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Agatha Olek has created quite a playground in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  It is a huge structure combining crocheted yarns with knotted ribbons.  It is located at SESC Interlagos. Watch out Captain Hook!

Visit Agatha's site to see more. Click here for more information about the installation.

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Name: 8-Pointed Star
Designer: Edyta Sitar
Begins: December 03, 2012
Show 1112: She's Back! Lesson from Grandma, A New Contest, and More
Price: Free to Star Members
Description: Edyta shows you the her technique for piecing the perfect 8-pointed star.

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 click here to get the pattern.

Become a Star member.

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November 14 - February 3, 2013
Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles-the first in the United States to focus exclusively on quilts and textiles-commemorates its thirty-five year anniversary with a large survey exhibition, Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years. Drawn exclusively from their permanent collection, it showcases important early and historic quilts, recent acquisitions of contemporary fiber art, as well as ethnic costume and textiles.

For more information regarding the exhibit, click here.

Highlights of the exhibit include:

• The first quilt accessioned into the collection (a Crazy Quilt, 1883-1884).

• A quilt by the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banner" (Grandmother's Flower Garden by Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key).

• A woven piece with a poignant message on the Gulf War but applicable to today's ongoing conflicts (Weep for the World, 1991 by Mary Balzer Buskirk)

• Drawing on the presidential election theme, a quilt with humorous caricatures of forty-two presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush (Presidents, by Dorothy Vance)

• A never-before-exhibited, oversized ritual dance costume from the Yoruba people of West Africa (The Egungun Ceremonial Garment).

• A contemporary ritual textile inspired by traditional Japanese by Yvonne Porcella (Firebird Kimono).

(Quilt: Pineapple Variation or Windmill Blades, c1890

Unknown Maker, American
Silk, velvet
Pieced, quilted
71 x 70
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 2004.308
Donated by Jacklin Vanmechelen)

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We just had to bring her back! Alex and Ricky head off to Main Street Quilting Company in Bozeman, MT, to rendezvous with popular quilt artist, teacher, and author Edyta Sitar, whose TQS Half-Square-Triangle Exchange was a rousing, worldwide success.

This time around, Edyta unveils her latest work, demonstrates an ingenious flip-and stitch method for creating eight-pointed stars (learned from Grandma Sitar), and shares some clever tricks for dressing up those star points. Great ideas for enhancing pieced work with appliqué, a bevy of helpful pressing tips, and a video tour of Edyta's barn-turned studio round out this jam-packed show.

Watch for a contest and not one, but two great new "Edyta projects" on the TQS website.

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The Final BOM Instructional Video is now available.  Click here to take a look.

Saturday, December 1, is the last "block" for the 2012 BOM created by  Sarah Vedeler. This month there are 84 simple paper pieced diamond-in-a- square blocks to be made, giving a nice relaxing finish to this project.

Don't forget to print out all of your patterns before 12/31/2012 as they will no longer be available after the 1st of the year.

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Present, by Toshiko Matsuo, won Third Place - Merit Quilting-Hand at the International Quilt Festival in Houston.

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Here is another very creative ruler from Creative Grids^®_{.  This is the Trapezoid Strip Ruler designed by Rachel Cross.}

Use the straight side of this single strip ruler to cut 2 1/2" strips – or use the pre-cuts that are on the market. Turn-a-Round the ruler to cut trapezoids that finish 6". Place two strips of fabric – right sides together – and cut 3 pair of trapezoids at one time without wasting any fabric. The holes in the ruler enable the rotary cutter to cut the triangles without damaging the ruler. Our exclusive embedded gripper dots hold the fabric while cutting when pressure is applied.

If you like "braided quilts," you might enjoy French Braid Obsession, French Braid Quilts, or French Braid Transformation all from Jane Hardy Miller, published by C&T Publishing.

Watch the video to learn more about the Trapezoid Strip Ruler ruler or, click here to go to Creative Grids^®.

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Join Christine Barnes, author of the Quilter's Color Club, as she introduces her new classroom for TQS in which you'll learn about:

• Value
• Visual Temperature
• Intensity
• The Color Wheel
• Magic Fabrics
• Transparency
• Luminosity
• Luster
• Opalescence

This is a great class for beginner's and "old pros" as Christine helps you demystify color.

The Introduction is available on November 30 with Lesson 1 beginning on December 4.

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Susan and Kay demonstrate "stitch recipes" using decorative stitches to create new patterns.

To watch other Bernina Educational Videos, click on   to the left of your screen.