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Test your skills with a quick-and-easy color exercise from Episode 1002 artist, Michelle Jackson. It's part of a weekly study designed to help you improve your color savvy.

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Here's a look at the Best of Show from Road to California 2012.

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Looking at the bright and beautiful AccuQuilt booth at Road to California got us to thinking, "Will you be using the AccuQuilt Go! to cut out your shapes for the 2012 BOM or will you be using the templates provided in the pattern?"

It might be fun to get together with a bunch of friends to share dies and have an AccuQuilt Cut Out Your BOM Shapes Day.

Have you finished your January block? February is just around the corner...

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Design inspiration can strike at any time. Last year it was at the auto show. This year it was an exhibit of Jukeboxes from the golden era.

Jukebox Saturday Night presented at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, CA, featured jukeboxes from the 1940's and 1950's.

The colors and grillwork on these magnificent machines might just be found in your next piece of applique or your next quilting design.

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Here's what Superior Threads has to say about their latest video. "In Video #26, Bob Purcell (Chief Threadologist of Superior Threads) discusses Superior's Thread Selection & Troubleshooting Guide. Using these guides will allow you to choose the exact fiber, weight, & sheen, to select for your end goal. The Troubleshooting guide is an excellent tool to use when figuring out any problems when sewing/quilting/embroidery."

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The author of the Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, met with the curator of the Victoria & Albert museum to work on a commissioned article for the V&A Magazine.  It turns out that Tracy was also going to begin some quilt research of her own on  for an upcoming book on Quaker immigrants.  To learn more about quilts, Tracy visited the textile store at Blythe House where she met Quilts curator Sue Prichard.

Tracy was commissioned to write the article to mark the opening of Quilts: 1700 - 2010, which is no longer at the museum.  However, you can download an App which allows you to view some of the quilts, click here to learn more about the app.

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Why Quilts Matter:  History, Art & Politics is an exciting 9-part series that takes viewers on a journey into the importance of quilts on American culture.  Shelly Zegart, the producer and host, takes the viewer on this educational journey and TQS wants you to travel along.

This is a gift for Star Members so make sure to be signed in.

Beginning today, Part 1 - Quilts 101 - Antique and Contemporary Quilts - is available free to Star Members through March 31, 2012. Each week a new episode will be presented:

• Episode 1 - Quilts 101 - Antique and Contemporary Quilts
• Episode 2 - Quilts Bring History Alive
• Episode 3 - The Quilt Marketplace
• Episode 4 - What is Art?
• Episode 5 - Gee's Bend: "The Most Famous Quilts in America?"
• Episode 6 - How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
• Episode 7 - Empowering Women One Quilt at a Time
• Episode 8 - Quilt Nation - 20,000,000 and Counting!
• Episode 9 - Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality 

                                                   

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Michelle Jackson has been teaching you The Value of ... Value! in Episode 1002.  This week she has sent TQS photos of her studio, some of quilts, and some up close and detailed photos of her quilts which only highlight how truly spectacular they really are!

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Judy Murrah recently started a blog.  She has a background of 30 years in teaching quilting and related arts, worked as an International Quilt Show planner, the author of a number of books, and also took over duties as the Vice President of Education and Adminstration for Quilts, Inc.

This last job keeps her quite busy and she misses contact with her students and friends. She started the blog to build a creative community of students and contemporaries.  And the best part is, she is a great friend of Ricky's!

Judy is going to be sharing with TQS now and in the future.  To start us off, here are directions for some beautiful Valentines.  Just head on over to Judy's blog by clicking here.  (http://judymurrah.wordpress.com/) Then scroll down the page until you reach Play Date #1 Valentines.  You might want to spend a little time looking over her adorable Heart Pillows as well  - Play Date #2 Heart Pillow.

If you have any questions, Judy will be looking at comments, both here and on her blog. 

Judy also just might be sharing a few stories about working with Ricky...

"There are stories to tell about working with Ricky when he was just a pup. We both weren’t sure how his musical program would be received so he first was presented at Quilt Festival with Virginia Avery. Virginia lost her voice and so he got a little more show time. I’ve always loved his music and his stories no matter how many times I hear him."