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Try your hand at Amanda Murphy's Topiary Table Topper.  Wouldn't this wonderful 25" design be a great gift for the holidays?

Star Members can watch Amanda in Episode 1312: Just in Time! Perfect Projects for the Holidays.

Click here to download the pattern.

Love Amanda's creativity? Click here to visit her blog. Here is her latest book:

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Here are some of the lovely garments exhibited at PIQF 2014.  The creativity and imagination that went into some of these designs is off the charts.

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• The estimated value of the quilting market is up 5% since 2010, ($3.76 billion in 2104)
• The average quilting household expenditure is up 36% to $298
• 12.2% of quilting households are considered "dedicated," responsible for generating 60% of quilting industry spending
• The total number of quilters  is down 23% to 16.4 million.

Are you a dedicated quilter?  Click on Learn More to see a Summary of the Results.

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We are having fun meeting TQS members and seeing the amazing displays. Watch in the coming days for quilts and videos from Houston to just appear. So come back often. 

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TQS visited the Pacific International Quilt Festival 2014.  Here are just a few of the prize-winning quilts.   You will recognize a number of the names as they have appeared as guests on the show. More to follow.

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Patricia Belyea, quilt maker, importer, and author of the Okan Arts blog, recently visited Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry in her new studio in Port Townsend, WA.  She invited TQS to come take a look as she toured the home and studio of this award-winning quilter.

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Looking for a way to sort all those hexies you've been making lately?  TQS member QuilterLynn gives a nod to Libby Lehman and organizes (by color) her little gems and notions in a Superior Thread organizer.  What a clever girl!!

Do you have a clever way to store some of your projects?  Let us know. Click here to head on over to Show & Tell and enter your storage system into the "Getting It All Together" area.

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Here are the winners of the 4^th Annual Modern Quilt Guild Fabric Challenge.  Participants were required to use fabric from Michael Miller's Petal Pinwheels collection.  MQG members were allowed to make anything they wanted, as long as it was quilted.  You could add any solid or Michael Miller fabric and you did not have to use all of the fabrics given.  Three winners were chosen and each received "A Eear of Free Fabric." - Yes, a whole year of FREE fabric!

Congratulations to the winners.  If you'd like more information on each quilt, click here.

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A new exhibit is opening at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. Antique Ohio Amish Quilts from the Darwin Bearley Collection includes over forty bed, crib and doll quilts, illustrating the breadth of the Ohio Amish quilt making tradition between 1880 and 1940.

The strong graphics and vivid color combinations of these quilts have inspired artists and quilt makers since they were first seen outside the Amish community.

Each quilt in the Bearley Collection also contains a story about its maker, recipient, or the dealer/collector who found these objects, brought them out of Amish homes and into the market place. Together, these stories reveal much about the culture that made the quilts and the one that collected them.

The exhibit runs from November 15, 2014 - March 1, 2015, click here to learn more

Bear Paw, c. 1900-1915, Wool, 99" x 92"   - Photo Credit: Darwin Bearley Collection