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More Big News!
By now we hope you have read a press release detailing the sale of eQuilter to the new owners: Collin and Christina Stewart. Today Paul and I went to visit eQuilter in its new location, which is about 15 minutes NE of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. It was great to see our staff running the business with the new owners in this new space. Such a huge relief to us to know that this couple, and our staff, will steward the business into a new chapter. But today I am sharing some more big news. As you know, Paul and I are ‘retiring’ so I can return to a…
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Environmental Event in Houston – 6-5-2026
Thanks and welcome to all of the new subscribers to my blog! There is a lot going on in my personal, business, and artist life right now. However I want to catch you up on the trip I recently made to Houston. I was invited to give my power point lecture on “Art and Activism” as the keynote speaker for the Citizens Environment Coalition, comprised of over 100 environmental non-profit groups in Houston and around Texas. This took place on World Environment Day. I brought 5 of my environmental-themed art quilts to display. You may know that the company I founded with my husband Paul – eQuilter.com – has raised…
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Exciting News from eQuilter.com!
Boulder, Colorado – June 10, 2026 eQuilter Welcomes New Owners: Collin & Christina Summers Stewart Carry the Needle Forward After 27 years of pioneering online quilting retail under Luana and Paul Rubin, Boulder’s beloved eQuilter.com finds a passionate new home. eQuilter.com, one of the world’s largest and most beloved online quilt fabric retailers, today announced the completion of its acquisition by Collin and Christina Summers Stewart. The Stewarts become only the second owners in eQuilter’s history, succeeding founders Luana and Paul Rubin, who built the company from the basement of their Boulder home in March of 1999 into a global destination serving quilters, fiber artists, and makers in virtually every…
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2025 – Annual Review
Today we had our annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest and Holiday Party for staff at eQuilter.com. We feel so lucky to have such a great crew to help us run the company. Plus they are a lot of fun during the holidays. This is not the whole staff, but it includes those who pulled out their Xmas sweaters for the annual event today. 2025 has been a busy year. As I have pursued more of a full time art career, on top of still having some duties as owner of eQuilter.com, my schedule has been very full. This year I gave 7 lectures, attended 2 weeklong retreats, was the featured…
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The Children of War – for Sacred Threads
You are probably feeling the same as me – sad and stressed by the state of the world – particularly the wars that are continuing to destroy the lives of innocent children in Gaza, Israel, Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen…and the list goes on. There is no justification for a war that kills and maims children, and destroys their families, their homes….their future. The only way to deal with my frustration is to speak out, and so I’ve planned this piece since the start of the year. I knew that Sacred Threads was the right exhibition to properly share my message. In April I had just started to lay out this 40″…
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Life in the Arts
I have identified as an artist as long as I can remember. I was told that I was an artist as a child, and I accepted it as truth, because that is what I loved to do. In school, I was not just doodling in class. I was sketching in class, practicing drawing a wide range of subjects in the margins of my math assignments while sitting quietly, shyly hiding under the radar. I remember feeling competitive in our brief art classes. I wanted to be the best artist in the classroom. By Junior High I had read The Agony and the Ecstasy (biography about Michelangelo) so many times the…