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Come Fly With Us

Expect Great Things and Great Things Happen

Summer is upon us. I was panting coming up the hill from a power walk yesterday. 90 some degrees and high humidity. Drenched with sweat.  So who the heck is thinking about a quilt when it’s warm!

Summer means beaches and squishing toes in the sand.  Summer means playing outside and getting sweaty. Summer means air conditioning after the workout. Thank you to whoever invented air.

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After a robust spring graduation season and some brief vacations, summer means we’re (in the air) and back creating masterpieces.

Many days I have to pinch myself.

Summer means continuing to grow. Summer means flying.  Fly as on the wings of your trust and confidence. Fly as in our team has grown again. Welcome to our newest specialists Kesiena and Duk-Sun. Fly, as in working on 3 aviator quilts.  Presents for pilots.  Summer is for flying.  Ask me how I know.

Kesiena is with us through the summer. Her flight mission is to soar and professionally prepare all of the t-shirts for sewing before they even hit the runway ( go in to the quilt!). This involves precision: cutting, measuring and a high degree of accuracy.

Duk-Sun’s mission is hand detailing, hand bindings and special projects including a current one: an upgrade for a customer. We’re unquilting some “old” t-shirts from an existing t-shirt quilt and replacing them with some newer shirts! We’ve got this.

A new project came from customer, Thais, a beautiful Bolivian who recently flew off to Amsterdam where she’ll be for 3 years. Her going away present to us: to make a quilt from doggy bandanas. We came up with a flight plan which she approved.  We’ve got this.

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We don’t expect gifts ( or applause) once the destination is reached.  Today, once there and I disembarked I was transported 4 years back in time to a trip to the Provence region in the south of France.  Large beautiful big fields of flowers.  Sunflowers. Lavender.  Yellow, purple. Fragrant.  Fresh. I kept taking deep breaths.

The destination is reached. The quilt is finished. Jean is now here for it with an unexpected surprise: big, brights sunflowers that say thank you.  The beauty and burst of color are uplifting.

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Jean and I became friends through the quilt creation process and discovering  things we have in common. We each have a child getting married, her daughter this Saturday.  My son, next year.

Her wedding gift –the t-shirt quilt—is ready for the dynamic duo this Saturday.  T-shirts from her daughter and fiancé intertwined into a unique wedding present.

Dynamic duo

Our mission is to soar.  Come fly with us.