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BERNINA USA (apologies to our International viewers) is having a FacePlate Face-Off and we want Alex or Ricky to win! Help them choose the next great BERNINA 350 Special Edition faceplate pattern and enter for your chance to win the 2015 BERNINA 350 Special Edition!

Here's the competition: Amanda Murphy (Episode 1312), Angie Steveson, Camille Roskelley (Episode 706), Heather Bailey, Jane Sassaman (Episode 301), Luke Haynes (Episode 1102), Pat Bravo, and Tula Pink (Episode 1406).

To Enter online via Facebook: To enter, visit the BERNINA USA Facebook page, located at www.facebook.com/berninausa (the "BERNINA Facebook Page"), during the Sweepstakes Period and click on the link to the "Faceplate Faceoff" to access the BERNINA Sewing Machine Faceplate Design Contest application (the "Application"). You will be required to "like" the BERNINA USA Facebook Page, if you are not already a fan, in order to access the Application. After you access the Application, follow the on-screen directions to register and vote for your favorite design for the new BERNINA faceplate to receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes. For your entry to be valid, you must complete all required information. 

The contest runs from March 17 through April 14, 2014.  Click here for complete rules.

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Your jaws will drop when you see the quilting detail in Karen Marchetti's work. Karen shares photos of her work and also gives TQS a peek into her studio.

You can learn more about Karen in Show 1406 – Modernize Your "Toolbelt" with Terrific Techniques (Tula Pink/Karen Marchetti).

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We want to see your work, and as an incentive, we're offering you the chance to win one of FOUR Super Goodie bags (filled with lots of studio-audience giveaways) just for posting your work in Show and Tell by March 23. Winners will be announced in the Newsletter and Daily Blog on March 25.

You can find the instructions for this 'Modern' Sawtooth Star on the Projects Page.

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Join Rob as he travels to Kailua-kona, Hawaii to be one of the many instructors at "Quilting on the Beach." This fantastic annual event is presented by Quilt Passions quilt shop, right in the King Kamehameha Mall. Mahalo Rob.

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We are pleased to announce that a member from Down Under has been selected the winner in the Folded Fiber Book Contest! TQS Member,valerieg aka Valerie Giles, was selected at random as the winner for her "Our Garden 2014" Folded Fiber Book in Cheryl Lynch's (Episode 811) class.  As the winner, valerieg will receive a signed copy of Cheryl Lynch's Embellishments book AND a little bundle of Dutch fabric!

Congratulations Valerie and thank you Cheryl!

If you'd like to create your own portrait quilt, visit Cheryl's classroom.

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TQS loves to show you what is going on in the quilting world, whether it is a quilt show, a sewing studio, or a blast from the past.  Here are some of our favorite slide shows.  Enjoy!

Mountain Mist Antique Quilts from Road to California 2009

A Visit to Sue Garman's Home

Kool Kaleidsocopes Revisited

Revisiting David Taylor

Organizing Your Creative Space

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Photos by Gregory Case Photography

It may sound like a quilter's dream, but it's "real life" for popular blogger, author, fabric and pattern designer Tula Pink. Within 24 hours of posting her first fabric designs on line, Tula was contacted by a major fabric company who wanted to produce the entire collection! The rest is history.

In episode 1406, Tula - who loves to give traditional patterns a contemporary twist with current fabrics - shares a clever method for building a color scheme and demos how to "fussy cut the Tula way" using 1/4" masking tape and your rotary ruler.

But wait! There's more! Award-winning longarm quilter Karen Marchetti also drops by with tips for expanding your machine-quilting repertoire - and your confidence - by building on the basics already in your toolbelt.

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16-year old Angela Clayton enjoys "cosplay" or costume play.  She has been sewing for only two years and is mostly self-taught. Here, she has created the costume of Elsa from the Disney movie, Frozen.

We'd say that the future of sewing is in very good hands.

Make sure to wander through all of her blogs on how she made this costume, including the over 100,000 crystals.

Click here to go to Angela's blog.