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RARE Science works directly with patient families and foundations to find more immediate therapeutic solutions for children with rare diseases. 

This year RARE Science is partnering with TQS (and a number of other great organizations) to bring you... the FIRST Ever Celebrity RARE Bear Auction!  This is your opportunity to own a signed bear made by the quilt world's most talented artists while helping a great cause.

Meet "Ruby Duby" by Tamara Leberer

Ruby Duby is made with a combination of luscious hand-dyed Dupioni silk and silk fusion.   Hand embroidery and beautiful set of fused glass eyes and ribbons of silk sari fabric around her neck complete the ensemble.

My name is Ruby Duby. I was named after my Grandpa Rube, and “Ruby Duby” is the name he liked to use around his grandchildren. Like the color Red invokes, Grandpa Rube was strong, sassy and generous. Ruby Duby is a reminder of how important and enriching your relationship with your grandparents can be! They are always there to lift you up and strengthen your confidence. They are simply the best!

Star Members can watch Tamara in Show 1901: Silk Fusion.

Click here for links to see more Celebrity RARE Bears.

As an artist, creating beauty, first and foremost, drives me. I prefer to create what I personally feel is appealing. My inspiration comes from the colors of nature, the built environment and the classic definitions of design. Still, I consider myself a rule-breaking, get-it-done kind of gal.

Trying new things; always trying new things; and putting things together in new ways fuels my creativity. My ideas come from a conglomeration of traditional and aesthetic skills picked up through my personal and professional life in architecture, sewing and gardening.

Whether you call them art quilts or fiber art, my work revolves around a love of fiber, fabric and color. I find the vivid colors of fiber and fabric and the texture and dimensionality of quilting thrilling. No matter what or how much I do, I can’t extinguish my passion to create with my hands. My favorite manner of work is improvisational, where I explore line, shape and color to create harmony and motion.

I have been teaching Silk Fusion, along with many other fiber art techniques such as felting, nuno felting, modern quilt piecing, and free motion quilting in Colorado since 2011.

I have spent the last 15 years exploring every facet of fiber art before finding the sweet spot that makes my artist heart feel at home: combining a wide variety of fibers in different ways, and then quilting, always quilting.