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It's time to begin stitching the September block(s) for your Block of the Month quilt. If you're working on Hugs and Kisses, this month's "assignment" is a block of lovely crossed leaves (above left). If you're working on Star Crazy, you'll be making more Little Stars; X, Shoo Fly, and Road (above right). 

No matter which BOM you've chosen, you're sure to pick up lots of useful info and tips from Sue Garman's great instructions

To download the September BOM pattern for Hugs and Kisses, click here.  To download the September patterns for Star Crazy, click here.  And be sure to catch Alex's new classroom lesson's here on Applique featuring our Hugs and Kisses BOM.  Alex helps you work to improve your skills.

In the meantime, for surefire inspiration,  visit the BOM section of Show and Tell (be sure to click "Show BOM ONLY" view) to view the beautiful blocks already posted by fellow TQS members.

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Wow! In the history of quilting we do not know of any reported cases of drive-by quiltings and suddenly within a matter of three days there have been three drive-by quiltings and one drive-by misfire. Read all about the excitement and enjoy all the stories and the quilts (HERE) - my new drive-by quiltings web page - a place you might want to bookmark so you can easily check back from time to time. The most recent drive-bys are at the top, so scroll down if you want to read chronologically. 

The drive-by quilting is a challenge - or a game of sorts. Anyone can follow my journey and if I'm passing their way, they have the opportunity to send me a message notifying me that they they are making the attempt. They have to let me know exactly where along our route they will be. The must meet up with us - usually by getting to an overpass and displaying a quilt as we zoom by. I can tell you from experience, that while it happens in only seconds - it's one of the coolest things I've experienced - a glorified traveling show-and-tell, if you will. 

I take a photo and post it. After it's over I ask them to write about the experience and tell me about their quilts. That's what you'll find on my Drive-by Quiltings link.

Kudos to those who managed to make the list. We'll be traveling again next week, Sunday-Wednesday. Our route, location and current times are all found on my Facebook and Twitter pages so be sure to "like" my Facebook page and "follow" me on Twitter.

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Attention all RIcky Tims' Super Seminar Attendees, it's looks like Hurricane Earl might be sideswiping the Seminar this weekend in Hyannis Port.

TQS would like you to check in to www.RickyTims.com and watch the blog for status on the weather and status of the Super Seminar.

We are keeping an eye on things. We do not expect having to cancel this event - quite the contrary, we plan to be hearty quilters and weather it together.

This from Cape Cod Today - 08/31/10

"Our local forecasters all agree that the storm will miss us to the SE, yet they all also agree that Cape Cod and all of SE Massachusetts could suffer tropical storm conditions...Earl Lite." Read more.

As of today, 8/31, the Seminar is Still On!

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Today (8/31) is the last day to vote! 

The Dream Rocket Project needs your help and they need your vote.  The Dream Rocket Project is part of the non-profit International Fiber Collaborative, an organization serving in the fields of Art & Education. They aim to inspire younger and older generations to challenge themselves in fields such as health, conservation, science, technology, space, peace, and community through using arts and collaboration as a catalyst for social change and understanding. 

The Pepsi Refresh Project is giving away $1,300,000 each month to fund great ideas.  They are looking for people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact. The Dream Rocket project is hoping to earn some of that grant money.

Click here to Vote for the Dream Rocket.

You are allowed to vote 1 time every day for the month of August. Projects Ranked 1 - 10 win 50k at the end of the month. Projects ranked 11 - 100 at the end of the month stay in the competition for the next month, and projects above 100 at the end of the month are out for good.

To learn more about the Dream Rocket Project, click here.  To learn more about the Pepsi Refresh Project and other great ideas, click here.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

If you love to collect tips—and to fuse—you’ll love this show! First, Jennifer Keltner, editor of American Patchwork & Quilting, shares “Tricks in Your Toolbox: Top 10 Quilt Tips”—a sampling of great ideas for making your quilting experience even more enjoyable, accurate, and efficient. Next, quilt artist and teacher Frieda Anderson joins us for a show and tell of her fabulously fused quilts and to demonstrate how she builds a fusible appliqué design and how to make a decorative-edged fused binding. Finally, in a moving field piece, TQS visits New York City to view The National Tribute Quilt, conceived and orchestrated by the Steel Quilters of United States Steel Corporation in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Keep the Kleenex handy.  Click here to watch the show.

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Oilcloth Lunch Bag by Tumbling Blocks

Hello Quilt Campers.  This week's tutorial is a quick and fun oilcloth lunch bag from Dorie at Tumbling Blocks.  It's a great way to send your school bound student off in style with a colorful lunch bag that is both eco-friendly and easily wipe able.  You might want to make a few for others in the family as well.

Be sure to check out each week's project on our Projects page here.   Share your creative versions of any of our projects in Show and Tell here.

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Okay the title above is not just a Fancy alliteration but the fun you have coming up this weekend with Patsy Thompson's Free Motion Video.

What's an implied stem?  We just uploaded the video and this is one you don't want to miss.  It's coming this Holiday weekend.

Have a fabric sandwich ready. 

There will be a contest.  More about that later.

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Hey to the Ricky Tims' Whoo-hoo Nation! Shouting out to Kathyl for playing along in our Drive-by Quilting adventure. She stood on the overpass at mile marker 242 in Iowa City, Iowa as we zoomed by. Wow - I'm not bored anymore. Who's next? We're moving on east. Morris, IL tonight, Buffalo, NY tomorrow night, then on to Cape Cod. Stay tuned here, but the fastest updates are on Facebook and Twitter.

Kathyl had given me the heads up - with, "Leaving the house with a small top I made with my GO! cutter from Alex's pattern. I'll see if I can find a way to be visible. Might be tricky."

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So we hit the road this morning heading east from Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal today is to stop for the night in Morris, IL just west of Joliet and Chicago. We'll be traveling on I-80. Tomorrow night (Monday) our goal is Buffalo, NY - then on to Hyannis arriving Tuesday evening.

Hey, why not wave a quilt as we drive by? If you live on I80 tell us what mile marker you'll be at and wave your quilt as we drive by. Who will be the first to participate in a Drive-by Quilting? I'll put comments here letting you know our progress. The photo above is our rig so you'll know what to look for.

My posts on Facebook and Twitter will be more frequent so you can pretty much have a good idea of when we'll be driving by your way. We can't stop, but if we know you'll be at mile marker "x", then we can wave and take a photo of you and your quilt as we drive by. Any takers? Can you tell I'm already bored? Can TQS members create a little excitement? We'll see.