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Join Alex and Ricky on the set with Karen Gloeggler and Janet Finley.

Karen shares how to find and incorporate vintage fabrics, handkerchiefs, and doilies into your quilts to give them a period flair, and shows a clever technique for making a scrappy pieced border, perfect for a Jane Austen-inspired quilt.

You'll also meet author and quilt historian Janet Finley, who has amassed the world's largest collection of 19th- and early-20th-century photos of people with quilts, and the book she created to showcase them.

The Episode 1405 debuts Monday, March 3.  Don't miss it!

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It's Dr. Bob's birthday at Superior Threads and you still have a chance to take advantage of his birthday special!

Bob's Birthday Special. Superior Threads is celebrating from Feb. 20 to Feb. 28 by offering FREE SHIPPING* on retail orders to U.S. addresses and a shipping discount on retail orders to international addresses. Includes thread, fabric, notions.

* minimum order required is only $29 to qualify 
* type birthday in the Gift Code box at checkout 
* select "Best Rate Shipping" 

If you order by phone, you may request this offer. 
When your order is processed, you will see a $3.95 shipping  discount applied. 

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Award-winning filmmaker Cristina Ibarra's documentary, Las Marthas, highlights one of the largest celebrations of George Washington’s birthday in the world as it takes place in the border town of Laredo, Texas. The preeminent event of the celebrations is the invitation-only Colonial Ball hosted by the elite Society of Martha Washington.  

Society daughters, most of them Mexican American, are invited to debut in elaborate Colonial gowns representing iconic figures from America’s revolutionary history, to reenact a ball thrown by America’s first First Lady.

These gowns can weigh up to one hundred pounds and cost up to $30,000. Many of the creations are the design of dressmaker Linda Leyendecker Gutierrez, and oil heiress who designs her dresses with "heavenly inspiration from God."

Las Marthas follows two of the young debutantes — one a prominent member of Laredo society and the other a newcomer from Mexico — as they prepare for this rite of passage.

The film is a recipient of the Tribeca Institute’s Heineken VOCES Documentary Award, as well as funding from LPB, Jerome Foundation, and Humanities Texas.

The video is available online until March 18, 2014.

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Still thinking about all the patchwork inspiration at the Olympic games in Sochi?  Here's a quick and easy table runner from Patchwork Posse to help you keep the memories alive until Rio 2016.  

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Jerry Grenata joined us this afternoon and amazed us with how easy it is to use more exotic fabrics. They are not just for art quilts. Traditional quilts look great too. Are you ready to move beyond cotton?

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Priscilla was raised in Japan and loves the culture, the people and the quilts. Here at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas she shares these amazing quilts and discusses the color schemes and history.

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We arrived early to see San Antonio before taping started. On Sunday we walked around and saw many of the sights. Get a flavor of where we are. Tomorrow we begin taping with Jane Dunnewold and Bonnie Hunter. FUN!

Play the slideshow and see how many miles Alex walked.

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Celebrate the Sochi Olympics with this colorful quilt pattern by Linda Ambrosini.  59" x 74"   You can download the pattern for free or order it from Hancock's of Paducah for $1 and they will print it for you.

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It is a great day for taping and we are at the amazing studio of Jane Dunnewold.

If you could have the studio of your dreams, would it be part of your house, on the property but separate, or in a totally different location?

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Name: "Made" Sawtooth Star
Designer: Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Begins: February 24, 2014
Show 1404: Jump Start Your Creativity with 15 Minutes of Daily "Play"
Price: Free to Star Members
Description: Make your own (8” finished) ‘made fabric’ Sawtooth Star following Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s demo in Show 1404.

You must be logged in as a Star member to download the patterns.  If you are not logged in, you will have to login and then return to the TQS Show Techniques page.

Star Members can click here to get the pattern.

Become a Star member.