{"id":11319,"date":"2025-06-21T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/?p=11319"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:39:36","slug":"happy-summer-solstice-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/happy-summer-solstice-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first day of summer arrived with a record-breaking heat wave yesterday – it was 100 degrees when I arrived back home from the quilt festival in Toronto.

In fact the Best of Show at Quilt Canada was a fire-themed quilt, about how the forest renews after a fire. I think the forest recovers a little faster in Canada due to the rainfall. Our burn areas in Colorado remain scarred for decades. There was another quilt about fire in the SAQA “Renewal” gallery in the show. I’ll be editing and posting photos of these quilts over the next week, on my photo pages<\/a><\/strong>.

I was very happy to have Global Entry going through US customs in Toronto. There were about 1000 people waiting in the regular line, and I saw people running to catch their flights afterwards. I would say that is not the norm, compared to my previous trips to Toronto. It is a good time to apply for Global Entry if you are traveling abroad this year.

Speaking of which, I am very excited to have my Mt Fuji-themed quilt<\/a><\/strong> going to the Birmingham UK show this year. I hope to see many of my friends from UK and Europe at this show in about a month. I’ll be staying at the Hilton Metropole this time. If you just hang out in the lobby during the Festival of Quilts, you see all kinds of quilters there. There is often a LOTR\/Fantasy or Comic-Con event in the hotel on that weekend, and almost every time I’ve been there, we enjoy people-watching an Indian wedding on Saturday night with lots of lovely ladies in their colorful saris.

Can you believe our daughter Sophie Quinn is turning 23 this week?!? For those of you who have followed our family business for all these years, I know you will celebrate that this little foundling baby<\/a><\/strong> has grown up to be such an amazing young woman<\/a><\/strong>. (Many of you remember her appearances on Quilting Arts TV<\/a><\/strong> with Pokey Bolton) She is finishing her degree in Music Education at MSU Denver, and works for the Colorado Symphony in Patron Services at the DCPA. Thanks to her, we got excellent seats to the Andrea Bocelli concert last Tuesday. Lucky me!

Stay cool out there – and keep stitching.

sharing your love for fabric,
Luana and Paul

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Travel\/Lecture Dates:
July 27 – Aug 6 – Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK
Sept 12 – SAQA “Camouflage” opening – Arizona Sonora Desert Museum – Tucson AZ
Oct 9-12 – Houston Quilt Festival
Nov 2-6 – Art Quilt Tahoe
Nov 7-10 – Sacred Threads – Indianapolis

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