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• Design Your Own Longarm Patterns on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show

  

  Jodie’s guest this month is Loes van der Heijden shows how to design patterns for longarm quilting using her Art and Stitch software. The first thing Loes says is that you can design and stitch out a pattern in just ten minutes-and then she proves it! Load the software onto your computer, draw your design,

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• Quilt Out Loud! In New York City!

  

  This week, Jodie and Mark greet us from the fabric district in New York City. Check out this amazing bronze of a tailor: They then visit The City Quilter on 25th Street in Chelsea which is a quilting haven for the urban quilter and sewer. Owners Cathy and Dale Izzo have devoted the front 1/3

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• See Mark & Jodie in Person!

  

  This Saturday October 1, Quilt Out Loud! will be taping at Keepsake Quilting in New Hampshire. You can be part of it!

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• Save Our Stories! Volunteers Needed to Interview Quilters at 2011 International Quilt Festival

  

    This year at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas (November 3-6), a team of volunteers lead by the nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts will interview 64 Texas quiltmakers for the Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) oral history project.    The artists to be interviewed are all included in the forthcoming book

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• Kimmy Brunner on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show

  

  In week three of this month’s Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show, Kim Brunner is back with more hard-earned kknowledge on how to make sure your quilts come off the longarm machine square and flat. Keeping the end of the quilt straight is just as important as starting off straight Kimmy reminds us. As we

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• Quilters Apps

  

  Apps for quilters? Yup! You know quilters are all about tools, so yes to apps! One of the boons of having a smart phone is the ability to find what you want wherever you are, so a  quilt shop finder is for quilters what Aloqa and Urbanspoon are to foodies in need of just the

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• Quilting Gets Coverage in the Wall Street Journal!

  

  And better yet, I happen to know that they asked my friend Meg Cox to write the article; she didn’t pitch it to them. So quilting is getting some respect! This is a very interesting peek at Denyse Schmidt. Lucky Meg for getting to go behind the scenes! ~Jodie

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• Web Site Update

  

  Oh growing pains… The new site is a dream. It’s much easier to find videos, the quality is way better,  the social networking abilities are great (and open new opportunities for the future) , so I’m loving it. But new web sites always have issues, and one that is dedicated to video only amplifies that.

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• Memorial Service for Ardis Butler James

  

  Ardis Butler James passed away on July 7, 2011. She is remembered and mourned by her family and many close friends. Her contribution to the world of quilts remains as her great public legacy and will live on in the presence of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum and all its collections, research, exhibitions,

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• Boo to You! On Quilting Celebrations

  

  Quilting Celebrations: Episode #107 Boo to You At the drawing board, Patrick visits with his friend, Ronda Garland, about their mutual love of Halloween and Patrick’s new “Boo to You” door banner or wallhanging design. It’s the perfect quilted project to greet the trick-or-treating beggars with something for everyone – a little piecing, a little

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• Two-Time Machine Quilter of the Year Kimmy Brunner on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show

  

  Every quilter wants her finished quilt to lay flat and square. Machine Quilting Teacher of the Year winner Kimmy Brunner joins Jodie showing what we need to know about getting the quilt into the frame square and flat. She offers easy fixes to problems that work for all machine quilters whether longarm, shortarm or domestic.

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• New Thread Trimmer!

  

  At International Quilt Market I was asked to tape a video about the EZ Trimmer. I was impressed! See what you think! ~Jodie

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• Full Episode of August Quilt Out Loud! Is Up!

  

  It’s vacation time so Jodie and Mark open the show from the Jersey Shore, at the Spray Beach Yacht Club on Long Beach Island, New Jersey. To prove that summer doesn’t mean quilting stops, this Mark’s door knock is on a sailboat with artist and quiltmaker Carolyn Lee Vehslage! Jodie joins Carolyn to work with

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• On Quilty: WTQ Is Longarming? Part 1

  

  Newer quilters may have heard of longarm quilting, but maybe not. Many quilts today aren’t actually quilted by the person who does the patchwork — they’re finished by a longarm quilter. Special guests and longarming pros Robbie Ecklow and Ebony Love join Mary on location in a real longarm studio! Join us! Watch Quilty!

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• Quilting with a Gammill on Quilting Celebrations!

  

  So you think longarm quilting machines are only for quilting bed-sized quilts? Think again! Patrick’s talented longarm quilting friend, Jessica Jones, is back for another segment to show you how you can quilt the Autumn Leaves table runner and placemats on the wonderful Gammill Vision longarm quilting machine. Jessica teaches us her mother’s “Dragon’s Breath”

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• More “Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show” Coming Up!

  

  I’m off to Salt Lake City to the dream sewing studio at Handi Quilter to shoot six more epsiodes of Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show. My guests this round join a growing list of stars. I am always amazed at their talent and knowledge when we shoot! Theo and Loes Van Der Heuden from

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• A Quilt Out Loud! Doorknock Where?

  

  This month’s door knock on Quilt Out Loud! is a first…Mark gingerly steps from the pier onto a sailboat to visit artist and quiltmaker Carolyn Lee Vehslage. Carolyn is an art quilter using stenciling, printing, piecing and applique in her work and has exhibited worldwide. Jodie joins Carolyn to work with her on her current project which

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• Quilting Celebrations: August 2011 Week 2

  

  This week’s segment is packed with tips for making satin-stitched fusible applique easy. Patrick demonstrates how to trace the applique templates for the Autumn Leaves table toppers onto Lite Steam-a-Seam for fusing and then teaches some valuable techniques for satin-stitching like a pro! If your satin-stitched points on inside and outside corners need work, Patrick

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• Quilters TOOK Manhattan!

  

  It was a jam-packed quilter’s weekend in New York Cty this past weekend! Sunday Mark Lipinski and I taped the October episode of Quilt Out Loud! We opened the show in the Garment District. Yes, that man is sewing on a treadle machine. Mark is with Laurie whom we interviewed as a sample taste of a

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• Judy Woodworth Our Star on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show This Month

  

  This is Judy’s quilt “Fairy Dust.” “Pear Tree Sanctuary” Here are Jodie and Judy on the show! Judy Woodworth is an award winning quilter, teacher, author and professional longarm quilter. Judy Woodworth’s book Freemotion Quilting Handbook is useful for both domestic and longarm quilters and is packed full of inspiration, tips and patterns. She likes using

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