We are thinking of our friends in the Gulf Coast who are without power, or worse, after Hurricane Ida. eQuilter has just made an emergency donation to Mission of Love on GoFundMe for a relief project in Louisiana. 16 years ago we partnered with Kathy Price to send money for disaster relief, and comfort quilts, to a remote coastal town that had been battered by Hurricane Katrina…and had received no FEMA aid. Once again we are supporting Mission of Love to find communities in the coming weeks who are in desperate need of help and supplies. If you wish to help, you can donate on the Mission of Love GoFundMe page, and/or you can send comfort quilts for storm victims.
If you are local in the Boulder CO area, you can drop them off at eQuilter and we will ship them to MOL. If you are not local, PLEASE SHIP DIRECTLY to MOL:
Mission of Love Foundation
2054 Hemlock Court
Youngstown, OH 44515
Kathy does not have a staff to confirm receipt of packages, so if you wish for confirmation of delivery, be sure to send with a tracking number. Her volunteers will be busy putting together a shipment of relief supplies. Your quilt donation will be unpacked and repacked on a palette for bulk shipment to the relief site, where they will be personally and compassionately distributed to those who have lost everything. Be sure to put a label with your name and a message of encouragement, if you can.
As with our other disaster relief comfort quilt projects, we ask you to think about the recipient as someone who probably just lost everything they own, and will be sleeping in a FEMA trailer for a couple years, or in a hotel or even on a cot in an emergency center. We suggest a small bed quilt is the ideal size. We will accept lap quilts, twin or full quilts, or queen size, but I think a twin or full/double size is ideal in this situation. Standard cotton fabric quilts are best.
All quilts dropped off at eQuilter in Boulder Colorado this month and for the foreseeable future will go to Hurricane Ida relief. We are starting to see casualty and damage reports coming in from these small communities, including loss of life, but I am not seeing it in the general media yet. Kathy has contacts on the ground from Katrina, so she can take aid directly to where it is needed most.
If you are not familiar with our charity program, we give 2% of all sales to our list of 7 charities, and we have worked with Mission of Love and Engineers Without Borders to collect and distribute over 15,000 donated comfort quilts around the world. Over 22 years, we have raised over $1.8 million for our charity program. I will be posting updates on the Mission of Love relief project on the eQuilter Facebook page. Thank you for your support. Our hearts go out to those affected, and we are fortunate to have a trusted partner to bring relief to those affected.
…sharing your love of fabric,
Luana and Paul
“There is a clarity about September… the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big.” – Faith Baldwin
Quilt/Travel Calendar:
Sept 21-29 – Alaska
Sept 27 – Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters Guild – Lecture.
Oct 23-30 – Houston Quilt Market & Festival
Nov 13 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Visions Art Museum
Dec 4 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Quilt Canada
Jan 12 – Apr 9, 2022 – New England Quilt Museum (NEQM) “For the Love of Gaia” exhibit
Sat, April 9 – “International Quilt Trends” lecture – NEQM
