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The American Quilter's Society will be holding a benefit auction for Libby Lehman on Friday, August 16 in Grand Rapids, MI.  Quilters can donate their quilts to benefit Libby and they will be included in the auction.

You can help…

• Donate items for the auction – quilt(s) and other quilt-related items.

• Ship items to arrive in Paducah by Monday, August 5, 2013, including a 3” x 5” card that lists a description of the item, its approximate value, and your name and address, to:

AQS
Attn: Libby Auction
5801 Kentucky Dam Rd.
Paducah, KY 42003
270-898-7903

• Attend the auction and bid on quilts and other quilt-related items.

Click here for more information and spread the word.

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Your homework this month is to complete the appliqué elements for the left side border.  Sue Nickels will share with you her method for making turned-edge bias strips, reverse appliqué and how to us the single blanket stitch to attach very small circles.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

We couldn't imagine a more appropriate guest to kick-off Series 1300 than artist, teacher, author, and legendary shop owner, Jean Wells, who returns (Episode 107) with an update on her continuing shift in creative direction. After sharing her favorite sources of inspiration, Jean shows the important role of value in building her quilted compositions, her approach to construction, and how she overcomes the occasional creative rut. (Look for Jean's "What If I Get Stuck?" worksheet on the Projects page.)

We wrap with a tour of Jean's beautiful home and studio in Sisters, OR, and her great tip for giving your quilt a portrait finish.

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Here's an update from Team Libby:

We received a most generous offer from Karey Bresenhan, the Director Emeritus of the International Quilt Festival in Houston and other cities. Quilts, Inc. is offering to match the first $5,000 donated towards the "Libby Lehman Medical Fund." Karey is a longtime friend of Libby's, and she is someone Libby always speaks of so admiringly.  All of Houston is so proud of what Karey has done to create the unbelievably fabulous Quilt Festival in Houston every year in October. Please see the details on the "My Story" section of the CaringBridge website for Libby Lehman on how to contribute to the "Libby Lehman Medical Fund".  Contributions already made will count towards this match.  Thank you, Karey, for being such a supportive friend to Libby.

TQS has other ways in which you can help Libby as well. Click here to learn how you can Win a Quilt from Ricky or Alex, Raise your own funds, or simply Donate. 

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Quilt artist, prolific author (20 books and counting), and popular teacher Carol Doak joins the TQS gang aboard the historic USS Yorktown, now part of the Patriots Point museum complex just east of Charleston, SC. Considered by many the Queen of Paper Piecing, Carol "shakes things up" with a ton of creative options for flipping, distorting, and otherwise changing up the shape of familiar paper-pieced elements.

Among her revelations: a method that allows you to incorporate paper piecing to size borders for any quilt. We wrap with a tour of our location, veteran of two wars, the Apollo 8 space mission . . . and two Hollywood movies!

                                 Photo by Gregory Case Photography

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Recently we told you about an opportunity for one TQS member to win two tickets to the upcoming (July 20) Quilt Alliance event in Herndon, VA.

Well...we're pleased to announce that lv2bquilting2 has been selected to attend this spectacular event with a friend of her choosing!  

This one-day, jam-packed documentation event is a must attend for any quilter wanting to preserve the history of his/her handiwork for future generations. In addition to the many hands-on workshops, Jinny Beyer (Episode 313),(see her show for free here, as a Star Member) and Janneken Smucker will be in attendance to share their insight and quilting knowledge.

For more information on this event click here.

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Ricky & Alex have come up with a way to contribute and have a chance to own a Ricky Tims quilt or an Alex Anderson quilt.  Open your email that will be coming later this week for all the details.

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This is a really fun time and free too! See Ricky Tims as the new Barn Quilt Block goes up at the AccuQuilt Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Alex and Ricky welcome back fiber artist, author, and teacher Judith B. Montano for her third TQS appearance (Episodes 201 and 507), this time on location at The Old Exchange and Provost in beautiful downtown Charleston, SC. This time around, Judith discusses her Canadian upbringing, and the influences of both the Hutterites and Canada's native peoples on her early work. She then shares her techniques for distorting traditional stitches to create organic shapes and interesting layers, and how she employs cheesecloth, scrim, and other unique materials in her pieces, incorporating painterly techniques along the way.

Finally, in a segment taped in Sisters, OR, we meet UK quilter, Karin Hellaby, who offers a brief history of Pineapple quilts and shows her "Sew Simple" technique for creating a Pineapple block.