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Quilt and fabric designer, author, and highly sought-after teacher Kim Diehl loves to combine unexpected elements in her traditionally inspired quilts, and she brings many of these "hybrid" pieces along to share. Then stick around as she offers some of her best time-saving machine-appliqué techniques, demonstrates how combining ‘big stitch' quilting with machine quilting can give your quilts added visual and textural interest, and shows how to add a final pop of color to your finishing. We wrap with a field piece featuring quiltmaker, author, and teacher Christine Barnes who shares valuable insights into the properties of color, including value, temperature, and intensity.

Episode 1407: The "New" Traditional: A Marvelous Mix of Fabric, Style, and Stitches, debuts March 31, 2014.

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Vintage Berry Blossoms by Kim Diehl is a 60 1/2" x 60 1/2" quilt that she teaches in a six-hour class or two-day workshop.  Click here to learn more.

Watch Kim in Episode 1407: The "New" Traditional: A Marvelous Mix of Fabric, Style, and Stitches, which debuts on Monday, March 31, 2014.

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 36 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 100 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 289 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 100 pieces rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 289 pieces rotating

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Here's a quick project from Veronica at sewVery.  It's a non-slip machine mat with pocket storage and a detachable pin cushion. What a great way to liven up a sewing room and stop your machine from moving around on the table.

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Another award-winning quilt, Iron Acanthus, is a work by Karen Marchetti that you can make yourself! Karen offers the pattern for this quilt on her website, so you can make one too! It is an original wholecloth pattern with colored trapunto.

If you'd like the pattern, check out Karen's website, www.creativelongarmquilting.com or email Karen at karen@creativelongarmquilting.com.

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Tula Pink bought an old farmhouse outside of St. Louis and turned it into a showcase for her work. One floor is a showroom, another a studio, and the top floor is her living space. The white walls are highlighted by her colorful work, and while you may not see any "live" animals, you'll find them in abundance throughout the house.

Star Members can watch Tula in Show 1406: Modernize Your "Toolbelt" with Terrific Techniques.

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Lynette Anderson previewed her new fabric line to Alex. Now 6 lucky winners will win some.

1. 3 winners will get a Pixie Strip of Lynette's Quilter's Garden. A pixie strip is made up of 40/2.5" x 44" fabrics, so you get a wonderful assortment of the fabric line. 
2. Plus 3 winners will get a button and pattern from Lynette.
3. Contest ends Sunday night at midnight PST. Hurry.

                                                  

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Kim Diehl loves to combine unexpected elements in her traditionally inspired quilts, and she brings many of these "hybrid" pieces along to share. She also offers some of her best time-saving machine-appliqué techniques, demonstrates how combining ‘big stitch' quilting with machine quilting can give your quilts added visual and textural interest, and shows how to add a final pop of color to your finishing. Christine Barnes also shares valuable insights into the properties of color, including value, temperature, and intensity.

The show debuts Monday, March 31, 2014.

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Enjoy photos from the colorful world of Tula Pink.   And stay tuned, there's more to come, including a look at her historic home and studio.

You can learn more about her in Episode 1406: Modernize Your "Toolbelt" with Terrific Techniques.

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Announcing the Little Scraps of Magic Winners

Last week, as an incentive to participate in our Little Scraps of Magic series, we gave you an opportunity to win one of FOUR Super Goodie bags (filled with lots of studio-audience giveaways) just for posting your work in Show and Tell. We had lots of wonderful submissions, but we found these four entries to be extra charming. Are you one of the winners? Here they are!

• dlmorse
• gayle.mitchell
• quiltybird
• Tgallogly 

Each winner will receive a "TQS taping" SUPER GOODIE BAG (on its way in the mail very soon). It's easy to play along--maybe next time we'll select you to win a special treat!

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Look what the MFA Boston Museum is doing...“Quilts and Color” celebrates the vibrant color palette and inventive design seen in the acclaimed Pilgrim/Roy Quilt Collection.

The exhibition features nearly 60 distinctive quilts from the renowned collection and is the first to explore how, over five decades, trained artists Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy searched out and collected quilts with bold, eye-popping designs that echoed the work of mid-20th century Abstract Expressionist and Op Artists."

The exhibition runs from April 6, 2014 - July 27, 2014 at the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (MFA members are free).  The MFA is open seven days a week.

Quilts and Color the Pilgrim/Roy Collection hardback is available now and contains more than sixty graphically bold American quilts from their collection.

Click below to learn more about the exhibit including a video with the Curator and the Collector.

(Quilt from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection)

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Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523
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