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More award-winning quilts at PIQF 2015, including some from multiple winners, and a number of Mid-Century Modern entrants.

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Learn an amazing no hand-sewing English Paper Piecing technique from Jen, using templates, a glue pen, and clear thread! Use this new technique to create complex-looking projects in no time!

Click here for FREE pattern download.

Click here to visit Superior Threads.

Click here to visit Jen's website.

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Have you been playing along?  How many blocks can you name? Here's a pretty block from this week's game.

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It's not often that members of a Harley club are noticed for their quilting abilities. 
But, this is no ordinary group of motorcycle riders.  This year at the Texas State Fair,
a group of riders won a Blue ribbon for their 9-patch quilt.  Read their story of this most remarkable of quilts.

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Calling all Quilters attending Quilt Festival! Facebook it, Tweet it, Give a Big Shout Out!

Pass on the word! 

Be at the TQS Booth (1016) at 11:00 am

for a RARE event taking place on Halloween Day! 

Alex and Ricky will be presenting handmade RARE Bears to three special children.  TQS has partnered with RARE Science to pass out the news that WE WANT YOU to help put a bear in the arms of other special children like Lilly.

Can't make the event?  Don't worry, we will share it with you shortly afterwards on the Blog.

Want to know how YOU can help? 

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If you liked Jamie Wallen's show, check out these tricks and techniques from other great longarm artists.

Linda V. Taylor (Episode 604) shows you how to
  add interest to the stem of a feather using doodles.

Sue Patten (Episode 207) shares the magic of thread sketching on your longarm.

Gina Perkes (Episode 308) says that it all comes down to using fine thread when creating intricate details in her quilting.

Why pay $19.95 for just one class
 when you can have over 200 shows, plus 5 DVD Classes.

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Here is Part 2 of the Award-Winning Quilts at PIQF 2015.  Remember some of the winner's names, as you'll be seeing them soon on TQS. Hang on, there's still more to come from the Pacific International Quilt Festival 2015.

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While at Quilters Take Manhattan 2015, TQS visited The City Quilter in NYC.  Just recently a great panel featuring the landmarks of New York has become available from their site; click here to order. 

The City Quilter is known for its NYC fabrics; click here to see what else is available, and if you are ever in New York, stop by and visit the shop and gallery.

The City Quilter and ArtQuilt Gallery NYC were featured in "New York Originals" a while back.  Watch the video below to learn more.

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Recorded at Sagnlandet Lejre, Historical Archaeological Research and Communication Center, Denmark, August 2012, this video walks through the steps of creating textiles, from the plant to the loom.

Information regarding the location:

The Land of Legends, Centre for Historical-Archaeological Research and Communication (in Danish "Sagnlandet Lejre" and formerly known as Lejre Experimental Centre) is a 106-acre (43 hectare) archaeological open-air museum situated in the Lejre Municipality, a few kilometres west of Roskilde (Denmark).

Land of Legends was founded in 1964 by ethnologist Hans-Ole Hansen and comprises reconstruction of an Iron Age village and sacrificial bog (200 BC to 200 AD), a Viking market place (900 AD), a Stone Age campsite (5000 BC), an 18th-century farmstead and various grave monuments. The historical artisan workshops (the pottery, the weaver's workshop, the smithy) work to reproduce (pre-)historical handicraft. Gardens, pastures and fields are the natural scenario of activities and reconstructions. At the Land of Legends Lejre, the activities for the public utilize previous techniques, known from historical documents, archaeological evidence or experimental archaeology.

Each summer, many families spend a week of their holidays in the Iron Age village, the farm cottages and the Stone Age campsite. They dress in period costume and take on the role of peopling the reconstructed areas, while trying to live using the techniques of the past.

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In a previous blog, TQS members were very interested in Alex's TJ Lane thimble, so we are reposting this slideshow celebrating Barbara Acchino's thimble collection.

The variety is astounding.  Barbara has over 2000 thimbles.  For more detailed descriptions of the thimbles in the slide show, click here. For more information on thimbles and other antique sewing tools, please visit www.thimblecollectors.com.