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Here's a fun block from this week's game.

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Class is now open!

One of our favorite teachers is back in 2016 with a full 111 minute DVD which we will stream for FREE to our Star members starting Jan 1. Patsy Thompson brings you the information you need to gain the skills for amazing looking quilting. Rulers make it easier. You thought this was just for Longarm quilters, but now even domestic machine quilters are in on the secrets. These instructions work with all domestic machines--THAT MEANS YOU! (Sit-Down longarm quilters will love this too!)

Chapter List

1. Introduction
2. Ruler Feet
3. Rulers for Machine Qulting
4. Basics of Ruler Work
5. Straight Line Ruler Work
6. Curved Ruler Work.

In 2016 (so far) we will stream FREE for Star members these DVD Classes valued at $139.75:

1. Ricky Tims--Grand Finale (value $21.95)
2. Patsy Thompson- Ruler Work For The Sit-Down Quilter  (value $29.95)
3. Kathy McNeils- Learning Landscapes (more about this DVD in a later newsletter- $26.00)
4. Renae Allen's- Feather Fundamentals (value $19.95)
5. Renae Allen's- Skillbuilder 1 (Free Motion Lessons-$19.95)
6. Libby Lehman's- A Day of Threadplay (value $21.95)

Your $42.95 membership includes all the above AND over 200 past shows and 26 new shows surveying all that is new in quilting.

One price for everything.

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Kathy's quilt won the Director´s Choice award at Road to California 2014. It has since been  purchased by Superior Threads.

Look for Kathy in 2016 for Show 1802 – Fearless Quilting and Fabulous Results.

JingleBellsbyKathyMcNeil - 36 pieces non-rotating

JingleBellsbyKathyMcNeil - 100 pieces non-rotating

JingleBellsbyKathyMcNeil - 289 pieces non-rotating

JingleBellsbyKathyMcNeil - 100 pieces rotating

JingleBellsbyKathyMcNeil - 289 pieces rotating

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She used Alex's 3-hour baby quilt pattern! Can you finish the puzzle in 3 hours?

CarsonsQuiltbyTgallogly - 36 pieces non-rotating

CarsonsQuiltbyTgallogly - 100 pieces non-rotating

CarsonsQuiltbyTgallogly - 289 pieces non-rotating

CarsonsQuiltbyTgallogly - 100 pieces rotating

CarsonsQuiltbyTgallogly - 289 pieces rotating

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Whoops! Our link for Jennie's Game is wrong. Click Here--  

This quilt was started as a guild challenge with these blocks as samples. These snowmen are so cute, you'll want to make some of your own.

SnowmanPaperDollsbyBengequilter - 36 pieces non-rotating

SnowmanPaperDollsbyBengequilter - 100 Pieces non-rotating

SnowmanPaperDollsbyBengequilter - 289 pieces non-rotating

SnowmanPaperDollsbyBengequilter - 100 pieces rotating

SnowmanPaperDollsbyBengequilter - 289 pieces rotating

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For our final look at the Downton Abbey exhibit, we'll examine some of the Active Wear, including a riding habit created and worn exactly as it would have been in the early part of the 20th century.

Click on the image to watch the video on PBS with Nancy Zieman and Laura Fiser, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, WI.

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Kathy York, winner of the Best in Show award for her quilt iQuilt at QuiltCon 2015 in Austin, Texas, was interviewed for Go Tell It at the Quilt Show!, a Quilt Alliance project designed to capture the stories of quilts where quiltmakers gather.

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Many great quilters have been influenced by Georgia Bonesteel, as evidenced by this wonderful email we received from TQS member Margo. Star Members can watch Show 1713: TQS Quilting Legend Georgia Bonesteel.

Hey Y'all!

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the current episode with Georgia Bonesteel!  She is definitely one of the true legends of our world!

She published this in 1990:



And shortly after that, I made my version!  No speed techniques here!  One square or strip at a time!!



When Georgia came to a neighboring town to teach, I took her class and showed her my quilt.  She said that I was probably the only other person to make one of these!  LOL!!  She signed the quilt for me and I consider it a real treasure!

I also made the trip to Hendersonville to visit her little quilt shop in her husband's hardware store!

Many thanks to all of you for all that TQS brings to the quilt world.  
You will never now how many lives you have touched and how many quilting sparks you have fanned into fire!

Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Hugs,
Margo

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Direct from the National Gallery of Australia, here is a photo of the original Rajah Quilt, dated 1841.

Created by unidentified women of the convict ship, HMS Rajah - makers

Design attributed to Kezia HAYTER

The Rajah quilt, 1841, is a pieced medallion-style unlined coverlet with cotton sheeting, chintz appliqué, and silk thread embroidery.
325.0 h x 337.2 w cm
Gift of Les Hollings and the Australian Textiles Fund 1989

TQS will be sharing much more information about the quilt, the quilt makers, and the long journey they took together, as the BOM project continues.