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The Forum is being updated.  We will soon be able to flock together again.

After the new version is up and running we will learn the new features.

In the meantime, what quilty thing are you doing today?

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Have you been watching the Bernina Educational Videos?  Well if you haven't, now is the time as we feature the top three videos as selected by our TQS members.  After viewing all three, can you guess which one is the #1 Bernina video on the TQS site?

In Video 309 - Sashiko by Machine, the dynamic duo of Nina McVeigh and Susan Beck demonstrate how to create a form of Japanese quilting known as Sashiko.  Click here to watch the stitches form.

In Video 310 - Dynamic Double Blanking Stitching. The duo demonstrates how a basic hand sewing technique, the blanket stitch, can be replicated with great panache on a Bernina machine.  The results are amazing.  Click here to follow along.

In Video 313 - Straight Stitch with Guides - our lovely team of instructors show how using guides,  you can consistently maintain your 1/4" seam allowance, as well as other size seam allowances depending on your needs. Click here to learn how to achieve that perfect seam allowance.

To view all the Bernina Videos, just click on the Click to Watch Videos under the Bernina logo on the left side of your screen or click here.

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Patsy also shares tips on what type of threads to use to best highlight your designs and demonstrates a simple trapunto method to make your applique stand out. 

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Web guru, Bob, has figured out how to do Chapters on the new player.  Go to "Watch Shows" and take a look.  We will include chapters going forward and we will insert them back to Show #601 in the next 2 weeks.  Thank you for your patience.

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TQS Member Karlyn Bue Lohrenz, KarlynBue, is letting us take a look at her life and her quilts.   Karlyn also lets us sneek a peek at her design process for one of her award-winning quilts, Calamari Time.

Karlyn was brought up on a sheep/cattle ranch near the Beartooth Mountains in Southwestern Montana and now lives in Billings. She attended Montana State University and spent most of her working years in the medical field. She began quilting in 1999.  For the rest of Karlyn's story, please enjoy the video.

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You had many very good questions about spray basting after viewing the first Free Motion Lesson.  Patsy decided to answer those questions in her own easy to understand way. Go to the Classroom for Beg I, II, & III (Star Members only.  See Membership Special Below).  Intermediate Free Motion lessons are coming March 12 & March 19.

Learn this fun skill and make your quilts look amazing!  We have extended the membership special.

Join for less than $20 get the Free Motion Lessons and 6 months of new shows with Alex & Ricky.

     20% Off 6 Month Membership Special

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Join us in Episode 605 as textile artist Kate Cox shares how to combine raw edge applique and free-motion quilting techniques to create an impressionistic quilt based on a favorite photograph.  And Ricky's resist dye method using school glue, Procion dyes, and soda ash is not to be missed. 

It is a show packed with great "out of the box" ideas.  Go to "Watch Shows" on the Menu Bar.

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Your show premiering tomorrow features British Quilter, Kate Cox.  See what she is ready to teach you in show #605.

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Many of you have taken advantage of our TQS shoppe (active star members always receive 5% discount) and we thought it is time for the gal behind the scenes to have her own blog! If you scroll down a bit (under the Quilt Life button) you will see Pati's place. Come on over and see what the TQS shoppe looks like on an average day, if there is such a thing, and say "Hi" to Pati!