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New Pixie Party Project from RJR Fabrics

Pixie Party is the ultimate monthly program that features 2 1/2" strips from RJR Fabrics. There is no other program like this! All the fabric elements from strips to borders and binding are pre-cut. Geared toward confident beginners, the projects are offered in a variety of sizes and feature RJR's newest designer collections.

The latest project is Cactus Wreath a perfect holiday or anytime quilt featuring the Incarnadine collection by Robyn Pandolph.

Cactus Wreath is a throw size at 72 inches square. The kit comes totally pre-cut, even the sub cuts, background strips and borders.

Click here to visit Pixie Land and learn more.

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Superior Threads Has a Bit of Fun with Men Who Quilt

Watch as Superior Threads pokes a little bit of fun at men who quilt.

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Libby Lehman Update - Good News!

Libby loves to stop and smell the flowers and apparently decided to stop and call Ricky as well.

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O Happy Day!!!!!!!

I got a phone call today from none other than Libby Lehman herself! It’s the first chat we have had in months - none since her last severe seizure, the one that subsequently put her back into the rehabilitation facility, and ultimately led to her being placed into hospice because she had simply given up hope and wanted to end everything. The prayers of all of us who love her have been that during this time she might, on her own, find the will and strength to survive.

So… back to the phone call. She told her family a bit of news and wanted to share it with me. She said, “This dying thing isn’t working out, so I just might as well live and have fun!!” She said, “I love you!” and I assured her I loved her too. Her words were clear and articulate - better than I have heard from her since her stroke!

Libby enjoys her beauty treatments. I already knew that before calling me she had just returned from a manicure, so I asked about it. She said, “Yes, I had THREE attendants”. After I replied how wonderful that was, she said, “...I wanted four!” Ha ha ha ha! It’s so good to hear Libby in such good sprits - bantering, joking, and being bossy.

I mentioned that tomorrow night (August 6) Justin and I are going to see the Lady Gaga concert in Denver. Her reply was, “Don’t get in a fight!” … which is a comment she made because the first and only fight I’ve ever had was at the Lady Gaga concert three years ago. That’s another story for another time. The point is - Libby remembered it!

She told me that tomorrow she had dinner reservations at 5:30 for Ruth Chris’s Steak House and she was planning on ordering filet mignon.

This truly is the best she has been mentally since her stroke. Libby has been in a position where she had to choose - sink or swim. Our prayers have been that she would find a way out of the dark hole she has been in and reach for a brighter day. I can say with confidence that today is most assuredly a brighter day! I am doing a happy dance! Let me hear a whoo-hoo for our dear sweet Libby!

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A Visit to the Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX

While taping was going on for Episode 1503 with Jerry Granata, Photo Man, Gregory Case took some great photos of the set, AKA, the Witte Museum and its luscious surroundings, including the South Texas Heritage Center. He shares them here with TQS.

Star Members can watch Jerry inEpisode 1503: Quilting without Limits: Using Unconventional Fabrics in Your Work.

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Get over 200 shows with the latest techniques --plus see the DVD online through Sep 30 with Jacqueline de Jonge making the BeColourful quilt.

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Quilter's Quips and Tips: Were You Wicked?

Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics announced the winners of their Wicked Challenge. Were you Wicked?

The Grand Prize went to Lynn Synhorst from Fargo, North Dakoka for her quilt, Spotlight. Click here to see other winners.

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Be Inspired by the Colors of Peru: Part 2

We continue the journey through a land of stunning landscapes and brilliant colors.

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30 Quilts for 30 Years

Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry's exhibit, “30 Quilts for 30 Years”, opened this week at the Visions Art Museum in San Diego. If you are in California or plan to travel there in the next two months, be sure to check it out.

Enjoy the splendor of Caryl Bryer Fallert's quilts. The best part is that you can visit her website and see her design process for each quilt. Click here to go to her gallery.

View the slideshow below for a good look at some of the amazing quilts she has created.

Can't make the show in California? Check out these other exhibit locations:

International Quilt Market & Festival, 2013, Houston TX, October 25–November 3, 2013
National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY, December 6, 2013 – March 11, 2014
Bryerpatch Studio Gallery, Paducah KY March 15, 2014 – May 1, 2014
Les Jardins de Magali, Lauris, France (12 quilts) May 8 – May 18, 2014
Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, August 1, 2014 – September 21, 2014
Wisconsin Quilt Museum, Cedarburg, WI, January 14- April 12, 2015
LaConner Quilt Museum, LaConner WA – July 1–October 4, 2015
Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA – October 14, - December 19, 2015
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL –2016 (dates to be announced)

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1st Time Entrants: Paducah 2014

1st Time... Really!!?? (Well, first time entering at Paducah.)

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Check Out The Variety Of Quilting On This Quilt

At Paducah 2014, Thelma Childers displayed her quilt "Evening Bloom". Thelma learned hand applique and finished about one block a month. The quilt was quilted on a longarm by Judi Madsen. Judi use many designs to enhance the applique.

Be sure to move all around the quilt to see the different styles of quilting. Will some of these approaches work for your quilt?

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Episode 1503: Quilting without Limits

Photo by Gregory Case Photography

While in high school, award-winning quilt artist Jerry Granata made costumes for the National Marionette Company—an experience that taught him that no fabric is off limits, even for quilting. The trick is in knowing how to tame it, and in this show, Jerry reveals the huge variety of unusual fabrics available to quilters (think leather, lamé, fake fur, upholstery), where to find them, which to use when, how to prepare them, work with them, and even quilt them.

We wrap with a tour of our day's location, The Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX, where Jerry—for 21 years a professional musician with the United States Navy—provides the soundtrack on his RED saxophone.

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