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About once a month Ricky Tims sends out a newsletter. It will keep you current with what Ricky is doing and what specials are offered at the Ricky Tims Online Store. Each newsletter starts with Headlines so you can see "at a glance" what's included. Scroll down for short articles, and click the links to get FULL information about any topic. Let's stay connected! Sign up today!

Here's a sample of our newsletter:

• The Beat Goes On and On - Celebrate Love and Life! New KIT available!
• Quilting Challenge! - $500 prize could be yours!
• Quilter's New Year's Resolutions - Got One?
• Golden Threads - You Tell the Story
• Into Africa! - Ricky heads to the Dark Continent

As seen in NEW KIT! Make this glorious heartfelt quilt today! featuring Ricky Tims's Hand-dyed Fabrics $134 $99

Ricky made this bright and cheerful quilt to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of his heart surgery. It is featured in the February 2011 Issue of The Quilt Life magazine.

Featuring clever Seminole-pieced sashing and stylized appliqué hearts you can make this quick and easy quilt for yourself in no time. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to give it to a loved one who has had heart surgery, or make it as a charity auction donation. After all, February is National Heart Association month in the United States.

The kit includes 41/2 yards of Ricky's Caveman Multi-Brite fabric and 1/2 yard of his Red Hot Momma hand-dyed fabrics. The kit using Ricky’s hand-dyed fabrics, valued at $134.00, is available for only $99.00. Get it now!

We are doing backflips at the Ricky Tims Online Store! Our Web Guru Bob has found a way for us to offer a five-yard bundle of hand-dyed fabrics ONLINE! Until now, the bundle was only available at Ricky's seminars and quilt trade shows. So, to celebrate Ricky is issuing a challenge for you to create an original quilt with five (no more no less) of hisoriginal hand-dyed fabrics.

The winning design will be patterned, kitted, and offered online by Ricky Tims Inc. Choose your five fabrics today. Of course you can make your challenge quilt with Ricky Tims Hand-dyed Fabrics you already own – just be sure they are not hand-dyed by another person/company! For complete challenge rules, submission guidelines, and deadline information click the button below.

It’s that time again, when new challenges and invigorating dreams inspire us toward new goals. Most of us set personal New Year's resolutions, but we want to know if you made any resolutions for your quilting.

If not, why not do so? Then, tell us your 2011 quilting resolutions on Ricky's blog - just add a comment and make it official!

How has quilting changed your life? Do you have a story to tell? Share your quilt and quilting story (funny, inspirational, or otherwise) with Ricky, and perhaps it will be featured it in this new segment of the Ricky Tims Newsletter! This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please be brief, 150 words or less and attach a photo.

photo by Jim West

Ricky and Justin, along with Alex and John Anderson, and a group of forty-five quilt enthusiasts will be heading to Kenya to seek first-hand artistic inspiration from the Dark Continent. Stay tuned for wild tails to come in our next newsletter! The tour is organized and led by Jim West from Sew Many Places.