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Every year TQS member Mary Kay Davis (mkdquilts) creates a "patriotic quilt." American All-Star is one of those quilts and can be found in the Lark Crafts Publication, 500 Traditional Quilts.

Original Photos: Mary Kay Davis

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Kona Cottons Solids has revealed their Color of the Year for 2021. Can you guess what it is? We'll give you a hint, it has to do with the sky.

Did you guess correctly? We'll let Kona tell you what it is.

From Kona Cotton Solids:

"Crisp, clean and perfectly serene! Meet Horizon - the 2021 Kona® Color of the Year - a stunning sky-blue."

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Tracy Cox combined two of her "Quilty Pleasures" to make her quilt, "making sampler block quilts and fat quarter bundles." Sew She Did won Best Interpretation of Theme - Traditional at PIQF 2019 and was made from a sewing themed fabric pack in her stash. She created the blocks with some help from EQ8. Utilizing machine piecing and longarm machine quilting, it is a quilt you'll want to sample.

Sew She Did by Tracy Cox of Woodside, California won Best Interpretation of Theme - Traditional at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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It's time to surround the Stars on the quilt with beautiful vines and berries. Here is how Alex does it and the fusibles she uses. 

Click here to download the pattern(s).

Join Alex LIVE on Monday December 7, 2020 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

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Just in time for the holidays, we think this block looks like a tree, perhaps combined with others, a forest? Find out what it's called when you play the game.

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Samson and Delilah by Jerry Granata is a multiple award-winning quilt. It won an honorable mention at the MQX Quilt Festival New England 2013, 2nd Place at the NQA 2013 Show, and a 3rd Place at the Georgia Quilt Show, just to name a few of the awards.

Watch Jerry work in Show 1503: Quilting Without Limits - Using Unconventional Fabrics in Your Work.

Original Photo: Gregory Case

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Sally Menke's Whimsical Bicycle was created when "Two orphan Dresden blocks gave inspiration for this work that includes our favorite summer activities...bike rides, four-legged friends." Featured at Houston in 2017, Sally's quilt utilizes machine piecing, sashiko, and fabric weaving among other techniques. But, as her husband said, "bike tires with that many bumps would be really hard to ride."

Whimsical Bicycle by Sally Menke of Arcadia, Michigan was featured in the Innovative Appliqué category at Houston 2017.

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Created from an image she "took in Cape Town from a window overlooking the Harbour at the Fenders (tyres)", Sue de Vanny's work looks more like a photo than a quilt. On Reflection - Cape Town Harbour Fenders won Best Use of Color - Wall Quilt Competition at PIQF 2019 and it's not hard to see why. The most impressive work is how she uses "fabrics like dollops of paint to create the picture then thread sketching the detail."

On Reflection - Cape Town Harbour Fenders by Sue de Vanny of Greenvale, Australia won Best Use of Color - Wall Quilt Competition at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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This video tutorial from Ricky is a step-by-step guide for youngsters and beginners who are new to the sewing process to help them make the Holiday Hearth Stocking (Available in Attic Window and Cedar Chest styles). Kid friendly! Additional supervision recommended. Make these stockings with a youngster and make a memory to last a lifetime.

Get the pattern for the Holiday Hearth Stocking here.

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Which kind of quilter are you? Vote below.

Previously we asked how you store your stash, what's on your design wall, how you quilt your quilts, how you baste your quilts, how you hang your quilts, where you get your quilting ideas, how you feel about your scissors, whether you use a rotary cutter or scissors, and if you favor a new sewing machine or an old one.

Today we want to know, "Who is your furry friend when you are making your quilt?" Fluffy the Feline? Dylan the Dog? Do you have some other furry friend? OR, are you strictly no fur allowed?

(Picture by Lauren Vlcek)

Not Seeing the Poll? Click on the link below.

Which Kind of Quilter Are You? -- Furry Friends