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It's time to reserve your tickets for the next series of TQS tapings!  Here's the scoop regarding location, dates, guidelines, and policies for requesting FREE tickets:

WHAT: 6 Days of Tapings (12 shows)
Two shows taped each day.

Attendance required for the entire day.

WHERE:  Daylight Productions Studio
4700 Sterling Drive, Suite I
Boulder, CO 80301

WHEN:  Tuesday - Sunday, November 19 - 24, 2013

Cut-off date for ticket request:  October 15, 2013 or when "Sold Out"

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Photos by Gregory Case Photography

The TQS gang returns to The Charleston Tea Plantation for a visit with quilt artist, teacher, and author, Wendy Butler Berns, known for her amazing photo-based pictorial quilts. Wendy, recipient of the 2009 Jewel Pearce Patterson scholarship for quilting teachers, presents practical solutions for designing and implementing pieced borders, offers a wealth of tips for adding texture to a variety of quilt projects, and compares notes with Ricky about their simultaneous foray into quilting - with their respective dads!

Then we check in with contemporary folk artist and teacher Sue Spargo (Episode 810), who shares a sampling of her newest adventures in dimensional stitching.

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Here's some great news because Libby is left-handed! Be sure to click on the Journal History for the most recent update.  Click here for the latest update.

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Thanks to all that participated in the Helen Gibb's Antique Postcard class. We were thrilled that you enjoyed creating something beautiful using fun little scraps and bits. As promised   One lucky TQS member was selected to win a copy of Helen's DVD Beginner's Guide to Ribbonwork. Here's the winner's completed project.  Is it yours?

A big round of applause goes out to PatHobbs for being selected the winner of the DVD!!

Did you miss the class?  Remember that the classes remain in our classroom.  It's your turn to create an beautiful antique postcard.

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British-born textile artist & quilter, Kate Cox, featured in Episode 605: Improvisational Landscapes, needs your help.  Kate, who now lives in Colorado and is known to be inspired by the American landscape, has a serious O-1 Visa issue.  This is an Artist visa.  Apparently, the US Embassy doesn't believe being a renowned quilter and textile artist is real art. Capt'n John is convinced that if it was a man who painted on canvas the visa would have gone through unquestioned.

Kate's story (paraphrased):

I was in London for the first time in 7 years to visit my children and I had to go renew my O-1 visa at the US Embassy. I have a lawyer in Denver who deals with all this and all the paperwork had been submitted and we did not expect any problems.

However, when I got there for my interview it was very clear from the outset that the woman interviewing me was not friendly to say the least. She began by asking me what I did,

I said, "Fiber Artist."

"What's that?" she said.

"Textile Art," I replied, "making art from fabrics, fibers, other mediums."

So she said, "You mean 'Quilting'!" in a very scathing voice.  It went downhill from there.

She eventually told me that she was recommending that my visa be revoked because my work was not of a high enough 'standard' because I could not sell it for $100,000s of dollars.

Even though Kate creates and teaches quilting and works with the Denver Art Museum, she is now being asked to pack up her goods and return to Great Britain.

TQS is starting a petition to help Kate stay in America and to let them know that our art is to be respected.

Kate's episode, Improvisational Landscapes, is open to all TQS Members for FREE.

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TQS is very pleased to announce that Ricky Tims will be the recepient of the International Quilt & Craft Festival of Ireland 2014 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. 

Ricky will be honoured at their GRAND RECEPTION next year and tickets for this event go on sale August 1, 2013.

Congratulations Ricky!

You'll note some other TQS favorites will be teaching at the International Quilt & Craft Festival of Ireland next year - including: Pam Holland (Ep 110 and Travel Videos), Edyta Sitar (Ep 802 and Ep 1112), and Alex's fishing buddy, John Flynn (Ep 410).

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POLK COUNTY, FL - From WFLA.COM

Sometime on Monday, July 15, 2013, a postal package was dropped off at the front door of a Flatfish Drive residence in Davenport. Before the owner could collect it, the package and its contents were removed by an unknown person.

The packaged contained a handmade quilt made from mementos, photos and pieces of material taken from a decorated soldier's clothing who had been killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

The items used to create the quilt had been collected by the soldier's widow in hopes of keeping her husband's memory alive. The couple had been married for only seven months when the young bride learned of her husband's death. She collected wedding photos and pieces of his military uniforms and sent them to a contact in Wisconsin who had worked for months to carefully create the priceless quilt.

The suspect who took the package must have realized the contents would only be of value to the person it was delivered to and deputies believe the quilt may have been discarded.

Anyone with information about this crime is urged to contact the Polk County Sheriff's Office at 863.298.6200.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

The quilt world gained a valuable asset when Grace Errea made the transition from high-level corporate executive to full-time textile artist, designer, author, and teacher. After sharing striking examples of her "value based" contemporary-realistic work, Grace shows and explains an eight-value fabric chart, oversees an impromptu workshop involving the studio audience, and reveals the materials and methods she uses to create and build the patterns for her quilts.

All this, plus Alex demos a lightweight, snuggly receiving blanket that features the surprising combination of flannel and voile.

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Here's some great news! Be sure to click on the Journal History for some of the recent wonderful news.  Click here for the latest update.

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You'll get a bit teary-eyed when you see what Libby's son created for her. He knows that she enjoys textures so he went back to her house and found a kit that Libby uses for her classes and put it together himself.  He then presented to her the "activity cloth" he made on her Bernina which included several embroidery stitches and material from her studio.  Libby was very moved by the gift. What a great guy!  To read the whole story, click here.