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In the newsletter this week, I've got a mini-review of Karen Combs' Value Viewers and a review of EZ Quilting's Easy Rule rulers. And Sophie reviews the latest "Possibilities" book, Super Simple Strips as well as a book of intriguing designs and techniques, Off Center Patchwork.

I'll be back in your inbox on March 15th.

'Til then, quilt up a storm!

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Handy Little Rulers From EZ Quilting

A review of Easy Rule Rulers from EZ Quilting

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Learn more in the full review

Picking Fabric With The Right Value

A quick look at Value Viewers from Karen Combs

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Color is very important in making beautiful quilts, but value - light, medium, or dark - also plays a big part in making a design work. Quilts are not always viewed under museum lighting, so the beauty of your quilt may be obscured if all its fabrics have the same value.

Karen Combs' Value Viewers help you make good value choices. Value Viewers are pieces of colored cellophane, each mounted in a white paperboard frame. By blocking the colors in the fabric, these viewers help you determine if a fabric is a light, a medium, or a dark.

One Value Viewer is red, the other green. The red one works with any color fabric but reds, and the green with any color but greens. I like the green viewer better, because it makes fabrics appear brighter and easier to see. I only use the red viewer on green fabric, when I can't use the green viewer.

If your quilt's design, particularly a secondary design, depends on fabric contrast to work, you must choose your fabric carefully. Karen's Value Viewers are just the help you need.

Where To Buy: Value Viewers

Karen Comb's Value Viewers
Learn more about Value Viewers at ConnectingThreads.com... click their logo!

Click here to visit
the Value Viewers forum.

Traditional Blocks Skewed Toward Contemporary

A review of Off Center Patchwork by Cheryl Adam	Click the book for more information
Let your favorite traditional blocks inspire exciting contemporary quilts. Cheryl Adam shows you how.

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Six-Inch Strips Assemble Quickly

A review of Super Simple Strips by Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan	Click the book for more information
You've never had so much fun with strips! The projects are great, and the techniques couldn't be simpler.

Learn more in the full review

Learn more in the full tip

Pfaff or Bernina?

In the Quilter's Review Forums this week, Serenity7Art needs your helping deciding between a Pfaff and a Bernina.

Follow the discussion in the Pfaff forum. You don't have to log in to read the messages!