Message from Luana:
Sophie and I have been spending a lot of time together lately. This weekend we are in the warehouse processing orders (just like old times in the basement of our house!) because of our big yearend sale. This last week Sophie got her drivers license, after many hours of me in the passenger seat as she practiced with her driving permit. In a couple weeks she will be coming to the Tokyo Quilt Festival for the first time. She is preparing for her college auditions which will be February. She is graduating from high school in mid-May (the same weekend as Spring Market) and before we know it, she’ll be moving out of the house into a college dorm in August. So many of you have shared in our story of adopting Sophie and watching her grow up in our family business. Can you believe she is almost grown up and out of the house??
This week we are hosting the Boulder Handweavers Guild, and we will have a wool felting class happening in the classroom, making a sculptural felt hat. We are also happy to be hosting more classes for CQC and FRCQ (our state guild and regional art quilt guild) in 2020. Our beautiful new classroom is set up for sewing, painting, dyeing and general textile merry-making…and we are bringing in national teachers for more eQuilter workshops in the next several months. It is very exciting for us!
Our extra 9000 sq ft in our new warehouse has been rented out, and construction is starting for our new tenants. If you come to visit us in the next few months there will be lots of activity on the East side of the building.
I received an update from Kathy Price at Mission of Love about their projects for the next few months. She writes:
March 11; Mission of Love will be going to Tecpán, Guatemala to build a home for the orphans, place safe electricity and make addition for a disabled man and his family, and start a Maya Traditional School for language and weaving. Two Denton airlifts have been approved and just waiting for the Department of Defense to notify me that the C5 cargo planes will be available to deliver our Mission of Love humanitarian aid already inspected and ready to be transferred to the Youngstown, Ohio Air Base. 30,000 of corn also has been donated and will be given to the Maya in need of food. Continuous support will be given to the sick cancer children at the House of God, Guatemala City.
Doctor Rick Scheetz is planning to be well enough to lead a surgery team to continue our cleft lip / pallet surgeries in March at Metropolitan Hospital with Doctor Edgar Moran.
We have a Denton airlift going to the Mesquite Indians of Honduras, via Norma Love Foundation.
In April we will be going to the Pine Ridge Native American Indian Reservation to build a home for Percy White Plume and his family. We will be sending two 53 foot trailers of construction material and humanitarian aid also. This aid will assist in furnishing a foster care home, directed and founded by Barbara Dull Knife.
So our year will once again be filled with lots of humanitarian aid being distributed to Honduras, Guatemala and Pine Ridge Native American Indian Reservation.
God willing, all will be accomplished and the promises that were made will be fulfilled.
With love and gratitude,
Kathy Price
Director, Mission of Love
eQuilter Classroom:
Jan 15-16 – Dawn Edwards – Nuno Felt Hats
March 6-8 – MJ Kinman – “Unicorn Rainbow” & “Elizabeth Diamond” Gemstone Workshop
April 13-15 2020 – Susan Carlson
June 1-5 2020 – Paula Nadelstern – Kaleidoscopes & Quilts
Luana’s Travel Calendar:
Jan 24-29, 2020 – Tokyo Quilt Festival – 1 day with Lisa Walton’s Japan Tour
Feb 19-22 – QuiltCon in Austin TX
Mar 18-27 – Wilderness Congress – Jaipur India
June 17-21 – Quilt Canada – Edmonton
June 26-27 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE
July 29 – Aug 2 – “Love Your Mother” Gallery in Birmingham UK
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