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Here are the last embroidered details for your hand stitched Mandala. You did it! Congrats! Send your completed Mandala picture to knittycat@comcast.net or post it to the Facebook group, Mandala Unplugged. Ann will add it to the online art show on a special page entitled Mandala Unplugged on her website at www.annmyhrequilts.com.
 
Stick around next week to see how the design was created and for a few ideas on finishing.
 
Join Ann in part 9 of her Mandala Unplugged hand stitching project.
 

Please join the Mandala Unplugged Facebook group for support and camaraderie. 

 
 

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Kerby Smith (Show 702: Quilting in the Digital Age) had a discussion with Jenny Bowker (Show 1804: Quilting Outside the Blocks) regarding adjusting the tension on your sewing machine. What do you do when the factory setting isn’t giving you the best results? Jenny shared with him a simple tension test you may want to try. 

The test will help you understand how to adjust your thread tension to get balanced stitches. And it lets you know where to change the setting for optimum results. It works with all sewing machines.
 
Click on Go To Tutorial to head over to WeAllSew.com for the Tension Test.
 

(Jenny Bowker with her quilt made by Kerby Smith)

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Quilts of Valor® is having a block drive. The block is a Friendship Star with a pinwheel center (12" finished). The purpose of the national block drive is to give individuals or groups who wish to make just a few blocks, but not assemble a quilt, have their block(s) in quilts made across the nation. These blocks can be assembled in many ways into a QOV.

Click here to download the pdf file with all the information and instructions for creating the block.

 

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Sarah Bond's Ribbon Quilt, quilted by Carol Heisler, won the eQuilter Quilting Excellence Award at QuiltCon 2018. Sarah challenged herself to use every color in the fabric line at the same time. She writes, "Sometimes you make the quilt. Sometimes the quilt makes you."
 
 

 

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Who Will Carry On? is a piece from Leni's Faces series and features a young man hard at work.

Star Members can watch Leni in Show 2204: The Human Form from Portrait to Art Piece.

Original Photo: Leni Levenson Wiener

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In 2013, Ella & Pitr were street artists that were allowed to go into abandoned buildings and create art. Their approach and illusions really take you outside the box and into one of their frames. Take a look at an example below and then click to see more and how they did it in the article, "Playful Anamorphic Illusions of Life-Size Picture Frames" by Pinar for MyModernMet.com.

 

(photo: MyModernMet.com)

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It just might have, according to fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.

 
 
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Sue Garman's Halo Medallion Quilt in Luscious Batiks (see below)

Get a 1 Year Star Membership (a $49 value) FREE with your purchase.

Sue Garman's Block of the Month 2017 for TQS, The Halo Medallion, is a beautiful quilt. We quickly ran out of our kits and couldn't get the fabric to remake them. Island Batik saw the quilt and said, "That would be great in batiks!!" So they have done a computer layout of the look and have chosen the fabrics. Are you ready to make a ribbon winning quilt in Batiks? The kits are in the warehouse and ready to ship right away. The kits are $287 and have over 26 yards of gorgeous fabrics. Thank you to the Sue Garman Estate for allowing us to extend the patterns and videos through 2018.

Remember, you must be a Star member to download the patterns. So we are going to include a 1 Year Star Membership card in every kit so the patterns are FREE. Start your membership or just add on to your current one. You will get the patterns and be able to see all of the new shows and have instant access to over 260 shows right now.

The kits are limited and we expect to sell out (take a look at the fabrics below). Please don't wait.

 

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We need to make room on our shelves for new products!

These thread tubes are a great deal! Each tube holds five 400-meter spools of Quilters Select Para-Cotton Poly or Perfect Cotton-Plus Threads for a total of 2000 meters of thread per tube. They have been marked down by 25% to clear them out. Don't hesitate! We don't have many left!

25 tubes of 60 wt. shades of browns threads - Regularly $19.99, now $14.99




10 tubes of 80 wt. grey-to-white threads - Regularly $17.99, now $13.46


7 tubes of 60 wt. neutrals pale yellow-to-cream threads -  Regularly $19.99, now $14.99 

 

 

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Going Up, pieced and quilted by Stephanie Skardal, was awarded Best of Show at QuiltCon 2018. Stephanie writes, "Inspired to create unexpected shapes with negative space in traditional (but large) log cabin blocks, Going Up mixes the hard of high contrast and graphic lines with the organic look of Essex linen and straight-line quilting. This original design was created in Photoshop and machine quilted on a domestic machine."
 
Stephanie accepted the award with an adorable helper, Ingrid, at her side. Congratulations Stephanie!
 
 
(52" x 64") Stephanie entered Going Up into the Flying Geese Challenge, a QuiltCon category sponspored by American Patchwork & Quilting.

 

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