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Mother's Day is just around the corner.  Are you giving your mother a quilt or a table runner? Or, is your mother a quilter? Would she like a gift certificate to the local quilt shop, a bundle of fat quarters, a new rotary blade?

Submit a comment and let us know what you're giving your Mom for Mother's Day.  SSSSHHHHH, we promise we won't tell!

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Join Pam Holland as she takes a stroll through the International Quilt Association Spring Festival in Cincinnati, 2010.

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BERNINA is giving a $2500 BERNINA gift certificate and a $2500 gift card to The Home Depot just for sharing a story and a picture about your cluttered sewing space.  We want that winner to be a TQS member! Click on ENTER TODAY to share your story. You need to belong to Facebook to enter.

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Photo by Gregory Case Photography

It's time to reserve your tickets for the next series of TQS tapings! Information regarding dates, guidelines, and policies for requesting tickets appears below.

6 Days of Tapings (12 shows) at our new location: 
Daylight Productions Studio
4700 Sterling Drive, Suite I
Boulder, CO 80301

Dates: Thursday - Thursday, August 4-9, 2011.

Two shows taped each day. Attendance required for the entire day.

Cut-off date for ticket requests: July 15, 2011 or when "Sold Out"

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Everyone knows that Alex loves using pins for accuracy when it comes to perfect piecing the in traditional quilting.  But did you know that this is also the case when it comes to her paper piecing?

In her book Paper Piecing, Alex says that pinning for accuracy is just as important to her as traditional piecing.  The only difference is that you are pinning through fabric and paper at the same time. 

To align seams when sewing paper-pieced units together, insert a pin no more than 1/8" away on each side of the seam.

When sewing a block, such as the Kaleidoscope block, more care needs to be taken:

• Insert the first pin from the back of the one half of the block (exactly into the intersection).  Push the head of the pin firmly into both intersections.
• While holding the first pin tightly in place vertically, put the second and third pins on each side of the intersection no more than 1/8" from the first pin. 
  
• Let the first pin dangle loosely.  As you approach the intersection, remove the first pin at the last possible second, letting your sewing machine needle go into the same hole.

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This is a section of a larger show, but has good pictures of the floor and some interesting background.  It ends suddenly because YouTube has size limitations.

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Look who we caught driving the Gammill Vision 22 at the quilt show in Paducah, KY?  Is that dlquilter giving Ricky tips?

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There it is, laying there in front of you, that delicious piece of fabric. You stare it like you've been staring at it for the last 3 months. What to do?  What to make?  Does this ever happen to you?  What do you do when it happens?  Do you just start cutting and see what happens?  Do you run out to your stash and try to match fabrics? Do you break out the graph paper or Electric Quilt?  Do you go to your quilt shop and look around for inspiration?

Submit a comment and let us know what you do when Quilter's Block strikes.