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TQS Member, wyomingquilter, AKA Sherry Reynolds, AKA Best of Show Winner at the Houston International Quilt Festival, created this fun quilt for the 2012 IQA Celebrity Silent Auction.  It measures 25" x 25" was machine pieced and quilted on a domestic machine and those "rhinestones" are actually Swarovski crystals.

Rhinestone Cowgirl - 36 pieces non-rotating

Rhinestone Cowgirl - 100 pieces non-rotating

Rhinestone Cowgirl - 100 pieces rotating

Rhinestone Cowgirl - 289 pieces non-rotating

Rhinestone Cowgirl - 289 pieces rotating

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Lucid Moments III was created by Libby Lehman for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative Celebrity Auction 2012.  It is 16" x 16" and was made from cotton and sheer fabrics.  If you'd like to learn more about Libby's techniques as used in this quilt, don't forget to watch her Threadplay video, available until December 31, 2012.

Lucid Moments III - 36 pieces non-rotating

Lucid Moments III - 100 pieces non-rotating

Lucid Moments III - 100 pieces rotating

Lucid Moments III - 289 pieces non-rotating

Lucid Moments III - 289 pieces rotating

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This week's puzzle comes straight from the TQS Quilt Gallery. This multi-awarding winning quilt is Skeletons From My Closet by Teri Barile.  Teri made the quilt for a Day of the Dead Challenge. Teri says it "Represents my not nearly dearly departed art quilter friends at a show and tell.

Teri's quilt won: First Place Art Wall Quilt at Road to California 2006, Best Interpretation of Theme at the Denver National Quilt Festival in 2006, and Best Use of Embellishments at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in 2006.

It measures 48" x 42" and was machine pieced and machine quilted.

Skeletons From My Closet - 36 pieces non-rotating

Skeletons From My Closet - 100 pieces non-rotating

Skeletons From My Closet - 100 pieces rotating

Skeletons From My Closet - 300 pieces non-rotating

Skeletons From My Closet - 300 pieces rotating

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Positive Energy 4 is a quilt Karen Eckmeier created using her "Layered Curves and Peaks" technique.

Here is what Karen says about her technique, "I like the term “playing” with fabric. The more I can touch and manipulate fabric, the happier I am. My “Layered Curves” technique began in 1997 when I got frustrated with the tedious process of curved piecing. I just wasn’t enjoying the sewing stage anymore – so I tried cutting wild  curves into the fabric, ironing the edges under ¼”, then topstitching  to another fabric, I would cut the underneath fabric away and continue the cutting/layering/topstitching process until I either ran out of fabric pieces or I got bored. The result was a happy combination of two techniques – curved piecing and fabric collage."

Positive Energy 4 is 33" x 43."  You can learn about Karen at her website, www.quilted-lizard.com.

Positive Energy 4 - 35 pieces non-rotating

Positive Energy 4 - 99 pieces non-rotating

Positive Energy 4 - 99 pieces rotating

Positive Energy 4 - 300 pieces non-rotating

Positive Energy 4 - 300 pieces rotating

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Tulip by Barb Persing was created from white cotton fabric, hand painted with ink, and free-motion quilted.  It measures 44" x 62" and is based on an original photograph.  To see more of Barb's work, visit her website, www.barbarapersing.com.

Tulip - 35 pieces non-rotating

Tulip - 99 pieces non-rotating

Tulip - 99 pieces rotating

Tulip - 300 pieces non-rotating

Tulip - 300 pieces rotating