Today March 10th is my mother’s birthday, and eQuilter’s 22nd Anniversary. For me, our company birthday will always be connected to my mother’s birthday. As I go through old family photos, I see so many things that reach across the decades and the generations, that I have in common with my mother, my grandmothers and matriarchal ancestors.
This is a photo of my maternal Swedish grandma. She was a gardener, an embroiderer, a ceramics painter, and a pianist. So many photos that I have of her, she is wearing a flower-print dress. Here she is happily showing off freshly-pulled fat orange carrots, with her poppies, and iris in the background. She was standing next to her apple trees, and her organic vegetable garden. She would hum and sing when she was cooking in the kitchen. I loved to watch her paint and stitch when we visited them in Oregon.
This year I am going to try to start some garden seeds indoors, so I can plant the seedlings in May. They are predicting up to 2 feet of snow here this weekend, but I’ll be inside sprouting seeds and dreaming of Springtime flowers. I learned to sew from my 2 grandmas, and they also taught me that anything I could dream up in my head, I could make. Those are the seeds they planted in me as a girl, that blossomed into a love of art, color, fabric, sewing and quilting. I was fortunate to have many mentors along the way, who watered those seeds. Paul and I are so grateful that we have had a family business where we could raise our kids, raise money to help those in need, and share our dream of beautiful things with the whole world.
We hope that our weekly newsletters are sunshine for your sprouting seeds, or perhaps the warmth to ripen the creative garden that you have nurtured. You are a constant source of inspiration for us, and we love sharing that abundant spirit of creativity with you as well. There is always plenty to go around.
This week my interview on Color Trends & Forecasting with Martha Sielman for the SAQA Color Seminar is going live. You can still get in on this fantastic online color seminar, and in fact we have a special deal for you:
If you would like to access the entire “SAQA Color Seminar” with 7 weeks worth of video presentations, articles, and resources, you can use the discount code: SEMINAR for $10 off of SAQA membership.
In SAQA Seminar: Color you will explore your current relationship to color, color theory, and the use of the color wheel. Make use of all SAQA’s amazing resources to learn more, find links to various color tests, and test apps that help you explore color in a fun and interactive way.
with gratitude for your support on our birthday –
Luana and Paul
Sat March 13, 2 pm – “International Quilt Trends” Zoom lecture – Rocky Mountain Creative Quilters
