Although eQuilter is a sponsor of Quilters Take Manhattan next weekend, I won’t be able to attend. However I hope those of you in the NYC area can attend this great event at FIT. I went last year and had a blast!
SAQA is having an online fundraiser now, where you can bid on donated art quilts to benefit the organization.
Are you going to Houston for Quilt Festival this year? eQuilter is also a sponsor of a couple exhibits, including the National Parks quilt challenge which celebrates the centennial of the National Parks in the US. I even have a quilt in the exhibit! (Bobcat, in Arches National Park) There is a book in the works for this exhibit, and it will travel after Houston.
Right now I am finishing 2 quilts for the Fly Me To the Moon quilt challenge, which has been a lot of fun due to my association with the Houston NASA chapter of Engineers Without Borders. We’ve supported their project at an orphanage and school in Rwanda for many years, and now they are gearing up for a new project in Kenya.
This week Mission of Love is building a home in Pine Ridge SD, and eQuilter helped to cover the costs of shipping the building supplies up to the reservation. I have recently committed to making another trip to Guatemala with Kathy Price and her team of doctors, for Cleft Lip & Palate surgeries for the poor Mayan children.
We are also continuing to collect quilts for those who lost everything in the earthquake in Nepal. (Thanks to all of you who have sent quilts so far!!!) It looks like we will send more quilts over to Nepal this fall in the suitcases of many volunteers from different relief organizations. Boulder has a huge climbing community with connections to Nepal (and the Sherpa community of Mt Everest) so we are working those connections. The first batch of quilts was already hand-carried over by the founder of Engineers Without Borders, who lives here in Boulder.
Our hearts go out to those affected by the terrible fires in California and the Northwest. If you are aware of the local groups who are gathering and distributing donated quilts there, can you please send us their contact information?
And why am I not going to be in New York next weekend? Because I will be on my way to a cultural exchange trip in Cuba! I really want to go and photograph the island before it is influenced by the homogenizing effects of US culture. I am traveling with my friend who introduced me to the Carters last year, so it will be an interesting trip for sure! I don’t have any quilting contacts there (yet) so I am just hand-carrying sewing supplies and will share them while spending 24 hrs in a private home in a country village.
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