Add
Private Notes
Marianne and Liz demonstrate triangle trimming techniques to make piecing this versatile unit fast and easy!
Fons & Porter share a great take-along project to do during the busy time before the holidays. These lovely Christmas ornaments can serve several purposes and can be made by hand quickly and easily.
Guest Faith Reynolds shows how to incorporate machine embroidery in your quilts. She demonstrates a new attachment for embroidering large designs without re-hooping and how to align and re-hoop large designs.
Liz and Marianne illustrate design options for using pieced equilateral triangles. They also demonstrate cutting and assembling equilateral triangles and showcase a clever idea for creating a wedding quilt.
Guest Ann Kisro provides insight on the use of novelty prints in quilts. She hammers out the basics of patchwork techniques and how to coordinate other fabrics with busy, novelty prints.
Quilters in the past considered Pine Burr a challenging pattern. Fons & Porter demonstrate tips and tricks for creating this vintage pattern.
Guest Faith Reynolds demonstrates how to use antique handkerchiefs in a quilt. She also shows how to make your own vintage handkerchiefs and create many pattern variations from one embroidery design.
Guest Ann Regal teaches the art of turning a photograph into a thread painting. She demonstrates how to prepare your fabric and machine for free-motion stitching and creates various effects with free-motion stitching.
Guest Marilyn Badger showcases the art of longarm quilting with tips and tricks to enrich your longarm quilting projects.
The rotary cutter has revolutionized cutting for quilters. Fons & Porter describe how to square up fabric and cut straight strips, how to cut accurate squares and rectangles and how to cut two types of triangles.
A special new ruler is used as Marianne and Liz explain how to cut both types of triangles for Flying Geese units from the same width strip. They also show how to join triangles for Flying Geese units.
A point trimmer is a handy tool to use when making a quilt block. Fons & Porter illuminate the path to more accurate patchwork. They show how to determine the angle to trim a triangle point and how to join pieces using trimmed triangles
The challenge is on! Liz and Marianne challenge quilters to use only five half yard pieces to create a unique wall quilt. As they demonstrate how to cut squares, half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles from the same width stripe!
