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I’ve just arrived home after a long day of travel, so you’ll have to give me a few days to edit and upload photos from my trip to Finland. On my last night there, I met with members of the Finnish Quilt Guild in Helsinki, and we had a lively evening talking about international quilt trends in the famous award-winning architecture of the Oodi Library building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I left Helsinki Airport this morning, Air Force One was expected to land any minute. It’s a lovely time of year to visit there…and the days are still almost 19 hours long….especially up north in Savonlinna where I was attending an opera festival. We saw young children out at playgrounds at almost midnight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best thing about my trip? Well besides the opera festival in the castle, it was the strawberries I bought in a farmers’ market. They were sun-ripened, juicy, and it was like eating perfume. (In a good way!) Took me right back to the strawberry fields of my childhood in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I have 3 weeks to finish a quilt for a collaboration with the Endangered Species Coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope you enjoy this photo of boys and boats on a Finnish lake. The sun set by 11 pm but came up again at 3:45 am, and it never got totally dark over the midnight hours. And of course it is the opposite around the Winter Solstice…just a few hours of light during the day. I have to say, the Finns definitely make the most of these long Midsummer days! To all of you in the Northern latitudes around the world ….hope you are having a beautiful cool festive summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing your love of fabric…
Luana and Paul<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit eQuilter’s Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> or TikTok pages<\/a> for Color and Design ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Luana’s Flickr Photo Pages<\/a> for travel images, review our blog<\/a>, or follow us on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out our Video pages<\/a> for interviews and show reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel\/Quilt Calendar:
August 2-7 – Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK
August 18-24 – Bear Camp in Alaska (via Homer)
Sept 28-30 – AQSG Seminar – Louisville, KY<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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