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Trailer 2912: How to Do Shadow Trapunto and Micro Stippling with Kumiko Frydl | How to Enhance Quilting Stencils with Alex Anderson

Debuting December 5, 2021: The master of miniature quilts, Kumiko Frydl, loves a challenge and it shows. Her full-size quilts filled with tiny and beautiful details on a miniature scale make for astounding quilts. She shares tips for creating shadow trapunto and micro stippling. While Alex shares tips for expanding your quilt designs by using stencils as a starting point.

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Trailer 2911: How to Use Inklingo for Quilt Blocks and Fussy Cutting with Linda Franz

Debuting November 21, 2021: Learn all about Inklingo from its creator, Linda Franz. Inspired by hand piecing, but used for hand piecing, machine piecing, and appliqué, Linda created Inklingo to make quilting more accessible. Join Alex, Ricky, and Linda as they demonstrate using Inklingo for both hand piecing and machine piecing. Plus, learn two methods of fussy cutting from Linda that will help you out on your next project.

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Trailer 2910: How to Make a Color Wheel Quilt, Perfect Piecing, and Heirloom Looks by Machine with Lee Chappell Monroe

Debuting November 7, 2021: Lee Chappell Monroe considers herself a ‘modernitionalist’ whose designs are a playful combination of traditional blocks with a modern twist. First, she shows Ricky how to expand your understanding of color (with a visual reminder) by making your own fabric color wheel. Then she shares with Alex, her ‘ 5 tips of the trade’ piecing tips for perfect flying geese, half-square triangles, partial seams, pressing, sashing and an easy ¼” guide on your thumb. Lee continues her tips and tricks for creating an heirloom hand-stitched look using machine stitches.

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Trailer 2909: How to Do an Improv Puzzle Quilt and Improv Curved Piecing with Cindy Grisdela

Debuting October 24, 2021: Cindy Grisdela designs eye-catching contemporary Improv quilts with fabric the way a painter uses paint. In this show, Cindy shows how to piece strips and scraps into blocks that fit together like a puzzle, a technique for free-hand cutting curves without templates, how to create variations using insets, triangles and her ‘confetti pops’ to make designs more dynamic, and much more!

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Trailer 2908: How to Make a Landscape Quilt with Figures with Meri Henriques Vahl | A Bedturning of Antique Quilts with Lisa Erlandson

Debuting October 10, 2021Meri Henriques Vahl joins Alex and Ricky for a fun-filled show all about creating people and places in art quilts. With demonstrations on both topics, Meri will help to enliven your quilts by showing you the tips and tricks she uses to bring her creations to life. Plus, quilt historian Lisa Erlandson stops by with some phenomenal antique quilts that sparked her love affair with collecting treasured textiles for decades.

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Trailer 2907: How To Make Cathedral Windows By Machine And Thread Paint with Lisa Ellis | Making A Contemporary Chinese Coins Quilt with Ricky Tims

Debuting September 26, 2021Lisa Ellis loves her grandmother's cathedral window quilt, but found the traditional method of making it too time consuming. As an engineer, Lisa designed a mock cathedral block that is a ‘quilt as you go’ machine-sewn method using charm squares. She also shares tips for adding thread painted lettering to your quilt project. Ricky also teaches how to make a contemporary Chinese Coins quilt.

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Trailer 2906: How to Repurpose Litter for Use in Your Quilts with Natalya Khorover | How To Upcycle Your Jeans Into a Quilt with Ricky Tims

Debuting September 12, 2021Natalya Khorover shows how to repurpose plastic and litter that usually gets tossed in the trash. Along with tips and tricks, she shares creative and out of the box ways to use them for collage and in your art quilts. Plus, Ricky makes a rail fence quilt using upcycled jeans.

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Trailer 2905: Learn Finishing Techniques and How to Quilt Your Garments with Kris Vierra

Debuting August 29, 2021Kris Vierra wants to take the fear out of quilting when it comes to free-motion quilting, quilted garments and finishing your quilts. After a show and tell of her quilts, she’s off and running to teach you simple tricks for trimming and squaring a quilt using tools from the hardware store.

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Trailer 2904: Learn Techniques for Spontaneous Design with Found Fabrics and Silky Surfaces with Sue Benner

Debuting August 15, 2021Sue Benner has been an art quilter for four decades. With a degree in molecular biology and a passion for art, her pieces often feature themes of cellular structure. Mixing complex dyed and painted textiles, Sue loves working in a series, with flowers being a recurring subject.

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Trailer 2903: Learn Paper Piecing with the Maven, David Sirota | Adapting Your Studio For Change with Lilo Bowman

Debuting August 1, 2021David Sirota stops by to teach us about Paper Piecing for the 21st Century, including a technique using Vellum that doesn’t require the need for tearing away paper. Then, TQS's very own Lilo Bowman is back to show share tips and tricks for adapting your studio space due to frequent moves, downsizing, or physical changes with aging.

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Trailer 2902: How to Work With Neckties And Silk with Julia McLeod | Korean Paper Cord Quilting With Youngmin Lee

Debuting July 18, 2021: Quiltmaker Julia McLeod joins Alex and Ricky to teach them how to tame and work with vintage neckties and silks, and how stabilization and a foundation can make a paper pieced design so much easier to sew accurately. Then, textile artist Youngmin Lee returns to demonstrate a Korean method of quilting using mulberry paper cording.

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Trailer 2901: How to Machine Appliqué Using a Blanket Stitch with Annie Smith | Amy Barrett-Daffin iPad Cover Tutorial

Debuting July 4, 2021: Annie Smith joins Alex and Ricky at our Dallas studio to demonstrate the basics of machine appliqué. Plus, C&T publisher, and quilter, Amy Barrett-Daffin shares an Ipad cover gift idea made using TAP (Transfer Artist Paper) and Kraft-Tex.

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Trailer 2813: Learn to Quilt in Monochrome and Technicolor with Sarah Bond

Debuting June 20, 2021: Sarah Bond’s dynamic and colorful quilt designs, based on traditional patterns, are influenced by the work of her female ancestors. Sarah will demonstrate how she modernizes a traditional Lone Star quilt, and her technique of playing tricks with color while working on a paper pieced diamond quilt.

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Trailer 2812: It's the Ultimate Thread Guide with Becky Goldsmith

Debuting June 6, 2021: Becky Goldsmith is back! What has she been doing? Join Alex, Ricky, and Becky as they take a deep dive into threads, fibers, and hand quilting.

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Trailer 2811: How to Work with One-Of-A-Kind Fabrics Including Thai Silk with Gale Carson

Debuting May 23, 2021: See how Gale Carson uses one-of-a-kind fabrics to create beautiful one-of-a-kind works of art and how she incorporates Thai Silks into her work. Plus, Alex gets in on the fun with a demo to make a quilt from Kaffe Fassett fabric.

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Trailer 2810: Learn Dyeing and Appliqué Techniques for Landscape Quilts with Sandra Mollon

Debuting May 9, 2021: Sandra Mollon demonstrates three different ways to dye fabric for landscape quilts in this brand new show. She then teaches Alex a prepared edge appliqué technique and a raw-edge fused applique technique, all which can be used for landscape quilts and artful gifts.

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Trailer 2809: Learn How to Teach Your Kids to Quilt and Mixed Media Projects with Dee Christopher

Debuting April 25, 2021: Learn how to successfully sew with kids and discover creative quilt projects for the kids in your life with Dee Christopher. Dee also shows you how to use paper and fabric to create wonderful mixed media art pieces.

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Trailer 2808: Learn Top Stitched Curves and Mark-Free Quilting with Mel Beach

Debuting April 11, 2021: Mel Beach wants to show you how to jump start your creativity through 100-day quilting challenges. You’ll roll the dice to start a simple project for 100-days. Mel will also show us how to do blocks with top-stitched curves and demonstrate mark-free free motion quilting. It’s great for using on your 100-day challenge.

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Trailer 2807: How to Use Natural Dyes and Hand Piecing with Youngmin Lee | Silk Tie Quilts with Alex Anderson

Debuting March 28, 2021: Korean textile artist Youngmin Lee joins Alex to talk about her latest work, give a demonstration on Ssamsol – a hand piecing technique, and there's a demontration of natural dyeing. Plus, Alex begins the show by demonstrating how to use silk ties to make a quilt.

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Trailer 2806: How to Do Machine Quilting | Quilting Masterclass

Debuting March 14, 2021: Learn machine quilting from some of the best in the world of quilting. Join Alex and Ricky as they learn from Gina Perkes, Jenny Lyon, Leah Day, and Jacquie Gering.

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