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It's strawberry season! I buy too many strawberries, considering there is only one person living in this house. I found a good thing to do with the strawberries that are on the verge--very ripe, but not gone bad: use a potato masher to pulverize the strawberries into a nice thick "soup!"

There are any number of things you can use these mashed strawberries for. They work as a topping for protein pancakes or English muffin french toast. I can mix them with a Laughing Cow Lite wedge to use as the celery topping.

And if there is still some left, I can mix it with some plain yogurt, and eat it that way, or mix with other ingredients for some yummy frozen yogurt granola bars! 

Click here to see how simple it is to make Debby's frozen yogurt granola bars!

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Joanne Sharpe’s quilts and fiber art pieces are filled with vibrant colors and joyous words. Her love of philosophy and her life work as an art teacher for all grade levels brings a special joie de vive to her work, which started on canvas and paper, and is now incorporating fabric. Joanne demonstrates how to use your own hand-written word to make a simple but unique small quilt. She also shows Ricky how to use Dye-Na-Flow dye to create a flower with a few easy brush strokes. Earlier in her career she designed holiday outdoor flags, and shares some of her products. On a field trip to Portland, TQS visits with Jennifer Murche, who creates incredible bowls with just fabric and thread. Learn her secrets and try it yourself!

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Cotton & Steel, a division of RJR Fabrics, and Craft South will have all five of Cotton & Steel's female designers together to teach their first tag-team style patchwork weekend.  Join them, and you can playfully patch to your heart's content.

Melody Miller, Alexia Abegg, Kim Kight, Sarah Watts and Rashida Coleman-Hale will all be in attendance, and will each share her own special tricks and techniques to help you build a beautiful patchwork quilt top or smaller patchwork accessory.  The workshop takes place July 24 - 26 in Nashville, TN.  

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So Which Block Won The Grand Prize?

To See All the Winners-Click Here

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This is one you don't want to miss! The Alegre Retreat will host some of the best teachers in the business, including Nancy Crow (7-day class), Rosalie Dace, Cynthia Corbin, Katie Pasquini Masopust and Gregory Case (our own Photo Man)! Located at Gateway Canyons in Colorado.

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Food for Thought is an exhibition of 34 innovative quilts created by the members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), currently at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.  The exhibit runs from April 10 - July 8, 2015.  Here's what they say about the exhibit:

(Mushroom Frittata by Jean M. Sredl)

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Lea has sent us photos of her work, including some of the original photos she used to create her fabulous thread-painted portraits. Lea also included some work which you just might not attribute to "her style."

Star Members can watch Lea in Episode 1609: Transforming Quilts from Real Life.

Click here to order Lea's book.

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Looking to reduce the size of your scrap stash?  Why not use it to make some colorful twine?  Once you have mastered that, the sky's the limit with what you can make!  How about a new rug for your quilting room?  We found very cool ideas at My Poppet Makes.

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Join Lea McComas (Episode 1609) in her newest class, Contemporary Batik.  This four-part class is a fun and easy way to sample a Batik technique without all of the mess and burned fingers.  It just might be the perfect project to do together with a young artist in your life.  Don't forget to post your WIP, which will make you eligible to win a set of Dyna-Flow-Dyes.  So download the pattern and supply list and let's all get Batiking!

To post your WIP, click on the button below.  It will take you to the Lea McComas Contemporary Batiks group in the TQS Quilter Community.  To the right in the cover photo, you'll see a Join Group (in blue) button, click that to join the group.  From there you'll be able to post your progress and share your photos.

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Lilo talks with artist Elisabeth Strub Madzar while visiting Istanbul.

Internationally recognized artist Elisabeth Strub Madzar came to Istanbul in 1965 from Paris.  She began her quilting journey by studying with Sevin Hanif in 1987.  Over the course of two years, Sevin taught Elisabeth the techniques needed for all areas of hand piecing and hand quilting.  At the time, her father-in-law had a company that required him to travel and visit villages around Turkey. Elisabeth often joined him on these trips.  As a woman and an artist, she was able to get to know many of the women in the villages they visited.  She was enchanted by the beautifully handmade and hand-embroidered textiles that were kept in hope chests as part of each woman's trousseau.   Many pieces had been handed down by the women in the family from generation to generation, especially items of great value, such as hand-woven linen/silk embroidered with silver or gold threads.

Elisabeth's work includes fragments of fragile and otherwise unusable textiles, as a way to give honor to their original creators.  She says that by preserving and including these antique pieces, they in turn are reborn to live again.  Whether the pieces find their way into a quilt or a paper maché object, it is about respecting the past.

Next week we will tour Elisabeth's studio and share some of her work.

For more information about Elisabeth's week-long study course (which includes, room & board, class instruction and inspirational tours) send an email here.

Purchase Elisabeth's book Turkish Patchwork by QUILTMANIA.