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Do you want to accelerate your quilting skills? You need to know the basics. But there are always shortcuts and processes that you can learn the hard way or learn from someone who has been there before you. Dee Christopher has been teaching quilting at local shops through Community Colleges. She has specialized in beginning quilters, but has taught quilters of all levels.

Dee will be teaching in her classroom called "Dee's Saturday Sampler" on TheQuiltshow.com blog, the TQS Facebook, Alex Anderson's Facebook, Ricky Tims' Facebook and the TQS YouTube channel. It's a fun gathering that will be LIVE on Saturdays beginning November 14, 2020. The first class is "My Favorite Tools". Then there will be 6 other classes and after that she will start on projects you will love doing together. It's all free from TheQuiltShow.com.

Join Dee this Saturday at 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London Time. Watch below as Alex talks with Dee about the new program.

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It's time to put the base of the face on your background. Once this is done the play begins. Lots of fun coming with this Faces project.

Join Alex LIVE on Monday November 9, 2020 @ 10am PST, 1pm EST, and 6pm London time.

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Susan Garrity's Moons Over Bars was part of the AQS Modern Quilt Challenge. It was exhibited at AQS QuiltWeek in Phoenix and traveled for a year as part of the AQS Modern Quilt Challenge exhibit. It's wonderful how the quilting replicates the patterns of the piecing and appliqué parts.

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Here's a beautiful block from Jinny Beyer.  Do you know what it's called?

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In Charlotte's quilt, Fly Away Butterflies, the trees and butterflies are created with her special technique of needle felting and thread painting. The components are then free-motion appliquéd on to her quilt.

Star members can watch Charlotte in Show 1805: Telling Stories and Quilting.

Original Photo: Gregory Case

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With "a very minimal, yet bold piecing design", Jodi Robinson created a modern interpretation of the Drunkards Path Block. She named it, what else, The Modern Drunk. Utilizing machine piecing and longarm machine quilting, Jodi's quilt won the Judge's Choice Modern award at PIQF in 2019. Her goal was to have the quilting "add movement to emphasize the movement created by the piecing."

The Modern Drunk by Jodi Robinson of Enon Valley, Pennsylvania won the Judge's Choice Modern Award at the Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF) 2019.

Original Photos: Lucas Davis

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Pickle Promenade by Sharon Schamber is an embroidered appliqué quilt. Sharon has a love for the traditional Pickle Dish design and this was a great inspiration in designing the quilt.

Star Members can watch Sharon in Show 1603: Quilters and Friends for Life.

Click here to Zoom in close to the Quilt.

(Original Photo: Gregory Case Photography)

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Which kind of quilter are you? Vote below.

Previously we asked how you stored your stash, what's on your design wall, how you quilt your quilts, how you baste your quilts, and how you hang your quilts.

Now we want to know, "Where do you get your quilting ideas?" Do you go straight to TQS or online? Do you read a book or magazine? OR, do you draw inspiration from your friends and the world around you?

(Picture by Lauren Vlcek)

Not seeing the Poll? Click on the link below.

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Inspired by one of her grandsons, Jake won first place in the Portraits category at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Beyond winning an award for her quilt, Carol is appreciative that her work is being recognized because of the emotional attachment she has to the subject of her art.

Learn from Carol in Show 2710.

Original Photos: Zumi Hidalgo

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TQS continues its feature of quilts exhibited in 2020 at QuiltCon as part of The Quilts of Victoria Findlay Wolfe exhibit. The exhibit is described as:

"Purposeful play is a deliberate free-form practice with one goal in mind: to ultimately improve the outcome of the finished product while capturing a thought, emotion, or technique. Always fascinated by color, pattern, and quilters who came before us, Victoria Findlay Wolfe found her life's true joy in exploring her grandmother's quiltmaking as a starting point.

Her diverse and exciting body of work stirs quilters worldwide to dig deeper, take risks, and experiment with fabric. This retrospective exhibit features a selection of Findlay Wolfe's inspiring quilts and the stories behind them."

Please enjoy Victoria's seventh quilt from the exhibition.

Title of Quilt: You Are Here

Quilter's Name: Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Year Made: 2012

Quilt Size: 38" x 48"

Original Photos by Mary Kay Davis