I think we could all use a vacation right about now. Let’s imagine we are going to Paris for Valentine’s Day…to the Pont des Arts next to the Louvre. Lovers have been attaching padlocks to this pedestrian bridge, engraving locks with their beloved’s name, then tossing the key into the Seine River below …as a romantic gesture. Because this tradition was started by tourists, not the French, workers come by periodically to cut off the locks. The weight of 700,000 locks almost collapsed the graceful metal bridge in 2014. As of 2015, over a million locks had been placed there, weighing about 45 tons! [Wikipedia] That’s a whole lotta love!
This is kind of what happens to some people who have been staying at home working online, home-schooling kids, and riding out the pandemic with their partners or families. There is such a thing as…too much of a good thing. No matter how much we love our family, being stuck inside together for a year has been a challenge for many. However I know many a quilter who escapes to their sewing lair for some creative ‘alone time’…emerging happy and refreshed after hours spent with a needle and thread. Can you relate?
Fortunately for Paul and I, we are so busy at the office during the day, we don’t see much of each other so we don’t get tired of each other. We are one of those rare couples who can work together and still enjoy coming home to catch up on the day’s events. We are coming up on our 22nd eQuilter anniversary in a month, and we’ve been together since we met in 1994, so I think it’s going to last.
Just a reminder to our local quilters that you can still tuck some of our imported artisan chocolate bars into a curbside pickup order this week for Valentines Day…or if you live farther afield, you can drop hints for an eQuilter Gift Certificate to your favorite fabric enabler. They can be sent by email!
eQuilter is sponsoring a free (by donation) screening of the award-winning documentary ‘The Condor and The Eagle’ on Feb 21, and I will join the discussion panel afterwards. Please see details and registration at the links below. I’d appreciate if you’d share this documentary screening with others!
My Zoom power point lecture for Canadian Quilt Association is this Saturday afternoon, and tickets are now available for non-members to purchase online. Come join us for a review of quilt shows and International Quilt Trends!
with hope for the future…
Luana and Paul
Feb 13 – Canadian Quilters Association – “Intl Quilt Trends” – and tickets for Non-Members are open NOW (as of Feb 8) at this new link.
Feb 21 – The Condor & The Eagle – Film Screening for eQuilter customers and friends. REGISTER HERE.
Early March – SAQA Color Interview with Martha Sielman
*The photo above was taken at the Pont des Artes in April 2019, when I visited Paris just after the Notre Dame fire.
