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Watch Ricky as he cleans his design wall with freezer paper and an iron!
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See How Ricky Cleans his Flannel Design Wall with Freezer Paper
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Watch Ricky as he cleans his design wall with freezer paper and an iron!
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We have been asked for more info about the AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter. Over the year you will see videos that explain how they work, but we will also dip into their inventory of great projects that can be created with the system or with just the tools you have.
Many of the videos will then go to live in our classrooms area so that the viewers who have the cutters can learn to use them to their full potential.
If you have any questions about the cutters and how they operate, just make a comment and we will forward them to accuquilt.
Here is a short Intro
Learn More of the Details Here
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The PBS program, Expressions, recently interviewed Caryl Bryer Fallert about her work. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!
From PBS:
Caryl Bryer Fallert is an award-winning quilt maker from Paducah, Ky. Her original use of design, color, and fabrics has made her one of the most respected fine craftsmakers in the region. In 2000, she was honored as one of the top 30 most influential quilt makers in the world. In 2006, she was a recipient of the International Quilt Festival Silver Star Award.
Watch Caryl Bryer Fallert on PBS. See more from Expressions.
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In early December, with the start of Christine's color class, we announced that two lucky TQS members who posted their class WIPs to the site would be selected to receive a signed book and color wheel. Were you a winner? See below:
TQS members: smardi & archery. Congratulations to you both!
Check out Christine's class and all of the wonderful class entries here.
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It's official. The Pantone color of the year is Emerald 17-5641. What will you be making with this color this year?
Here are a few previous winners:
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Photo courtesy of Kim Beamish
While millions around the globe cheered the overthrow of leadership in Egypt on January 25, 2011, one could hardly imagine the devastating consequences, including the effect on craftspeople who make their living hand stitching magnificent textile works for the tourist trade.
Producer Kim Beamish, who was introduced to the Tentmakers by Jenny Bowker, will launch a crowd
funding campaign on 1st February 2013 to fund the documentary film, “The Tentmakers of Chareh El Khiamiah”, a feature length film following a small street of Egyptian textile artists who have been forced to adapt to the consequences of the 25 January Revolution. The funding campaign will run for 30 days through the Australian website Pozible.com where Beamish hopes to raise $20,000 to cover production, travel and translation costs associated with the production of the film.
The Tentmakers of Chareh El Khiamiah still design and create the hand-sewn applique (called ‘Khiamiah’) that traditionally adorned the spectacular tents of the Ottoman Empire. In Egypt forty years ago magnificent applique screens were the back drop to street parties, weddings, Ramadan celebrations, political rallies, funerals and religious events. Today the screens are still used but almost all are made of printed fabric that looks like the tentmakers’ applique.
(Photo courtesy of Kim Beamish)
The work of the Tentmakers has evolved to suit changing tastes, but still faces extinction. It has been hit hard by the importation of cheap mass-printed imitation Khiamiah. The cessation of tourism following the Revolution of January 25, 2011 was a disaster for the Tentmakers.
After the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, tourists from all parts of the world who would have flocked to Egypt year round stopped coming and so did their money. Prior to the Revolution, small streets such as Chareh El Khiamiah relied heavily on the tourist trade as they sold their wares into the larger more famous market, the Khan El Khalili. That trade is now all but gone and it is time for new markets to be found in Europe and the USA.
To learn more about this project click here. To add your support click here.
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This year's winner of Best Use of Color, sponsored by Hoffman California Fabrics, at Road to California 2013, is Masquerade by Birgit Schuller from Riegelsberg Germany. Look close to see the quilting and the wonderful edge treatment.
The quilt measures 77" x 79." It was started in 2011 and finished in 2012. It is Birgit's original design.
Artist statement: The gorgeously bright and wild Mardi Gras-themed fabric I used for the kaleidoscope center portions of the stars inspired me to design this original quilt. For the center portion, I traced and enlarged four of the masks. Colorful feather and star quilting designs plus embellishments with fuzzy yarns, gold paillet trim and hotfix Swarovski crystals add to the full Mardi Gras feeling!
(photo: Courtesy of Road to California)
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The Quilt Show Welcomes RJR Fabrics!
RJR features 
Jinny Beyer and a stable of amazing designers. We want to introduce you to RJR with a Free Pattern and a chance to win Fabric.
RJR will help us learn more about fabric & designing as we talk with designers and explore new projects.
Debbie Beaves has designed a wonderful new line called "Lovely".
There is a free table runner pattern that goes with it.
Please welcome RJR in the comment section, then be sure to get your free pattern and enter to win fabric.
10 Lucky viewers will win. 5 will win 10 piece fat quarter bundles and 5 will win 10x10 Patty Cakes 40 piece sets of Debbie's "Lovely" fabric line.
Contest ends Monday night at Midnight.
One Contest entry per member, but the Pattern is for EVERYONE.
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Are you working on the 2013 BOM quilt? If so, you'll definitely want to check out TQS member Margo's tips for a Striplate Technique you just might love.
Check it out here.
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Mount Pleasant Miners (1993 - 48" x 55") from Nancy S. Brown is currently in the possession of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY. It is hand appliqued, hand quilted, and hand painted. It is machine pieced in greys, browns, and neutrals. This quilt won Best Wall Quilt, AQS, Paducah 1993.
Nancy was featured in Episode 701: Animal Magnetism with Nancy Brown.
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