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Lisa lives in Australia which is an extremely dry continent. Most of the population lives around the edges as the center is not really fit for human habitation. However, they still need to eat and the farmers are constantly battling the elements of droughts and floods. This quilt is called Breaking the Drought #2 (as she already made an earlier one) and it depicts the rains finally falling and hopefully sending water to where it is needed.

Click here to read more about Lisa's quilt.

Watch Lisa in Show 2503.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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August's Birthstone Block by MJ Kinman is Peridot.

Peridot represents warmth and well-being, and is mentally stimulating and physically regenerating. It offers inner radiance and opens the mind to new levels of awareness and growth, helping one to recognize destiny and spiritual purpose. 

Associated with the sun, Peridot has historically been prized for its power to drive away the forces of darkness. Ancient Civilizations used it as a charm against sorcery and magic, evil spirits, night terrors, and madness--especially when set in gold or strung on donkey hair and tied around the left arm.

According to legend, ancient Egyptians mined a beautiful green gem on an island now known as Zabargad. The island was infested with snakes, making mining unpleasant, until an powerful pharaoh drove them into the sea. In more modern times, the largest Peridot on record, a 310 carat stone, was found there!

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Wilma and Floyd Moss used the ombre shading in this grey fabric to its full advantage to create a stunning, shimmering quilt. The "simple" pointed design is brilliantly highlighted by an unusual quilting pattern. You'll just have to take a look at Grey Ombre to see what we mean.

Grey Ombre was on display at AQS QuiltWeek Paduch Spring 2019.

54" x 54"

Quilting Method: Stationary Machine, Movable Machine

Quilting Techniques: Interfacing, Machine Piecing

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Karlee Porter is at it again! Registration is currently open for her Fall 2019 Online Quilting Classes!

She is teaching three different courses, all of which are guaranteed to help you level up your free-motion quilting game! The first class is geared around her world-famous free-motion quilting style, Graffiti Quilting, which includes a copy of her best-selling book, a companion coloring book, along with some other goodies.

The second course she is teaching is called Shimmering Symphony, based on her quilt by the same name. This class includes the pattern in two sizes, an assortment of genuine Swarovski Crystals, along with other surprises in your welcome package, and Karlee will walk you through step-by-step to what it takes to make this beautiful masterpiece.

Last but not least, her third class is called Hand Lettered Quilting, and this one is extra exciting because she is publishing a book on this technique this coming Fall. All of the enrolled students in this course will get an advanced copy before it is available to the public! You’ll learn how to do your own beautiful hand lettering, as well as how to apply your new-found skills in your quilting projects.

These 8 week courses start on Sept. 14th and you can read all about them on her website, www.Karleeporter.com. AND!!! As a special gift just for the TQS family, Karlee is offering a discount of $75 off for anyone who registers before August 31st, 2019!!! 

Simply use the code TQSFALL75 when you register to take advantage of this amazing deal!

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Barbara's back with tips to help you with Month 8 of the TQS BOM Sizzle. She also hints at making a "pieced" border...

Click here for Barbara's tips.

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Betty Busby has won 1st place in the Art Quilts Category at The Festival of Quilts - Birmingham 2019 with her quilt Vertex. Betty used silk, hemp, non-wovens, machine stitching, and fusing to create this piece.

(photo: The Festival of Quilts)

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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for the encouraging insights from last weeks post on Creativeness Takes Courage. Renee, I have the book suggestion on my library request list!

Since the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show I have been on an inspiration high, LOL. Not only from the beautiful quilts, but also from the quilters themselves. A couple of days during the Quilters Affair I run Sit 'n Stitch, which basically is a quilt retreat on campus! Everyone brings their own projects to work on and I try to be of assistance either in solving a piecing issue or giving advice/opinions when asked. This event is held in the school library. The participants are spread out, but I make sure that everyone gets up and visits so that ooohhhs and ahhhhs for the various works can happen. The wide variety of projects, techniques, and designs really spark the creative juices.

This year there was one participant who's quilt won the "Courage in Creativity" award. She was on a flight and sat next to a woman who was hand piecing hexies. Her curiosity sparked a conversation, and by the time the flight was over she was dreaming of her own hexie quilt. Yes, creativeness takes courage...but a courageous mind enjoys being challenged. And...oh was this quilt challenging...because it was her FIRST quilt ever!!! YES, I did say 1st quilt ever!

I was so inspired by the courage of this Quilters Affair student to grab that brass ring or next quilt project!!! There is inspiration all around us, we just have to open our hearts to it...

Stay tuned and travel along with us on Quilt Roadies.

Click here for Anna's blog.

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Laura at SewVeryEasy has some great tips for an item you can find at the dollar store.

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Ricky recently sat down and had a quick chat with Christa Watson. Find out what she's been up to lately, including her latest quilt along.

You can learn from Christa here at TQS in Show 2409.

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We love Listen to Your Mother by Jean Ray Laury. The comic book style is certainly one way of drawing a child's attention, even if they don't listen to the advice.

Listen to Your Mother was part of The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in 2017. To see more of the exhibit, scroll passed the pictures.

Here's what the museum wrote about the exhibit:

The studio art quilt was the result of a complex intersection of art, craft, universities, and the traditional American quilt. Three national cultural developments resulted in the re-evaluation of quilts as a suitable art medium and increased artists’ awareness of quilts: the art museum’s legitimization of the quilt as art, the junction of art and craft at the university level and social political and fashion trends that brought quilts to national prominence. 

California artists were among the first to embrace the quilt medium as their primary means of expression and charted new territory in art and quilt making, leading the nation in creativity and innovation. The art quilt pioneers transformed a functional domestic object into an art form and inspired subsequent generations of quilt artists.  Their legacy continues in the work of today’s artists, who are reinterpreting the quilt medium with non-traditional materials and pushing the boundaries of what can be called a quilt.

Here are a few more tidbits from the exhibit.