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Save time and gain accuracy on repetitive cuts for quilting with the Shape Cut Plus Slotted Ruler!  

Use the slotted ruler with a rotary cutter and cutting mat to quickly and easily cut multiple strips from 1/2" up to 12" wide, in 1/2" increments. To make other shapes, just turn your Shape Cut Ruler and make another set of cuts. The big 12" x 18" cutting surface lets you cut lots of pieces at once!

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Debra Goley created Taking Flight: My Great Aunts for the HERstory: A Celebration of Strong Women exhibit. Her aunts both served in WW II as pilots and are both still living. That's one of them in the video with Debra. Debra talks about her quilt and we salute the women she commemorated.

Her two aunts are Betty Heinrich Berkstresser and Barbara Willis Heinrich.

Click here for HERstory: A Celebration of Strong Women - Exhibit Schedule

Deb writes,

Here is my highlight! Getting to celebrate with my Aunt, Betty Heinrich Berkstresser, a WWII veteran, a Women Air Force Pilot was the best treat! I was honored to show her my art work of her and my other great Aunt both still living! Only 83 of the 1000 WASPS still alive and both my Aunts received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2011. People came up to thank them for their service and my tears were of joy.

Click here to go to Deb's website.

(photo: Debra Goley)

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While the colors are vibrant and help the quilt tell a story, the visual impact of the quilt had people stopping and staring. It made you feel like you were looking through a pipeline in the ocean. Thom Atkins quilt, Water is Life, So Why are We Doing This, is a commentary on what we are doing to our oceans. That's why he used interesting embellishments, including distressed plastic, to create something that was "Beautiful" and "Terrifying".

Thom's quilt won Best Use of Color and 2nd Place Visual Impact (New Quilts of Northern California) at PIQF 2018.

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Bouncin' by Susan Cleveland has all her trademark tricks. We see piping hot binding, perfect prairie points, and impeccable piecing.

You can achieve the same results with Susan's Prairie Pointer Tool, her Secrets of Impeccable Piecing & Quilter's Custom Seam Tool, or her Piping Hot Binding & Tool.

What results you might ask? How about...

Bouncin' 2005, 63” x 61”

• First Place International Quilt Festival Houston 2005
• Best of Show - Wall Quilt Minnesota Quilters 2005
• Third Place American Quilter’s Society Paducah 2005

Watch Susan Cleveland in Show 2308: It's Hip to be a Modern Dresden.

Original Photo from Susan Cleveland's Website

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Do you suffer from fear of flying geese? Those bias pieces, getting the point with the quarter inch seam at the top, making sure the point is centered... they can be downright scary.

We have the answer! Eleanor Burns' flying geese tools from Quilt In A Day make it easy to make perfect flying geese, without even measuring.   

The Flying Geese Ruler makes 1.5 x 3 inch and 3 x 6 inch finished flying geese. It's small, portable and simple to use. Just line up the triangle lines on the ruler with the 45 degree sewn lines and trim the block to the size of the ruler and, voila, perfect flying geese!

The Calling All Geese Ruler is an easy and convenient multi-size tool to make flying geese in 8 sizes ranging from 1 x 2 inches to 5 x 10 inches. It works in steps, and to use it you simply line your block up to successive markings on the template and trim. Three fast and simple steps later you have a perfect block. Plus, you get the Modern Migration Quilt pattern with your purchase of the Calling All Geese Ruler!

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We weren't surprised to see Rami Kim's enchanting ensemble win the BERNINA 1st Runner Up award at PIQF. She used a beautiful silk brocade that she'd been cherishing for a very long time. She found it so beautiful, she even used some of the wrong side of the fabric. She also used three different fabric folding techniques to create the hexagons in the design. Enjoy Spring's Kiss, Hexie Bliss: A Stroll Through Peach Tree Island.

Rami shows you some of her fabric folding techniques in Show 607: Folded Fabric Elegance.

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Pretty Flaky is a bit more traditional quilt than you might be used to seeing by Susan. Of course, following her own tradition, it's also an award-winner.

1999, 41"x 41"

• First place International Quilt Festival Houston 1999
• Finalist American Quilter's Society Paducah 2000
• Third place Minnesota Quilters show 1999

Watch Susan Cleveland in Show 2308: It's Hip to be a Modern Dresden.

Original Photo from Susan Cleveland's Website

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In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Michael and Hurricane Florence, the nonprofit Quilt Alliance is offering quilt owners a small step towards recovery. The Quilt Alliance is providing Quilt Recovery Kits to those affected by these natural disasters.

Alliance board president Michael Newman said, "We aim to support, celebrate and commemorate the quilt community, and we are deeply concerned for those impacted by the storm and wanted a way to help. Houses can slowly be rebuilt, but the precious and personal physical objects that are often destroyed by these disasters impact families profoundly. Stories of quilts lost (or salvaged) from natural disasters are frequently the focus of our oral history projects."

https://quiltalliance.org/projects/quilt-recovery-kit/

Larry Gonzales of Retro Clean says, "We are happy to be at least a small part of the recovery process for distraught families."

• A 4 oz. sample of Retro Clean, a stain-removing soaking agent for quilts and all washable fabrics,
• Two all-cotton, sew-on Quilt Survivor labels for quilts,
• Cleaning and labeling instructions,
• An invitation to share the story of your quilt. We will feature Survivor quilts online with the owner's permission.

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Have you ever carefully traced an appliqué piece on fabric, but when you were finished you found that the fabric had slipped and now your circular appliqué piece is an oval? We hate that!!

Now we have The Best workaround - The Best Sandboard. Recommended to us by Becky Goldsmith as a helpful tool for the appliqué portion of our 2019 Block Of The Month SIZZLE, The Best Sandboard is a sturdy board with a surface of extra-fine sandpaper that grips your fabric as you write, draw, or trace on it, keeping it from sliding around and ensuring that your traced shapes do not become distorted from slippage. 

The Best Sandboard also works great to hold your fabric in place for writing on, drawing on, or embellishing fabric!

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Sacred Threads is pleased to announce a call for artwork for their special exhibit, Eye Contact: creating a connection. This special installation will be in their July 2019 exhibit.

From their website:

There is a famous quote by Cicero (106-43 B.C.). 'Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi' (The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter). 'The eyes are the window of the soul' is a variant form of the proverb..." Reference

Here are the specifics:

• The dimensions are 23" wide x 5" high
• Any fiber/ mixed media technique and materials
• Finished using any method
• No sleeves are needed
• Please put your name on the back of your piece, either with a label or permanent pen
• Human Eyes - Looking at the Viewer

Make one, or make several, and mail them to us to share in a special display at the exhibit here in the Washington DC area next summer.

Deadline May 31, 2019.

Click here for more information.