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Ricky has a brand new Christmas concert called Comfort & Joy! coming this December. Watch the announcement video below and see what Ricky has to say.

From Ricky:

"Announcing a heartwarming, stay-at-home Christmas concert to brighten your holiday season. I’m including new arrangements as well as a few “best of” moments.

Joining me will be the amazing Kat Bowser as well as the keyboardist for Lady Antebellum, Jonathon Long. You will also meet newcomer and singer/songwriter Allison Mahal.

Begins streaming on December 18th, 2020. Tickets on sale now!"

Both Single and Group Tickets are available.

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We continue our selection of quilts exhibited in 2019 at the Houston International Quilt Festival as part of their 45th Anniversary, the Sapphire Anniversary. The Sapphire Celebration exhibit is described as:

"Quilters have long used the color blue to symbolize trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. Sapphire is also the chosen gem to celebrate 45th anniversaries—which International Quilt Festival is doing this year (2019)! These new and antique blue and white quilts will be suspended from the ceiling in a spectacular and unforgettable display."

To be a part of the exhibit, quilts had to fit the following criteria:

• Entries may be Traditional, Modern or Art.
• Entries must have been made between 1974 and 2019.
• The minimum size is 50” x 50”

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Now here's something you don't see everyday, blue elephants! More to the point, Indigo Elephants. Andrea Schwenk's quilt contains "dyed silks, cottons and lace with natural indigo" from her garden." Made with machine piecing and machine appliqué, this is no quilt to shake your trunk at.

Indigo Elephants by Andrea Schwenk of Kerken, Germany was featured in the Wall category at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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Let's make this Holiday Quilt take on more significance. How can we do this? Let's share ideas with each other. 

Get your patterns here: https://thequiltshow.com/learn/projects/29782-holiday-quilt-by-alex-anderson

Join Alex LIVE on Friday November 25, 2020 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

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Chihuly's Gondola by Melissa Sobotka is a multiple award-winning quilt. Its numerous awards include: the Handi Quilter Best of Show award at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2013 and the Best of Show award at AQS QuiltWeek® – Charlotte, North Carolina 2014.

Learn how Melissa creates her magnificent quilts in Show 2008: Photo Realism in Fabric.

Original Photos: Mary Kay Davis

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After Lynn Koolish finished her demo with Alex during taping she asked if anybody else wanted anything dyed. Mary Kay Davis, The Quilt Show's website coordinater, jumped at the opportunity to have a Lynn Koolish original and took the white sweatshirt off her back and handed it over. Follow the along with the photos and watch Lynn turn a blank canvas of clothing into a work of art.

Learn from Lynn in Show 2711.

Lynn put it into a bag to "cure" so that Mary Kay could take it home.

After drying...

Original Photos: Kristin Goedert and Mary Kay Davis

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Barbara Black will shepherd us all through the creation of our Color My World Block of the Month Quilts for 2021. Today she has tips for how to prewash your fabric with success and how to choose fabrics for this special quilt.

Join Barbara LIVE on November 24, 2020 at 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. Alex has a quilt to brighten your holidays and an idea to bring your families together safely...

Get your patterns here: https://thequiltshow.com/learn/projects/29782-holiday-quilt-by-alex-anderson

Join Alex LIVE on Friday November 23, 2020 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time. All classes are recorded so they can be viewed later.

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Debby Schnabel, The Healthy Quilter, writes:

One of my friends calls the holiday season - Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas - The Trifecta of Diet Doom! It can seem like that. We can be tempted to just give up and indulge this time of year.

With just a substitution or two, you can turn your Thanksgiving feast into something just as delicious, but a whole lot healthier. Here are two of my favorite "special" vegetable recipes:

• First up is a green bean recipe that will put that old green bean casserole recipe to shame. I cannot tell a lie. I had nothing to do with this recipe, except to enjoy it. It is Balsamic-Glazed Green Beans and Pearl Onions. A most worthy side dish at only 53 calories per serving!
• Next is one of my all-time favorite "comfort food" recipes. The original recipe came in my health insurance newsletter, so it has to be healthy, right? It is Cauliflower Potato Bake, somewhat reminiscent of potatoes au gratin. It is definitely healthified, at only 66 calories per serving. I actually think this dish is perfect paired with baked ham. Because everybody knows you have to have MASHED potatoes with turkey, right? Ta-dah! I give you Mashed Cauliflower. Don't turn your nose up at it until you try it. It only took me two years of hearing about it before I would try it! And now its one of my favorite veggies. I felt especially vindicated when I heard some of the top chefs on The Food Network mentioning 'cauliflower mash.' It's so good and creamy that you don't even need gravy. (But at only 40 calories per serving, you can enjoy a little gravy on top!)

You can learn more from Debby by watching her in Show 1512: Enhance Your Quilting "Menu" with Hand Embroidery.

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This is a great 3-D block. Just imagine the possibilities depending on the color values you use.