Mother Nature stands sentinel over land and sea, night and day, birds and mammals, in this exquisitely detailed scene by artist Josephine Wall. Dolphins leap and a lion smiles over Gaia’s shoulder, as the Sun and Moon shine over a fertile Earth and the shimmering seas.
To make this 65″ x 73″ quilt design, you will start with the fantastic 36″ x 44″ scenic panel. A second block panel is cut up to make the 4 corners, and the Crescent Moon print makes a dramatic border. Magical dreams await whoever sleeps beneath this enchanting quilt!
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
These four adorable kitties are having fun and maybe getting up to a little baby-mischief in the garden shed. Our exclusive eQuilter Free Quilt Pattern features the artwork of one of our longtime favorite animal artists – Bob Giordano.
To make this 56″ x 66″ quilt design, you will start with the central 24″ x 44″ panel. You will use the Kitty Stripe and 2 Powder Blue coordinates to make the engineered stripe which is actually a fast simple border. These furry babies are peeking out of flower pots and buckets, Wellies and wheelbarrows, with spring flowers and butterflies all around. A delightful celebration of a colorful season!
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
Have I mentioned we have a fox that lives behind the eQuilter warehouse? I’ve been staying late, driving home at dusk, and I’ve seen the fox out back or down the road several times. In a neighborhood close by, there is a fox den spilling over with cute little fox kits, much to the delight of the residents. This time of year as the wildlife comes out to feed and raise their young, it adds a touch of joy to the season. Sophie works as an usher at our big auditorium on the CU campus. She has caught the wildlife photo bug too. There was a herd of deer in front of the venue, and she dropped everything to take a photo, and text it to my phone. When I see the fox on the way home, I take photos and send them to our kids.
We are surrounded by wildlife, and when we spot a wild creature, it is something we share and celebrate.
I started having bear encounters when I was about 12, when I was at music camp in the mountains. Ever since then I have had bear and fox sightings – too numerous to count – and it has shaped my concerns about habitat preservation and protecting wildlife. When you have stared into the eyes of a beautiful wild creature and seen their sensitive soul through those eyes, it changes you in ways you can’t predict.
On Saturday I heard that Russian hackers are jamming websites that are raising money for Ukrainian refugees, and I worried that our fundraiser request Saturday might be affected. Sure enough, our blog host went down for most of Sunday, so I am sending out this request one more time:
Kathy Price at Mission of Love is working to load trucks, load containers, and ship supplies to Ukraine. She has shipped 13,000 lbs of rice to Kyiv by container, arriving in May. They are shipping food, medical supplies, equipment for Ukraine fire departments, and your donated quilts…and the biggest challenge now is to raise the money to pay for the shipping expenses. She normally would use the free international shipping of the Denton Program, but they will not fly into the area as long as it is an active war zone. So we have to pick up the slack for the shipping expenses. eQuilter is sending thousands of dollars to help purchase relief supplies and pay for shipping the quilts, but can you also help with a few dollars?
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Quilt/Travel/Sponsor Calendar: May 21 – CQC lecture from IQM June 15-18 – Quilt Canada, Vancouver BC July 22-26 – Sacred Threads Weekend, Dulles/Wash DC August 4 – Long Beach Quilt Festival Aug 17-20 – Festival of Quilts – Birmingham UK October 2022 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
To make this 52″ x 65″ quilt design, you will start with our exclusive Rubin 30″ x 44″ digital panel, featuring an enigmatic glowing Owl and a shimmering Dream Catcher with feathers. Piece the border with our coordinating Golden Dragonfly design, and the smaller Owl coordinate, plus Solid Kona Black to give the illusion of luminous golden light emerging from the darkness.
Is it a dream? An Owl Shaman? An ancient wise spirit? Only you can say Whoooooooo those eyes belong to…..
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
Mothers Day, graduations, and weddings are on the horizon…in a week it will be MAY. How did that happen? The yellow forsythias are blazing with color, our crabapple trees are bursting into bloom this weekend, and the lilac buds are swelling. I had an outdoor visit with my mom today since the nursing home is having another outbreak. While I waited for them to bring her out, I gazed at a spindly spirea shrub, bravely putting forth a sprinkling of tiny white blossoms….and somehow that gave me hope. The news from Ukraine continues to horrify, and I know many of you feel it in the pit of your stomach like me, and yet somehow Spring has come again.
How do we cope with the news? For myself, it helps to know I am doing something to help. I know if we all work together we can make a difference. Between all the quilts dropped off at eQuilter, and all the quilts you have shipped to Mission of Love, we are approaching 1000 donated comfort quilts this week.
Kathy Price is working to load trucks, load containers, and ship supplies to Ukraine. She has shipped 13K lbs of rice to Kyiv by container, arriving in May. They are shipping food, medical supplies, equipment for Ukraine fire departments, and your donated quilts…and the biggest challenge now is to raise the money to pay for the shipping expenses. She normally would use the free international shipping of the Denton Program, but they will not fly into the area as long as it is an active war zone. So we have to pick up the slack for the shipping expenses. eQuilter is sending thousands of dollars to help purchase relief supplies and pay for shipping the quilts, but can you also help with a few dollars?
Quilt/Travel/Sponsor Calendar: May 21 – CQC Zoom Lecture from IQM June 15-18 – Quilt Canada, Vancouver BC July 22-26 – Sacred Threads Weekend, Dulles/Wash DC August 4 – Long Beach Quilt Festival Aug 17-20 – Festival of Quilts – Birmingham UK October 2022 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
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Our exclusive eQuilter Free Quilt Pattern is perfect for wannabe paleontologists who are curious about the 174 million years that these reptilian creatures roamed the Earth.
To make this 53″ x 73″ quilt design, you will start with the central 24″ x 44″ panel, then add the scenic Dino-Stripe, a dinosaur party print, and 2 stone textures, to create the border.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
Kathy Price is working to load trucks, load containers, and ship supplies to Ukraine. She has shipped 13K lbs of rice to Kyiv by container, arriving in May. They are shipping food, medical supplies, equipment for Ukraine fire departments, and your donated quilts…and the biggest challenge now is to raise the money to pay for the shipping expenses. She normally would use the free international shipping of the Denton Program, but they will not fly into the area as long as it is an active war zone. So we have to pick up the slack for the shipping expenses. eQuilter is sending thousands of dollars to help purchase relief supplies and pay for shipping the quilts, but can you also help with a few dollars?
If 5% of the people who receive this message will send $5 each,we could raise $30,000 for Ukrainian refugee relief.
You can also go to the Mission of Love page and donate by paypal on their home page. (Please note – their Red “Donate” button at the top is not working. Scroll down to the Yellow “Donate” button.)
We are so grateful to all of our friends, customers, and the quilt guilds who have contributed to our comfort quilt drive for Ukrainian refugees. We are sending more money to Mission of Love to help pay for the shipping expenses to Poland – and we also are so thankful to those of you who have also contributed directly to Mission of Love to help ship the food, medical supplies, equipment for firemen, and donated quilts.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
It has been more than 2 years since I’ve been to Japan, which is very sad after 12 years attending the Tokyo Quilt Festival. I am following my Japanese friends on Facebook, as they post Sakura (cherry blossom) photos, and their first post-pandemic small quilt exhibits.
And I miss the Japanese quilters and their amazing works of art. I miss the mobs of visitors gathering around the intricate quilts, with 50 cell phones all trying to get the same shot. It is a wonderful craziness that may never be replicated. I miss running into friends from Australia, France, Spain, New Zealand, Taiwan, and America, as I wander through the aisles at the Tokyo Dome.
But from those years when many of us traveled to the Tokyo Quilt Festival, there is a love and appreciation of Sashiko Stitching that has taken hold. It has overflowed and overlapped with an interest in Kantha stitching, and now is exploding further as Modern embroidery. We’ve had fun expanding our eQuilter selection of big threads, big needles, and thimbles to accommodate this new passion. We’re smiling as this renewed love of hand-stitching washes over the quilting world.
For those of you who still pine for the beauty of Japanese patchwork and stitching, we’ve continued to stock imported Japanese books. We also have new issues and back issues of Japanese quilting magazines.
Did you know that when we started our business in the basement of our house in March 1999, we had a few hundred bolts of Asian prints and Balinese batiks? After living and working in Asia, my love of these special textiles was the foundation of our business. They still have a special place in my fabriholic heart.
Sharing your love of fabric, Luana and Paul
* See Luana review past Tokyo Quilt Festivals and other quilt events on Quilting Arts TV here.
Visit eQuilter’s Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter pages for Color and Design ideas.
See Luana’s Flickr Photo Pages for travel images, comment on our blog, or follow us on Facebook.
Quilt/Travel/Sponsor Calendar: May 21 – CQC lecture from IQM June 15-18 – Quilt Canada, Vancouver BC July 22-26 – Sacred Threads Weekend, Dulles/Wash DC August 4 – Long Beach Quilt Festival Aug 17-20 – Festival of Quilts – Birmingham UK October 2022 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
This week we are featuring the brilliant artwork of Daniel Ramirez, with indigenous fancy shawl dancers. If you have ever gone to a Native American PowWow, you may have seen this rhythmic dancing with flashy embroidered shawls and ribbonwork. The dance represents the butterfly emerging from a cocoon, with the fringe swinging to the beat of the dancers.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this wonderful 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.
