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During this holiday season, people want to get involved and make a difference.  This is especially true of quilters.  Here is an easy way to help.  In this first video you will learn about the project and its wonderful healing effect on children and who are hospitalized. 

Stay tuned for a TQS Challenge.  Email this video to a friend and do it together.  Tomorrow you will get the specs and hints.  (This will be Capt'n John's first sewing project if he can find a sewing machine besides the 830, which carries very high usage penalties.)

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We hope you have enjoyed your video tour as to "What is a Statler Stitcher?"  Alex had fun learning the history and the details from "Mr. Statler" (aka Paul Statler.)  Today in our final video of the series, Alex meets with Michael Hinton, Global Sales & Marketing Manager for Gammill, to learn about how you can get 100's of fun designs for your Statler. Michael shares the secret of altering images to fit your quilting needs to make your quilting fit your vision!

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Everyone wants one, so see if you can get yours for FREE.  Just click on the this email link and enter your answer to how many times the word "sunshine" was used in the first segment of our current Hippie day show.  Are you a Basic member?  Then enter a guess between 10-20.

Click this link  sunshine@thequiltshow.com  and put the number of times "sunshine" was said in the subject box.  That's it.  Enter by Monday midnight PST.

Click Here to see the promo  and Click Here to see the current show.  Terrie Sandelin shows you a wonderful way to keep organized as you create wonderful miniature quilts.

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Many countries around the world celebrate their own forms of Thanksgiving.  Most, but not all, of the celebrations have to do with the end of the harvest.  Here is a taste of what the world has to offer.

Unlike the American Thanksgiving dinner, the Chinese celebrate the August Moon or Mid-autumn Festival.   It is often called the Women’s festival as the moon symbolizes beauty and elegance. It is held the 15^th day of the lunar month.  They celebrate the end of the harvest with a huge feast where they eat mooncakes instead of pumpkin pie.  They send mooncakes to one another as a way to give thanks.  A mooncake is made of sweet bean-paste filling with a golden flaky skin.  Some mooncakes will have a golden yellow egg yolk center which looks like the moon.  (Round is a Mooncake by Roseanne Thong)

In Africa, at the end of the rainy season, usually around the beginning of August the Yam Festival is held.  Yams are one of the most common foods and one of the first crops to be harvested.  People believe that by offering yams to their gods and ancestors first they are giving thanks to the spirits above them.  Don’t confuse yams with sweet potatoes, yams are from Africa and sweet potatoes are from Asia.

Canada began celebrating their Thanksgiving Day in 1957.  It is on the 2^nd Monday of October.  It celebrates the end of the harvest and is the time to give thanks for good crops and prosperity.   The root of the holiday dates back to a ceremony held by Martin Frobisher in 1578 to celebrate his survival in his quest to  find a northern passage from Europe to Asia.

 In January of each year, Pongal is celebrated in Southern India.  It is named after a sweet rice dish.  During Pongal neighbors come together to share their crops and to give thanks to all who helped in making their harvest successful.

In Croatia, “Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day” is celebrated on August 5.  It is not a harvest festival.  It commemorates the seizure of the city of Knin by the Croatian Army during Operation Storm in the War of Independence.

Thanksgiving, wherever you live, is a time to celebrate with family and friends and give thanks to those who have given you peace and joy in your lives.

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Q: What did the momma turkey say to the baby turkey who was being naughty?

A: Your father would roll over in his gravy!

It's that time for those of us in the good ole U S of A to celebrate Turkey Day! So the poll is:

Turkey or Ham?

Pecan or Pumpkin?

Football or Movies?

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So Alex has taken us through a tour of the history behind the Statler Stitcher, as well as how it works.  Today, we promised you something "Super Cool" and frankly you'll be amazed at what you can do.  Watch how you can create images within your quilting and be able to quilt around it!

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Yesterday we learned how it all began for the Statler Stitcher.  Today, let's see how it works.  Find out "what problem the Statler could solve for Alex" - besides being able to quilt and do her dishes at the same time!  

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At Quilt Market in Houston, Alex found out that there is more to the name Statler than just on a machine.  There is a real person behind the Statler Stitcher, Mr. Paul Statler himself.  So who better to ask the burning questions:  What exactly is a Statler Stitcher?  What does it mean and what can it do?  Come along with Alex as she sees how technology meets quilting in a four part video series.

Join us tomorrow for Part Two and watch the machine at work.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Join TQS in Episode 511 for some "Far Out" times as visitors Mona (Alex) and Juaquin (Ricky) take us on a journey back to the 60s in celebration of "Hippie Day."  The costumes, characters, and teaching demonstration by Joaquin end with a Challenge for you. 

 Then, Terrie Sandelin shares her fun, fast, and very accurate technique for creating incredible miniature quilts.  It's a show not to be missed.  To watch the show click here.

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Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero showed us how to create her "Kaleidoscope Gift Cards" in Episode 507.  She is a master at turning photos into kaleidoscopes for fun gifts and projects!  Well now she has even more "Great Gift" ideas and TQS Members are the first to hear it...

Introducing Kaleidoscope Collections "Favorite Projects Volume 2".  This brand new CD features 10 different quilting and sewing projects from quilts, to table runners to home accents and more!  These are fun projects that you will want to make for yourself, or maybe a gift for someone special.

So which of their new 10 projects are your favorite? Is it their "quilted ornament (shown above).  Or is it their "evening clutch"?  To see their projects click here.  Then tell us and you can enter a chance to win a prize pack from Kaleidoscope Collections: the "Kaleidoscope Kreator 3" AND "Favorite Projects Volume 2".

To enter to win go to kaleidoscopecollections@thequiltshow.com and in the subject line, write the name of of your favorite project from "Favorite Projects Vol. 2". Contest ends Monday, November 23, 2009 at midnight PST.  TWO PEOPLE WILL WIN BOTH "Kaleidoscope Kreator 3" & "Favorite Projects Vol. 2".   So enter today!

Visit Kaleidoscope Collections for more ideas on turning your photos into one-of-a-kind quilt kaleidoscope designs by clicking here.