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Continuing on his journey through the Pacific Northwest, Rob spends a few days off between workshops hiking and finds some cool quilting ideas for adding texture to your quilts.

Rob is featured in Episode 812: Protect our Planet...with Quilts where he talks about one of his most cherished quilting endeavors - the Endangered Species Quilt Project. Rob has teamed with Michael Miller fabrics to build awareness of our planet and her endangered species through quilting.

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Wander through the creative spaces of Mary Hoover and Barb Persing, featured in  Episode 1108: Sisters, Strata, and Strategies for Quilting.

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Wide Mouth Zipper Pouches featuring Tomodachi & Daydream from P&B Textiles.

Take two fabric lines (Tomodachi & Daydream from P& B Textiles), three zippers, and a bit of interfacing.  What do you get?  Three adorable wide mouthed zipper pouches sure to create a little stir at your next quilters gathering.

We spotted the pattern for these adorable pouches (here at noodle-head.com) and just had to try them out for ourselves with these fun fabric lines.  The pouches can be made in a variety of sizes to hold any number of items from make-up, pencils, to sewing accessories.   These little babies are so easy to stitch up we know that you will have a hard time making just one!

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If you happen to be planning a trip to Paris in the next few months or so, don't miss a ground breaking exhibit featuring stunning original works of art created on wood, paper and cloth. 

A museum noted for featuring indigenous art from around the globe, the Musee du Quai Branly, has selected the works of eight artists to represent Australian Aboriginal art movement.

"By transposing to recycled wooden panels the motifs employed in ephemeral ritual paintings, the Aborigine artists of Papunya created an astonishingly inventive formal art, saturated with meaning. These works change the manner of understanding the territory and conceiving the history of Australian art.

With more than 160 canvases and almost 100 objects and photographs from the period, the exhibition presents the iconographical and spiritual sources of the Papunya movement and traces its development from the first panels to the large canvases of the early 1980s."

The exhbit is open 9 Oct -20 Jan 2013.

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The Pacific International Quilt Festival is here! Starting today October 11 and running through October 14, 2012 at the Santa Clara, CA Convention Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Over 800 quilts and garments will be on display along with a Fashion Show, Workshops, Lectures, and of course, that amazing Merchants Mall.

The faculty this year includes:

• Janice Gunner (United Kingdom)
• Yoshiko Katagir (Japan)
• Jennie Rayment (United Kingdom)
• Frieda Anderson (705) 
• Esterita Austin (506)
• Karen Boutte
• Augusta Cole
• Janet Fogg
• Rose Hughes (413)
• Rita Hutchens
• Marjan Kluepfel
• Dierdra McElroy
• Kellie Rusing
• Bobbie Bergquist
• Jean Brown
• Gregory Case - our own photo man (807)
• Kay Moore
• Virginia Walton
• Pat Yamin (1005)
• Barbara Olson (105)
• Deborah Roberts (Appraisals)

Many of these instructors have been guests of TQS. If there is a number next to their name above, that's the episode in which they were featured.

Admission is $15 (includes re-admission) and children under 16 are free. Sunday only is $13. Hours are 10-6 daily, Sunday 10-5.

(Quilt: PIQF Best Hand Workmanship 2011 - Georgia on My Mind - Nancy S. Brown)

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It is not often that TQS Producer, Shelly Heesacker, takes her place front and center.  But, this outstanding producer has been selected as a Peace Maker Spotlight by the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation.

Sometimes, the individuals or organizations we celebrate in our Spotlight feature are interviewed, and a page is created piecing together responses that tell their peace stories to readers. And sometimes, an individual or organization is so excited about the Spotlight recognition that we receive a letter abundant with enthusiasm and details. This month’s Peace Maker, Shelly Heesacker, is in that latter category.

"Shelly was selected for the Peace Maker Spotlight, in part, because of her “above and beyond” response to our Foundation’s “Make Peace the News” Summer 2012 Campaign. We invited people around the world to take 3 seconds a day, every day for about 3 weeks, to share 3 simple words — “Peace is Possible” — and in doing, set the tone for peace for countless people around the globe. Every single day, from June 22 (Mattie’s anniversary) to July 17 (Mattie’s birthday), Shelly creatively shared in word and photo that “Peace is Possible.” She shared on Facebook, and in e-mails, and in everyday conversations at home and at work.

When she was notified that she had been selected for the Peace Maker Spotlight, she sent a letter filled with wonderful information and inspiration as her responses to our standard queries. Those responses are below. Thank you, Shelly, for making this Spotlight page such an easy one to create. And thank you, Shelly, for truly exemplifying Mattie’s vision of a peacemaker — one who chooses to make peace a habit in thought, word, and deed through daily interactions at home, at school, and work — for our world."

Learn more about the foundation here.

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Learn more from Linda at her website, www.thequiltedgoose.com.  She has a gallery of quilts, as well as customer quilts, that might just have you drooling.

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We are still trying out our Zoom feature, so here is a quilt that everyone loved.  Susan Stewart won the Bernina Machine Workmanship Award at Paducah 2012. 

Click the Picture and Use the Zoom to look Closer. 

Then scroll down and play the video where Susan explains how it all came together.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

Join us in Episode 1108 as the stunning Santa Fe home of Betsy and Richard Ehrenberg provides the backdrop for this "must-see" episode. Alex leads off by demonstrating a terrific product that will save you time and effort with your paper-based appliqué.

Then the TQS gang welcomes quilt artists, pattern designers - and sisters! - Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover. Mary, a former quilt-shop owner, shares the many creative possibilities of designing with strata sewn from colorful fabric strips.

Then Barbara, a professional longarm quilter, author, and popular TQS Classroom host (Listen to Your Quilt), teaches four simple steps for designing an effective quilting plan, and Mary "ties it up with a bow" by sharing a clever ribbon-like quilting pattern.

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This 1st Place - Quilter's Choice Award-winner, What's Brewing by Cathy Wiggins, from the AQS Grand Rapids show got us thinking. It's almost time for Halloween, what sort of shenanigans will you be brewing? Costumes?  Parties?  Quilts? The AQS Show in Des Moines, October 3-6?