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We know you'll enjoy assembling Lotus Leaves Squared, a delightful quilt from Christine Barnes.

You can find Special Effects with Color in Christine's classroom here at TQS.  In this class she demystifies color and shows you how to choose and combine fabrics—“magic fabrics”—to create special effects like luminosity, transparency, luster, and opalescence. Get acquainted with the basics (they are the building blocks of color) and put the concepts into practice with ten easy color studies. See how “the color makes the quilt” in a number of same-design, different-colorway examples. 

Christine's website: http://www.christinebarnes.com

You can also learn more about Christine in Episode 1407: The "New" Traditional: A Marvelous Mix of Fabric, Style, and Stitches.

Lotus Leaves Squared - 36 pieces non-rotating

Lotus Leaves Squared - 100 pieces non-rotating

Lotus Leaves Squared - 289 pieces non-rotating

Lotus Leaves Squared - 100 pieces rotating

Lotus Leaves Squared - 289 pieces rotating

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Vintage Berry Blossoms by Kim Diehl is a 60 1/2" x 60 1/2" quilt that she teaches in a six-hour class or two-day workshop.  Click here to learn more.

Watch Kim in Episode 1407: The "New" Traditional: A Marvelous Mix of Fabric, Style, and Stitches, which debuts on Monday, March 31, 2014.

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 36 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 100 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 289 pieces non-rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 100 pieces rotating

Vintage Berry Blossoms - 289 pieces rotating

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Gridlocked was designed and pieced by Tula Pink for her  book “Tula Pink’s City Sampler Quilts” It also happens to be the cover quilt! It was quilted by Angela Walters, who writes about the quilting on her blog.  Click here to go to Angela's blog.

You can watch Tula in Episode 1406 – Modernize Your "Toolbelt" with Terrific Techniques (Tula Pink/Karen Marchetti)

You can watch Angela in Episode 1306 – No-Pin Curves and Quilting "Modern" (Sheila Frampton Cooper/Angela Walters)

Gridlocked - 36 pieces non-rotating

Gridlocked - 100 pieces non-rotating

Gridlocked - 289 pieces non-rotating

Gridlocked - 100 pieces rotating

Gridlocked - 289 pieces rotating

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20 Petals was created by Karen Gloeggler for the Quilt Alliance TWENTY contest.  Here's what she had to say about the quilt, "20 petals, 20 fabrics, congratulations on 20 years! I’ve been designing quilts with “rays” lately and the Quilt Alliance game me a reason to finally make one. This is my original paper-pieced pattern, designed a month ago especially for the Quilt Alliance and machine-pieced and quilted by me. I chose a flower motif because like a flower, the Quilt Alliance is vibrant, beautiful and will last forever, just as a perennial! Congratulations times twenty."

You can watch Karen in Episode 1405: Drawing from the Past: Jane Austen-Inspired Quilts.

20 Petals - 36 pieces non-rotating

20 Petals - 100 pieces non-rotating

20 Petals - 289 pieces non-rotating

20 Petals - 100 pieces rotating

20 Petals - 289 pieces rotating

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Tiny Dancer is a scrappy quilt created by Victoria Findlay Wolfe who has made over 300 quilts, including Quiltcon 2013 Best of Show.  You can see more of Victoria's quilts by visiting her website at www.bumblebeansinc.com.  You can watch Victoria in action in Episode 1404: Jump Start Your Creativity with 15 Minutes of Daily "Play."

Tiny Dancer - 35 pieces non-rotating

Tiny Dancer - 99 pieces non-rotating

Tiny Dancer - 300 pieces non-rotating

Tiny Dancer - 99 pieces rotating

Tiny Dancer - 300 pieces rotating

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The Star Splitter (80" x 91") by Victoria Findlay Wolfe is the "cover" quilt for her book, 15 Minutes of Play available from C&T Publishing.

Victoria writes, "Remember as a child, looking through a Kaleidoscope and seeing all the fractured colors and light? I was thinkig about the patterns they make and that feeling you get gazing through the lens as I pieced all my scraps for this quilt."

The Star Splitter - 36 pieces non-rotating

The Star Splitter - 100 pieces non-rotating

The Star Splitter - 300 pieces non-rotating

The Star Splitter - 100 pieces rotating

The Star Splitter - 300 pieces rotating

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