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Barbara Black's group, The Sunday Sew and Sews, has been working on the TQS BOM Halo Medallion quilt for more than five months. Here's a peek at their progress.

Have you been working on the quilt? Do you belong to a group?

Barbara shares more about their progress in her blog. Click here to read it.

And Pam so far...

As a pattern tester, Barbara gets to work ahead. Here's what she's up to so far.

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Alex's friend told her to check out the Steady Betty Booth at Paducah. There she found an ironing mat that you place right next to your machine. It is made of fiber that can take heat and doesn't let your fabrics slip. Here are ways it helps quilters:

1. Press blocks without pleats
2. Makes marking easier
3. Works with wool
4. Easy to load embroidery hoops
5. A quick design board for your blocks
6. Works on tops, blocks, and embroidered fabrics

There are now three Steady Betty choices. The fabric on wood version that is now 50% lighter, and the super light and movable version and a NEW larger version (currently sold out of our allotment). Take a look.

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Wouldn't you love a quilt by Sue Nickels and Pat Holly? It would have great color, design, and quilting. Sue and Pat made "Lovely Libby Circles," a 30" x 30" quilt that was inspired by Libby's Quilt "Circle the Date" (2008). It was for an auction to benefit Libby's medical expenses. Alex had to have it (it was on auction for about half a day and then Alex said "Forget this!" and the auctioning was over). There are different quilting approaches and stitches all over the quilt (just like Libby would do). Some of the blocks were dark and hard to show, but you will love what you can see.

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A beautiful version of a "modern, scrappy" quilt by Gyleen Fitzgerald. This one is even "modern and scrappy" on the back. Click here to see what we are talking about.

Star Members can watch Gyleen in Show 2012: Modern Scrappy Quilts.

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 36 Pieces Non-Rotating

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 100 Pieces Non-Rotating

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 289 Pieces Non-Rotating

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 36 Pieces Rotating

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 100 Pieces Rotating

SoSquarebyGyleenFitzgerald - 289 Pieces Rotating

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

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A beautiful version of a "modern, scrappy" quilt by Gyleen Fitzgerald.  This one is even as interesting on the back. Take a look below.

Star Members can watch Gyleen in Show 2012: Modern Scrappy Quilts.

Original Photo: Mary Kay Davis

The "B" side of the quilt:

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Congratulations to Margaret Solomon Gunn of Gorman, Maine, for her 1st Place Quilt Springtime in the Geisha's Garden. This 59" x 60" quilt was created with hand appliqué, bias work, crystals, free-motion quilting, matchstick quilting, paper piecing, and piped edging. (Whew!?) It is a lot of work just to type all those techniques much less to have put them all in a quilt.

Did you miss the 2nd and 3rd Place Quilts?

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Star Members can watch Gyleen in Show 2012: Modern Scrappy Quilts.

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Quilting Arts Magazine has rounded up ten of their favorite surface design, art quilting, and modern quilting books. Lyric Kinard, one of our favorite TQS guests, has a book on the list, Art + Quilt eBook: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises. Are any of these books in your library?

Lyric will be joining us again for Show 2013: Art and Abstract Design, debuting June 18, 2017. In the meantime, Star Members can watch Lyric in Show 1311: Mixed Media and the ABCs of Good Design and Show 1710: Conquering Abstract Fears.