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These turned wood seam rippers are hand crafted in Arizona and come in a colorway for every personality!

Which one says *you*?

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Give your sewing machine the gift of long life.

Hayley at WeAllSew.com has tips for cleaning and oiling your sewing machine.

Click here to go to tutorial.

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Fiber artist Paula Entin creates original art quilts inspired by her life. This beautiful quilt, Floral Explosion, (48" x 56") delighted us with its colors and unique use of embellishments in the flowers and creeping vine.

Paula used fused appliqué, hand appliqué, machine appliqué, beading, embellishments, free-motion quilting, and machine piecing.

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Alethea Ballard, the Maverick Quilter, has a unique approach to her quilting. She combines collage, broiderie perse, imagination, and of course appliqué that is....well, exuberant. (Alex took the pictures and forgot to take a picture of the signs.) So enjoy the quilts and art and visit Alethea's website to learn more. These quilts were on display at Bay Quilts, in El Cerrito, CA.

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Missie used English Paper Piecing and hexagons to create the wedding ring shape in this lovely wool and cotton quilt, An English Wedding.

Watch Missie demonstrate English Paper Piecing in Show 2412.

Original Photo: John Anderson

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Missie used English Paper Piecing and hexagons to create the wedding ring shape in this lovely wool and cotton quilt, An English Wedding.

Watch Missie demonstrate English Paper Piecing in Show 2412.

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 36 Pieces Non-Rotating

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 289 Pieces Non-Rotating

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 36 Pieces Rotating

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 100 Pieces Rotating

AnEnglishWeddingbyMissieCarpenter - 289 Pieces Rotating

Original Photo: John Anderson

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Today we continue our selection of quilts recently displayed at the Spring Paducah 2019 show featured as part of The 14th Quilt Nihon Exhibition. The exhibit is described as:

"Organized by the Japan Handicraft Instructors' Association, the Quilt Nihon Exhibition is one of the most prestigious international quilt contests in Japan. The exhibit features 42 quilts from the "Innovative Traditional" category, which will later be exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Please enjoy the second quilt from the exhibition by Yumiko Takami.

Title of Quilt: For You

Quilter's Name: Yumiko Takami

Dimensions: 74" x 74"

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The ultra bright, ultra slim, ultra light Daylight Wafer lightbox is your must have tool for tracing on fabric. 

With up to 450 lumens of bright LED light, it is perfect for tracing appliqué pieces (even on black fabric), embroidery patterns, fussy cutting, and more. 

Pair it with a Daylight cutting mat for the ultimate tracing and cutting surface. Place your template on the light box and cover it with the transparent mat, and then cut right on top! Daylight's cutting mats are perfectly sized to cover each lightbox from edge to edge, so you never have to worry about damaging the lightbox. 

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Alex noticed when she was talking to Barbara Black about the TQS BOM that there was a BERNINA Q 20 in the background. Because Barbara is a quilter and a teacher, Alex wanted to know why she bought it.

Click here to learn more about the BERNINA Q 20.

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Well, it's not a newspaper (old joke...). It is, however, Lady in Red by Shari McDonnell-Guimont and Marlene Hiltner. This large (104" x 104") quilt has more half-square triangles than we want to count.

Lady in Red is based on the Lady of 10,000 Lakes pattern by Claudia Clark Myers...do you think there are 10,000 half-square triangles? It was exhibited at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah Spring 2019.