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Spring Market is a time for store owners to find the products you need. Lynette has an idea that helps owners display the products in a fun way. It involves Ikea. Check it out.
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Are you stuck in a rut when it comes to your quilting designs? Have you tried doodling? You remember, it's those designs you created in the margin of your notes while your high school teacher was droning on about an uninteresting subject. Are you out of practice and need a place to start?
Sometimes a fabric can inspire or add to your doodles. Check out this clever idea we found on The Inbox Jaunt from Lori Kennedy (who happens to be a BERNINA Ambassador), for combining fabric with your drawings. The ideas can even lead later to quilting designs.
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Photo by Gregory Case Photography Photo courtesy of Cristy Fincher
Have you ever wanted to present yourself to the world as a professional artist? Textile artist Carol Ann Sinnreich shares tips for doing business as an artist. She also shares her love of the West, and demos how to perfect tricky intersections with multiple pieces of fabric.
Cristy Fincher has a new trick to teach – paper piecing without paper! Who knew??
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This is your last chance to be entered into the drawing for posting your Work in Progress in the Contemporary Batik class with Lea McComas (Episode 1609). We will be holding the drawing to win a set of Dye-Na-Flow dyes. The winner will be announced on June 15!
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Join Julie Cefalu takes the fear of free motion quilting with some clever tips to get you on the road to smooth and fun quilting.
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BERNINA has a great promotion going now. You can trade in your old machine AND also get free financing for 5 years. See how by clicking on the picture below. As always, no matter what machine you use, we want to thank BERNINA for being onboard at TQS.
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The quilt store owners and workers strode into Spring Market in Minneapolis and set about to find you the products and fabrics that would get your creative juices flowing when you shop at their stores. So what did they see? How do they know what booth to visit? Here is a look at some of the Fabric Vendor Booths at Spring Market. This is Part I of II.
Viewing Hint: Click on any picture to have it enlarge so you can get a closer look at the fabrics.
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Textile Artist Carol Ann Sinnreich shares her love of the West, and talks about the extensive research she conducts prior to creating her quilts. Carol has developed an appliqué technique for perfecting tricky intersections that have multiple pieces of fabric. She also discusses her approach to commission work, from which offers to choose and how to discuss and price a project, to proper documentation before and after making the piece. Next, if dyeing your own fabric has seemed daunting and expensive, this is the episode for you! Ricky shows Alex an approach that needs only basic tools and simple methods. He folds and dyes fabrics, creating beautiful striped designs. Last but not least, Cristy Fincher has a new trick to teach – paper piecing without paper! Who knew??
Episode 1612: Quilting the Wild West debuts on Monday, June 8, 2015.
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Lisa Calle was once described, with admiration, as a woman who “could make quilting a competitive sport." Find out what else she'd be doing seven days a week if she could.
Star Members can watch Lisa in Episode 1703: Quilting the Bones & Beyond debuting in August.
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