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Alex, When you called tonight and said you enjoyed your ride from the airport to La Veta, I remembered the pictures I took in June when I made the same trip.  I don't think we ever got around to looking at them.

This is the view leaving the airport in Colorado Springs and heading for the road to La Veta.

Then comes the open low hills and valleys.

Then come the mountains.

You're getting close to La Veta now.  It's a great drive. Have a great time and tell Ricky, Justin and the crew that I think you are all doing a great job.  But remember you have to come back because I'm not the only one who misses you.

Love, DH

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Calling all fabric lovers - you have been asking for Ricky and Alex's NEW fabric collections - call and ask your local quilt shop. If they can't help you out, Stitchen Heaven can. Here is a sneak peek to tempt your pocket book:

Ricky's Rhapsodie Coloree Order by the yard or a 28-piece fat quarter collection!

Alex 's Cottage Rose A 22-piece fat quarter collection is available also!

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Be sure to join us in the "Featured Guest" chat room tomorrow at 5:00pm Pacific/8:00pm Eastern where Joe Cunningham will share with us his unique methods for handquilting. Joe is a musician as well as prolific quilter you saw in Episode 101.

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Deb Lutrrell, Stitchin Heaven quilt shop owner and a sponsor of The Quilt Show will be in chat room "Featured Guest" tonight at 6:00pm Pacific/9:00pm Eastern.  Deb will discuss all aspects of opening and operating a profitable quilt shop business.

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Web Guru Bob became a Grandpa for the first time yesterday. Elijah, the bouncing 8lb 5oz baby boy discovered America in flying colors. Mom and baby are doing fine. Bob emailed me with the following: "You can officially call me grandpa and even though I never thought I would be happy to be old enough to be a grandpa, I am proud to be one (smile)."

In the midst of celebrating Guru Bob somehow managed to find time to put member profile thumbnails in the Forum. He never sleeps! And now that there's a new little one in the picture, he may be sleeping less than that.

Contratulations BOB!!!!

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With Roni's permission I thought you could relate to the letter she sent me.

I worked at the quilt shop yesterday, this lovely lady came in searching for an easy quilt. She purchased some items and we started chatting. She was making a quilt for her son to take to college. She thought he didn't want one, then she asked him and he said " of course I do". He leaves in 4 weeks.
Then I felt guilty, mine leaves in 4 weeks too. I didn't ever think about making him a quilt for college.
I am making the Eagle quilt, but that isn't leaving my house! So, I went around the store, picked out some fabrics, came home last night and cut. Started sewing this morning, it was like a comedy of errors. While chain piecing the 9 patch blocks together, I slashed them with scissors while trying to cut the pieces apart. I knocked over a brand new box of pins, ( yes all 500 of them are on the floor), but the topper was, I sewed my thumb. I amazed myself, I didn't scream, I didn't cry, I just raised the needle and ran to put it under cold water. After that I figured someone was trying to tell me not to sew on this today.
Seems ok now, just sore.
I might get brave later and go back to it! Once you fall off a horse, you should get right back on!
Hope all is well with you.
Talk soon
Roni Gerhardt and her sore thumb!

PS: In her follow up letter, three rows are done, three more left - you go girl!

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Web Guru Bob has assigned numbers to each quilt on the site. Check the Quilt Gallery and see for yourself. Now, you can look for quilts by number. If you wnat someone to see your quilt - give them the number. This is just another step in the journey of building the world's largest interactive quilting video magazine. Enjoy!

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Here we go with the last set of photos.

http://www.thequiltshow.com/slideshows/june4

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Sew...........here we go with vid blog number two! I am going to learn vid blogging while you see how my work space evolved - It wasn't always as cool as it is today - in addition you will learn, it's not safe to mess with Mama!

Isn't this a spendid office space?

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS), in quilter’s terms, is simply a pattern used to stitch together information in standard blocks within web browsers. Its purpose is to give you a quick way to look at news articles with just a headline and brief description. Because of its popularity on the web, we are introducing RSS feeds for both our Daily Blog and our Rhapsody Blog (with more to come).

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