Here is a quilt from the Tokyo Quilt Festival,
featuring the beauty of blooming Iris in the Springtime.
We are challenged to find the beauty in our world now, and yet that is exactly
what we must do in the face of this global health challenge. I find beauty on
our community bulletin board, where one person asks for help, and a stranger
answers with instinctive generosity. Often those who respond can help only
because they have been laid off, but they give their free time to help those in
need. And so it is in our sewing community – those who have free time now are
making protective face masks for their community’s healthcare workers, their
front line workers at the grocery store or in the delivery truck, and making
masks for those elderly and at risk in their neighborhoods.
It is at times like this when a community rediscovers its heart…and soul.
In the last few days we are seeing a shift from people making masks for
frontline healthcare workers, to people making masks for friends, family and
neighbors. Understandable, now that the CDC and our governor have advised us to
wear masks around others in public.
The mask donations for the hospital have dropped off, but they are still desperately
needed. Can I suggest that when you make a mask for a loved one, you also make
a matching mask for a health worker who just might save the life of a loved
one? Please don’t stop making masks for healthcare workers now. We are also
seeing more people who are selling masks instead of donating masks for
healthcare workers. Again, if you need to do this, can you make and donate one
mask, for every mask you sell? Thank you. Pass it on.
If you are sewing face masks for your community,
please check out this page where we have gathered lots of
information from around the country and around the world regarding the
construction of these masks. I am continuously updating this page so please
take a look again.
My deepest gratitude to friends at the Boulder Handweavers Guild who responded
to my call for help this week. Sue D. loaned me her large 5 foot high warping
mill so we can process thousands of yards of elastic for all of you wanting
this for your mask-making. I put the call out to the community and got an
immediate response! It looks like a spinning Ferris Wheel in my studio. This is
why I left the garment industry and then came into the quilting and crafting
world so many years ago…because we are a community of Heart and Soul.
All of us at eQuilter wish you health, peace and comfort in these troubling
times.
We will get to the other side of this…together.
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana and Paul
*This quilt was photographed at the Jan 2020 Tokyo Quilt Festival by Luana
Rubin. For more
photos visit her photo page. The 3 fabrics on the right side are currently
in stock at eQuilter.com
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