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Here's a quick project you can give to your friends as a Halloween treat. It's a Sugar Skull Mug Rug from Erika Mulvenna and WeAllSew.com. These little Sugar Skull Mug Rugs are the perfect project to help practice your free-motion quilting skills. Perfect lines are not required!
 
 

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Meg Cox shares how words add meaning to quilts. See what she means when you see her quilt based on her favorite musical, "Into the Woods."

Star Members can watch Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Whatever you call it, call it a 1st Place winner. Liz Jones, of Leominster, United Kingdom, created the quilt Ground Cover, 73" x 73." It won 1st Place Wall Quilts - Stationary Machine Quilted at Spring Paducah 2017. Take a look at how she outlined the quilted areas that produced the ground cover. Fun!

 

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The latest winners of the AccuQuilt 2017 Quilt Block Design Contest have been announced. Click here to find out more.
 
The grand prize winner is Reed Johnson of Largo, FL. As part of his prize package, Reed’s design, Purple Rosewill be displayed on a 17-foot sign outside of AccuQuilt Headquarters for an entire year.
 
 
 
Terri Vanden Bosch of Doon, Iowa is the runner-up and she designed Shell Canyon Road.
 

 

Lovenia Casto, who designed Bright Star, is the fan’s choice winner.
 

Seven others received honorable mentions including Marybeth Pusillo, Judy Best, Belinda Karls-Nace, Candace Door, Sherry Rose, Heather Hansen and Beverly Tiemann.

 
(All images: AccuQuilt.com)
 
 
 
 

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Fabric.com has created a spooooky coffin block just in time for Halloween. Click on the button to go to the tutorial or follow along in the video below.
 
 
 

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Join us Sunday only to see the latest show for FREE:

Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims

"Beautiful, beautiful show; I think probably the best show I have seen here! I usually enjoy The Quilt Show episodes, but this was way beyond most of them. Thank you so much for this one!" - Sandy Berg

This show has hit many hearts. We want to share it for FREE today and then let you have a chance to join us with 2 free months. You will get 12 months for the price of 10. Just APPLY the code      SUMMER2017       at checkout and watch it give you the discount.

TQS is like having the best Guild Program Chairperson EVER right in your own home. Join Us.

Tell a friend. The show is open to everyone. No sign in necessary.

 

 

 

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Vimeo support got back to us and showed us how to have you fix the iPad problem. Go to your "Gear" for Settings.

  1. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioning > Closed Captions + SDH
  2. Set it to OFF

This did not work for one of our viewers. However, she found that this worked for her:

Hi John,
Well, I kept changing settings in the Accessibility area and I found something that worked. If I turn off Auto Brightness: Settings/General/Accessibility/Display Accommodations, the video plays perfectly. The iPad Pro 10.5 and probably the new iPhones have something called True Tone displays. The Auto Brightness is ON by default and the screen adjusts automatically to the ambient light around the user. It is a very cool feature. I hope Vimeo will come up with a fix but until then I am very happy to be able to watch your shows on my iPad again!
 
 

Do either of these fixes work for you? Which one?

 

 

 

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At Houston 2016, they featured the work of the late Laverne Mathews. Laverne's quilt, Reminiscence, is a Traditional quilt with an art teacher's touch. This former art teacher brought her sense and abilities to her love of Traditional quilts and made you look at the color choices, the piecing, the borders and edges, and the hand quilting. This quilt was one of our favorites created by Laverne.

 

 

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This was Alex's entry for the TQS Challenge show. Alex's quilt was created based on the musical "Wicked." She was drawn to the wonderful friendship between the two main characters.

Learn more about Alex's quilt and how she put it together in Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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TQS Members are loving Show 2106: TQS Challenge with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims. Here's are just a few of the comments Meg's show has received.

"I didn't think I'd like this show, because I'm not a big fan of Broadway...but, I had some hand sewing to do so I went with it....I'm so grateful to you all! It opened my heart and reconnected something in me that I hadn't realized had gone quiet....of course, there Kleenex all over the place now and I'm humming tunes from old B'way shows. This is one of the best episodes EVER!! Many thanks."  - Leighway
 
"Thank you for such a moving and inspiring show. This show really reached the essence of great quilting." - Judith123
 
"This was a great show. What an inspiration Meg Cox is." - lbarnes
 

 

Meg herself writes about the show in the latest edition of her newsletter, Quilt Journalist Tells All!

"There are a couple of things that are unusual about my episode: first, it's a TQS Challenge episode meaning that Alex and Ricky challenged me (and themselves) to make a quilt on a specific theme. This isn't the first challenge episode but the first where the theme is Broadway musicals. It's no secret that Ricky is an ardent fan of "Hamilton," so it's no surprise that he would pick that show. But you'll have to watch what musicals Alex and I chose. Each of us demonstrate key techniques in our quilts and I learned some really valuable tips from what they both did. 

The really unusual part about my episode is how deeply personal and emotional it ended up being: our shared topic was making meaning and they got me talking frankly about the death of my husband. I've been touched to see that multiple subscribers of the show have posted comments saying this is one of the best episodes ever, and some were moved to tears.
 
One quick viewing tip: you can watch the entire hour-long episode at one go, or you can click on the various "chapters" listed. The emotional part is the "after set" conversation at the end."
 
Click here to read Meg's newsletter.