Sunday, October 4, 2009

Thanks for being you, Emma!

Thanks for being all you have been to so many of us in the quilting community, Emma.

I remember so vividly the talk you did at one the River City Quilt Guild’s first mentor night and how in 20 minutes you taught me a million things I never knew before.

But most of all I have loved the way you brightened the world (and I mean that in a very literal sense) with all your bright, whimsical and wonderful quilts and wearables.

I make a pretty bright quilt myself but I think that you helped me know how much I love bright and bold combinations of fabrics – without your example, I don’t know that I would have had the imagination to try some of the things that are now so central to the work I do.

Thank you for everything and may your passage be filled with many moments of love and beauty and thank you so much for all you have left behind!

Susan Sprague


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Emma has touched a monumental number of lives through her work as a mother, grandmother, friend, teacher, artist, and to Ted as a dear wife. There are countless stories that have already been told many times, and there are many others that we're going to learn for the first time as we read them here.

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