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BOM 2009----Get your supplies ready for this month's homework; floating borders, four-patch borders, and saw tooth stars.  Be sure to follow Sue Garman's four keys for precision piecing and you will be rewarded with perfect results.  To view the entire quilt, print out this month's pattern, and see the video---- click here.

Jinny Beyer welcomed us to her vintage home, her studio, and her store.  Now we welcome you to join us as we walk and talk with a quilting legend.  This special show was about Jinny, but she still finds time to teach us about color shading. 

Remember, it's all done by hand---piecing and quilting.  She didn't start quilting in the USA.  Her journey started.......             Click Here.

The Super Pet Bowl continues until the Super Bowl is over.  You can add your pictures until the game is over.  Then the voting starts.  Send your choice by emailing to pets@thequiltshow.com.  Put your choice in the subject line like this:   screen name---Title of the picture.   Voting will continue through Monday so all time zones can play.                                     

   For example:                   "EditorAnne-Bista at Bedtime" 

Ricky's Show starts tomorrow.  Make your February Super.   Join/Renew Now.

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Unless you've been absent from TQS this week you already know I'm heading to South Amercia in a few days on a tour with quilters. We have so many of you who are new to TQS, that you may not know there is a set of video travel blogs from my trip to Japan in November of 2007. In addition to all the other fun on our site today, if you're looking for more good TQS fun - and you missed those videos - click here and scroll down to Novemember 8, 2007 for the first of seven videos of the Japanese tour.

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In seeking out more friends of the of the TQS family - look who else I ran into??? AccuQuilt and Superior Threads -

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Here are four images of the progress of the Colorful Swoops. First is the original line drawing followed by the partial coloration you saw two days ago. The final two are with solid black lines (which might be easier to have printed) and a version with more subtle, but obvious colorful outlines.

Its unfortunate that you can't see this full size, so here is a detail of it that is a bit more to scale - it's only a swatch. Okay - I'm done - gotta go pack.

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Sign up before February 1 and lock in the Margaret Miller show and the Sue Nickels show.  Starting February 1 your membership will start with Show 403.

"WOW WOW WOW If you need to see a show..this is it!!! So much inspiration in such a small amount of time Margaret Millers choice of color is just gorgeous, her quilts are outstanding...and I need to get my hands on her templates!!!
THANK YOU MARGARET AND ARJJ, A FANTASTIC SHOW!!"

"This was one of my favorite TQS shows. I learned so much! I have already watched it twice and will be seeing it again. Thank you TQS and Sue Nickles."

Join/Renew Now to see these shows and the rest of Series 4.  For info on Series 4, Click Here.

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February is a few days away and beginning on February 1st, Sue Garman's second BOM video lesson will launch. The quilt is specatular, the instructions are fat with information, and these short video classes are the icing on top. Be sure to visit the BOM banner on the right sidebar beginning February 1 to get the next installment for this great quilt! Check out the promo below.

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You would think that since I'm leaving on a big trip that I could stop designing and start packing - but when your motivated - your motivated. I did this design as a variation on my colorful theme? I wasn't expecting this to emerge - it just did. Is this a fabric you would like? I'm just putting it out there. Yes? No? Stop? Go?

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Photo by Gregory Case

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The creative process for creating a new line of fabric continues. While I liked the designs that I shared on The Daily Blog earlier this week - - I kept thinking, "the fabric is pretty - but it's just not me." So what defines me? The first answer is color! The second is wild. My hand-dyed fabrics are extremely colorful and my quilts utilize bright colors. So, it was back to the drawing board.

I had an idea to work from line drawings - doodles if you will - a process I'd never done before. I scanned the line drawing into the computer and began using Photoshop (which I always use) to color the designs was very successful.

The first two images are basically finished - and a third design is posted to help you understand the process. In the incomplete design, two 'ribbons' have been filled and one 'swoop'. The black lines of the final design will be altered once all the coloration is done. The process of filling and changing colors and value takes time. Once finished, the black lines will be altered to be colorful instead of black - more like the lines in the previous two images The lines are there to accent the shapes and separate the colors - but in a more subtle way. Your thoughts please.

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Hey everyone. Beginning on Thursday, February 5th and running through Monday, February 16, you can visit the Daily Blog right here at TQS and take a virtual South American tour with me. The daily entries are based on our itinerary - not my actual experience. I won't have any type of connectivity to the Internet during the trip - I don't even plan to take a laptop - so these blogs will be a way for you to keep track of my travels and you will learn a bit about the daily destinations. I've put lots of hyperlinks to web articles and photos so hopefully you'll find it all very interesting. For me, the best part of creating these blogs in advance was that I got to take my own virtual tour of each day and I feel more excited than ever. I plan to take lots of photos and some video. What would you most like for me to share with you when I return?