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Laura at SewVeryEasy has some great tips that will help to keep your rulers in place.

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Is it a bit chilly in your neck of the woods? Maybe you need to make an infinity scarf to keep your neck warm.  Here's a quick tutorial from Jen at Shabby Fabrics showing you how to make a fun and colorful scarf using just four fat quarters.

Click here to go to Superior Threads.

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Learning Landscapes is a 2 hour class that will be streaming all year for Star members for Free. Don't buy other classes until you have worked with Kathy on the skills below. You can learn the tips, tricks and techiques that will apply to all of your quilts.

How do you quilt a quilt like this? Kathy gives you her hard earned experience with quilting choices.

And what about color? Kathy leads you through all the seasons of the year, and shows shading, movement, and feel.

What about far and close? Kathy shows you how to place the pieces and decide on sizes to achieve perspective (this applies to all kinds of patterns besides landscapes).

To increase your learning (and create and amazing quilt) you can purchase her companion book that has the pattern she uses as her example.

Here are some of the Chapters: (This Online Class will be under Watch>Featured Guest DVD starting Jan 1)

In 2016 (so far) we will stream FREE for Star members these DVD Classes valued at $139.75 for $42.95. That just $7 a class. When you add in 26 new shows and over 220 shows in the library that is like...a...a....a.. forget the math, it's a great quilting deal.

1. Ricky Tims--Grand Finale (value $21.95)
2. Patsy Thompson- Ruler Work For The Sit-Down Quilter  (value $29.95)
3. Kathy McNeils- Learning Landscapes (value $26.00)
4. Renae Allen's- Feather Fundamentals (value $19.95)
5. Renae Allen's- Skillbuilder 1 (Free Motion Lessons-$19.95)
6. Libby Lehman's- A Day of Threadplay (value $21.95)

One price for everything.

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Here's a fun block from this week's game.

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Class is now open!

One of our favorite teachers is back in 2016 with a full 111 minute DVD which we will stream for FREE to our Star members starting Jan 1. Patsy Thompson brings you the information you need to gain the skills for amazing looking quilting. Rulers make it easier. You thought this was just for Longarm quilters, but now even domestic machine quilters are in on the secrets. These instructions work with all domestic machines--THAT MEANS YOU! (Sit-Down longarm quilters will love this too!)

Chapter List

1. Introduction
2. Ruler Feet
3. Rulers for Machine Qulting
4. Basics of Ruler Work
5. Straight Line Ruler Work
6. Curved Ruler Work.

In 2016 (so far) we will stream FREE for Star members these DVD Classes valued at $139.75:

1. Ricky Tims--Grand Finale (value $21.95)
2. Patsy Thompson- Ruler Work For The Sit-Down Quilter  (value $29.95)
3. Kathy McNeils- Learning Landscapes (more about this DVD in a later newsletter- $26.00)
4. Renae Allen's- Feather Fundamentals (value $19.95)
5. Renae Allen's- Skillbuilder 1 (Free Motion Lessons-$19.95)
6. Libby Lehman's- A Day of Threadplay (value $21.95)

Your $42.95 membership includes all the above AND over 200 past shows and 26 new shows surveying all that is new in quilting.

One price for everything.

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For our final look at the Downton Abbey exhibit, we'll examine some of the Active Wear, including a riding habit created and worn exactly as it would have been in the early part of the 20th century.

Click on the image to watch the video on PBS with Nancy Zieman and Laura Fiser, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, WI.

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Kathy York, winner of the Best in Show award for her quilt iQuilt at QuiltCon 2015 in Austin, Texas, was interviewed for Go Tell It at the Quilt Show!, a Quilt Alliance project designed to capture the stories of quilts where quiltmakers gather.