
us an email at [email protected] and let us know your plans…
so we can confirm our dates?

Hurricane Sandy Quilts –
This quilt relief project has come to a close.
In partnership with Timeless Treasures
who processed packages and stored quilts before distribution, and of
course with all of YOU who donated quilts, we donated almost 2000 quilts
to hurricane victims.
I am so grateful to everyone who helped with this effort, especially Joy
McKeon from Quilt Magazine who made it her personal mission to deliver
batches of donated quilts to so many communities.

Our last delivery was last week to Adopt-A-House in Lindenhurst, Long
Island.
If you still want to donate to Hurricane Sandy survivors, contact
eQuilter Customer Service for the address of a relief agency still
receiving quilts.

Here is a thank you message:
"We had a generous and thoughtful
donation given to Adopt A House families this evening.
Brand new Hand Made Quilts made for Super Storm Sandy Families.
I went around South Lindenhurst tonight delivering some to families.
These quilts are from all over America.
Some come with custom letters of encouragement and each stitch was
completed with love.
Even though I saw a lot of happy faces I still saw a lot of tears from
families who were touched that people all over America are still
thinking of them through this long haul."

Dates to Watch:

June 20 – Deadline for Oklahoma Tornado Quilts
July 20 – Not Fade Away – Quilt Alliance
– in conjunction with Sacred Threads
Aug 8-10 – Birmingham UK Festival of Quilts

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(Sneak peeks of new collections throughout the week)

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Quilt Relief for Oklahoma

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Luana

On this Memorial Day weekend,
we are remembering not only those who have served, those we have lost,
but also those affected by the May 20 tornado in Oklahoma.

I am in Athens Ohio this weekend for Quilt National, and I will be reporting on this show in my midweek Creative Nudge newsletter.

Oklahoma Tornado Quilt Relief

On May 20, 2013, a monster tornado with the highest EF5 rating hit Moore Oklahoma, with winds topping 200 mph.
13,000 homes were destroyed or seriously damaged.

Mission of Love and eQuilter are partnering to bring a truckload of disaster relief and comfort quilts to Oklahoma on June 27-28.

You can help by sending your donated comfort quilts to Mission of Love, or dropping them off IN PERSON at eQuilter's warehouse in Boulder Colorado, by June 20.
(Do NOT ship to eQuilter, only ship directly to Mission of Love.)

You can also help us purchase disaster relief supplies by donating funds via PayPal directly to Mission of Love, so we can buy in bulk and load up that truck ahead of time.

You can send your donations and quilts to:
Mission of LOVE
2054 Hemlock Court
Youngstown, Ohio 44515

Or you can make a monetary donation via the Mission of LOVE web site:
www.missionoflove.org via Pay Pal.

Please join our hands in order to extend our hands to those in need via our Mission of LOVE for the " LOVE of MOORE.
" Kathy Price and I will personally hand deliver your donations of quilts and monetary donations to the real people in need.

READ QUILT GUIDELINES BELOW ON THIS PAGE PLEASE!
http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/quiltrelief.html

If you are in Oklahoma and have photos of the tornado's devastation, please
send them to us and we will share them online.

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May 24 Update:
eQuilter *Hurricane Sandy – 1777 Quilts Received*

Thank you to Timeless Treasures
and owners Ellen and Dave Brown, for providing the warehouse and staff
to receive, process, store and distribute these quilts for Hurricane
Sandy victims.
We are so grateful that we could partner with you in this relief effort!

This project has ended and the last batch of quilts are being distributed this week.
We are now starting a quilt relief drive for the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes last week.

Many thanks to Joy McKeon from Harris Publications who has helped to transport donated quilts to distribution points.

Here is a list of organizations that have received and distributed your
donated quilts to those in need – thank you Quilters – and thank you
Joy!

–The Island Park Volunteer Fire Department
–Breezy Point FDNY
–Fire
Departments, Community Center and Churches in the following towns:
Breezy Point, Queens; Far Rockaway, Queens and Island Park, LI
–Community Center in the Edgemere section of Far Rockaway
–Shorefront
Y in Brighton Beach Brooklyn – they were distributing them at a church
event in a local Latino neighborhood reaching a community that doesn't
frequent this Y much (this Y is located in a predominately Russian
neighborhood).
–Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn – a tent area where residents come for food and supplies.
–Far
Rockaway Nazarene Church as I've read they are always in need of
supplies.
They serve hot meals daily and provide a clothing, food and supply
pantry to the neighborhood that has been hit hard by the storm.
The minister said those quilts would all be gone the next morning.
–Santa for Sandy organization in Midland, Staten Island

Hurricane Sandy Photo page:
eQuilter *QUILTS for HURRICANE SANDY*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/sets/72157632121717400/

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We wish you a safe holiday weekend, and a happy summer!

May 25 – Quilt National in Athens OH
May 30 – Deadline SAQA Andover Design Contest
July 20 – Not Fade Away – Quilt Alliance
– in conjunction with Sacred Threads
Aug 8-10 – Birmingham UK Festival of Quilts

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Creative Nudge – Canada, Trends, Tornadoes & Graduation

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Luana

There are so many things to write about – I don't know where to begin!

First let me tell you that this is a scene from Quilt BC in Penticton
Canada from last week.
An hour before the exhibit opened, several classes of schoolchildren
were brought to have a preview of the quilt show.
The kids were so interested in the quilts, and the white-gloved docent
had a story to go with each quilt, to keep the kids interested.
At the end of the exhibit tour, their teachers gave them paper and
markers, and invited them to design their own quilt blocks.
Brilliant!

Next I went to Quilt Market in Portland, and the trade show was full of
young people with new ideas.
Several fabric manufacturers previewed digitally printed fabric
collections, and we'll see those starting to show up at eQuilter in the
near future.
The price is a little higher, but the artwork quality looks like a
screen print with 30 or 40 screens! (Normally they are around 15
screens) We are excited to see this huge and very important trend take
hold in the next year.

I can say that the flat color trend with simple artwork that is filled
in with a Photoshop paintbrush, is being replaced by lush intricate
artwork with a handpainted look.
It is more sophisticated and it looks fresh after all the simple flat
artwork we've seen on fabric the last several years.

Our hearts go out to the residents of Moore Oklahoma, and Tuesday I was on the phone with Mission of Love director Kathy Price.
We agreed to start a new quilt relief effort for the tornado victims, and you can read the press release from Mission of Love on this information page.

Quilts can be dropped off IN PERSON at eQuilter, or shipped directly to Mission of Love in Ohio.

DO NOT SHIP QUILTS TO EQUILTER, as this will delay and perhaps prevent distribution to Oklahoma tornado survivors.

The deadline for receiving quilts is June 20.

Kathy and I will go to Moore June 27-28 to distribute disaster relief supplies and comfort quilts.

If you have questions, please call or email Dana at eQuilter Customer Service:
[email protected]

(Please do NOT try to call Kathy at MOL because she is simultaneously
coordinating several different urgent relief projects right now – with
no paid receptionist to answer calls or emails)

If you don't have time to make a quilt, please consider donating directly to Mission of Love via PayPal, so they can purchase relief supplies in bulk and load up a truck bound for Oklahoma.
Mission of Love has no overhead, so everything you give will go straight to purchasing supplies in bulk
at the best price.
Kathy and her team of volunteers are masters at this, so we will also
send them money to help fund the purchase of relief supplies.
You may recall that I went to Guatemala in December, on a Mission of Love Cleft Lip/Palate Surgery trip.

Lastly, our daughter Sophie graduated from elementary school Tuesday night, and we are so proud of her.
I have posted some photos of her from graduation night.
I will also post photos from Quilt BC (Canada) on my photo page.

Thursday night I fly to Columbus Ohio for a very quick 2 day visit to Quilt National in Athens.

* The quilt shown above is "French Garden" by Brigitte Villeneuve of Jonquiere QC, at Quilt BC 2013 in Canada last week.

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The News from Lake Okanagan

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Luana

Paul and I just celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary yesterday, before I
hopped on a plane to Penticton, BC in Canada. You never heard of Penticton?
Neither did the United rep at the Vancouver airport. That made me just a little
bit nervous, as I anticipated flying on a tiny prop plane over the sharp snowy
peaks.

It turned out to be a gorgeous one hour flight, over lush green
pine forests, huge blue
lakes in deep gorges, and wide rivers running through fields dotted with
livestock. As we flew over yet another lake to land in Penticton, I checked out
my "beach" hotel from my little round window, and plotted my sunset walk along
the water's edge.

Anyway, we are SO excited that the arrival of our Star
Trek fabric is actually corresponding with the premier of the new Star
Trek movie! I mean, this NEVER happens! Usually the fabric arrives 6 months
before, or 6 months after the movie comes out. So for us Trekkie fans it is
rather thrilling that we can buy the fabric, whip up a quick lap quilt, and wrap
ourselves in it by the 3rd time we see it in the theater.

Sadly, I will
not be able to participate in opening night fervor at the new movie. Usually I
am there at the midnight show with all the other diehard nutcases, and then I go
see it again a day or two later, and then again a week later, etc. I've been
begging our suppliers to get the license for Star
Trek for YEARS, and I assume there are a good number of Sci-Fi / Trekkie
groupies out there in our customer base, to keep us busy cutting yards of Kirk
and Spock (Original Series, of course!) for months.

Our 2nd year of
business was partially funded by Harry Potter fabric. The trucks would roll up
to our back door, and disgorge dozens of cartons of HP fabric. (when we were
still in the 4300 sq ft warehouse that was previously occupied by Celestial
Seasonings….and everything smelled like mint tea) As fast as it came in, we
shipped it out. It was like a miracle. No, it was like MAGIC! Yeah, that's it! I
believe in magic!

The view as we flew into Vancouver today was
spectacular, especially when we turned and I could see the Northern Passage
between the islands and the coast, where the cruise ships sail up to Alaska.
Maybe some day I'll make that trip, to see the whales and other wildlife in this
wild coastal region. For those of you who live here, I can see why you would
never want to leave.

For those of you in this area of BC who are coming
to the show, I will be at the award ceremony on Wednesday night, and I hope to
meet some of you there! Please do come and say hello if you see me there. I will
be walking the show Thursday morning, and then I have to figure out how to get to
Kelowna for my flight to Portland. Quilt Market starts Friday morning in
Portland
Oregon.

Live Long and Prosper.

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Teaching from the other side of the table…

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Luana

Mothers Day is very special to quilters, because often it is our mothers or
grandmothers who taught us to sew and quilt. As we become mothers and
grandmothers ourselves, we get to experience the teaching process from the other
side of the table.

Often time shared together at a sewing lesson, is
special simply because it is precious one-on-one time spent with someone you
love. Whether we are baking cookies, planting flower seeds, drawing a picture or
stitching by hand… those hours spent together are the stuff of long-lived
memories.

The last few weeks I spent with Sophie's 5th grade class,
coming twice a week and slowly working through the process of designing,
cutting, and sewing quilt blocks. On the last class this week, at the end of our
time together, the kids proudly stacked up their finished blocks in a
substantial pile of red, cream and blue. They've been studying the Civil War, so
we talked about community quilting, fabric scraps, and precious needles, as we
slowly pieced together our group quilt.

As with any kind of teaching, I
found that I learned as much as the students. The things I take for granted as
an experienced quilter, suddenly revealed a deeper joy in simple tasks like
threading a needle. As with any creative endeavor, you have to let go of the
past and the future, and just be in the moment, to be immersed in the creative
process.

It was the kids who made mistakes and had to rip out seams, who
had the biggest smiles as they turned in their finished blocks.

It was
the kids who finished first, who discovered the joy of teaching what they had
learned, to the kids who had fallen behind.

One kid was nearly in tears
last week, unable to thread a needle. This week after his buddies finished their
own blocks, they all pitched in to help him finish his stitching in record time.

The little girl who asked more questions than all the other kids
combined, was the first to finish, and then went on to answer the other kids'
questions.

We find some of our greatest joys in sharing what we know with
others, and that is a gift we learned from our moms and grandmas.

Here's
to all the moms who take the time to pass on their knowledge and creative
passion to their kids. It's the gift that keeps giving down through the
generations and across the years.

Hey, did you hear about Meg Cox'
article in Friday's Wall Street Journal, about the Modern Quilt Guild and
QuiltCon? I was just tickled to be interviewed for the piece, and I also
contributed photos from QuiltCon. Woo hoo! Photo credits in the WSJ! Thanks
Meg!

For our friends in Europe, I hope to see you at the Birmingham UK Festival of Quilts
in August. I'll be there with Bonnie McCaffery shooting videos, and perhaps I'll
see you at the fashion show, or on the Shakespeare evening outing?

This
Tuesday I'll be flying up to Penticton
BC for the Canada Quilt Festival, and I'll send my Creative Nudge once I get
there. I won't get to spend time with Libby there as I had hoped, but we'll
continue to send her prayers for healing.

from Ricky Tims:

"Libby Update for Saturday –
During Lester's visit this morning Libby was
awake and a bit more responsive than yesterday. She is unable to speak right
now, but she communicated by blinking her eyes in order to answer questions. She
also smiled at Lester a few times. She is moving her head left to right a bit
and she squeezed Lester's hand several times – once was a strong squeeze. She
remains in critical condition, but we can celebrate another baby step in the
right direction this morning."

Upcoming Travel and Shows:

May 15 – Canada Quilt Fest in Penticton
BC
May 17-19 – Quilt Market in Portland OR
May 20 – CostumeCon in Denver CO
May 24 – Quilt National in Athens OH
May 30
– Deadline SAQA
Andover Design Contest
July 20 – Not
Fade Away – Quilt Alliance
– in conjunction with Sacred Threads
Aug 8-10 – Birmingham UK Festival of
Quilts

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Creative Nudge – Lucky Me!

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Luana

This week is my "week off"
before I fly out to the quilt festival in Canada, and Quilt Market in
Portland.
Sophie is graduating from 5th grade and elementary school a couple days
after that trip, so I am trying to get everything done before then.
One of those projects is the quilt that her class is making, in
conjunction with their study of the Civil War.

After all my talk about supporting young people who want to sew, I
thought I better put my money where my mouth is, and share the joy of
quilting with some kids!

So I've been going in on Tuesday and Thursday for a few weeks, spending
over an hour each time, teaching them the basics of sewing as we cut out
and sew quilt blocks.

Today as several of them finished their blocks, and many more could see
their blocks taking shape, there was a definite excitement in the
classroom.
Several kids said they wanted to take them home to sew, before I come
back on Thursday for our last class.
They all have a needle and spool of thread, and several of them have been hoarding scraps.
They have the makings of a serious bunch of quilters!

One of the boys was so excited he was practically hyperventilating.
"I finally know how to sew and repair my stuffed animals!"

A few of the girls came to me at the end of class and asked, "Can I keep
my scraps?" I leave a pile of scraps on the table when I leave…

Sophie is very happy to be able to share her knowledge of sewing, so she's been my assistant teacher in all of these classes.

I can see how a Sewing Club in Middle School could be a real hit,
especially if we could do some cool projects that the *KIDS* choose.
Simple stuffed animals made from colorful prints would be a smash hit, I am sure.
Maybe a few stuffed robots and monsters for the Sci-Fi fans?

I told the kids that when I was their age, I took Home-Ec in school and sewed every day for a semester.
"Lucky you!" they declared, hands on hips and stomping their feet.

What a gift to be able to share my passion with an enthusiastic bunch like these students!

Lucky me!

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Our beloved friend and teacher Libby Lehman is still in serious condition in a Houston hospital.
I am posting updates on my personal Facebook page, and will post today's update on my blog:

This is latest report from Ricky Tims….

Libby is about the same, not much change and still in critical condition. She is
in sedated sleep and has not been allowed to wake up. This allows her body to
heal, but more importantly it should help with the vascular spasms that continue
to occur in her brain at the location of the stroke. It still may be a while
before the attempt to slowly wake her.

The best news is that this morning
there was significant response from her left leg and arm. The doctor was
elated.

There are other minor issues but the family has been assured
there is no worry for those and that the main focus is still on letting her heal
so she can eventually wake up. She is breathing on her own for the most part
(still on a breathing machine at low setting) and her vital signs are all
good.

I know many quilters want to DO SOMETHING. The family has asked for
cards or quilted cards. It is important that any organized efforts to make
quilts or blocks be less urgent. I am aware of several efforts in place to make
Libby a quilt.

Please consider the ramifications of this effort. Libby
does not generally use quilts – so they will most likely be stored. Libby makes
art quilts, not functional quilts. She doesn't have display space for wall
quilts. She will not want to give them away to charity because they will be very
meaningful, but storing these items will be challenging.

I know Libby
well enough to know that being inundated with quilts, regardless of how
thoughtful it is meant to be, will be challenging for her. She will find a
graceful way to deal with it, but just having to deal with it is not necessarily
the best thing for her during a recovery period of what could be one to two
years.

I maintain that doing something significant down the road is the
better option. I'm not trying to be squelch a desire to help – I'm thinking from
a different perspective. Sometimes pulling back on the reigns is the most
helpful thing to do.

Puppy Love and Textile Exhibits

Down Time = Photo Safari

Handsome Cheetah

Creative Nudge – A Week at the Zoo

The Space In Between

Quilt Relief for Oklahoma

Creative Nudge – Canada, Trends, Tornadoes & Graduation

The News from Lake Okanagan

Teaching from the other side of the table…

Creative Nudge – Lucky Me!

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