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You got a chance to guess who the winner of the TQS category at Houston 2015 should be. There were many beautiful quilts. The winners are:

1st - Golden Girl by Hollis Chatelain

2nd - Trilogy by Peggy Brown

3rd - Girls are Strong by Hollis Chatelain

HM - Bailando en la Noche (Dancing in the Night) by Shelly Stokes

HM - Pink Bird by Judy Coates Perez

The stitch work on these quilts is amazing. We have a new slideshow that will give you a chance to see the quilts a little closer. Under each picture is a magnifying glass. After clicking on the "See The Quilts" button, click on the magnifying glass and then run your cursor over the quilts. You will get a zoom box to give you a closer look. You may have to wait a bit for the zoom to get the much larger picture loaded so you can see.

Do you like this approach? 

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Here's a time-lapsed video of Susan Carlson creating "Crocodylus Smylus" from pencil sketch to finished quilt.  "Stevie" is 22 feet by 6 feet and was completed in time to ship her to her premier at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts (showing through Jan 10, 2016).  Susan will be at the museum on December 10th for a visit and lecture.

Click here to go to Susan's website.

Star Members can watch Susan in Show 801: "Painting" with Fabric: Free-Style Quilts.

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It's a twofer bonus this month as we have binding tips from both Alex and Ricky.

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Here's a bit of Halloween fun to make you smile.

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Here's Caryl's latest work, "Crosswalk."  Click here to learn how her photograph of a young lady crossing the street in Bali was transformed into this amazing quilt.

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The only other American museum to host the exhibit will be the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in the Spring of 2016. This is one you won't want to miss.

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"Pineapple Queen" Jane Hall is sharing her quilts with TQS.  Jane's notes on each quilt are shown below.  Star Members can watch Jane in Show 1709: From Pineapples to Photorealism.

1.  Dawn Stars: classic pineapple block, colored to emphasize “windmill” designs. Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics

2.   Etoile de Bordeaux: inspired by an inlaid wood floor at La Maison de Bordeaux, France

3.  Flying Geese Pineapple: variation on classic block, where the diagonals are identical half-square triangles

4.  Glorious Lights: made for current Houston show, special exhibit for Celebration. All I could think of were skyrockets (!)

5.  Golddust: pineapple variation, inspired by an antique at the Shelbourne Museum. Made with gold and black batiks

6.   Hope: piece made for a 9/11 exhibit. Green is the color of hope, and I quilted feathers into the crazy patched blocks. Label has Emily Dickinson poem about “hope is that thing with feathers…..”

7.   Indigo Lights: pineapple variation, inspired by an antique quilt from the Shelbourne. This was the first one I made, and it’s the cover quilt for one of my books.

8.   Detail of Indigo Lights.

9.   Indigo: Mariner’s Compass design with long skinny points. Original border (which took as much time to piece as the blocks)

10. Detail of Indigo

11. Los Ventos: Mariner’s Compass made with only two fabrics, different dyelots however

12. Nebula: Pineapple variation, one of my series of “colorwash” pineapples. Was a cover quilts for Quilter’s Newsletter

13. Piko Haleakala: my first quilt, hand stitched Hawaiian quilt. Blue Ribbon at an early Houston show

14. Princess Feather and Rising Star: hand appliquéd, hand quilted. Inspired by a quilt in the Newark NH Museum

15. Provence Pineapple: pineapple variation with strips split in half to make very skinny ones. Used some of my stash of French fabrics

16. Shards: off-center pineapple variation. New graphics from changing shapes within the block

17. Sunset Trees: classic pineapple, colored to create interior/secondary designs

18. THE Pineapple: classic pineapple with only one section of each block colored, to create a “real” pineapple. Hand appliquéd leaves

19. The Ultimate Pineapple: inspired by an antique wool quilt that I coveted and couldn’t afford. Made with cotton but antique-looking fabrics. Won blue ribbons everywhere it was shown

20. Vinas Viejas: (Old Vine wine) One of the color wash series, using Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics, blocks placed in off-center Barn Raising set.

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Pam walks you through her process of taking an image and transforming it into a piece of textile art.

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One very lucky TQS Member (who has posted a quilt in the Quilt Gallery) will win a Ricky Tims Rhapsody quilt when the Gallery reaches 36,000 quilts. Your fellow TQS viewers would love to see your quilts. Yes! Yours!  

Keep the quilts coming. Upload photos of your quilts today. Each TQS Member can enter up to twelve quilts. They do not have to be your quilts; they can be an antique quilt that came down through your family, or a top that you proudly finished.

TQS wants to have the largest online quilt gallery in the world!

To enter a quilt, select MY ACCOUNT from the top navigation bar, then select MY PROFILE, then click PHOTOS and UPLOAD PHOTOS. It's as easy as that. While you are at it, don't forget to enter a little bit of information about yourself as well as your quilts.

Here's just an example of the wonderful quilts you can find in the Quilt Gallery. It is Ehrnst Rhapsody by keeper.

Click here to learn more about the quilt.