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Sad news today in the quilting world. Libby Lehman and Alex Anderson have apparently gone loony and have been committed to Lazy Daisy Gardens, a home for wayward quilters. Sunbonnet Sue, winner of lasts year's New York Beauty Contest was there to greet the duo and escorted them along the Drunkard's Path through Grandmother's Flower Garden and up Jacob's Ladder where they were assigned to a therapy group called Birds in the Air. Allegedly, all wayward quilters who are admitted to the home are required to work on an Irish Chain gang or participate in an Amish Barn Raising. TQS reporters have limited information about the situation. Anyone with more information is urged to provide an update here.

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We finally made it and the picture shows we are truly in Florida.  (Although we can't really tell who is more scared?)  The location in Ocala, Florida is great and the people are wonderful.  They are ready to learn and to laugh.  This is going to be a great weekend filled with alligators and cavemen.

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On National Quilt Day we recommend that you watch these segments of Pat Ferrero's peek into the lives & art of 7 quilters.  This film, made in 1981, was one of the first peeks into the growing resurgence of quilting.  Seven quilters are profiled in the film and 3 are featured in this sample tape.  One of the quilters (not shown in the samples selected) is Lucy Hilty.  This is the teacher that influenced Alex as she learned to draw quilting designs.  Alex teaches some of the techniques that she learned in her TQS Classroom, which is included with your guild membership dues.  Click Here for the Classroom.

When you click on the picture to see 3 of the segments, be sure to scroll down and see all the awards ithe film won.  Check out all the fabrics!!

Click on the picture to go to the page to start the show.

We recommend this DVD as an important part of our history and because it is just plain fun.             

Click the picture to be taken to where you can purchase the DVD for Home Use.

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Mona (left) and Joaquin (right) share some peace and love on TQS. Photo by Brad Wallace.

Well, it was a fantastic week of taping for TQS. All we can say is WOW - get ready for SERIES FIVE which will start up in July. Here are a couple of super fantastic newbies on the quilting scene and I'm sure their project will blow you away too. If you have any messages for Joaquin or Mona, just post them here and we'll pass them along.

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(These TQS Members all met at 2008 Quilt Festival in Houston)

Since we posted in the Daily Blog that we have over 40,000 registered TQS members - click here to see the blog-, many of you have emailed us wanting to know more about just where our members are.  We are excited to report that we now have TQS members in over 100 countries around the world.  Woo Hoo!!  We have members in Austria, Finland, Greece, India, Peru, Guam, Andorra, Japan, Myanmar, Bermuda...all points around the world. 

So why not meet one of your fellow international guild members today?  It's easy if you are a TQS Star Member.  Just go to Search in the purple bar above and choose "Find a Member". In the "Country" box select a country where you want to find a member and hit "Submit". Then select a member that you want to learn more about.  Why not send them an email on their profile page by choosing "Contact This Member".  This is a great way to reach out to other TQS members especially if you are traveling to a new location.  Not a TQS Star Member yet and want to use this cool Search feature on our website, then just click here to join today!

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The Manteca show was well laid out and perfect for viewing, but the lighting was a little low for photographs.  In order to get some of the shadows out of the picture, I (Capt'n John) snapped it again with a flash (picture on the right).  Not only did it get rid of the shadows. It changed the color.

We took the problem to expert quilt photographer, Gregory Case aka Photo Man.

"When you go to a quilt show, remember that your eyes will see it differently than the camera.  You can see 1000s of levels of brightness and cameras can see just in the low hundreds.  If the lighting is coming from different sources, such as natural light from windows and artificial lights overhead, your camera will get confused on the colors while your eyes think it is pretty clear what the colors are. "

This is a problem for professional photographers also.  We make sure that all of our light is coming from the same source.  Then we test the colors, adjust them with software and then hold the prints right next to the quilt to make sure we are getting an accurate color.

Cameras were made to record pleasing color not necessarily accurate color. There is not a hard and fast rule I can give you like always shoot without flash.  You are going to have to test what the camera sees versus what you see.  I suggest that you photograph the quilt with and without flash, but you can also use your "scenes" like "beach", "snow", and "underwater" etc.  Each will give you a color and brightness that may bring you closer to the original color."

The color (purple) is closer to the original as I remember it.  Have you had these problems?  Do you have a solution?

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You have seen the wonderful quilt, Grape Harvest in our pictures from PIQF and Road to California.  The quilt won Best of Show at Road.  I was surprised to see the quilt matched with the picture at the Manteca, California quilt show. 

Lynn's husband is with an organization that matches mural artists with cities that are looking for art.  Lynn saw the picture by Jessie and knew it needed to be a quilt.

It turns out that Jessie lives in Manteca and was honored to display the picture with the quilt at the show.  Jessie made his living as a commercial artist.  This was his first painting in 35 years.  An interesting side note is that all the pictures of the workers are self portraits, except for the far right which is John Leandro the owner of the vineyard.

Lynn won an award at Manteca with another quilt.  Come back later today to see it.

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Music, like quilting, can bring the world together. For privacy sake we can't tell you of all the help and support our online guild has provided between members, but you are definitely a group that stands by each other. 

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