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Could this be a honeybee or a fleur-de-lis? What do you think this block is called? Play the game and find out.

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WeAllSew.com has a fun project which will help get you organized. It's the "Let's Sew Something" Organizer. The video talks about fusible appliqué, using your zigzag stitch, and using a seam guide. It's a great project for a beginner.

Click here to download dress template.

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Do you have lots of fabric but little inspiration?

Every Last Piece, by Lynn Carson Harris, is here to help you work through your stash from bundles to scraps. 

Every Last Piece  - 12 Beautiful Design Inspirations Using Scraps, Strings and Applique by Lynn C. Harris will show you new techniques and designs for both small and large fabric pieces and teaches new ways to think about using fabrics.

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From the outside, true Roadrunners appear to be pretty drab looking birds, but Robyn Gold believes they live much more colorful inner lives. Her quilt Beep, Beep! reflects her thoughts and the beautiful landscapes of New Mexico and Colorado.

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In September of 2017, Sandra Sider invited Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry to participate in a quilt exhibition called "Deeds Not Words": The Power of Persistence, Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (August 18, 1920) granting American women the right to vote. Caryl did some reading and spent a great deal of time looking at images about the women's suffrage movement. "First Ladies," Caryl's quilt, is the result of that research.

The quilt contains the names of 162 women who accomplished important firsts in our country in the last 100 years.

Click on Read More to go to Caryl's website and read the fascinating story behind the quilt and the processes she used to create it.

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We try to get you up close to the quilts so you can see the stitches and the construction, but with this quilt, Carol Morrissey's Keith and Mick, at the Houston Quilt Show we need to get you farther away. Take a look. We show you up close then far away.

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Eleanor's favorite colors are red, white, and blue. Her quilt, Liberty Star, was created to honor her father who served in World War II.

Watch Eleanor Burns in Show 2309: Celebrating 40 Years and Still Entertaining.

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 36 Pieces Non-Rotating

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 289 Pieces Non-Rotating

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 36 Pieces Rotating

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 100 Pieces Rotating

LibertyStarbyEleanorBurns - 289 Pieces Rotating

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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Eleanor's favorite colors are red, white, and blue. Her quilt, Liberty Star, was created to honor her father who served in World War II.

Watch Eleanor Burns in Show 2309: Celebrating 40 Years and Still Entertaining.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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These fabrics are truly beautiful.

Designed by Michael and Rose Oakshott of Oakshott Fabrics, their characteristic "shot" effect comes from combining different warp and weft hues, and offer absolutely luscious depth and color intensity.

The Oakshott family has been supplying Oakshott Fabrics to quilters and textile artists the world over since 2003. These striking shot cottons are designed especially to provide quilters with fabrics of exceptional color, luster, drape, softness and quality. 

Woven at 54 inches wide and measured by the meter (instead of by the yard), Oakshott's 100% shot cottons are wider than standard quilting cottons and offer larger than traditional American fat quarters and fat eighths.

Read more about the Oakshott Fabric Company below...

Oakshott is a family business

Growing up in South India, Michael learned the intricacies of fabric weaving and dying first hand through a family business. His mother Julia – a passionate quilter – would search in vain for non-printed fabrics in vibrant colours. Knowing that only shot cottons could provide the answer with their depth of colour and soft feel, they set about developing their own range in a weight suitable for quilting. The launch of their original 27 colours generated a wave of excitement around the quilting world.

Oakshott fabrics are unique and uniquely beautiful

Oakshott Fabrics designs all of their collections entirely in-house, so each and every shade is unique to them. An individual colourway is achieved by selecting a base colour warp and marrying it with a complementary or contrasting weft thread, producing the trademark ‘shot’ effect in which the colour appears to shimmer and change depending on how the light falls.

Oakshott fabrics are ethically sourced 

Oakshott builds and maintains relationships with weavers and their communities on years of cooperation and mutual respect. They require their weavers to maintain a safe and healthy environment for their workers, including complying with relevant laws relating to working hours, conditions, health and safety, rates of pay and minimum age of employment. They also strive to ensure that their fabrics are environmentally friendly, both in use and in the manufacturing process.

Get project ideas on Oakshott's Pin boards

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Since Alex and Captain John come to Houston every year, they decided to see what it would cost to buy a place (wait...this is a fairy tale...It should start..."Once upon a time...").  They found a building that was just renovated and became the first building downtown where you can own your own space. Before that you had to rent. They were quoted prices from $400,000 to $2 million...for the penthouses... seven are left, hurry.

But for a reasonable amount of square footage this is what they saw. (...and Alex and John lived happily ever after in their ranch home in California. The End.)