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When you are at the quilt shop, do you always gravitate to a particular section of the shop? Are you drawn to the batiks, the hand-dyes, the western fabrics? What percentage of your stash does it occupy?
Submit a comment and let use know what you fancy when it comes to fabric selection.
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What do you do with your leftover binding?
Keep it, toss it? Recycle? Never have left over binding? What's your rule of thumb for how much binding to make?
Submit a comment and let us know about the ties that bind.
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As you can see from the photo, this machine doesn't exactly fit into this table, but sometimes you just have to get things done.
What have you done in a pinch to get a project finished? Ironed on the floor? Broke out the fusible to finish a binding? Cut down a border to make the back fit?
Submit a comment and tell us how "you get'er done!"
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An excellent quilter and great friend, Rebecca Collins, is asking for help from TQS members to aid the Quilter's Guild of the British Isles in their effort to facilitate the setting up of the Quilt Museum in York. The Guild needs as many people as possible to vote for the Museum. You don't have to be a quilter or guild member you just need to be a person interested in the success of the Museum which is the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom; where many museums are currently disposing of textile items or mothballing them.The Guild has checked and people from all over the world may vote. The winning entry will receive additional funding and will be featured on National Television. CLICK HERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE! VOTING ENDS SEPTEMBER 26th! To see the original blog about the Quilt Museum in York, click here.
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So, you have every issue of Quilter's Newsletter, and now you need some space in your sewing room to actually
sew; what are you going to do?
You decide to rip out only the articles and patterns that you really "need." But then what? How do you organize them? Do you scan them into your computer? Do you file them away in binders?
Submit a comment and let us know how you get organized.
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Do you make your own fabric? We know that Ricky dyes his own fabric, what do you do? Do you "burn" your velvets? Stamp your muslin? Marbelize with paint? Submit a comment, and let us know how you personalize your stash.
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So you think you have a large stash of fabric? How about over 100 boxes? Have you thought about what you might do with it, now or in the future? Click here to read this article, from the AlamedaPatch.com about a wonderful lady, Nancy Crosby, and how her stash helped so many others.
(photo credit: Charles Reynolds)
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(The Quilt Show - Laura Peterson, La Quinta, CA)
It's getting to be that time of year when certain quilt show deadlines are approaching. Here are just a few to remember. Are any of you submitting a quilt to any of these shows or contests?
Pacific International Quilt Festival - September 1, 2011
The World Quilt Show - Florida - Southeastern States Quilt Competition - September 23, 2011
Road to California - October 1, 2011
The National Quilt Musuem - New Quilts/Old Favorites - Baskets - November 1, 2011
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So you found this great border fabric and you want to use it in your quilt, but what can you do with it besides put it on the border? Do you chop it into squares? Make a tablerunner? Make a strip quilt? Submit a comment and let us know, what else can you do with a border fabric?
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Record breaking heat is being felt everywhere. What do you do to beat the heat when the thermometer reaches a new high? Do you quilt at all? Do you head for the basement? Finger press, no hot iron? How do you keep a fan from blowing around your fabric?
What do you do to keep cool?
(No irons were harmed in the shooting of this photo.)
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