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Alex leads off the show with some great tips for turning T-shirts into a quilt.  There are tricks that make them easier to handle.  She also demos a super fast needle turn appliqué look using a stabilizer. 

Quilting Engineer, Marci Baker, then shares her passion for simplifying quilt making using a variety of tools and techniques.  She shares a clever triangular log cabin block using 1½” strips.  She also has tips for improving accuracy when chain piecing.  Marci has great organizational ideas that allow quilters to ”seamlessly” return to old projects without making errors.  Learn her secrets for creating both the Tumbling and Hollow block designs, including fabric selection, creating units and strips. There are a variety of Marci's quilts to see showing the benefits of these clever tricks.  It's not all about quilting as Marci shares her penchant for taking photos of state and provincial capitals.

Show 1810: Marci Baker - Quilting Tools & Techniques debuts on Sunday, May 8, 2016.

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Alex and Ricky learn a lot from quilting "engineer," Marci Baker.  Marci loves to create time-saving tools and techniques.  She knows you have limited time and helps you to make the most of it.

Show 1810: Marci Baker - Quilting Tools & Techniques debuts on Sunday, May 8, 2016.

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Laura Coia shows you how to make a Chevron Quilt with no half square triangles, no set in seams and no squares. It is strip pieced with just 5 long rows.  You'll put this together in no time at all!

Click here to see more from Sew Very Easy.

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We all need inspiration from time and time and these words from Helen's presentation during her induction into the Quilter's Hall of Fame, just might be what you need to hear.

February 28, 2009 

These are the life lessons you and quilting have taught me: 

Love your craft.  Be proud of tiny stitches.  Respect tradition.  But learn something new, try something hard, make a new tradition.  Then pass it on the next generation .

See things with different eyes.  Look for the small treasures.   Find the happiness and solace in your work. 

Share your passion. Quilt with a friend, or friends, or many friends.  Be generous  with your time, your advice, your praise, your ideas, your fabric.   There is joy in giving something from your heart.  It comes back to you many-fold. 

The quilt you are working on is never your last quilt.   But some projects seem to go on forever.  Know when enough is enough.  Don’t obsess over the stuff that doesn’t matter. 

Tell your story.  Embellish it a little. 

Always Have fun.   And keep the magic in your life.

Click here to learn more about this fabulous woman.

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In the previous lesson with Christa Watson at WeAllSew.com, you basted your quilt.  Now you'll learn to machine quilt it using a decorative stitch. This is probably one of the quickest quilting designs to do, so you can literally finish it up in a weekend!

Click here for part 5.

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You may be thinking, " zippers on your longarm… whatever for?"  Loading quilts can be a time consuming process, so when Lisa was doing customer quilts, she started using zippers instead of pinning quilts to the leaders.  She found it made a huge time difference.  Click on "Learn More" to see how Lisa does it.

Star members can watch Lisa in Show 1703: Quilting the Bones and Beyond.

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Accurate piecing beings when you make your first cut of fabric. Lee Heinrich at WeAllSew.com has great tips to improve your cutting accuracy.

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Eleanor Burns wanted to "test out" a showing of just a few of her vintage quilts in Paducah this year.  (Some say this is just 1% of her collection.)  These quilts have served as inspiration for many of her books and patterns.  Due to the success of the exhibition, you just might be seeing a few more next year.

Eleanor was our TQS Legend in 2011.  All Members can watch her show for FREE. Click here to watch the show.