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The AAQ Retreat is about to kick off the 15th year, with four fun-filled days and three nights of sewing, laughing, shopping, friends and eating, October 1-4, 2015 in Dublin, CA.

Enjoy learning opportunities with Alex and our guest instructor, Laura Wasilowski.  Attend the guest lectures and classes and/or bring your own project(s) to work on.

Alex will be available all day, every day, to help you with your projects, and to demonstrate tips and techniques. Laura Wasilowski will be teaching Improvisational Design with fused fabrics. 
Visit the retreat website at www.aaqretreat.com for pricing and details.
Consider making it a quilt-filled week and start with “Quilting in the Garden” at the Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore, CA.  

This year the featured artist at Quilting in the Garden is Freddy Moran.  Guest artist Sally Collins rounds out the weekend of beautiful quilts hung from amazing oak trees and a variety of quilt instructors to please everyone’s taste. Also, Tuesday,  September 29, Lynn Wilder (featured here at TQS in Show 1604: Taking the Fear Out of Math for Quilters) will be teaching her super popular "math class" - no worries - she takes care of the hard part!

It is a week of quilting fun in the beautiful Tri-Valley area of Northern CA. Click here for more information.

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It's summer, and time to make a fun and fresh quilt while the days are long and sunny.  Blooms For Julie is a quilt we know you are going to love making AND having around for years to come.  As you know, TQS loves to share beautiful quilts with you, but we also want to increase your skills.  This quilt fills both bills, and then some! 

In this month's lesson, Jan Magee's version of Whirling Squares will teach you how to tackle those pesky partial seams.  So, get your things together and let's start sewing!

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TQS visits with Daniela Stout as she talks about her three new lines of batik fabrics (lucky woman!).  Star Members can watch Daniela in Show 1110: Come to the Strip Club ... Rated G!

Click here to order Sunburst pattern.

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Okan Arts visited with artist and designer Julie Paschkis in her home in Washington. Julie has a fascinating background, which includes the studying of folk arts and crafts in Norway and a BFA from the School for American Craftsmen at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).  

Julie is a designer for In The Beginning Fabrics and she also produces greeting cards for Trader Joe's.

Click here to read the full article.

Click here to visit Julie's website.

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It's almost the 4th of July.  Are you feeling patriotic?  Learn all about how you can honor a service man or woman by making Jen's Standing Strong Quilt. This quilt meets the standards for the Quilts of Valor Foundation and is created by easily piecing together 2.5" strips of fabric!  

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Alex has put it all together in one place. From first step to last stitch, Alex's new book, All Things Quilting, covers everything for today's quilter. Expand your quilting experience and fatten your tool belt with Alex's newest baby.

Alex is pretty excited - watch what she has to say.  Click here learn more and to get your autographed copy.

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Looking for something to do this summer? Don't miss this great opportunity to spend a weekend learning how to pass on your quilting legacy with the creative folks of Quilt Alliance.  Three winners will be chosen at random, and each will receive a pair of tickets* to attend the Quilt Alliance’s educational and inspirational conference, Not Fade Away: Sharing  Stories in the Digital Age, to be held on Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18, 2015 at the Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Virginia.
*Tickets do not include the Saturday night Fundraising Dinner.

Deadline to enter: Sunday, July 5 at 12:00 Midnight EDT. Winners will be drawn on Monday, July 6, and will be announced on the Quilt Alliance Facebook page by 5:00 pm EDT that day.

This fun and inspirational conference will include these activities and much, much more:

• Hear 2015 Keynote Speaker: Marin Hanson –“One Hundred Good Wishes Quilts: Commemorating and Documenting Adoptions from China”
• Learn how to self-publish a book about your own quilts
• Listen to curators and historians discuss how family trees can provide clues to quilt history
• Make creative quilt labels with quilt artists Leslie Tucker Jenison & Michele Muska
• Meet the people doing cutting-edge oral history projects on today’s quilters
• Hear about the history and future of the Quilt Barn Trails project

To find out more about the event click here. 

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Does your holiday look need a bit of fun and color?  Jen shows you how to make a fast and easy necklace using marbles and fabric.  This is a great idea for getting the kids involved in the celebration and in the fabric. 

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Julie shows you a quick method for making half-square triangles.

Click here to learn more from Julie in her TQS classroom.

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It's hard to capture in an online picture the real life look of a quilt. When I (Capt'n John) saw the sun streaming in the extra bedroom I grabbed the camera. I think that this picture captures the shadings of the white and grey and the vibrancy of the colors in the "blooms" better. (It is a queen-size bed. Yes, learning to "stage" is on my to-do list.)

Be sure to join us as we start this fun summer project. It's a classic quilt with a strong modern feel. (This quilt will look great entered into your guild's next quilt show.)