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In Ricky's version of Jingle Bells, you'll get to see him perform in a whole different way. It all started with the piano located near a mine shaft. Yes, Ricky is actually standing on top of an abandoned mine. To learn the whole story about the video, click here. For behind the scenes photos from the shoot, click here. If you'd like to order Ricky's music, click here.

Click on the photo to see Ricky, Dashing Through the Snow!

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Quilt Halo + Supreme Slider = Control!

When I (Kristin from Marketing) saw the Quilt Halo in Show 2312, it looked mighty familiar.

I purchased a Quilt Halo from Master Quilter Sharon Schamber (the inventor of the Quilt Halo) in Houston a while back...7 years ago according to the receipt. I decided that it was high time to try it out!

I put together a quickie quilt sandwich, grabbed my Halo and Supreme Slider, and got to quilting. I warmed up with a few scribbles, and then just doodled. I made a flower, a heart, a lion, pebbles, whatever I thought up. 

I can't believe I waited so long to try these, they would have made my quilting life much easier! The Supreme Slider made it easy to slide the quilt piece around (much better than just sliding it on my sewing machine table) and the Quilt Halo gave the control that I needed to make the small doodles. I would not have been able to quilt the designs that I did without them. I highly recommend them!
Quilt Halo Easily grab your quilt for smooth and controlled quilting	Supreme Slider Move your quilt smoothly while free motion quilting

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Libby used a variety of techniques to create quilts in her "Stripey Vase" series. Here is one of the quilts in that series. To learn how Libby creates her collage quilts, watch her in Show 2311: Fun with Mixed Media Collage and Quilting Inspiration.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Here are the quilts for the third team from the over 320 teams that participated in the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE). 201 teams submitted their quilts to be a part of the Exhibition in Houston 2018 and we are featuring the 24 teams selected for the first IMQE Exhibition.

Click here to learn more about the International Miniature Quilt Exchange (IMQE).

Enjoy the quilts from Team 120 created by Natalia Safonova and Lily Kinross-Wright.

Title of Quilt: Flowers Jayoi Kasuma

Quilter's Name: Natalia Safonova

Location: Ukraine

I'm so thankful to the team of TheQuiltShow and Alex Andersen and Ricky Tims for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the IMQE. It is a first time for me and I had lot of worries. I took the inspiration for my quilt from the artwork of Japanese artist Jayoi Kusama. I’m so impressed with her talent and energy. Being a person who has got a technical education the tradition patchwork is always more common to me, but this quilt inspired by Japanese art I mostly used the hand sewing techniques such as: hand applique, hand embroidery and hand quilting. The working process impressed me so much. When my quilt was ready I’ve got news that my partner canceled her participation in the project and I was very disappointed. But now I’m so happy to find another American quilt friend to be able to show and present my quilt. Thanks to IMQE I’ve got an unforgettable experience of quilting, creativity, communication and support.

Title of Quilt: Filigree

Quilter's Name: Lily Kinross-Wright

Location: Durham, North Carolina, USA

My original partner for team 120 didn’t respond as to whether she was entering or not. I mentioned this to my second partner, who I email with quite regularly and she said that a fellow quilter in Ukraine had also not received a response, so we are entering as a mixed-up team. I don’t know if this is allowed, but it’s too late to ask, so I’m trying! If nothing else, I will send her my quilt and we will exchange emails too. I hope someday to go to Kiev and visit my new quilting friends.

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Learn to embellish your projects with beautiful and inspired quilted designs just like Sue does.

We have a full line of Sue's books in the store, plus her Circleliner tool. Check them out below!

This easy-to-use workbook takes sashing design to a whole new level, showing you how to plan and stitch breathtakingly beautiful medallions and wreaths.  Illustrated step-by-step guides along with how-to hints make the striking free-motion designs easy to reproduce.
Fill Harmonics Create beautiful and unique background fill designs	Drawn to Mastery Stitch creative and inspired sashing and border designs	Elemental Designs Use just two elemental designs to sew distinctive borders, blocks and grids
Circleliner® Tool

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Libby wanted to recreate a piece of notebook paper with this quilt. It looks just like it right down to the hole punches and bits of "tape" holding on the images.

Watch Libby Williamson in Show 2311: Fun with Mixed Media Collage and Quilting Inspiration.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis