{"id":254,"date":"2013-03-09T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/14-years-ago-on-march-10th-1999-paul-and-i-looked-around-my-basement-studio-at-our-house-with-a-few-hundred-bolts-of-f"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:08:40","slug":"14-years-ago-on-march-10th-1999-paul-and-i-looked-around-my-basement-studio-at-our-house-with-a-few-hundred-bolts-of-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/14-years-ago-on-march-10th-1999-paul-and-i-looked-around-my-basement-studio-at-our-house-with-a-few-hundred-bolts-of-f\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

14 years ago, on March 10th
\n1999, Paul and I looked around my basement studio at our house, with a
\nfew hundred bolts of fabric, and decided to send out our first
\nnewsletter announcing that we were open for business.<\/p>\n

By the end of the year we had moved to a 4400 sq ft warehouse, a year
\nand half later we moved to 11,000 sq ft, and another year and a half
\nlater we expanded to our current 15,000 sq ft warehouse<\/a> in Northeast Boulder.<\/p>\n

Today we employ 37 employees<\/a>, have 22,000 products in stock, and over 1000 new products each month<\/a>.
\nWe've raised over $1 million for charities in the US and abroad<\/a>, and we support many quilt shows and contests with sponsorships and prize money.<\/p>\n

In the last several years I've traveled to quilt shows and creative events in Japan<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, England<\/a>, Ireland<\/a>, Scotland, Switzerland<\/a>, Germany, Italy<\/a>, Russia<\/a>, Bali<\/a>, Spain, France, Thailand<\/a> and China.
\nYou've followed my travels on my video page<\/a> and my photo page<\/a>s, and have supported us on Facebook<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>, and other social media.
\nWe've shared video interviews with artists<\/a>, photo reviews of international shows,<\/a> and generally had a good time connecting quilters from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"Luana\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nTime has a funny way of warping when you are busy.
\nIn one way, it seems like I've been doing this forever…
\nat least 20 years! On the other time, time flies when you are having fun, and I can't believe it's been 14 years already.<\/p>\n

With your quilt donations, we've distributed 10,000 quilts over 13 years
\n to people affected by 9\/11 and the Katrina hurricane, the Haiti
\nearthquake, an orphanage in Pine Ridge SD, the tsunami in Japan<\/a>, Colorado Fires<\/a>, and most recently our continuing efforts for those still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.<\/a><\/p>\n

We've partnered with rocket scientists from NASA<\/a> to help an orphanage in Rwanda<\/a>, and I've traveled to support a surgery team in Guatemala<\/a> doing cleft lip\/palate repairs for Mission of Love<\/a>.
\nWe've paid for a heart surgery for a child in China<\/a>, and we've rebuilt houses with MOL on the coast of Louisiana after hurricanes wiped a small fishing town off the map.<\/p>\n

We've adopted a child from China<\/a>,
\n raised our 3 children, and recently watched our eldest graduate from
\ncollege – all shared with our eQuilter friends and customers.
\nSome of you who followed our adoption trip in 2003, are still following
\nSophie's story as she grows up and expresses her own love of sewing.<\/a><\/p>\n

The quilting community stretches around the globe, and wherever I go, I find quilters<\/a>.
\nWe are all part of an international community that feels like family,
\nand we all have a love of fabric and color that transcends any other
\ndifferences.<\/p>\n

I am truly grateful for the friendship and support that you have shared with our family and our wonderful eQuilter staff<\/a>, and we look forward to serving you again in the coming year!<\/p>\n

**********************<\/p>\n

* Hurricane Sandy Quilt Relief Info<\/a> * <\/p>\n

* Sandyhook Elementary Memorial Quilt Project<\/a> *
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