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Haven't you just loved Jinny's video lessons on TQS?  This week Jinny shared with us her unique color theory: any color scheme can be successful as long as the colors shade together and there is a "deep dark" color and an "accent".

No longer will we be afraid of using many different fabrics in our quilts, as long as we follow her simple tips.  Jinny has made it even easier to follow along with her "Portable Palette".  Jinny has put all 150 fabrics from her Palette fabric collection together in a convenient tool.  Fan out the swatches and you will always have a beautiful color combination.  A must have...and Jinny is giving one lucky TQS member a "Portable Palette" for FREE!

To enter to win, go to portablepalette@thequiltshow.com and in the subject line write "Thanks Jinny".  Contest ends Monday, December 21, 2009 at midnight PST.  Jinny will ship internationally, so all are encouraged to enter!

To watch Lesson #1: "Jinny Beyer Designing Fabric" click here.

To watch Lesson #2:  "Jinny Beyer Using Border Prints" click here.

To watch Lesson #3:  "Jinny Beyer's Secrets: Color for Quilters" click here. 

To visit "Jinny's World of Color" and to sign up for her newsletter, click here.

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Are you kidding?  Look at those stunning cowboy boots!  She must be from Texas!

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There's a New Navigation Bar. TheQuiltShow.com is still growing and we ran out of room on the old bar (and it was confusing too).

We have new sections coming out and we need a better way to find what is available.  We are still building our new classrooms for Jinny Beyer, Jan Krentz, Patsy Thompson, Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero and more teachers.  There will be a Charity section, Member Spotlights & Artist Spotlights.  We will make it easier to find past slideshows and Smilebox's.  

With your help we will clean up the Forum and update the software with new friendly features.  We want our Forum to be the "go to" place for quilting questions.  We have so many great quilters that can answer questions for others that we need to make it easy to participate.

We have been using this behind the scenes for a while now and there are things I like and others I don't.  Let us know your thoughts and suggestions for what menus need to say.  Did we miss anything?

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Whoo Hoo!  The magic number is here.  Someone is going to have a wonderful Holiday surprise.  Listen for what will happen next.  Thank you for being a part of our incredible world community.

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We hit 50,000! 

Ok if you are the lucky winner, which machine would you choose and why?  The Bernina 820 or the Bernina 730e? 

(the Bernina 820)

(the Bernina 730)

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Quilt by TQS member CandySue. Share your holiday quilts or holiday photos HERE.

I have wonderful Christmas memories and not just from childhood or related to my small town. One of the best is from 1985, when I was a few years out of college and still in graduate school. As I passed out presents on Christmas morning (that has been my job since I was about 12), my father told me that one box with my name on it had to wait to last. When the time came for me to open it, everyone stopped what they were doing to watch. When I opened it and saw what it was tears started to fill my eyes - there was a quilt inside! A wonderful quilt made of stuffed squares by my 17 year old little sister. She had had a tough year, and to make matters worse had not been able to find a summer job; so, to fill her time she and my father had gone shopping to get what she needed to make me this quilt. It has kept me very warm through some very cold winters. Ron Bedard from Goffstown, New Hampshire. 

Read more stories like this and share your story too - HERE

Purchase Ricky's New Christmas CD HERE.

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Holiday quilt by TQS member GloriaH. Share your holiday quilts or holiday photos HERE.

Christmas was magical growing up in my lovely town and in my family. Most years my mother would have some sort of holiday mishap in spite of her valiant efforts to make Christmas special for her children. One year the family cat got in the just decorated tree and made it to the top where tree, cat and decorations came crashing down.

In the following years the tree was always tied to a hook in the ceiling. One year my mother festooned the tree with angel hair which I turned out to be extremely allergic to. I spent the holidays laying on the couch itching and crying. One year our Mom "surprised" us by buying a silver tree with pink shiny ornaments and a color wheel that turned around changing the tree to various unnatural pastel shades - my sister and I both cried for days after which the tree was pitched out the back door never to be seen again.

Then there was the year our older brother Donnie informed us dramatically that we were dupes to believe in Santa who was just a man in a red suit - yes, we cried for days that year, too! In spite of all of the above, Christmas and the family memories it brings remains forever special to me. - Lindsey Croft from Alexandria, VA

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Purchase Ricky's New Christmas CD here.

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Today only, you can listen to my entire Christmas In A Small Town CD for FREE!

I know you have been enjoying the wonderful heartwarming holiday memories. Please take a moment to share your memory, funny christmas story at the Small Town website. What was the most memorable, funniest, biggest surprise, or other memory that stands out for you.

Listen to the Music for FREE! - HERE

Share your Memory or story. HERE

Watch the Christmas in a Small Town video below.

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Jinny has an understanding of color and shading that will enrich every quilter's next project. You will be given tips and tools in this video, including a place on the internet to get color palette help.

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Quilt by TQS member Books53. Share your holiday quilts or holiday photos HERE.

My grandma would make a winter town under the Christmas Tree. It would be on the screened in porch that had a dutch door. We wouldn't be allowed on the porch until Christmas morning. She would open the top part of that dutch door that last week so we could peek over the bottom half to see if there were any presents yet. Of course there wouldn't be presents because "Santa hasn't come to visit yet." Magically on Christmas morning there were presents and all of the little buildings of the town would have lights on in their windows. She would say that the elves lived there and they were celebrating Christmas with their families too. Pati Shambaugh from Columbus, OH.

Read more stories like this and share your story too - HERE

Purchase Ricky's New Christmas CD HERE.