Quilt shows with Luana Rubin

Luana Rubin and her husband run eQuilter.com and Luana  travels the world to visit quilt shows and events.  She takes terrific pictures and posts them for all to see.  You can visit Tokyo, Houston, France, and many more.  Currently up are pictures from the Canadian show and they are fabulous.  Check them out at   https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/with/41828508705/

And when you are done, look at all the other images she has posted.  Do you have a year?

Friends Baltimore Square  by Kerry Burke  Photo by Luana Rubin. 

Izzy  by Anne Mathers  Photo by Luana Rubin
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Monday Browsing 01-04-16

http://stegart.blogspot.com/p/free-projects-tutorials.html    Tutorial for a scrappy quilt.

http://aletteraweek2012.blogspot.com/   Inspiration for creating alphabets.  

Need some inspiration, check out the videos on eQuilter.com. http://www.equilter.com/news/videos/category/0/equilter-videos

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Supporting Quilt Related Organizations + Portals 12-13-13

Here is a commentary from Luana Rubin of eQuilter that I copied from their e-mail ad some time last summer. The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles was able to come up with the money they needed to stay open and are continuing their mission to introduce people to quiltmaking and support quilters everywhere. As Luana says, "..even $5 helps", but deciding which organization to help with the $5 is a hard decision. My involvement with Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles is well known and I encourage others to support this outstanding venue for the quilts being made today. www.visionsartmuseum.org They are holding their own, but it takes a lot of strategic planning and penny pinching. If you hold dear the place of quilts and quiltmaking in your life, give a little, or a lot, to help worthy organizations over this yawning funding gap. I have decided to support Visions Art Museum, Alliance for American Quilts, Virginia Quilt Museum, and the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville, WA. Check out your favorite quilt supporting organizations and decide which you would like to support with your $5. Or more!   Del

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From eQuilter e-mail ad:

Lately I've been working with board members of various organizations, brainstorming how to raise funds so they can upgrade equipment, attract new members, and thrive without constant financial stress.

As I mentioned last week, I am working with SAQA and Andover Fabrics on a fundraising design project.  I accepted an invitation a few months ago to sit on the development committee of the Boulder Philharmonic, and it has been interesting to look at the fundraising topic from another angle.  Recently crowd funding has been a popular and usually successful way to raise funds for projects, such as the recent (successful!) fundraiser for the Tentmakers of Cairo documentary.

Yesterday Karey Bresenhan posted a very humble plea for support to raise $ on Indiegogo for the Texas Quilt Museum to buy a new projector system so they can host programs at the Museum. (see my blog for this post) A smart investment for TQM! 
Just this morning I received a e-newsletter from the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, that they are in need of emergency funds. I hope they will get a crowd funding page up soon so we can all pitch in whatever amount is possible!

I really respect and admire those who sit on these boards, and who try to figure out how the heck to raise money to keep these organizations afloat. Raising membership fees or ticket prices is not always the answer - if you lose members because of the higher fees, then you are right back in the same hole.

So I just wanted to salute those who are working so hard behind the scenes, (as volunteers mostly!) to keep all the museums, non-profits, quilt exhibits, conferences, and other events in the black - i.e. with balanced budgets. It is not only our lawmakers who struggle with this issue!
Our Wonderful World of Quilting is a microcosm, and our leaders are privately wrestling with the same budget issues that the politicians are wrestling with publicly in the Macrocosm.

If you have a moment to visit one of those crowd funding pages, remember that even $5 helps, if 1000 people each give $5 or whatever they can afford. These organizations are incredibly rich sources of creative inspiration and technical design information for all of us, so your $5, $10, $50 or more will give you a rich return on your investment. I am going to go make a donation right now!

Sharing your Passion for Fabric...   Luana and Paul     [Rubin - of eQuilter]

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Garage Doors - Placentia, CA  08-15-13

Fabric Addiction 06-16-08

Sometimes I think I am more of a fabric collector than a quilt maker. My friend Patty and I are both in the process of culling our collections, but I had to laugh at both of us buying more new fabric recently. I think she bought hers at a shop, but since I won't be up to Pacific Grove and my favorite shop "Back Porch Fabrics" for a few more months, I went online to www.eQuilter.com to look for just one bright striped fabric.

This is what I ended up with! Well, diagonal stripes are rare and always great for bindings, especially on quilts for children.

And who could resist this one called "Monster Teeth Stripes"?

As for my 'culled' fabrics, they will go to BCQG for the December sale, silent auction and auction. And some to the Philanthropic committee - they will probably enjoy the fabrics for children's quilts that I have never gotten around to. But I will still have a 'fabric room' with enough fabrics for two lifetimes. Yes, I am a fabric collector!