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If you are going to the International Quilt Festival in Houston this Fall, there is another exhibit you might not want to miss. Tutankhamun - The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs is going on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston from October 16, 2011 - April 15, 2012 and Quilt Festival fans are being offered a discount admission.
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Ricky Tims, Alex Anderson and Libby Lehman eductate, entertain and inspire.
The Ricky Tims Super Quilt Seminar in Asheville, North Carolina concluded yesterday. A big thanks to the Asheville Quilt Guild for providing all the volunteers for this event and a shout out to Bernina USA for their continued support. The Asheville Cotton Co. (Bernina dealer) was on site and new Bernina sewing machines went home with several quilters who took advantage of the dreat deals that were offered. The Ricky Tims Whoo-hoo Nation grew by about 470 with students coming from several states! And, most of them are heading home with new hand-dyed fabric, books, CDs and DVDs to add to their collection!
You know, you only have to shout out "whoo-hoo" to officially be part of Ricky's Whoo-hoo Nation. If you haven't done so, leave your whoo-hoo comment and make it official now!
One student found a new way to audition fabric before purchasing.
Thanks Asheville Quilt Guild Volunteers!!!
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Alex is heading off to Egypt in December of 2012 and you can go with her!
Join Alex and Jim West of Sew Many Places as they head off on a expedition of a lifetime.
You'll be sightseeing in Cairo and crusing the River Nile, visiting the Great Pyramids and saying hello to the Sphinx.
This is a 5-star journey all the way, don't let the camel ride fool you! For more information, click here, and hurry, there are a limited number of spaces still available.
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Turnabout is fair play, we recently featured one of Alex's quilts, so this week's featured puzzle is a quilt from our own Ricky Tims. Brazilian Fantasie is part of his series of Rhapsodie Fantastique quilts. If you'd like to see more of the quilts in this series, click here.
Brazilian Fantasie - 40 pieces non-rotating
Brazilian Fantasie - 100 pieces non-rotating
Brazilian Fantasie - 100 pieces rotating
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Dr. Bob the Thread Guy has a great video where he defines Staples, Egyptian, and Mercerized threads. Is Egyptian cotton thread really from Egypt? Click on the video to find out.
For more information on Superior Threads, please visit their website: click here.
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In their latest BERNINA Educational Video, Nina and Susan show you how to sew on a button using your machine and either a zigzag stitch, a universal stitch, or the Sew-on Program.
To watch other Bernina Educational Videos, click on 
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In Episode 902: When Serendipity Strikes: Portrait of a Quiltmaker featuring Lola Jenkins, Ricky demonstrated his method for improvisational piecing and created a Chantelle tulip quilt.
Now, One Lucky Winner will win the Chantelle-Shalom quilt that Ricky created in that show.
It's easy. Just email to Chantelle@thequiltshow.com (copy and paste into your address bar if it's not automatic) and put "Chantelle" in the subject line.
Then, in your e-mail, tell us why Ricky calls it his "Chantelle" quilt. If you don't know the answer, you can watch the episode and find out.
One name will be drawn randomly from those entries with the correct answer. You must be a TQS member to participate.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, enter today!
One entry per person. The contest ends Friday, September 30, 2011 at Midnight.
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Our members have been talking about this new series from Executive Producer Shelly Zegart. This 9 part series examines quilting in a whole new way.
The entire series is available on DVD directly from Why Quilts Matter (www.whyquiltsmatter.org). The DVD (in NTSC format) includes bonus features not available through the series. In addition you can access an Image Resource Guide through their website, which contains information about the quilts and images seen in each episode.
Here's what the Why Quilts Matter website has to say about the episode, "Quilt Marketplace."
The marketplace for quilts has always been a bit of a mystery. It’s hard to understand why some quilts are so much pricier than others, and why some old quilts aren’t worth anything at all. And how can an artist ask $10,000 for a brand new quilt…and get it? In this episode of Why Quilts Matter: History, Art & Politics, host Shelly Zegart takes you behind the scenes in the quilt marketplace—past and present—where you will meet its players, learn its unwritten rules, and penetrate its secrets. Discover why one 19th-century quilt was worth $264,000 and how a quilt can go from $150 to $20,000 as it passes from picker to dealer, up the ladder of expertise. Find out how artists price their quilts in the contemporary market and how technology is changing the playing field forever.
Here's a preview:
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Join TQS as we look around the Art Community in Asheville, North Carolina, where the Ricky Tims Super Seminar is taking place. Alex went 1 day early to see this amazing support of the local artists. Here is some of what she saw.
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6 Lucky TQS Members have been notified that they won a pair of Olfa Precision Scissors! And the winners are:
Mary C. Rogers, Aurora, CO
Jill Abery, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Patti Kaplan, Fox Point, WI
Gail Chelseth, Green Valley, AZ
Georgianna Barrus, Athol, MA
Linda Walker of Lakeland, TN
Congratulations ladies and thank you to OLFA!
If you want to see how great these scissors are, here's Alex:
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