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Simply Quilts focuses on one of the most enduring and popular of American crafts, quilting. Host and quilting expert Alex Anderson gives how-to information on making quilts, along with the historical and cultural information about quilting and specific quilt designs that make this pastime so special.

65 episodes

Season Premiere

5x01 Quilt Shop; Flying Geese Basics and Beyond

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How one triangle unit of fabric leads to several different quilt blocks; Flying Geese block.

5x02 Nature-Inspired Quilts

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How to design quilts inspired by nature; creating a leaf outline.

5x03 A Garden of Quilts

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How to make "Remembrance Rose" quilts with French fabrics; how to make inscriptions.

5x04 International Quilt

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Quilts from around the world at a Pasadena, Calif. exhibit; French block.

5x05 A Little Quilt Music

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Quiltmaker and fiddle player discusses similarities between the two; garden quilt.

5x06 Tortilla Quilt

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Tortilla Quilt Book; how to make and piece the quilt blocks, add the border and quilt the layers.

5x07 Quilt Fashions

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The Fairfield Fashion Show; history of folk dress; how to make quilted fashions.

History and uses of Native American quilting; quilt patterns; Seminole patchwork quilts.

Quilters share fellowship; how to make a quilted pillow.

5x10 Clamshell Block Quilt

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How to make a clamshell quilt; hand-stitched and machine "invisible stitch" appliques.

5x11 Computer Quilter

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Internet advantages for quilters; fabric printing; quilt designing; cyber quilting.

5x12 Magic Base Block

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Magic base block; Canadian star pattern.

5x13 Crazy Quilting

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Actress Tricia Cast shows the crazy quilt she made for fellow "The Young and the Restless" actress Lauralee Bell.

5x14 Hot Cross Buns

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Hybrid block "Hot Cross Bun" by Mary Ellen Hopkins.

5x15 Daddy's Ties

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Bow-tie quilt; tie pillows; the grandmother's fan.

Male quilter; floral needle-turned applique; having a quilt serialized in a national quilting magazine.

5x17 Images in Fabric

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Deidre Scherer discusses images on fabric; the importance of drawing and translating to fabric.

Faye Anderson tours her home and studio.

5x19 Angels in Our Quilts

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California quilters who make quilts for children of broken homes; how to make an angel quilt.

5x20 Stash Quilt

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Making a stash quilt from various fabrics; how to group different fabrics.

5x21 Hanukkah Quilting

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Celebrating Hanukkah with quilted objects; a "Happy Hanukkah" quilt.

5x22 First Lady of Quilting

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Making a double pinwheel quilt with the strip piecing technique.

5x24 Police Officer Quilter

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Officer Pam Munns, California Highway Patrol.

5x25 Sashiko Tote Bag

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International Quilt Market in Houston; a Japanese sashiko stitched tote bag.

5x26 Chronicle Quilts

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Quilting with treadle sewing machines; foundation piecing with newsprint.

5x27 New York Beauty

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Karen Stone shares her technique for making the New York Beauty block.

5x28 Broderie Perse

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Women dedicated to preserving U.S. quilt heritage; broderie perse.

5x29 Machine Quilting

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Machine quilting quilt tops; tips for marking quilts.

Pioneer quilter Carrie Hall's historic blocks; how to make templates.

5x31 Tools of the Trade

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Tools used to make quilts, from the antique to the modern; memory book; Victorian pin cushion.

5x32 Wildflower Applique

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Carol Armstrong demonstrates designing applique flowers using a light box.

5x33 Baby Tumbling Blocks

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Tumbling blocks pattern; the benefits of paper piecing; assembling rows efficiently.

Maverick quilts that don't fit a category; the Louisa May Alcott block.

5x35 Mirror Image Blocks

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Techniques from two mirror images of the same block; the importance of a design wall.

5x36 Calendar Mini Quilts

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Mini quilts of the months that can be used as banners.

5x37 Pine Tree Patchwork

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History of the triangle-shaped pine tree block.

5x38 Six-Hour Loving Quilt

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Houston Quilt Show (for children in need). Six-hour loving quilt with Kaye Wood.

Tahitian design applique quilts with Didi McElroy.

5x40 Mennonite Quilts

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With Barbara Garrette.

Hidden in plain view with Jacqueline Tobin. Crossroads block with Serena Wilson.

5x42 Jacobean Rhapsodies

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With Patricia Cambell Dianna McClun.

5x43 Snail’s Trail

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With Debbie Caffrey.

5x44 Snippet Sensations

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With Cindy Walter.

5x45 East Meets West

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Impressionist quilts of Japan. Japanese Shahiko with indigo blue fabrics with Gaye Sunada.

5x46 Freddy’s House

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Quilt-colored home with Freddy Moran.

5x47 Shooting Star Quilt

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Shooting star quilt with Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins.

5x52 Thread Magic

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With Ellen Anne Eddy.

With Anita Shackleford.

5x56 Adoption Quilts

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With Jodie San Chirico.

5x58 Quilt Novelist

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Quilt Novelist – Earlene Fowler; Goose and Pond Block – Nillie Lauder.

5x60 T Shirt Quilts

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With Linda Long

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