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TQS wants to hear about your experience with Round Robins.  That singular quilting adventure, where you never know what's going to happen until the last quilter touches the quilt.

Have you ever participated in a Round Robin? Was it with your guild or your small sewing group?  Did you do an internet exchange?  Was it a traditional Round Robin, adding to a center medallion?  Did you do a row-by-row?  Did you include a set of rules, or was it anything goes?

Were you happy with the results?

Submit a comment and let us know. 

Quilt by TQS member, WinDee and her guild.

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Yes, we all know that men quilt, but TQS wants to know, "Do the men in YOUR life quilt?"

Do you have a brother, son, husband, father who has been hit by the quilting bug?  Were they quilting before you knew them? Did you influence their hobby? Did they influence your hobby? How did they get started quilting?

Submit a comment; we want to hear about the men in your life.

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This Sunday, here in America, we'll be celebrating Mother's Day.  TQS wants you to share any quilting memories you have with your mother or grandmother and what it meant to you as a quilter.

Did they teach you to quilt? Did you learn a life lesson that could be drawn from the experience of quilting?  

Submit a comment and share your memories.  

Happy Mother's Day!

Quilt is Grandmother's Legacy by TQS member, GailEThomas.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo! 

Twisted Mexico quilt by wafermaker                    Mexican Star quilt by doowopddbop

Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for "Fifth of May" is celebrated to commemorate the Mexican army's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebal on May 5, 1862.  While it is not "Mexican Independence Day" which is September 16, it is observed to celebrate Mexican heritage and pride. 

If you have never been to Mexico, come celebrate some of its beauty by revisting Pam Holland's recent videos of her trip to Mexico.  If you have been to Mexico, submit a comment and tell us all about it.  What did you like best?

Pam Holland Mexico - 1

Pam Holland Mexico - 2

Pam Holland Mexico - 3

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TQS received this message from one of our international members and we would like to help her out.  Anneke15 has asked,

"This summer, my husband and I will probably by visiting the US. We hope to go on a visit to Miami to see an aunt we haven't seen for over 25 years. (we live in the Netherlands)  I would like very much to go to an American Quilt-store.  Is it possible you sent me some addresses?"

Submit a comment and let's help Anneke15 find those quilt shops.

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One of our members recently finished making a quilt and she wondered what to do with her leftover strip set pieces and various other leftover bits.

Should she take them apart and save the fabric? Should she keep all the bits together and figure out another type of "little" quilt she could make?  Should she toss them all and move on to the next quilt? 

Submit a comment and help her out and let her know, What do YOU do with your leftovers?

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Every single one of us has a color.  You know, it always shows up in your quilts, in your house, in your stash. It's that can't live-without-it color.

TQS wants to know, What's your color?  Why do you think you are drawn to that color?   Does it invoke a memory, add a touch of drama, or just give you that warm fuzzy feeling?  

Submit a comment and color our world.

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We all have the problem, too many quilts, not enough space.  TQS wants to know, How do you store your quilts?

Do you stack them on the empty bed in the guest room, roll them on cardboard rolls, hide them in a closet?  Do you actually use them on your bed?

Submit a comment and let us know where you put your quilts.

And while you are at it, how many quilts do you store?

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In the April 8th Quilter's Quips and Tips, TQS asked its members to complete the following sentence, "You know you're a quilter when..."  The responses were charming, heartwarming and filled with truth.  Take a look at what your fellow quilters had to say and see if you don't smile knowing they are a lot like you.

To see all the responses, click here.

You know you're a quilter when you have more sewing machines than pots and pans!

Your kid is the only one in school with a home made lunch bag.

When you are on vacation and see the entire experience as examples of "that would be a great quilt" comments.

You know you're a quilter when you reach in your purse and there are more sewing supplies in there than money.

You know you're a quilter when you go out to dinner with your husband and he is the one with thread in his hair.

You know you're a quilter when you have closets full of fabric instead of actual clothes!

...you try to convince your husband that, one, a long-arm machine would be a good purchase and the perfect place to put it would be the living room in place of his big-screen TV!

You know you are a quilter when you miss a meal quilting and don't notice you are hungry!

...you look at a floor or a wall and moan because you don't have your camera with you... and your husband understands just what you mean and reminds you to use your phone to take the picture.

You know you are a quilter when... you look at your computer screen and see 14 quilting related icons.

You know you're a quilter when you're working on a quilt and a new idea pops in your head so you take a break from quilting to quilt.

when you have made the cover for your pickleball paddle from a new quilting technique, just to try it.

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Strange, weird, and wonderful are all adjectives that can be used to describe almost any quilt.  We want to know "What was the most unusual, interesting, wonderful, or just plain weird subject you've seen as the basis of a quilt?"

Ferret, from the UK, took a small object from the electronics world and turned it into a larger-than-life, actual, working electronic circuit. (Stay tuned, you'll be learning more about Ferret in the future.)

Submit a comment and tell us what's unusual.