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This week's puzzle is created from the This and That Sampler from Bernina that you can create if you follow along with the latest Bernina Instructional Videos. 

To watch the Bernina Educational Videos click on   to the left of your screen. This set of videos began on September 7th and will roll out every two weeks until February 22, 2013.

Titles include:

• Circular Applique
• Texture Magic
• Couching
• Felting
• Random Patchwork
• Cutwork
• Stitch Recipes
• Printables
• Spanish Hem Stitch
• Frayed Flowers
• Easy Block Assembly
• Labels
• Binding by Machine

Click here to download project information.

This and That Sampler - 36 pieces non-rotating

This and That Sampler - 100 pieces non-rotating

This and That Sampler - 100 pieces rotating

This and That Sampler - 289 pieces non-rotating

This and That Sampler - 289 pieces rotating

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The lovely 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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FREE DVD to all friends of The Quilt Show.  Thread Therapy by Dr. Bob is a 1 hr. 45 min. DVD of a live recording of Bob's thread seminar.  Bob Purcell, President of Superior Threads, is offering this DVD ($24.95 value) to all friends of TQS absolutely FREE of charge.

This DVD will solve many sewing-related frustrations and problems as you learn all about thread, needles, and tension, which account for 95% of all sewing-related problems.
Learn what is true and what is a myth.
You just pay for shipping ($3.95 to U.S. addresses and a little more to international addresses). 
Limit: One DVD per person please.  

MORE.  While ordering your free DVD, check out the Try Me Specials on Superior's website.  Samples of most of the products are available to try.  You choose the products, Superior chooses the colors, and you save 30 to 50%. Shipping on all regular orders (to U.S. addresses) is only $3.95 regardless of order size.

Click On Superior for the DVD             

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Jennifer Rounds of See How We Sew has been doing a short series of posts on African fabric with her friend Paula Benjaminson who lives in Libreville, Gabon. Paula is an active member of SAQA and the wife of the ambassador of Gabon.

Paula sent Jennifer wonderful information and photos about African fabrics, as well as her quilting life in Africa.  They had so much fun working together that they decided to share some African-style quilts online.  And so, a 30-day online exhibition was born.

To see the original posts between Jennifer and Paula and learn more about the exhibit, click here and here.

(FYI - The Giveaway has ended)

To go to the gallery and view the exhibit, click here.

The exhibit will be available from September 28, 2012 through October 26, 2012.

(African Beauty by Jasvinder Phull)

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Sheila Frampton-Cooper (aka Zoombaby) is curating an exhibit to be on display at Road to California January 24-27, 2013.

It will showcase quilts that are inspired by maps, aerial views and topography of actual or imaginary places. It could be somewhere you visited or would like to, or a vision from a dream. You might imagine yourself in a spacecraft flying over an undiscovered planet, or take a trip into the vastness of an underwater world.

This is not a judged exhibit.

This exhibit will be juried for space. I will be looking for quilts that convey the theme from various points of view, and I really want to leave that open to your imagination. Craftsmanship is very important, however I do encourage the use of creative techniques.

I will be taking delivery of the quilts personally and transporting them to the Road to California office. I'll be there for the set up and the break down of the exhibit and I will be personally shipping the quilts back to you via FedEx 3 day air.

If you choose to offer your quilt for sale, please indicate the sales price on the entry form. Potential buyers will be given your contact information to contact you directly.

There is no fee to enter.

TIMELINE:
ONLINE ENTRY BEGINS OCTOBER 1, 2012
DEADLINE FOR ONLINE ENTRY: NOVEMBER 10, 2012
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: BY NOVEMBER 30, 2012
QUILTS TO BE SHIPPED BETWEEN DECEMBER 3RD AND DECEMBER 14, 2012
QUILTS RETURNED TO QUILT-MAKERS STARTING JANUARY 30TH, 2013

Click Here to Enter.

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TQS welcomes quilting sisters Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover to the set on location at the home of Betsy and Richard Ehrenberg in Santa Fe, NM.

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.

Episode 1108 - Sisters, Strata, and Strategies for Quilting with Barbara and Mary debuts on 10/8/2012.

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Susan Beck and Kay Hickman have another Bernina video this week. In this video, they talk about various couching feet, couching is a method for stitching yarn or cord onto fabric, including the Bernina Braiding foot, the #12 (Bulky Overlock Foot) foot, and the Bernina Free Motion Couching foot.

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

Click here to download project information.

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Jenny Raymond has a small signature quilt in the October Alzheimer's Quilt Auction. She calls it
Hope for a Cure. The center block has the signatures of quilting celebrities and was signed at the 2011 International Quilt Festival in Houston.

Click here to bid and see other auction quilts.  The auction only lasts through the first 10 days of October!

Check below to see all of the names on the quilt.

Fifty-seven quilting luminaries autographed the center block of this quilt.

This is an extraordinary collector's item signed by Charlotte Warr Andersen, Alex Anderson, Wendy Butler Berns, Karen Kay Buckley, Hollis Chatelain, Susan K. Cleveland, Vickie Clontz, Meg Cox, Susan Craig,
Melody Crust, Jodie Davis, Martha DeLeonardis, Carol Doak, Marilyn Doheny, Ginny
Eckley, Robbie Joy Eklow, Maria Elkins, Lisa B. Ellis, Cynthia England, Caryl Bryer
Fallert, Dawn J. Farrier, John Flynn, Helen Frost, Gail Garber, Marlene Glickman,
Lois Hallock, Karin Hellaby, Sara Hochhauser, Pam Holland, Roberta Horton, Marylin
Huskamp, Tracie Lyn Huskamp, Kathy Kansier, Deb Karasik, Lisa Kerpoe, Susan Brubaker
Knapp, Lynn Koolish, Emily March, author, Mary Mashuta, Dierdra A. McElroy, Suzanne
McNeill, Cathy Miller, Nova Montgomery, Paula Nadelstern, Sue Patten, Sharon
Pederson, Carla Peery, Nancy Prince, Diane Ricks, Jean B. Scharf, Ami Simms, Wendy
Strumwasser, David Taylor, Ricky Tims, Barb Vlack, Lisa Walton and Kristal Wick. 

It's simple to bid and Jenny encourages her friends to check out all the quilts up for
auction. Hope for a Cure is 16" x 20" and the other quilts are no larger than 9" x 12". 

Over $700,000 has been raised and donated to Alzheimer's research in the last six
years. An amazing feat considering the small amount the quilts are sold for. 

Thousands of these little quilts have been made and donated to this cause. Jenny has
bought at least 30, each a beautiful piece of art. One of her favorites was made by
Barb Vlack. It makes her heart happy to make and donate as we'll as purchase, knowing
that maybe we are getting closer to finding a cure for this horrible disease. 

Did you know that if you live to 85, you have a one in two chance of developing
Alzheimer's?

Bid on one of these little quilts to fund research.
http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltauction.html

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Rob Appell is sharing his trip to the Pacific Northwest.  The adventure begins has he teaches his Twizzleman Project class at the Puyallup Valley Quilter's Quild.  To learn more about the Twizzleman Project, click here.

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Big news from the team that brought you the documentary series, Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics, which we previewed on TQS last spring.

They've just published a terrific companion guide, Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics Discussion Guide, to enhance your viewing experience and encourage "conversation" with thought-provoking questions.

Perfect for quilt and fiber-arts groups, libraries, classrooms, and museums, the Guide includes episode-by-episode questions specially tailored for:

• General audiences
• The quilting community
• Artists and arts organizations
• Academics and college students
• Middle and high school students
• Museums

• View and then discuss the series--episode by episode--with your quilting or fiber-art group, students, family, and friends.

• A How to Host" section helps you get started.

• Available in soft cover book format or as an electronic download.