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June is over and many romantic weddings filled the lovely summer days.

TQS would like you share some of your wedding memories.  Did you make a hand-crafted gift, create some adorable wedding favors, sew a beautiful dress for a wedding past or present?  We'd like to see it and have created a Wedding Dreams Show & Tell area just for that purpose. Head on over and post a photo of your wedding dreams.

Quilt: From This Moment - A Wedding Quilt by Tammy Morel (TQS Name: Morelcabincreations).  The quilt pattern is available for purchase at her website, .

Cllick here to purchase the pattern at her website for $7.99.

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Two lucky TQS members are the recepients of the quilts Alex and Ricky donated to raise money for Libby Lehman's medical care.

The winners are:

Ricky’s Quilt : Debbie Goldshot

Alex’s Quilt:   Debby Timby

TQS would like to thank all of its members for the generousity they displayed.  

Over $26,000 was raised and more keeps coming in daily.

Harmonic Convergence - Revelation

Made entirely by Ricky Tims and made from Ricky's first commercial fabric line.  It is machine-pieced using Ricky's Convergence technique and machine-quilted on a domestic machine with both variegated and metallic threads. It is finished using Ricky's well-known piped-binding method. This contemporary wall quilt measures 48" x 48."

Amish Sawtooth Star 

Made entirely by Alex Anderson and published in her book Simply Stars (page 41). It is machine-pieced and hand-quilted with meandering feathers in the body of the quilt and a twisted feather border. It measures 52" x 52."

Click here to get an update on Libby's Condition. 

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The National Quilt Museum has a new exhibit.

With the 150 year anniversary of the Civil War, the National Quilt Museum, in Paducah, KY, presents "From the Pieces of a Nation: Civil War Period Quilts."

While the nation was being torn apart, quilts were still being made. See these historic quilts from Arlan & Pat Christ's collection.

These quilts will be on exhibit until October 8, 2013.

The National Quilt Museum is a nationally recognized art museum that exhibits the finest quilting and fiber art in the world.

Hours
The National Quilt Museum is open to the public year-round:
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (central time)
Between March 1 - November 30, the museum is also open Sunday, 1 - 5 p.m.

The museum is closed on Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day but open regular hours on all other holidays.

Adults/$11
Seniors (60 & over)/$10
Students/$5
Children 12 & Under are free when accompanied by an adult.

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The Quilt Alliance has announced their TWENTY contest winners. The first twenty quilts shown in the slideshow were Honorable Mention winners, followed by the 3rd, 2nd, 1st and Grand Prize winners. Ninety quilts were entered into the contest.

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TQS Member Lorchen is sending out a challenge to other TQS members and she's giving away a prize!

This challenge is so simple anyone can participate as long as you have a particular quilt-making tool ... 

Lorchen is challenging you to a rotary cutter fight at dawn (or whatever time of the day or night it is in your neck of the woods).

The winner will be the one whose rotary cutter blade is still sharp, and who has posted a picture in the Show & Tell area holding their rotary cutter or cutters (as the case may be).

Those of you who have already posted on the Forum are more than welcome to post your photo again in the Show & Tell area.

You are then eligible to have your name entered into a prize drawing for a little parcel of goodies.

The drawing will be on August 1st.

If you'd like to follow the thread on the Forum, click here.

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Have you seen what's been going on in the Forum? It's the Mug Rug Exchange!

A Mug Rug is a mini-quilt that can act as a coaster or small placemat. It should be big enough to hold your beverage and maybe a small cookie (or a big cookie...)

If you are interested in exchanging a Mug Rug, post on the Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! Forum Link and let it be known.  You'll also find more information there about how to proceed.  When someone responds, privately exchange your snail mail address, and then when it is completed, ship off your completed Mug Rug - The best part is the surprise when your Mug Rug arrives in the mail.

It's a great way to complete a small project and make a friend at the same time.

TQS would like to see what our members are making. When you receive your Mug Rug, please post a picture in the Mug Rugs Show & Tell area provided just for that purpose. We know it will be spectacular.

(Mug Rug by TQS Member ritzy)

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Just in time for your summer travel, here's a fun scrap-buster project from Lindsay at The Cottage Home.  You only need a few supplies:

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Join us as we continue the tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio (as well as a few other notable buildings) in Oak Park, IL. Wright famously oversaw all aspects of his designs, including furniture, lighting, and the interior and exterior paint colors. His own home and studio served as a study for many of his often groundbreaking architectural ideas.

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Beauty, Happiness, Family, and Love was begun in an applique technique class, "Oriental Ladies," by Patricia McLauglin.  It took her some time to decide what to do with the ladies. The land landscape gave her the center design using the sunset as a backdrop.  She found characters from the internet for her corners.  Diane also took inspiration from Kumiko Sudo's book, Circles of the East.

The quilt uses cotton fabric, Quilter's Dream batting, YLI glazed hand quilting cotton thread, and is machine quilted with YLI silk.

It was displayed at IQF Houston 2012.

Take a closer look at Diane's needle-turn applique, piping, and hand and machine quilting.