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Sarah Vedeler is sharing photos of some of her amazing quilts and their intricate detail. You watch Sarah work her magic in Episode 904: The Wonderful world of Embroidered Applique. In this episode Sarah demonstrates how to use the AccuQuilt Go! Fabric Cutter and dies to create embroidered appliqué and shares some helpful hints for giving your digital embroidery "a pop" with quilting. Boy, her quilts sure pop!
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Click on the picture to test your knowledge. Thank you to www.yourchildlearns.com. When you click to the site, click "PLAY" and then grab the picture and slide it to it's correct place on the map. How did you do?
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There are plenty of shows coming your way in the fall. Here is the latest update from Mancuso Show Management. Don't miss these dates! For more information, visit www.quiltfest.com.
World Quilt Show - New England - August 18-21, 2011 - Radisson Center of New Hampshire
This shows features the Premier of 2011 World Quilt Competition XV!
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XVIII - Greater Philadelphia - September 15-18, 2011 - Great Philadelphia Expo Center
Pacific International Quilt Festival XX - San Francisco Bay Area - October 13-16, 2011 - Santa Clara Convention Center
World Quilt Show - Florida - November 10-12, 2011 - Palm Beach County Convention Center
And for those of you who enter the shows - here are some competition deadlines:
Entries for the 2011 Pacific International Quilt Festival Quilt Competition, "Time" and Wearable Art Competition must be postmarked by Monday, September 1, 2011.
The postmark deadline for entries to World Quilt Show - Florida's newly expanded "Southeastern States Quilt Competition" is Thursday, September 23, 2011.
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The Alliance for American Quilts held a number of "fun" fundraisers last weekend and one of our lucky TQS Members won a ticket to attend Marianne & Jay on the Runway. Karen Fitzpatrick (kfstitcher) got to spend the afternoon with Marianne Fons (you know, Fons & Porter) and her daughter Mary of the new show Quilty. Also in attendance, Jay McCarroll, first-season winner of Project Runway who now designs for FreeSpirit and to top it off, the outrageous Mark Lipinski who interviews a very confused Jay McCarroll for the Quilters' S.O.S - Save Our Stories project.
Thanks so much to Karen for sharing this smilebox with us!
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This year's 21st Annual Quilt Show hosted by the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild was held August 5-6 in Newport, Oregon. The Guild Featured Quilter was Jean Amundson. The Featured Guest Quilter was a TQS Favorite, Jean Wells, owner of the Stitchin' Post and recent inductee in the Quilter's Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana.
And this weekend, August 12-15, you can watch Jean in Episode 107: Portraits from Nature for FREE. TQS is opening up this episode up to everyone! This is the episode where Ricky demonstrates his one-seam flying geese technique (which has been seen on YouTube over 80,000 times). You won't want to miss it! 
Enjoy this little tidbit from a wonderful quilt show and mark your calendars for next year, August 3rd and 4th.
Oregon quilters have quite a bit going on in August and September, keep an eye out for the next Weekend Fun where you can learn about Quilt County 2011.
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We are an International site. Do you know where you fellow quilters are in South America? Test yourself on you knowledge of South American countries.
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While reading up on the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach this year, we uncovered buried treasure from last year's show. This little gem of an exhibit was called "Gold Rush" and was intended to reflect the period during the mid-1800s when prospectors came to California from all over the world hoping to make their fortunes. Enjoy this little collection of antique and modern quilted nuggets.
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We are an International site. Take a quick test as to your knowledge of South America.
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It's hard to believe we are heading into August and right around the corner is September and Quilting in the Garden at the Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore, CA. The great part about this year's show is that two TQS favorites are the Featured Artsists this year, Rob Appell and Verna Mosquera.
Rob will be teaching his Endanged Species Quilts designs and Verna will be teaching Tea Time Applique. And our own Alex Anderson will be teaching Cherry Delight, a red work and basics class. Click here to learn more about the classes.
To see some of Verna's stunning quilts, click here. To download one of her free applique templates, click here.
Rob has a classroom set up where he's been teaching Portraits Quilts, to visit his classroom, click here.
In the meantime, while you are waiting for Quilting in the Garden...why don't you watch...
Episode 806: Having it All with Hand Applique (Verna Mosquera)
Episode 812: Protect our Planet...with Quilts (Rob Appell)
(Photos by Gregory Case)
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