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Despite wartime hardships and shortages, American women (and men) continued to make quilts throughout the Civil War. If you're in the area, you won't want to miss the exhibit of historic, Civil War-era quilts from the Arlan & Pat Christ collection on display at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, through October 30. It's like stepping back in time to a critical period in our nation's history.
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Learn more about bobbin thread with a little help from Mother Superior of Superior Threads. Make sure you scroll down to see all of the questions and answers.
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It's time to celebrate summer with Ricky's Colorful Rhapsody quilt. In the Month Two video Ricky shares his techniques for double blanket stitch machine applique.
Go to Ricky's classroom for the Month Two instructional PDF.
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The Modern Quilt Guild has opened membership to guilds and individuals for the first time. The dues from members will help support and encourage the growth and development of modern quilting through art, education, and community. By formalizing, the Modern Quilt Guild will be able to offer members educational programs, tools to run local guilds, 501(c)3 status for guilds and much more.
The Modern Quilt Guild will offer the following member benefits: access to the new online social media community, informative webinars, early-bird registration for conferences and events, discounts and special offers with Modern Quilt Guild sponsors, participation in fabric challenges and swaps, discounted rates on conferences, events, merchandise, quilt entry fees, legal fees, insurance and more.
"Being a member of the Modern Quilt Guild has given me a wonderful way to connect with quilters near and far who share a love of modern quilting. The Modern Quilt Guild has helped me grow immensely as a quilter. I'm so excited to see what's ahead in the next phase of growth for the MQG!" says Melissa Lytle, President of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild.
The Modern Quilt Guild is also launching an online community for members. The first online community built specifically for modern quilters, it will offer forums, photo and idea sharing, guild discussion boards, events and additional features to be developed over the next six months.
For additional information contact: Heather Grant, Director of Marketing & Programing, The
Modern Quilt Guild, 512.968.1914, themodernquiltguild.com.
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She's back by popular demand! In a brand-new class, Lauren Vlcek (Episode 1206) will be sharing her technique for drawing the whimsical faces on fabric that you saw in her faces quilt on the show set. This fun, four-lesson class is a great jumping-off point for your next mixed-media project. The first session airs on July 30.
Want to be prepared when the first class begins? Get the downloadable pdf supply list for the class here . If you're not able to find the colored pencils on the supply list, Lauren has pencil kits available here.
This class is FREE for all Star members.
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You'll get a bit teary-eyed when you see what Libby's son created for her. He knows that she enjoys textures so he went back to her house and found a kit that Libby uses for her classes and put it together himself. He then presented to her the "activity cloth" he made on her Bernina which included several embroidery stitches and material from her studio. Libby was very moved by the gift. What a great guy! To read the whole story, click here.
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In Month 2, Ricky wants to teach you his techniques for using the double blanket stitch on your Colorful Rhapsody quilt. A new PDF file is also available in his classroom.
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A little birdie told us that there are more than a few TQS members who have received notification that their quilts will be hanging in Houston.
If you are going to have one on display, toot your horn by submitting a comment so that we can look for it at the show.
Congratulations to you all!
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June is over and many romantic weddings filled the lovely summer days.
TQS would like you share some of your wedding memories. Did you make a hand-crafted gift, create some adorable wedding favors, sew a beautiful dress for a wedding past or present? We'd like to see it and have created a Wedding Dreams Show & Tell area just for that purpose. Head on over and post a photo of your wedding dreams.
Quilt: From This Moment - A Wedding Quilt by Tammy Morel (TQS Name: Morelcabincreations). The quilt pattern is available for purchase at her website, .
Cllick here to purchase the pattern at her website for $7.99.
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The puzzle this week is not a whole quilt, it is a pieced hexie star created by Micky Depre. You can learn how Mickey creates her hexie stars in Episode 1302 - Pour Yourself "a Cuppa" . . . and Piece Some Hexies! featuring Mickey Depre.
Click here to visit Mickey's website.
Pieced Hexie Star - 100 pieces non-rotating
Pieced Hexie Star - 100 pieces rotating
Pieced Hexie Star - 300 pieces non-rotating
Pieced Hexie Star - 300 pieces rotating
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