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Ok TQS members it's time to vote for your favorite 6 in our TQS Placemat Contest!!  This is your chance to select the place mats YOU would want to have on your summertime table. 

Send your vote to placemats@thequiltshow.com. 

ARJJ will select the top three winners---and just like before, we will shortly thereafter share the patterns with YOU.  Make your vote count.  Winners will be announced in the Tuesday, July 6 eNewsletter and Daily Blog.

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It's time to begin stitching the July block(s) for your Block of the Month quilt. If you're working on Hugs and Kisses, this month's "assignment" is a lovely Crossed Leaves block (above left). If you're working on Star Crazy, you'll be making the Shoo Fly Variation, Nine-Patch, as well as an Irish Chain (above right). 

No matter which BOM you've chosen, you're sure to pick up lots of useful info and tips from Sue Garman's great instruction.To download the July BOM pattern for Hugs and Kisses, click here.  To download the July patterns for Star Crazy, click here.  And be sure to catch Alex's new classroom lesson's here on Applique featuring our Hugs and Kisses BOM.  Alex helps you work to improve your skills.

Meantime, for surefire inspiration,  visit the BOM section of Show and Tell to view the beautiful blocks already posted by fellow TQS members.

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We are starting up the Ricky Tims Super Seminar in Rocklin, California, USA.  Over 650 happy quilters are arriving ready to learn.  Here's a peek. (Hover your mouse over the bottom of the player. Then click on captions and you will get a little more information on some of the pictures.)

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Our Friends who own the quilt store El Costurero in Costa Rica, sent us a copy of a new magazine.  Maria Teresa Arteaga and Rocio Flaque the owners of El Costurero are contributors and Alex can tell that many of the pictures were taken at Maria's wonderful house.  Felicitaciones!!

To help you with your Spanish...Telas means fabric

(This is a new player.  Hover over the bottom and click on pause and on Caption.  Then slide through manually.  Then the pictures will rotate only when you want them to.  How do you like this format for pictures?)

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Our TQS members are at it again, winning prizes left and right. This time it's the Sydney Quilt Show 2010. The show ran from June 16-20 at the Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour.

TQS member, Marianhelen, aka Marian Brown won the collaborative quilt section with Glenys Wallbridge and Barbara Myers.  Marian designed the contemporary sample and the three of them dyed the fabrics.

Another familiar name, Helen Godden, also took first prize in both the Art Quilt and Pictorial Quilt categories.

To view more of the winning quilts, click here.

And, thank you to TQS member, lizzyanne, for tipping us off!

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I (Alex) just got my 6 copies on Friday - I usually order another 6 to "just have on hand" - this morning I placed my call to AQS and guess what - THEY ARE SOLD OUT!!!!!! This is in less than ONE WEEK. Apparently they have been shipped to major chains, just like the last two, but the warehouse is clean as a whistle! Should we be happy or sad???

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Mixed media/fiber artist Laura Cater-Woods is our featured guest on this exciting show that is all about creativity and innovation. Laura shares a selection of her amazing, fiber-based work and describes her inspirations for designing and constructing a quilt. Then, to whet our creative appetites, she demonstrates how to build a three-dimensional stand-alone quilt using a variety of materials and media.  To watch the show click here.

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Photo by Mary Kay Davis

G’day! Join us (in Episode 612) on a “journey of design,” as quilt artist, teacher, and author, Gloria Loughman, shares the process and methods she uses to capture the natural beauty of her native Australia in her amazing, dreamlike quilts. Discover how she “builds” each quilt with fabric, paint, and thread, and the secrets of her machine-appliqué technique. Then Alex and Ricky stop by to visit California quilter, Jenny Mostek, whose passion for quilting outgrew her space, so…she bought the house next door! You don’t want to miss this episode!

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Dragon Threads, publisher of unique and innovative textile arts books, has received the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Award™ for Best Craft Book for the book Fibreart Montage: Combining Quilting, Embroidery & Photography with Embellishments by internationally-renowned quilt artist Judith Baker Montano (Episode 201 & Episode 507 . The book features full-color, jaw-dropping photographs of the newest mixed media techniques perfected by Baker Montano, a leading expert on crazy quilting and embellishment.

Named in honor of America’s most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Awards™ recognizes excellence by independent publishers. Publications, grouped by genre, are judged on editorial and design merit by top practitioners in each field. The Benjamin Franklin Awards™ are highly competitive and are regarded as one of the highest national honors in small and independent book publishing.

More than 4,000 publishers submitted books to be considered for the Benjamin Franklin Awards™ this year. All three finalists in the Craft category were quilting/needlework books.  Linda Teufel, owner of Dragon Threads, was on hand to accept her award at the Benjamin Franklin 2010 Awards™ presentation ceremony held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, on May 24, 2010. “I am thrilled about winning this award,” said Teufel. “It is an amazing honor for me, Dragon Threads and author Judith Baker Montano!”