Becky Goldsmith shows you how to machine appliqué using the Blanket/Buttonhole stitch on "Sizzle," the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 1, 2010What's up with all the rulers?
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 2, 2010Okay, so how do you choose a ruler?..
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 3, 2010How do you stop rulers from slipping as you cut?...
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 4, 2010It's time for cutting mats. What do you need to consider?
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 5, 2010Rotary Cutters changed quilting, but how do you choose?
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: January 6, 2010Small, medium and large. Too many choices. What do I do?
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: April 20, 2010Here's a Great Tip in just 44 seconds!
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: April 23, 2010Jan gives great tips and advice to keep your cutting on track.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: April 27, 2010Beware of the Optical Illusion created by rulers!
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: May 11, 2010Tips on Safety with Rotary Cutters. A good lesson for beginners and a good reminder for those of you who know better. Also, No Texting While Rotary Cutting!
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: February 12, 2010Let's get started. Here are the tools and tips you need to jump right into the world of Free Motion Quilting. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO WATCH
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: February 19, 2010Part I taught the tools, and now it is time to get down to business. Let's learn some techniques.
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: February 26, 2010Patsy Thompson brings you more ways to make your quilts exciting and your friends jealous.
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: March 5, 2010In order to answer your questions on Spray Basting, Patsy puts the answers to your top questions in this great video. Ready?
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: March 12, 2010Patsy shows you a special edge finishing technique.
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: March 19, 2010Your friends are wondering how you got so good. Keep going!
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: August 13, 2010Let's Get Good
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: August 20, 2010These fun stitches will make your quilt a special treat.
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: August 27, 2010Great tips on using the Swirl design. The results are fantastic.
Featuring: Patsy Thompson
Posts On: September 3, 2010Ready for Feathers?
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: May 14, 2010You've Seen the Quilt behind Jan and Alex. It's time to learn how you can make this beautiful block and put it into your masterpiece.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: May 21, 2010Start with the desired Sized Square......
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: May 28, 2010Make sure the diamonds come out the right direction by using the correct cutting techniques.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: June 4, 2010In this lesson you'll learn how to mark two different types of rulers with blue painter's tape. Click below to get the templates.
Click here for the Left Ruler Click here for the Right Ruler
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: June 11, 2010Watch carefully to correctly cut the mirror image strips.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: June 18, 2010Let's put the pieces together into a block.
Featuring: Jan Krentz
Posts On: June 25, 2010Here are Options for Setting the Block
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 17, 2010Class bell has rung once again - Time to sharpen up both your machine and hand needles for applique - ALL ways!
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 18, 2010It's all about prep and iron safety -
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 19, 2010Let's start with the stems.....
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 20, 2010It doesn't always come out right the first time.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 25, 2010Or how about the bias bar technique?
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 26, 2010There's one more cool tool and then the poor man's version - which I personally adore!
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 27, 2010gotta love fusible for fast, fun and down and dirty.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 1, 2010Needle turn - the oldest trick in the book.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 2, 2010If needle turn is not your bag - glue prep may be your next thing.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 3, 2010Spray starch prep is my personal favorite - love this approach!
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 8, 2010Dealing with inside curves and securing shapes to the back ground.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 9, 2010Before we hop on our machines let's talk about hand work.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 10, 2010Let's take a peek at the hand applique stitch, finishing and knots.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 15, 2010Loving the hand blanket stitch
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 16, 2010Machine applique 101
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 17, 2010Machine settings for finished edge applique
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 22, 2010Blanket stitch by machine is super fun and easy.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 23, 2010Class is complete with a final show and tell.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 2, 2010Jeanie introduces the lessons and shows some examples of how printing on fabric is used by quilters. By the end of all the lessons you will be able to make a fun pillow with those special pictures.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 9, 2010Everything starts with a picture. So how do you get the picture onto your computer. It's not hard. Here's how.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 14, 2010If you only have a printed out picture, you can still get it in your computer.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 16, 2010Make sure the picture is the right size for the project.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 21, 2010There are a few important steps to make your picture print out correctly. It's no different than following a recipe.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 23, 2010Here are a few more tips for the perfect results.
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
Posts On: July 28, 2010Get the picture the perfect size for the project.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 9, 2010Alex shows how to construct one of her favorite blocks.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 16, 2010Alex tells about the goals of the class.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 21, 2010Alex goes over the Basic tools of the trade for piecing.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 22, 2010Does Fabric quality count?
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 23, 2010Alex explains how the fabric grain affects its behavior
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 28, 2010To Prewash or Not Prewash?? (Disclaimer: The Management of TQS does not take a position on Politics, Religion, Prewashing or Hip Hop music. The opinions are that of the speaker.)
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 29, 2010Understanding Basic Rotary Cutting. Also, taking the fear out of fractions.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 30, 2010Love all your fingers equally, but don't make your fingers equal length.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 5, 2010Let's start cutting.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 6, 2010For Accuracy, It's all in the details.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2010Ready, Set, Go!!
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 12, 2010Pressing while piecing is important. Here are some tips.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 13, 2010Piecing demonstration
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 14, 2010Let's Keep Piecing the Star
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 19, 2010Pinning so the Points Match-up Perfectly
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 20, 2010Let's Complete Our Block
Featuring: Sue Garman
Posts On: December 10, 2010All 12 videos are here in one place. Click on the Playlist indicator on the top left of the screen to select the video you want to watch.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 4, 2011Piping adds fun and color to your quilt. Here's Margo's technique.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 5, 2011Here are some tips to make the blocks come together
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 7, 2011Good tools make the work go quickly. Retrofit your glue bottle now.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Learn how to make quilt labels with your computer.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Quick and Easy "Game" Quilt - Toss a bean bag onto a matching quilt block!
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Transfer a Quilting Design without Marking Your Fabric
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Margo shows you how to press your half-square triangles and how to remove the paper from them in order to prepare them for your quilt.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Margo shows you how she turns 1/2 square triangles into Pinwheel blocks.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Straight from Margo's sewing room...learn how to attach a sleeve to a quilt that already has a binding.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: August 18, 2012Margo sets up her sewing machine and takes a test run to make sure she is achieving 1/4" accuracy when she sews a seam.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: March 12, 2013In this video, you'll learn how to create a faux-piped binding (also known as a mini-flange) for your quilt.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: May 24, 2013Margo teaches you how to draft a LeMoyne Star.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Getting Started.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Square means Square!
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Thinking About It!
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Enlarging One Way.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 1.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 2.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 3.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 4.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 5.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 6.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 7.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 8.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 9.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Wilderness Adventure Part 10.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 1.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 2.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 3.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 4.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 5.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 1, 2011Alex at Autumn Rock Part 6.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011More About "The Secret."
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Viva Violetta.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Applique Hot Springs.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Adapting Designs.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Back at it!
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Pronghorns and Heads Up.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Las Vegas and Cutting Corners.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Quilt Gallery and Mirror Ball.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Santa Fe and Ironing Boards.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Opera and Applique.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Carman and Reverse Drawing.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 8, 2011Rio Grande and Prep Work.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: May 25, 2011Rob shows you how to alter the image.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: June 17, 2011Rob Appell guides you through his process of designing a portrait quilt beginning with some equipment and tools.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: June 23, 2011Selecting fabric and starting to fuse.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: June 25, 2011Cutting out the fused pieces.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: June 30, 2011Learning how to lay out the fused pieces with the help of a Teflon sheet.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 2, 2011Laying the fused faces out on the background.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 7, 2011Preparing the inner flange border and outer border for sewing.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 9, 2011Stitching the top and bottom inner and outer borders to the quilt in a single step.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 14, 2011Learning how to attach the inner flange and outer borders to the sides of the quilt.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 16, 2011Preparing the backing and pin basting the quilt.
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: July 21, 2011Prepping your machine and yourself to begin the magic of machine quilting.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: April 26, 2011Master teacher, Nancy Prince, gives you a short overview of the 6 exciting thread painting & thread sketching projects to start or augment your thread adventure.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: April 29, 2011Nancy Prince shows you your stitches that will make you a success in thread painting and sketching.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: May 6, 2011Simplicity is the way to start and this project fills the bill. Solitary Tree introduces you to both the straight stitch and the zigzag stitch and will create a comfort zone for the projects that follow.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: May 13, 2011Repetition is the best way to perfect your thread painting skills and creates confidence. This is the confidence you need to spur you onto more advanced projects.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: May 20, 2011Thread sketching is meant to give the idea of a design but not capture its entire essence. It is fast and simple and way too much fun!
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: May 27, 2011In part II the same design is used but this time thread painting completes the design. You will be able to see the same design completed in two different methods. Thread painting takes a bit more time, but the results are a bit more dramatic.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: June 3, 2011This project incorporates quilting fabric as part of the design. Thread sketching is used to augment the flower to give it realism. A simple thread sketched line creates the idea of a stem and leaves. Using different weights of thread is used to increase realism in your projects. Sounds like fun- you bet it is!!
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: January 2, 2012Sarah Vedeler-Sarah gives you great tips and information so you can create your own Sedona Star BOM 2012.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: February 1, 2012Sarah Vedeler-Sarah gives you great tips and information so you can create your own Sedona Star BOM 2012.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: March 1, 2012This month you will make the first of 3 paper pieced star blocks. There are 3 copies of this block in the quilt. If you are using the Buttons and Blooms fabrics to make your quilt, you will see that the fabrics used for the star points have a stripe on them. The instructions for this month (and the video too!) show you how to align the stripe so that it is centered through the star points.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: April 1, 2012This month you will make the second set of paper pieced stars (3 copies again). Whereas the star in Month 3 was created as a ring, the star this month is created in sections that are then stitched together. Watch the video this month to see some tips for sewing the circular stars into the background hole.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: May 1, 2012This month you will create the last set of paper pieced stars (3 copies). You will also set the star blocks into the quilt top. The video for this month will give you some tips on how to create perfect Y seams – it’s really quite easy to do!
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: June 1, 2012This month changes the pace with the first of 3 appliquéd blocks. You will be making 3 copies of this block. If you’ve never used the AccuQuilt GO! Cutter before, check out the video this month to see why I love to use it for cutting all of my appliqué shapes. It makes your cutting very fast and accurate.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: July 1, 2012This month you will work on the second of the appliquéd blocks. You will be making 3 copies of this block.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: August 1, 2012This month you will work on the third of the appliqued blocks, 3 copies of it. You will also set the appliqué blocks into the quilt top. Check out the video for this month for a refresher on how to make perfect Y seams.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: September 1, 2012This month you will add the setting “triangles” to create a big circle, and then add a paper pieced circular border. The setting “triangles” are a great place to feature some really cool quilting or trapunto. Check out the video for some ideas. You’ll find a few templates for quilting included in the instructions.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: October 1, 2012This month you will work on two of the large corner pieces. There’s lots of appliqué to be placed, and these are large quilt pieces, so be sure to check out the video for a refresher on how to get those appliqué shapes exactly where you want them.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: November 1, 2012This month you will complete the appliqué for the 4 corners of the quilt.
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: December 1, 2012This month you'll be adding the outside border. The outside border consists of 84 diamond in a square blocks that finish at 4" x 4." Two different constructions methods are offered.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: March 27, 2012If we understand how color is seen we can learn to use color to make things clearer for the viewer. It will help us to better communicate the story we are telling in our quilts.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: April 3, 2012Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue as if color was not present.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: April 10, 2012We talk about colors being warm or cool, but what makes it so?
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: April 17, 2012Why do we like the color combinations that we do? Looking at the Color Wheel.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: April 24, 2012Let’s look at what pattern and texture styles we have as fiber artists to work with and let them help us tell our story.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: April 30, 2012What does color say and what gives it personality?
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: May 8, 2012Learn about shifting to the left or right on the color wheel.
Featuring: Michelle Jackson
Posts On: May 15, 2012Adding color is as easy as choosing one of the three values and instead of using natural colors we replace it with another color.
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: May 22, 2012An introduction to Barb Persing's four-step approach to designing the quilting for your quilt.
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: May 29, 2012Step 1 of the 4 steps - What is the category of your quilt?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: June 5, 2012Step 2 of the 4 steps - What is the intended use of your quilt?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: June 12, 2012Step 3 of the 4 steps - How much quilting is needed to enhance this quilt?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: June 19, 2012What is an allover quilting design?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: June 26, 2012What is partial custom quilting?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: July 3, 2012What is heirloom/show quilting?
Featuring: Barbara Persing
Posts On: July 10, 2012Step 4 of the 4 steps - What type of thread should you use?
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura Nownes introduces you to her Contemporary Sampler Quilt class and tells you what types of supplies and fabrics you'll require. The finished quilt measures 46" x 46."
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura Nownes talks about fabric terminology.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura discusses the tools you'll need to get started on your Contemporary Sampler Quilt.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura shows you how to press your fabric when piecing.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura talks about thread choices.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura talks about selecting a sewing machine.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 24, 2012Laura gives you tips for successful piecing using a 1/4" seam.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: July 31, 2012Learn how to make a 6" Nine-Patch block.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: August 7, 2012Learn how to make a 6" Pinwheel block.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: August 14, 2012Learn how to make a 3" Quarter-Square Triangle block.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: August 21, 2012Learn how to make a 6" Sawtooth Star block.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: August 28, 2012Learn how to make a 6" Log Cabin block.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: August 31, 2012Learn how to join blocks together in sections, add sashing pieces, join sections and add borders. Also learn how to measure and press for success.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: September 2, 2012Alex shows you how to make and attach a binding to a quilt.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: September 2, 2012Rob demos his method for pin basting a small quilt in preparation for machine quilting. This is part of his Making A Portrait Quilt classroom.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: September 2, 2012Quilt basting with an adhesive spray can prove to be a life saver. But, there are a few steps to follow when preparing your quilt sandwich for success.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: September 2, 2012Laura talks about binding your quilt.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 9, 2012Alex shows you how to create and add a binding to your quilt.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: November 30, 2012Christine introduces her classroom and discusses terminology and what you'll be learning.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: December 4, 2012Use value - the lightness or darkness of color - to create the illusion of depth and establish the design of a block or quilt.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: December 11, 2012Use this concept to balance your design or to emphasize an element in a block or quilt.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: December 18, 2012This subtle characteristic does more to set the mood of a block or quilt than any other concept.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: December 25, 2012Discover unexpected color ideas using this classic color tool.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: January 1, 2013Magic fabrics are the secret weapons for special effects. Recognize fabrics that are "shot with light," gently dappled, or gradated.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: January 8, 2013Learn to create both parent/child and layered transparencies.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: January 15, 2013Use the "luminosity recipe" (it's simple and foolproof) to create a sense of glow.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: January 22, 2013Create a sweep of light using a special category of magic fabrics for a lustrous look.
Featuring: Christine Barnes
Posts On: January 29, 2013Create the look of milky white opals using just-right fabrics.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: October 25, 2012Join Lauren as she introduces you to the art of embellishment and discusses what to expect in upcoming classes.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: October 30, 2012Raw Edge Applique
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: November 6, 2012Machine Quilting with Metallic Thread
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: November 13, 2012Decorative Machine Stitches
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: November 20, 2012Hand Stitching
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: November 27, 2012Bead Embroidery
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 9, 2013Learn proper scaling and which paper to use when paper-piecing the 2013 BOM.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 11, 2013Margo Clabo shows you how to paper-piece with an Add-A-Quarter Ruler.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 15, 2013Margo shows you how to use tracing paper or vellum to help you paper-piece your project.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: January 29, 2013Margo shows you a paper-piecing method using freezer paper.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: February 11, 2013Margo shows you the Striplate Technique.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: March 1, 2013Margo offers cutting and piecing tips for the Month 3 blocks.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: April 1, 2013Options for creating a full-size master template which can be used for dark fabrics as well as prints. Preparing applique shapes. Preparing applique circles. Attaching the applique and suggested stitches. Stitching the applique shapes. Trimming the corners to add the arcs. Squaring up the final block. Some great additional tips which can be used for many projects.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: May 1, 2013Margo shows you how to paper piece the center stars for Month 5.
Featuring: Margo Clabo
Posts On: June 1, 2013Great tips for working on the appliqué border. Learn how she "downsized" her border for her smaller version of the quilt and talks about different ways to create applique vines.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2013Ricky introduces you to the fabrics for this project and discusses pre-washing and proper folding for this particular project.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2013Ricky works on a design wall and offers tips on laying out the first set of main blocks.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2013Progress on Gaelic Blessing continues and Ricky demonstrates the positioning of the alternate blocks.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2013Preparing the background pieces for the Celtic cross appliqué units with a cool precision tip.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2013Ricky shows you how he prepares his raw edge appliqué prior to stitching using Steam-A-Seam 2.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 18, 2013Creating the center of the Celtic cross.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 17, 2013Ricky finishes up the quilt top and shows you a quilting design.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: June 21, 2013Getting started, transferring the design, preparing the background and cutting the appliqué.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: July 21, 2013Ricky shares his techniques for double blanket stitch machine appliqué.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: August 21, 2013Ricky shares his no pins precision curve piecing and inset curved corner piecing.
Featuring: Helen Gibb
Posts On: June 24, 2013Helen introduces you to her Embellished Vintage Style Postcard Class
Featuring: Helen Gibb
Posts On: June 25, 2013Building the base - fabric selection, ribbons, trims, images -- learn how to sew down the ribbon and tack down elements.
Featuring: Helen Gibb
Posts On: July 2, 2013Adding elements -- Learn how to attach the fabric print and some ribbons.
Featuring: Helen Gibb
Posts On: July 9, 2013Embellishment -- Learn how to attach lace leaves, bow, trim and little seed beads.
Featuring: Helen Gibb
Posts On: July 16, 2013Finishing Elements -- Learn how to attach flowers, leaf vine, and other do-dads. See what you can do with your piece once it is completed, e.g. framing, journal, tote bag, portion of a larger piece.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Alex introduces the Le Moyne star and gives tips about fabric selection.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Cutting the pieces for your 12" Le Moyne star.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Cutting the background, marking and laying out your pieces.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Learning to align the pieces and sewing together the star tips.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Pressing Tips
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Assembling the four parts of the star and learning pressing and trimming techniques.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Joining the two halves together.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 30, 2013Final pressing and you're done!
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: July 26, 2013Lauren talks to you about the supplies you'll need to create your whimsical face on fabric.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: July 30, 2013Learning the landscape of the face and laying out the features.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: August 6, 2013Creating the eyes.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: August 13, 2013Adding the nose and mouth and putting it all together.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: August 20, 2013Assembling the mini-quilt.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: August 30, 2013Learn how to make a quick and easy tote for your groceries.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013Alex lets you in on the project and some of the challenges.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013You need to make sure your 1/4" is accurate to make the quilt come out right. Here are some great tips.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013Here are the instructions for cutting with the Tree Block with a rotary cutter.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013Alex shows how to use the Accuquilt GO! to speed up the process.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013Want Exact Points? Paper piecing is a great technique.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 7, 2013Alex finishes the block and shows how to correctly place the trees together
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 18, 2013Alex shows you two ways to create half-square triangles for the Holiday Lights inner border. Bloc-Loc rulers are available at http://www.blocloc.com; Laura Nownes Reverse-a-rule is available at http://www.lauranownes.com/favoritetools.html.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 18, 2013Alex teaches you how to make the strip border as the background for the appliqué.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: October 22, 2013Alex shows you how to make the appliqué for the border and talks quilting designs.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 14, 2013Pam gives you a look at the classes in the Fall Clubhouse.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 15, 2013Learn How to create a lovely Fall Leaves Garland.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 16, 2013Learn how to create a fun Fall Banner to decorate your mantle.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 17, 2013Learn how to create a cute, ruffled tea towel for Fall.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 17, 2013Alex teaches Ricky how to make a ruffle.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: October 18, 2013Learn how to make this cute Fall project featuring purchased napkins.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard
Posts On: December 3, 2013Lyric shows you how to use silks, velvets, and other sumptuous fabrics that quilters don't normally use.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard
Posts On: December 10, 2013Lyric shows you how to construct your scarf.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard
Posts On: December 17, 2013Lyric shows you how to bring a touch of extra elegance to your silk scarf by adding a simple beaded fringe.
Featuring: Pam Vieira-McGinnis
Posts On: December 8, 2013Make this skirt using your own designs or make it in a day using the AccuQuilt dies.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: December 30, 2013Learn how to make a flying geese block with just one seam.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: January 7, 2014Cheryl introduces you to her Folding Fiber Books classroom and shows you examples of her work.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: January 14, 2014Cheryl shows you how to make a page out of a photograph.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: January 21, 2014Cheryl shows you how to add appliqué, words, and photos to your page.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: January 28, 2014Cheryl shows you how to add a map to your folding fiber book and how to print on organza.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: February 4, 2014Cheryl shows you how to combine photos and applique to make a single scene. She also shows you how she made the cover of her book.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: February 11, 2014Cheryl shows you how to put together and finish your folding fiber book.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 16, 2019Becky Goldsmith shows you how to sew together the ring sections of Block 8 for "Sizzle," the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Joe Cunningham
Posts On: April 2, 2007Joe Cunningham, avid hand quilter, shares a unique but time honored way to baste quilts in preparation for quilting in a hoop or on a machine. Show includes a visit from Bob, The Thread Guy, and a musical duo performance by Joe and Ricky.
Featuring: Judith Montano
Posts On: January 7, 2008Judith Baker Montano, Queen and master crazy quilter, shares fun ways to enhance fabric photo imagery using multiple threads, ribbons and embellishment techniques. In addition, Judith takes us on a field trip to her fabulous home and outstanding garden. Show includes a visit from Bob, The Thread Guy, who demystifies the difference of cotton and poly thread.
Featuring: Jane Sassaman
Posts On: July 7, 2008Contemporary quilt artist, fabric designer, author and teacher, Jane Sassaman teaches how to create a stunning quilt using large, bold prints with a simple silhouette pattern. Jane also shares how she conceives, designs and develops a new fabric line. Also, Ricky shows how to set in corners which also optimizes beautiful fabrics. In show 301 you will discover new ways to optimize today's beautiful large-scale prints.
Featuring: Margaret Miller
Posts On: January 5, 2009It's a whole "New Angle" on the familiar Four-Patch block as popular teacher, author, and quilt artist Margaret Miller demonstrates her nifty new tool. Alex and Ricky continue the theme by turning the Four Patch and the Nine Patch block "on its ear." Finally, Bob Purcell (Thread Guy) shares his expertise on choosing the best needle for machine quilting. Don't miss this fabulous kickoff to the New Year at TQS!
Featuring: Melinda Bula
Posts On: July 6, 2009Melinda Bula is an award-winning quilter--including Best of Show in Chicago 2009--Melinda creates Fabulous Fusible Flowers using thread and fabric. Ricky opens the show, demonstrating luminosity using the "7-value system." Melinda follows, showing how to build her lovely Sunflower pattern. You'll love learning how to design and achieve depth and reality in your quilts. With two great teachers, the Treasure Chest, Lilo as clothes model, and lots of smiles, Series Five starts off with a bang.
Featuring: Jinny Beyer
Posts On: January 4, 2010Join Alex, Ricky, and the TQS crew as legendary quilter, author, and fabric designer Jinny Beyer invites us into her home in Northern Virginia, where she shares her finely honed techniques - and lots of tips - for successful hand piecing. Jinny believes that it can be faster and more accurate to piece by hand, and in this episode she'll show you how. While we're "in the neighborhood," we open the TQS Treasure Chest at Jinny's shop, Jinny Beyer Studio, and share some great gift ideas. You won't want to miss this fun and info-loaded on-site show!
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: April 5, 2018In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Baby Jane ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
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Featuring: Nancy Brown
Posts On: July 5, 2010Join Alex and Ricky as they meet quilt artist Nancy S. Brown on location in the Oak Barrel room at Northern California's Wente Winery. Nancy, best known for her amazing, award-winning, hand-appliqued animal portraits, explains how childhood outings to the zoo inspired her choice of subject matter, and reveals a surprising secret about her wedding dress. She also shares the thought process that goes into each design, the various techniques she employs to translate the design to fabric, and some of her favorite hand-applique tips... and wait 'til you see the gifts exchanged between guest and hosts!
Featuring: Susan Carlson
Posts On: January 3, 2011Series 8 gets off to a free-wheeling start as fabric artist, designer, author, and teacher Susan Carlson visits the set with the lowdown on how she creates her "serendipitous" collage-like quilts. Get inside her design process, pick up some tips on using your fabric scraps as "paint," explore the potential of interpreting the same design in three different colorways, and learn a cool technique for applying binding. All this, plus Ricky shows you how to splice (and spice) your fabric by inserting a "lifeline" sliver.
Featuring: Susan Brubaker Knapp
Posts On: July 4, 2011It's a true "multimedia experience" as quilt artist, teacher, and pattern designer Susan Brubaker Knapp joins the TQS gang on location at the home of Hugh and Dee Dee Eaton in Monument, CO. Susan shares some of her traditional and art pieces in a wonderful show and tell, and then - after a brief "musical interlude" (accompanied by Ricky) - she gets down to business, demonstrating her method for making consistently sized vines and her techniques for needle-turn appliqué. She also shows how she designs and creates a quilt using an original photo and her computer. (Bonus: The demo pattern will be available on the TQS website for download.) We wrap up with a visit to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO, which opened its doors in 1990 as a showcase for Colorado quilts and quilting.
Featuring: Susan Cleveland
Posts On: January 2, 2012Ring in a new year - and a brand-new series - with TQS as we catch up with designer, author, and teacher Susan Cleveland (Episode 109) on location at Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, CO. Susan shares some of her latest quilts and her new technique for stitching perfect miters. Next she tackles prairie points. (Bet you'll love her simple method...and her three delightful prairie-point variations.) We wrap with a visit to the NY home and studio of award-winning master quilter Jane Holihan, known for her impeccable hand appliqué and quilting. What a way to start the year!
Featuring: Tom Russell
Posts On: July 2, 2012Series 1100 gets off to a "dazzling" start as quilt artist (and embellishment aficionado) Tom Russell visits the set with a show and tell of his wonderful quilts and loads of brilliant ideas for using beads and buttons to dress up your work. Tools, techniques, tips and tricks…Tom covers it all! The episode wraps with a demo from Alex, who shows how easy it is to create ruffles using the BERNINA ruffling foot. You won't want to miss this stellar series kick-off!
Featuring: Sue Nickels
Posts On: January 1, 2013Following up her highly popular appearance in the 400 series, quiltmaker, teacher, and author Sue Nickels returns to the TQS set, this time to share the secrets behind her fabulous quilted feathers. You'll love her simple approach to designing even the most complex motifs…and her favorite tips? Not to be missed! There's even an opportunity for you to get in on the act with a special TQS contest. Then Ricky shares an impromptu musical interlude with talented TQS member Rita Connolly, and we go on the road to meet Kathy Plank, who gives us a taste of the annual Sisters (OR) Home and Garden Tour, including stops at some colorful, quilt-bedecked gardens.
Featuring: Jean Wells
Posts On: July 1, 2013We couldn't imagine a more appropriate guest to kick-off Series 1300 than artist, teacher, author, and legendary shop owner, Jean Wells, who returns with an update on her continuing shift in creative direction. After sharing her favorite sources of inspiration, Jean shows the important role of value in building her quilted compositions, her approach to construction, and how she overcomes the occasional creative rut. (Look for Jean’s "What If I Get Stuck?" worksheet on the Projects page.) We wrap with a tour of Jean's beautiful home and studio in Sisters, OR, and her great tip for giving your quilt a portrait finish.
Featuring: Janet Stone
Posts On: January 6, 2014We're thrilled to kick off our 1400 series with a visit from quilt designer and award-winning quilter Janet Stone. Ever since childhood, Janet has been intrigued by typography, and her wonderfully original designs—including A-Z for Ewe and Me, our 2014 TQS Block of the Month quilt—clearly demonstrate this lifelong passion for all things "alphabet." In this show, Janet shares a "flock" of tips for stitching accurate and easy flying-geese and half-square-triangle units, as well as some terrific ideas for creating machine-appliquéd letters . . . all useful techniques for making your own version of the BOM quilt. Also, Ricky demonstrates how to spice up your bindings with a scalloped detail.
Featuring: Jane Dunnewold
Posts On: July 7, 2014We launch Series 1500 with a visit to the Texas studio of artist, instructor, and author Jane Dunnewold, well known for the one-of-a-kind fabrics she creates with printing, dyeing, resist, and other manipulations. In this episode, Jane discusses the meaning of surface design, and shows how she transfers a black-and-white copyright-free image to prepared for dye (PFD) silk, which she then embellishes with watercolor pencils and needle felting. You'll love our tour of her wet/dry studios, a delightful blend of old and new. Finally, Jane, who uses a hula hoop as a preventative for back problems, coaxes Alex and Ricky to give this childhood classic a try it. An informative—and fun—start to a new season!
Featuring: Jinny Beyer
Posts On: February 4, 2010Jinny shares what inspires her Fabric Design.
Featuring: Jinny Beyer
Posts On: February 19, 2010Jinny has an understanding of color and shading that will enrich every quilter's next project. You will be given tips and tools in this video, including a place on the internet to get color palette help.
Featuring: Jinny Beyer
Posts On: February 19, 2010Jinny shows us how to incorporate border prints into our quilts.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: November 26, 2010Linda Taylor introduces us to this fun new series of lessons on Longarm Quilting. She begins with an overview of the Longarm machine.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: January 27, 2016Learn how to find the straight of grain in your fabric.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: June 28, 2011Alex tells you what these classes are going to be about.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: September 11, 2012Frieda Anderson and Laura Wasilowski from the Chicago School of Fusing share basic fusing tips. They talk about how to apply fusible web, the fabrics to use, Wonder Under 805 from Pellon, and the tools you'll need to get started. They also introduce two projects: Birds and Flowers and Prairie Flowers.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: October 12, 2016Libby starts with a basic stitch.
Featuring: Paula Doyle
Posts On: March 12, 2014Alex chats with author, Paula Doyle, about her book "Mini-Mosaic Quilts."
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: August 27, 2013Choosing a photograph for your project.
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Posts On: March 13, 2014How did it all start for Ernest?
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: January 1, 2018During this first month, we will prepare all the templates, create the patchwork units, and prepare all the background units for appliqué. The instructions do not contain the pattern. Purchase the kit or the pattern directly from the Ricky Tims Online Store at www.rickytims.com/online-store.
Featuring: Linda Thielfoldt
Posts On: August 21, 2012Linda Thielfoldt shares her favorite technique for quick loading a quilt onto her longarm.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: May 4, 2015In Lesson 1, Lea shows you how to select your design and how to draw it on fabric.
Featuring: Renae Haddadin / Barbara Polston
Posts On: June 22, 2015Renae Haddadin recounts an amazing quilting journey, which took her from hand appliqué and hand quilting in this country, through Jordan and back again, and then on a new odyssey of long arm quilting. She bought her first machine without knowing how to use it, but now drives it like a pro. She demonstrates her unique “road map” for designing quilting patterns by dividing them into grid-marked sections, making what looks complex become much more manageable. She shows her quilts, her quilting, and the gorgeous wedding dress she created based on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. We then journey to Arizona, where Barbara Polston shares her love of miniature quilts and vintage linens. Let’s get going!
Featuring: Georgia Bonesteel
Posts On: December 21, 2015A visit to the North Carolina home of Georgia Bonesteel is much more than just a quilting experience. Georgia is known for her lap quilting technique, using a large wooden hoop and a magnifying glass, and we are included in a viewing of some of her amazing creations. Georgia is also a Master Gardener, chicken farmer, and community volunteer, who approaches all her activities with enthusiasm and endless energy. Her history includes broadcasting a quilting show nearly 40 years ago, and authoring nine books on lap quilting. She helps to maintain the gardens at the Flat Rock Playhouse, whose walls feature a quilt block that she designed. The tour includes both Georgia’s home of 45 years, and the Playhouse gardens.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: December 1, 2015Simple borders balance a busy quilt. With quick piecing techniques, you’ll fly through the Flying Geese.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: September 4, 2015Lynn walks you through the steps of making a "square-in-a-triangle" component. You'll be delighted at how easy it is to make using her method.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: September 7, 2015Join Julie as she walks you step by step through stitching on a binding by hand. She includes tips for threading your needle, keeping your thread "de-tangled," and creating a quilter's knot.
Featuring: Mark Lipinski
Posts On: June 19, 2016Alex shows you how to turn a 9” Ohio Star block into a quilt pattern she calls “In Honor Of”. Even a beginning quilter can use this easy approach to make a Quilt of Valor (QOV) for a service member touched by war.
Mark Lipinski tells you about his Quilts of Valor experience, and recounts how he met the Vietnam Vet whose remembrance bracelet he wore in the ‘70s. How many jobs are there in quilting? Mark has done almost all of them. Listen as he tells about some special ones. He candidly talks about his loss of enthusiasm for quilting, and how he (and so can you) gained back the joy via a more mindful perspective that he learned from….(watch and see). Mark shows you a fun way to label your quilts in the form of a letter. You will want to hear about his current WIP—legacy quilt blocks.
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Posts On: November 30, 2016This month we are going to recommend Julie Cefalu's binding videos to help you finish up your Rajah Revisited quilt.
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Posts On: January 7, 2016 (Free from January 7, 2016 through December 31, 2016)Become a Free member and then click WATCH>FREE SHOWS to see Marianne Fons host Alex Anderson, Eleanor Burns and Mark Lipinski as they compete with their Celebrity Sewers to make a quilt. It's all in fun and all for the cause. Learn more about Quilts of Valor--how it started and has grown while caring for returning service personnel. Then stay for the quilt-off and see who wins.
Featuring: Cathy Wiggins / Hollis Chatelain
Posts On: October 23, 2016As a successful pattern designer, Cathy Wiggins' life took a major turn when she discovered and fell in love with the beauty and flexibility that leather offered. Not one to shy away from a challenge, she sold her entire fabric collection to fully embrace leather and to take quilting to a whole new level. Cathy teaches you the properties of leather and a wide array of options for incorporating it into your quilting. From embellishment to quilting, you will never look at leather the same way again. Then TQS visits the home, studio and gardens of North Carolina artist Hollis Chatelain to see where she works, creates, and plays.
Featuring: Gyleen Fitzgerald
Posts On: June 4, 2017Sometimes the catalyst for a totally new direction in quilting simply comes down to vacation photos. Building a design using the fundamental shape of a square became the inspiration for Gyleen’s venture into the Modern world. But Gyleen, as always, has made the process more streamlined and completely her own. Using a grid system that allows you, the quilter, to design anything you like using basic building blocks that play well together. But wait there’s more. Gyleen even shares a fast and calculating way for you to make an interesting and unique quilt back using your stash. That leaves money for new fun fabrics. She’s a gal after any quilter’s heart.
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: March 15, 2017Dee gives you tips for attaching the binding to your quilt.
Featuring: Judith Baker Montano
Posts On: December 17, 2017TQS Quilting Legend 2017, Judith Baker Montano, was born in Alberta, CA. After completing a Fine Arts Degree from Chico, CA, she became a mentee of Bill Johnson, illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post. Through trial and error she created her own techniques for crazy quilting that she incorporated into art to wear, as well as other items for stitch enthusiasts to make.
Join Alex and Ricky as Judith gives a tour of her home and studio which are filled with works of her own and friends. Judith loves exotic pattern, color, and texture and most recently has been working on a series of landscapes based on her personal photos. She also shares some of her techniques for manipulating photos and creating the backgrounds for those landscapes.
In her garden, Judith chats about her home and her multi-cultural family. She comes from a long line of gardeners and never wanted to be a fiber artist. She considers her garden an "English" garden in La Veta, CO, and it has been an inspiration for her photography and art work.
Featuring: TQS Guest
Posts On: August 2, 2017This is a SERIES Test.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: August 23, 2017In this video:
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Featuring: Alex Anderson / Ricky Tims
Posts On: December 1, 2017Ricky shows you how to do a mitered binding.
Featuring: Ann Shaw / Anna Bates
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Featuring: Marianne Fons
Posts On: December 16, 2018 (Free from January 1, 2019 through March 1, 2020)TQS Quilting Legend 2018, Marianne Fons, welcomes Alex and Ricky to the turn of the century house she has called home since she was 39 years old. This home in Iowa was originally owned by her grandparents. She loves living only two blocks from the town square and being able to walk everywhere. A model of beauty and utility, the house is filled with books, works by her father (a commercial exhibit designer) and other items of personal importance. In the home we enjoy a bed turning of some of her more remarkable/interesting works.
Marianne discusses Quilts of Valor, an organization that Marianne has supported for many years, including as a board member. The Non-profit was established by Catherine Roberts in 2003 as a way to honor and recognize the sacrifice service men and women have given while serving the US military. Marianne says ‘nothing says love like a quilt’. She’s currently working on a quilt with pinwheel star block which she shares with TQS.
Marianne also talks about the beginnings of her career and meeting Liz Porter at the local quilting class. This unexpected meeting of two young women led to a long partnership (Fons & Porter) that has included numerous books, a magazine, and television shows.
Marianne is a voracious reader and loves a good story. A desire to become a fiction writer has now become a reality. She has completed one novel and is currently working on a second. This next chapter in her life which includes being on the board of the Iowa Quilt Museum and Winterset Theater (which she helped to save a restore, she gives Alex and Ricky a tour) have brought her full circle…she has fallen in love with her home town and is one of its biggest cheerleaders.
Featuring: Claudia Pfeil / Gayle Schliemann
Posts On: June 16, 2019Claudia Pfeil comes from the historic textiles manufacturing town of Krefeld, Germany. She took her first quilt class in 1985 after seeing quilts at a Creativa Show. Alex and Ricky chat with her as they look at her quilts. Next up, Claudia works with silk and tells us that we shouldn't be afraid to use this lovely fabric in our quilts. She demonstrates improv block building with both squares and curves. Then she gives Ricky tips for free-motion quilting using her five "quilting letters." Claudia also gives tips for "Top Shelf" work and working with Razzle Dazzle thread in the longarm.
Wrapping up the show is Gayle Schliemann from BERNINA. Gayle loves Cosplay and teaches us how to make Cat ears as a quick costume accessory with the help of the BERNINA embroidery feature and button feature. We also get to take a look at some of the costumes Gayle has created over the years, each with special quilting and sewing designs.
In the after set, Claudia talks about the 300-year history of silk weaving and textiles in Krefeld.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: January 16, 2019Nina and Hayley show you how to insert a zipper into cork fabric. Super easy and no raw edges.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: February 25, 2019In this lession you'll be finishing up with more embroidery and beginning stumpwork. Then you'll finish up the back.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 16, 2019
Featuring: Claudia Pfeil
Posts On: June 24, 2019Claudia Pfeil is an international award-winning quilter from Germany. In this video, she will teach you how to create fillers using a stand up long arm machine. With four different camera angles, she will guide you through different techniques and styles to create bubbles, lines, and other geometric modern textures to add dimension and visual appeal to your quilt. You don’t need to fear the filler with Claudia’s help.
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Featuring: Susan K. Cleveland
Posts On: November 3, 2019 (Coming Soon)Susan Cleveland is back for her 4th appearance on The Quilt Show. She has taken the Dresden Plate block to a whole new level with fussy cutting, arches, piecing, and interlocking parts. Using her Dynamic Dresden Ruler she gives you ideas for new ways to create this fun and interesting blocks. You'll also get a peek at her latest book which has 7 projects from which to choose.
Susan also gives you tips for stitching in the ditch and finishing the edges of your quilts.
Featuring: Libby Lehman
Posts On: November 5, 2007Thread embellishment and sewing machine expert Libby Lehman shares her Sheer Ribbon Illusion technique and demonstrates how she uses the BSR (Bernina Stitch Regulator). Ricky performs a tune from Heart and Soul.
Featuring: Alex Anderson / Ricky Tims
Posts On: June 9, 2008Ever wonder how quilters who live in the woods claim their quilting space? Or what exactly happened with quilting during the gold rush time? Looking for a fast and quick charity quilt? On the first TQS road trip (part one), Alex, Ricky and Justin take to the California foot hills and discover the answers to these pressing questions. Travel adventure, serious bonding and lots of quilting trivia make the first TQS road trip an adventure to remember.
Featuring: Melody Crust / Sandra Smith / Ricky Tims
Posts On: December 8, 2008Quilters love embellishments. You don't want to miss meeting quilt artist Melody Crust as she teaches you fun and fast ways to add that bit of "bling" to your next project. Watch as she shows how beads, paint, and ribbons can change the entire look of your quilt. Be sure to have your permission slip as TQS takes a field trip to the studio of quilter Sandra Smith whose work encompasses a great deal of visual interest. Ricky stimulates our other senses with a new take on a traditional piano piece.
Featuring: Susan Schrempf
Posts On: June 8, 2009The results are so amazing, you'll think the work was done by hand... but it's not! Watch special guest Susan Schrempf show how easy it is to create beautiful flowers on the sewing machine using silk ribbon and simple embroidery stitches. Then pillows take the spotlight, as Alex demonstrates how to transform a UFO block into a quick-and-easy pillow, and our TQS crew heads to Racine, WI for a field piece on "The Pillowcase Queens" who are making thousands of pillowcases for our troops overseas.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: December 7, 2009We know that designing your own quilt can be intimidating. Join us as we present clever ways to help you using a variety of techniques. Sharon Pederson demonstrates how to use a "road map" to create a quilt block. (You can trust Sharon: she teaches Machine Appliqué for the Terrified Quilter!) Ricky shares ideas for building a design using die-cut templates, and we take a road trip to Robbi Joy Eklow's studio that will open your eyes to a special way of designing.
Featuring: Gloria Loughman
Posts On: June 7, 2010G'day! Join us on a "journey of design," as quilt artist, teacher, and author, Gloria Loughman, shares the process and methods she uses to capture the natural beauty of her native Australia in her amazing, dreamlike quilts. Discover how she "builds" each quilt with fabric, paint, and thread, and the secrets of her machine-applique technique. Then Alex and Ricky stop by to visit California quilter, Jenny Mostek, whose passion for quilting outgrew her space, so...she bought the house next door! You don't want to miss this episode!
Featuring: Ami Simms
Posts On: December 6, 2010You won't want to miss this very special episode when quiltmaker Ami Simms visits The Quilt Show to share the touching story behind how she came to found the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative and how you can join the battle against this life-altering disease by making and donating a 9" x 12" Priority Quilt. In addition, Ami demonstrates a quick-and-easy technique for making Fast-Finish Triangles, the perfect vehicle for hanging a little quilt, and how to "build" the Puppus Doggus pattern (which will be available as a pdf on the TQS website). Even the audience is part of the program, showing and sharing the stories behind the Priority Quilts they've brought to the set. Watch, learn, create...and make a difference!
Featuring: Rob Appell
Posts On: June 6, 2011C'mon along as Quilting Adventure Guide (aka quiltmaker, designer, author, teacher, and surfer Rob Appell) "makes a splash" in our TQS studio. First he shows Ricky his Sewmando Vest, designed to keep a whole host of quilting tools within easy reach. Then the focus shifts to one of Rob's most cherished quilting endeavors - the Endangered Species Quilt Project - in which he has teamed with Michael Miller fabrics to build awareness of our planet and her endangered species through quilting. Rob displays some of these special quilts, demonstrates how to create a clever clownfish design, and discusses his quilting process, including some great trouble-shooting tips for free-motion machine quilters.
Featuring: Joyce Becker / Pam Clarke
Posts On: December 5, 2011You can't beat this: Two great teachers hit it "out of the park" in a single episode! First up is certified longarm-quilting instructor Pam Clarke, who uses a Gammill Vision to demonstrate her simple techniques for creating complex-looking quilting designs. Then designer, author, and teacher Joyce Becker steps up to the plate to show some of her wonderful landscape-inspired quilts, and to demonstrate how she "builds" a mini-landscape, adds texture with variegated thread, and finishes with a frame. It's a home run in any league!
Featuring: Sonya Lee Barrington
Posts On: June 4, 2012It's a whole new world as fiber artist Sonya Lee Barrington shares the pleasures of using wool and silk as alternatives to cotton in your quilts and other sewing projects. After whetting your appetite with a number of her fabulous quilts, Sonya "gets down to business," explaining the unique properties of these two versatile fibers, offering a slew of tips for working with them, and showing a variety of inventive project possibilities. You'll love her clever purse made from the pocket of a man’s wool jacket! Want more? Ricky demonstrates an easy "four-patch-within-a-square" block that we'll pattern on the TQS site with a super-cool block challenge.
Featuring: Edyta Sitar
Posts On: December 3, 2012We just had to bring her back! Alex and Ricky head off to Main Street Quilting Company in Bozeman, MT, to rendezvous with popular quilt artist, teacher, and author Edyta Sitar, whose TQS Half-Square-Triangle Exchange was a rousing, worldwide success. This time around, Edyta unveils her latest work, demonstrates an ingenious flip-and stitch method for creating eight-pointed stars (learned from Grandma Sitar), and shares some clever tricks for dressing up those star points. Great ideas for enhancing pieced work with appliqué, a bevy of helpful pressing tips, and a video tour of Edyta's barn-turned studio round out this jam-packed show. Watch for a contest and not one, but two great new "Edyta projects" on the TQS website.
Featuring: Judith Baker Montano / Karin Hellaby
Posts On: June 3, 2013Alex and Ricky welcome back fiber artist, author, and teacher Judith B. Montano for her third TQS appearance (Episodes 201 and 507), this time on location at The Old Exchange and Provost in beautiful downtown Charleston, SC. This time around, Judith discusses her Canadian upbringing, and the influences of both the Hutterites and Canada's native peoples on her early work. She then shares her techniques for distorting traditional stitches to create organic shapes and interesting layers, and how she employs cheesecloth, scrim, and other unique materials in her pieces, incorporating painterly techniques along the way. Finally, in a segment taped in Sisters, OR, we meet UK quilter, Karin Hellaby, who offers a brief history of Pineapple quilts and shows her "Sew Simple" technique for creating a Pineapple block.
Featuring: Amanda Murphy
Posts On: December 9, 2013The holidays are in the air as quilt artist, author, and fabric and quilt designer Amanda Murphy connects with Alex and Ricky in historic downtown Charleston, SC. Amanda demonstrates how to make a fast-and-fun tree skirt, complete with inverted-miters, points, and continuous binding. She also shares a quick-and-colorful Christmas quilt, with trees in three sizes, snowflake appliqués, and pompom trim. We finish with a tour of the day's location, The Old Exchange and Provost (built in 1767) which has played host to patriots, presidents . . . and pirates!
Featuring: Cynthia England / Wendy Mamattah
Posts On: June 9, 2014We return to Texas to rendezvous with quilt artist, author, and designer Cynthia England, who gives us a glimpse of what she's been up to since her last TQS appearance (Show 610). Over the years, Cynthia has achieved a well-deserved reputation as an award-winning pictorial art quilter who—amazingly—builds her design with piecing, not appliqué. Here she unveils the tools and techniques she uses for her "forgiving" methods, and demonstrates a clever technique for attaching a sleeve to a small quilt or wallhanging that requires no hand sewing. Then we head off to visit fiber artist, writer, and designer Wendy Mamattah, originally from Ghana, who shares her Africa-inspired silhouette and symbols quilts, as well as her charming one-of-a-kind pin cushions.
Featuring: Debby Schnabel
Posts On: December 8, 2014Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore, CA provides the setting for our visit with art quilter (and popular healthy-lifestyle blogger) Debby Schnabel. Debby, who lives in a 650 sq. ft. cabin in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, enjoys exploring new themes by working in a series, and then embellishing her pieces with hand embroidery. You’ll love her tips on fabric selection and threads, her fusible-free techniques for applying circles (a favorite motif), and discovering how she incorporates a variety of embroidery stitches into her work. Then come along for a field visit with Denver-area quilter Laurie Hill Gibb who decided, upon celebrating a landmark birthday, to take a year-long quilting journey across the US . . . by herself!
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 29, 2010In Part 2 of the Fairy Wall Hanging project, Linda demonstrates a fabulous feathered leaf design for filling in the background. She also talks about using the stitch regulator.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: September 14, 2016Sharon begins the process of making a reversible binding.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 16, 2011Alex tells you what to avoid when choosing a backing fabric.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: September 18, 2012Laura shows you how to free-cut designs for the Birds and Flowers quilt.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: January 4, 2017Should you flip or should you mirror your stitch?
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: September 3, 2013Cropping and sizing.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: October 1, 2014Julie talks to you about reverse appliqué and grain lines for the top and bottom borders.
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Posts On: March 13, 2014The family describes how Ernest's quiltmaking was influenced by the family dynamic.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: February 1, 2018It's all about the appliqué. Ricky shares his technique for stitching appliqué with the beautiful double blanket stitch.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: May 11, 2015In Lesson 2, Lea shows you how to apply the Gutta to the project.
Featuring: Carol Ann Sinnreich / Cristy Fincher
Posts On: June 8, 2015Textile Artist Carol Ann Sinnreich shares her love of the West, and talks about the extensive research she conducts prior to creating her quilts. Carol has developed an appliqué technique for perfecting tricky intersections with multiple pieces of fabric. She also discusses her approach to commission work, from which offers to choose, how to discuss and price a project, to proper documentation before and after making the piece. Next, if dyeing your own fabric has seemed daunting and expensive, this is the episode for you! Ricky shows Alex an approach that needs only basic tools and simple methods. He folds and dyes fabrics, creating beautiful striped designs. Last but not least, Cristy Fincher has a new trick to teach – paper piecing without paper! Who knew??
Featuring: Leah Day / Laura Gaskin
Posts On: December 7, 2015Leah Day began free motion quilting a decade ago, and has spent a lot of hours making it look easy. Her ease and fluidity did not come naturally, but she certainly makes it look as if she was born to quilt! Leah shares her journey from novice quilter to the stunning patterns she produces today. Her online teaching via her blog outlines how to get started with simple designs, how to move to more complicated patterns, and when to set aside a design that isn’t working. She discusses the process start to finish, from sketching ideas on paper to hiding threads at the end. Afterwards, Laura Gaskin demonstrates her amazing and intricate embroidery pieces, many of which are inspired by nature. Laura does all her embroidery by hand, then finishes many pieces with a fabric border.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 31, 2015Sometimes you just need to finish that quilt; Julie has a quick method for finishing your binding by machine. Stay tuned until the end for her "bonus" tip.
Featuring: Alex Anderson / Ricky Tims
Posts On: November 1, 2015
When you live in the country, you see and hear owls - barn owls, white owls, and tawny owls, to name but a few. Sadly, the owls’ numbers have been diminishing as their habitat has been lost to development. We need to take care of the owls that remain. This appliquéd owl perched on a branch, watching over her family, safe in the hole of a tree. What country house would not be complete without an owl in residence?
Use template-free piecing techniques to stitch the Sawtooth block, and sew the remaining blocks and borders to the quilt. Your country house will be almost complete!
Alex shows you how to make french fold binding.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: August 28, 2015This class is a "twofer" as Lynn shows you how to make two components, a "flying geese" (or is it goose?) and a "double flying geese."
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: June 5, 2016Gina Perkes is one busy woman! While creating many complex and modern quilts in a variety of styles, she also sells Innova longarm machines, and has developed ingenious methods to utilize rulers while quilting on both longarm and domestic machines. Hear tips on how you can use different rulers on a domestic machine, including best practices for maintaining control and keeping track of your place on the quilt. She shows how just one ruler can create a wide variety of designs. Watch as Gina shows how to get the grid lines on your fabric to help keep your quilting accurate. Learn how to build borders and create additional interest through your quilting.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: November 1, 2016Julie shows you how to place appliqués on a border.
Featuring: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Posts On: December 18, 2016Born the fifth of seven children, Katie was encouraged by her parents at a young age to follow the path which spoke to her instinctively, and that path was art. She knew at an early age she wanted be an artist, and over the years, that focus has never wavered. Thinking that painting would be her life, fate then stepped in when she discovered that an 'embroidery class' she had signed up for in college was actually a beginning quilting class. Exploring art through fabric was a new and exciting journey for Katie. Always one to push herself to continue to grow as an artist, Katie's work has evolved over her thirty-year career.
Featuring: Teri Cherne
Posts On: May 21, 2017
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: March 8, 2017Dee talks about measuring and adding borders to your quilt.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: May 10, 2017
Featuring: Mel Beach
Posts On: December 3, 2017A quilter since 2003, Mel talks about her love of stretching creatively through quilt challenges which push her out of her comfort zone. Some of her quilts include improvisational patchwork. Mel demonstrates a “slice” of improvisational patchwork which involves inserting a secondary strip of fabric into a background block. She shares the infinite “what if” ways to vary this basic idea to create a whole range of fun and unique blocks. Then, using crayon-etched children’s artwork as her inspiration, she shows you her technique for creating modern Mola designs using hand-dyed batiks and commercial prints, again showing a myriad of variations for their use.
In the After Set, we know that Mel loves challenges and that includes Improv comedy. She uses what she has learned doing Improv as a parallel to being present in the moment when it comes to working on a challenging quilt.
Also in this show, Alex puts a new spin on an antique String and Old Maid’s Ramble quilt using contemporary fabrics. It’s a great way to use orphan blocks and is a great baby quilt project.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: August 10, 2017In this video:
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Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: November 1, 2017Carolyn talks about the Delectable Mountains block and walks you through the quilting designs on her Halo Medallion Quilt.
Featuring: Linda Pumphrey / Carolyn Hock
Posts On: June 3, 2018Red and White quilts have been an iconic color combination for quilters since the discovery of Turkey red dye. Working with these two high contrast colors requires a bit of extra attention and Linda Pumphrey is back to offer helpful tips and tricks for avoiding unexpected pitfalls down the road. Along the way she shares intriguing bits of red and white quilt history, antique quilts, and wows us with new designs based on old patterns.
TQS member Carolyn Hock is back to entice you with techniques for adding that bit of fantastic bling to the edge of your quilts. From red and white to outstanding bling, this show is sure to catch your eye.
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: February 21, 2018Jamie gives you instruction on the Innova for doing two different fill designs along with a bit of micro quilting.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: March 7, 2018In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Rose ruler.
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Featuring: Sue Heinz
Posts On: December 2, 2018Ricky starts off the show with a super technique for adding a pop of color to a quilt binding using a Hong Kong edge finish. Then teacher and author Sue Heinz joins in to share the magic that one drawn design can do for filling your sashing areas, corners, or entire quilt. And what about those daunting circles? Well, Sue says that they aren’t difficult when you break them into segments. The teachers are in the house, so get your pencils ready!
Featuring: Missie Carpenter / Leanne Anderson
Posts On: June 2, 2019Alex and Ricky talk with Missie Carpenter.
Missie began quilting in 1988 as a way to be creative while staying at home with her children. She loves mixing cotton and wool in her layered appliqué work. A woman of many talents, before quilting, Missie was a day trader, sewed window coverings and created English smocking designs. They look at her work.
Then, Missie shares her starch basting method for hexies and circles. She also gives you tips for making your stitches "invisible."
Missie also demonstrates her technique for building a penny unit with cotton. Once the units are completed, she glues the pennies together with a glue stick or liquid glue. 60 wt. poly thread just disappears when stitching a cotton penny to another penny. The blanket stitch works well to hold two wool pieces together. She also uses a small whipstitch. They look at examples of mixing and matching fiber type pennies.
Rounding out the show is Leanne Anderson and her adorable dog breed quilts. Dog owning quilters love seeing ‘their breed’ created in fabric. It was this idea that was the catalyst for Leanne’s current count of fifty dog breed designs. The pre-fused laser cut applique kits make creating a dog gone cute quilty item a breeze. Leanne shares tips for preparing, stabilizing, appliquéing, and layering the designs. She also has ideas for adding a dog design to a variety of items (coasters, pot holders, dog food containers, etc.). Alex and Ricky take a look at finished items with her dog designs that her family-run company produces.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: December 18, 2018Hayley shows you how to use the double overlock stitch to attach your binding to your quilt. This is a great and easy tip, especially for those who bind a quilt by hand. This clean finish keeps everything tidy.
Featuring: Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Randall Cook, Hollis Chatelain
Posts On: February 1, 2019Stitched, the Film, is a fun-filled documentary following three quilters racing to complete their entries for the International Quilt Festival, the largest and most competitive quilt show in the nation. The compelling doc uncovers an overlooked medium that has progressed from traditional folk to modern art. See Hollis Chatelain, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Randall Cook as they get ready to enter the Houston Quilt Show but also hear the thoughts of quilters in the year 2011 on the art of quilting. It's a fun ride.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: February 17, 2019This week you will fill in some of the spaces around the corner tulips by adding details with layered embroidery.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 16, 2019Becky Goldsmith gives you Machine Appliqué Tips for "Sizzle" the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Amy Milne
Posts On: October 20, 2019 (Coming Soon)Alex and Ricky meet Amy Milne, Executive Director of the Quilt Alliance, who shares the history and samples of quilts made by children. Amy also discusses the Kids Initiative for which a kit has been created. The kit is a backpack with a wholecloth quilt designed for hand sewing as a way for children to learn to quilt. Amy also talks about the importance of documenting your quilts and the various ways to create a label.
Also in this show, Alex shares her experience with her parents' Alzheimer’s and the help she received to make an Activity mat for her mother. She discusses how you can make your own activity mats geared toward individual needs.
Featuring: Ann Fahl
Posts On: October 15, 2007Ann Fahl, teacher and author, well-known for coloring with thread, appears on the show and shares her whimsical series of quilts based on her beloved and mischievous cat. Ann demonstrates a pattern for creating a colorful cat and Gizmo Girl talks about lollipops for quilters and getting techie with new, easy-to-use computer patterns for quilters.
Featuring: Beth Wheeler
Posts On: May 26, 2008Ever heard of Threadography? Beth Wheeler joins us and shows how to create stunning photo finish quilts using a fool proof technique which includes photography, thread work and computer technology. The results are gallery worthy and attainable for all quilters. In addition Alex demonstrates valuable binding basics, Ricky takes us on a field trip to his Dad's studio and a new TQS feature debuts - the TQS treasure chest.
Featuring: Joanna Figueroa / Gina Halladay
Posts On: November 24, 2008Who knows about the latest trends and fabrics in today's market. Meet Gina Halladay of www.quiltersbuzz.com. Fresh and dynamic quilt artist and fabric designer, Joanna Figueroa, teaches you how to use the new quilt fabric packaging trends to create fun projects. Then, if all of that information doesn't have your head spinning with ideas, wait till you see Alex piece the perfect pinwheel.
Featuring: Elise Roberts / Sandra Dallas
Posts On: May 25, 2009Quilters are a generous group. To honor that tradition, special guest and author Elise Roberts traces the history of social actions by quilters in the United States. You will learn how to create a quilted banner to spotlight your group's service or fund raising event. Alex and Ricky "pick up the thread" by sharing how today's quilters have responded to recent tragedies. In a related segment, TQS visits the "Home of the Brave Project" in Davenport, IA, part of a nationwide group making quilts for families that have lost service members in war. Finally, our visit with popular novelist Sandra Dallas (The Persian Pickle Dish and The Quilt that Walked to Golden) at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum is not to be missed!
Featuring: Terrie Sandelin
Posts On: November 23, 2009Your in for a "far out" good time. Join Joaquin (Ricky) and Mona (Alex) as they journey back to the 60s to celebrate "Hippie Day." The characters, costumes, and photos are sure to have you feelin' groovy. Meantime, learn something new as Terri Sandelin shares her fast and precise technique for creating beautiful miniature quilts. You'll love Terri's special system that makes the results come out just right. Then be inspired by a trip to Boys Town.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 24, 2010Appliqué lovers rejoice! It's time to meet, visit with, and enjoy the work of that hand-appliqué dynamo, Becky Goldsmith, designer and co-founder (with Linda Jenkins) of Piece O' Cake Designs. Becky demonstrates how to applique "the Piece O' Cake way" with unique methods that include making laminated appliqué templates, using upholstery vinyl for placement, pieced appliqué backgrounds, and her signature needle-turn stitching. Ricky gets in the act by showing how to use freezer paper to design original appliqué designs and-as a bonus-Alex demonstrates Texture Magic: how it works and the wonderful things-such as quilts, clothing, and purses-you can use it for.
Featuring: Rosalie Dace / Jennifer Chiaverini / Michael Cummings
Posts On: November 22, 2010You'll no doubt want to be "front and center" as quilt artist Rosalie Dace brings us a touch of her native South Africa through her quilts and photos, shares the secrets of how she creates focal points in her work, and demonstrates how to stitch "super-skinny" straight and curved lines on a quilt surface using a 1/4" foot. In another segment, we chat with best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini about her Elm Creek novels to discover how she weaves her quilting knowledge into her novels and how the novels have led to a series of quilting books. In addition, Alex uses the House block from her Welcome Home quilt to demo the flip-and-sew piecing method, and we go on location to visit artist and quilter Michael Cummings to see how he constructs his folk-art-style narrative quilts in the dining room of his 1860s "shotgun" home in New York City.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch
Posts On: May 23, 2011Cheryl Lynch - quilter, pattern designer, author, and teacher - has found a creative way to preserve her travel memories: she turns her impressions into fabulous quilts. Recently, she has produced an extensive body of work inspired by the colorful tiled designs that she's observed while visiting Mexico. In addition to sharing some of these amazing quilts, Cheryl reveals three easy - and ingenious! - techniques for manipulating geometric images to create eye-catching designs, including one that utilizes Microsoft Word. She also offers great tips and techniques for embellishing and enhancing quilts with rickrack, and discusses the origins of her pattern company, Oy Vey! Quilt Designs, which specializes in Judaic imagery.
Featuring: Jacqueline de Jonge
Posts On: November 21, 2011US Air Force Academy Chapel - We return to the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs to catch up with Dutch quilt and pattern designer Jacqueline de Jonge, who shares a dazzling collection of her "colourful" quilts, discusses some of her techniques for creating flow through color, and gives us the scoop about what quilting is like in the Netherlands today. She also demonstrates her techniques for paper piecing precise points and curves. As icing on the cake, Ricky shows how to create improvisational, overlapping feathers for machine quilting.
Featuring: Carol Ann Waugh
Posts On: May 21, 2012After needlepointing an entire couch, it's no wonder that fiber artist and author Carol Ann Waugh decided to take up another form of needlework! Lucky for us, she taught herself to quilt. In this episode, she shows her “stupendously stitched” and quilted works and then demonstrates the "stupendous stitching" techniques that she uses to create her uniquely textured pieces. She also shares a nifty edge-finishing technique, offers clever suggestions for using up leftover bits of your work, and discusses what it's like to create commissioned pieces for private and corporate collectors. Last stop: an on-site visit with quilt artist Judith Trager of Boulder, CO.
Featuring: Cindy Walter
Posts On: November 19, 2012TQS says "aloha" to Hawaii-based quilt artist, author, designer, teacher, and former Quilt Central host Cindy Walter in this "colorful" episode taped at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM. Following a show and tell of her quilts, Cindy discusses the pluses of painting on fabric, reviews the properties of various paints, talks about tools, troubleshoots with easy solutions for potential glitches, and engages both Ricky and Alex in hands-on demos to show how simple and versatile the process can be. All this, plus a mini-lesson from Alex on traditional English paper piecing, too!
Featuring: Ann Petersen
Posts On: May 20, 2013Long-time quilter, teacher, and self-confessed "obsessive quilter" Ann Petersen thrives on producing sharp points and perfectly pieced blocks, and loves to share her techniques for piecing success. In this episode, Ann demonstrates her method for piecing accurate curves with the aid of freezer paper and just five pins! She also reveals her ingenious method for foundation piecing…without the fuss of paper to remove. Finally, if you suffer from arthritis, you'll appreciate our visit to the home and studio of Bend, OR, artist Sarah Kaufman, who has successfully adapted her quilting methods to cope with this debilitating ailment, and shares her nifty process for making the Folded Log Cabin block.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard
Posts On: November 25, 2013We return to Charleston's beautiful Magnolia Plantation and Gardens for a visit with artist, author, and educator, Lyric Kinard. After showing a variety of her quilts and mixed-media artwork, Lyric—named 2011 Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Professional Teachers—identifies and explains the five fundamentals—or ABCs—of good design. She also demystifies the basics of screen printing using a thermofax machine and a few simple tools, and shares lots of creative ideas for using beads to add color and texture to your work. The episode closes on a lovely note as Lyric, a classically trained professional musician, offers a sampling of Bach on the French Horn.
Featuring: Carolyn Konig
Posts On: May 26, 2014Australian quiltmaker, designer, shopowner, and teacher Carolyn Konig's favorite quilts are those of the 18th century, which she enjoys recreating in "old world" style with hand techniques and reproduction fabrics. In this episode, Carolyn shows the tools and techniques she uses to draft the medallion center for a reproduction quilt, and how she prepares and works on her hand appliqué, including a great tip for keeping it portable. Also, Alex reviews the importance of good pressing technique, including the difference between pressing piecework vs. appliqué or redwork
Featuring: Laura Fraga
Posts On: November 24, 2014Quilter, lecturer, teacher, and “Dear Jane” aficionado Laura Fraga is passionate about hand appliqué, and in this info-packed episode she shares some of her favorite tools, techniques, and tips for making templates, achieving the perfect invisible stitch, coping with tricky points, and creating flawless circles. (She also recently took up skateboarding, and manages to get Ricky “on the board.” You won’t want to miss this!) We finish by chatting with museum director Christine Jeffers, who gives us a tour of our taping location, the San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textiles, the first of its kind in the US to focus on quilts and textiles.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 28, 2010In this lesson, Linda demonstrates two different border designs on a small Fairy Wall Hanging. First up is a tear drop design followed by a beautiful feather design with stems.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: October 17, 2011Sharon keeps you sane with great organization ideas for your bobbins.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 17, 2011Alex talks about thread for hand quilting.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: September 25, 2012Laura demos a woven collage technique for the nest in Birds and Flowers.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: December 28, 2016Libby is seeing stars, what do you see?
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: September 10, 2013Drawing and cutting the pattern.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: September 1, 2014Julie gives you tips for the letters S, Y, and Z.
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Posts On: March 13, 2014Ernest's engineering mind worked out many quilting innovations and time saving techniques.
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: March 1, 2018This is the video for the third and final month showing the assembly of the quilt. It includes the details for marking, quilting, and blocking along with good advice on what to do if your fabric ever bleeds.
Featuring: Karen K Stone / Julie Silber
Posts On: May 25, 2015Is there something about piano playing and quilting? Ricky and quilter Karen Stone are both amazing pianists as well as quilters! (They’re both Texans, too.) Karen’s background includes classical training and being surrounded by engineers, which might explain her incredible precision and love of complex work. Her latest technique is an adaptation of English Paper Piecing that doesn’t require hand piecing and includes curves! Karen demonstrates her fascinating style, which combines pinning, gluing and zigzag stitching. You will be amazed, and so was the studio audience, which had loads of questions for her. Karen mentioned a quilt that inspired her, owned by quilt curator Julie Silber, so we went in search of Julie, and were rewarded with a tour of her antique quilt collection. You’ll love it!
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: May 18, 2015In Lesson 3, Lea shows you how to apply the paint to your project.
Featuring: Susan Lenz / Judy Simmons
Posts On: November 23, 2015Susan Lenz began working full-time as an artist in 2001, and she shares the fears she conquered regarding her work. Susan uses grave rubbings, antique textiles and buttons prominently in her art, which she creates to honor the memory of an object or a moment in time. She uses the rubbings to give a second life to a person whose memory may have been lost. Susan shares her technique, as well as the etiquette involved in obtaining grave rubbings. She shows how to heat and set the work, and then embellish and quilt it. A second technique involves created stained glass-like fabric pieces using synthetic fibers, a soldering tool and a heat gun. The results are surprising! She also discusses her global thread art installation. Also included is a visit with Judy Simmons, who uses Shiva Paintstiks to add realistic shading and depth to her quilts.
Featuring: Janae King
Posts On: October 1, 2015
Did you play “conkers” as a child? You’d drill a hole through the center of dried conker - a chestnut. Thread a piece of string through the hole, and your conker is battle ready! Two players then take turns striking the other’s conker, until one of the conkers breaks. The best conkers were the ones we kept from one year to the next. They were very hard and strong. Our driveway was lined with chestnut trees, and my brother and I played many a game.
Squirrels nested in our chestnut trees. They would leap with amazing agility from tree to tree, and they loved to eat the conkers. The grey squirrel in my block is tackling a nut on the ground. Perhaps she is going to store it somewhere safe ready for the coming winter.
The pieced blocks I have chosen for this month are called Weathervane. According to folklore, if you see squirrels being more active than usual in the fall, a hard winter is coming.
This month we’ll also start assembling the quilt.
The tip for this month is learning how to "square-up" your blocks with Janae King.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: August 21, 2015Learn how to make a flawless "square-in-a-square" component with Lynn.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 24, 2015Join Julie for her second set of tips on binding your quilt. This week Julie sits down at the machine and shows you how to make that perfect mitered corner with your binding. She also shows you how to join the ends of your binding using a 45-degree angled seam.
Featuring: Janet Lutz
Posts On: May 22, 2016If you haven’t yet experienced the Row by Row phenomenon, it’s time to get on board! Quilt shop owner Janet Lutz started it all with a free horizontal row pattern in a summer vacation theme, which could then be combined with similar row patterns from other shops. Like a Shop Hop, you gather free patterns and then personalize your quilt with creative row placement, fabric combinations and embellishments. Janet demos both the use of fabric plates, and creating appliqué letters with freezer paper. TQS then visits Eileen Williams, who has challenged herself to make a small quilt each day for an entire year. Known for her beach and seascape quilts, Eileen shows how to add shimmer and sand, using Angelina fibers.
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Posts On: October 1, 2016What are you going to use for the back of your quilt? Labels, extra blocks? One of the suggestions for the back of the quilt was to print out the historical tidbits on fabric and use them as blocks, sewn together, to create the back.
Click here to learn how to print on fabric in Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero's classroom, Printing on Fabric.
Featuring: Rosa Rojas
Posts On: December 4, 2016 (Free from December 24, 2016 through December 31, 2019)Being a perfectionist and frustrated with her own traditional hand appliqué results, Rosa Rojas was determined to find a better, faster and easier method for achieving the beautiful hand appliqué she desired. The result was the Apliquick tools that allow a person to make even the tiniest of perfect circles. This Spanish designer and artist says that it is all about ‘letting the tools’ do the work for you. Addicted to appliqué, Rosa even shows you how easy it is to design and make your own Hawaiian quilt.
Ricky also has a demonstration of a twisted thread chain, by machine, that will add texture and interest to your quilt work. Variations and interest can be enhanced depending on the size and type of silk ribbon or cording used.
Featuring: Paula Nadelstern / Julie Silber
Posts On: May 7, 2017The Queen of Kaleidoscopes, Paula Nadelstern, is back to teach a new method for making complex-looking quilts. She uses easy piecing quilting techniques. It’s about letting the symmetrical fabric do the work of fooling the eye. But your eyes will not be fooled when Paula also shares how to make stunning fabric and embellished ornaments.
This is not a new idea, as Julie Silber, the Queen of Antique Quilts, shares a variety of diverse antique quilts all featuring designs based on simple squares.
Whether you love the new or the old, you'll love this show.
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: March 1, 2017Dee shows you how to make an eight-pointed or LeMoyne Star using a 'no-mark' method.
Featuring: Gail Garber
Posts On: November 19, 2017Along with being a Quilt teacher and Author, Gail is the founder of Hawks Aloft, a rescue organization that cares for and educates the public about birds of prey that can no longer live in the wild due to injuries. Gail brought along three owls to visit the studio. They watched as she shared her method of using a flexible curve ruler, a pencil, and freezer paper to create a free-form drawing for making curved flying geese. She also has tips for eliminating waste when foundation paper piecing and for removing the foundation paper.
Also in this show, Ricky was in Paducah when an antique quilt caught his attention. The quilt featured a variation on an Irish Chain. He breaks down that quilt into workable strip sets and creates an updated contemporary version.
Gail's Pattern, Thunderbirds Rising, was created specfically for The Quilt Show. Click here to purchase.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: July 27, 2017In this video:
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Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: September 30, 2017What are some of the batting choices? Carolyn helps you understand your options.
Featuring: Heidi Farmer / Judy Fredenburgh
Posts On: May 20, 2018Do you dream of creating machine embroidery without the aid of a hoop? Heidi Farmer defies the skeptics who said it couldn’t be done as she shares tips and tricks for stitching hoop-free designs to your heart’s content using a revolutionary method. But wait, there’s more. Do you want to embroider your own hand drawn designs? The answer is yes. If you can think it, you can stitch it.
And who doesn’t need a quick baby quilt in their pocket of tricks? Heidi shares a fast method for a super cute personalized baby quilt on your longarm.
Then, RNK educator, Judy Fredenburgh, shares the ins and outs of how and why stabilizers make a huge difference when it comes to machine embroidery. If you have ever been skeptical about machine embroidery, this show will definitely make you a believer. Don’t miss it!
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: February 7, 2018In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the June SMALL ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
There are no downloads for this class.
Featuring: Libby Williamson / Carolyn Hock
Posts On: November 18, 2018
Alex and Ricky welcome mixed media artist Libby Williamson to discover how the humble tea bag can be used to create charming, whimsical, and outstanding textile art. Libby’s tips of adding paint, thread sketching, hand embroidery and bits of fabric to build unique and one of a kind collage art quilts, will have you looking at tea bags in a whole new way.
Then it is TQS member Carolyn Hock's turn to share her ideas for developing your own quilting designs based on travel photos. The ideas are brewing, so grab yourself a “cuppa” and join in the fun.
Featuring: Heidi Farmer
Posts On: June 22, 2018Heidi Farmer teaches you how to make personalized quilt labels on an Innova Mach 3.
Featuring: Kim Eichler-Messmer / Judy Martin
Posts On: May 19, 2019
Alex and Ricky learn about natural dyeing from Kim Eichler-Messmer, a fiber professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Recently Kim has focused on eco-friendly dyeing by using a natural and ancient dyeing (plants, nuts, insects, minerals) method. Kim uses freshly picked marigolds from her yard to dye a batch of fabric a lovely yellow. While the fabric dye "cooks" she shares examples of different colors and patterns that can be achieved using these natural dyes. Alex and Ricky learn more about Kim's background and they take a look at her quilts.
Kim shares improv piecing with a serger. She has done a fair amount of garment construction using the serger and now is including the tool in her quilting tool box. She shares a fun technique for stabilizing lamé that is then sewn together with her hand-dyed fabric in ‘chunks' and strip sets. Strip sets are then cut apart and chain pieced together to build an improv quilt top where bits of lamé peek out randomly amongst hand dyed fabric. She shares examples of quilts using serged lamé blocks (with the finished edge on the front of the quilt) for an added bit of texture and interest. Then it’s time to take the marigold fabric out of the cook pot to reveal the intense yellow color.
Then it's time to learn how to unlock the Lone Star Quilt with Judy Martin. Judy loves math and the challenges of working with complex star quilts. A writer of 23 quilting books, she and Ricky build and share variations that can be achieved when it comes to one of the most beloved blocks…the Lone Star. Using one very large WIP quilt, it becomes a game of shuffle and discover as the viewers watch the myriad of possibilities when pieces are flipped, shuffled or turned. Judy shares completed Lone Star quilts revealing more color combination examples.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: December 12, 2018Nina shows you how to use BERNINA's nesting circular rulers to make an easy and accurate quilting motif.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: January 1, 2019
Once you master the basics from this DVD, you will be well on your way to becoming a successful quilter. Alex defines quilting terms, shows you simple techniques to get started, and shares some of her 30 years of personal experience as a quilter.
Learn all the fundamentals of making quilts - tools, fabrics, cutting, stitching, piecing, quilting.
Star Members can watch this class online for FREE!
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: February 11, 2019In this lesson, you'll be working with layered wool reverse appliqué which is similar to working with a mola. After finishing the corners, the background core pieces will be placed. All that's left is intense embroidery in the next two weeks and then the finishing!
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 16, 2019Becky Goldsmith shows you how to prepare your appliqué shapes for "Sizzle" the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: TBA
Posts On: December 1, 2019 (Coming Soon)
Featuring: Pam Holland
Posts On: September 24, 2007Join us as award-winning Australian quilter Pam Holland tells about her connections to quilting and the year 1776, but not in America. Pam teaches how to make one of her original blocks that is both traditional and timeless. Includes Gizmo Girl.
Featuring: Beth Ferrier
Posts On: May 12, 2008Beth Ferrier: Teacher, Designer and author considers herself an appliquist - and wows us as she teaches how to hand applique by machine (visit her blog at http://applewd.com/blog). Show includes piecing tips for a 4" postage stamp basket with Alex and a visit from Bob, The Thread Guy discussing tension. The tips and techniques on this show will transcend into all aspects of your quiltmaking. Plus a smile or two is guaranteed from Beth's campy attitude.
Featuring: Liuxin Newman
Posts On: November 10, 2008Set aside some quality time to be amazed by the incredibly small and detailed handwork created by Australia's master applique artist Liuxin Newman. Known to the world as the Thimblelady, Liuxin teaches you needle turn circles the size of a pin head and.....well let's just say that the TQS audience and crew were on the edge of their seats. You won't want to miss this show. Bob Purcell demystifies sewing machine needles while Ricky warms your heart with a flute piece from his Sacred Age CD.
Featuring: John Flynn
Posts On: May 11, 2009"Big doings" in this episode: popular quiltmaker and teacher John Flynn is on hand for the presentation of "The Give-a-Way Quilt" he pieced and quilted to honor the traditions of the Native American tribes in his area of Montana. In addition, John shares his techniques and tips for piecing the Pickle Dish block. As a special treat for machine aficionados, Ricky demonstrates how to create lushly textured trapunto feathers. Then we're "on the road again" for a visit to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Featuring: Patt Blair / Tammy Finkler
Posts On: November 9, 2009Join us for a show that presents different perspectives from two award-winning quilt artists. Tammy Finkler, a traditional quilter and long arm quilting expert, guides you step by step through the process of designing intricate wholecloth quilting designs. Then examine quilts from an artist's viewpoint as Patt Blair teaches you how to draw and paint a tiger's face using a special "paint pencil" and fabric dye. You'll love the whimsy Patt brings to her quilting. Bottom line? Don't miss the fun, information, and fabulous quilts in this show!
Featuring: Cynthia England
Posts On: May 10, 2010On the road again! This time, Alex and Ricky head to Texas to visit with quiltmaker, author, and pattern designer Cynthia England. In addition to treating us to a show of her work (and tales of the havoc wreaked on her studio by Hurricane Ike!), Cynthia explains how to break a complex design into manageable sections and demonstrates her award-winning paper-piecing method. She also discusses how a design wall plays an important part in her design process. In another segment, Ricky shows how to use bobbin work to add "pop" to an applique design and gives us a peek at his Dad's Lone Star quilt.
Featuring: Laura Nownes
Posts On: November 8, 2010Beloved quilt teacher, author, and designer Laura Nownes comes to Alex's hometown, to show a selection of her charming quilts AND to share her simple, two-pin technique for stitching a Y-seam, a must for constructing the Tumbling Blocks block. Laura also talks about her long-time collaboration with quilter and friend, Diana McClun, including the story behind their best-selling, quilt-library staple, Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! As an added bonus, Alex and Ricky draw upon the Alden Lane Nursery location to inspire you with tips on color and composition for quilts. Don't miss it!
Featuring: Sue Spargo
Posts On: May 9, 2011Contemporary folk artist, designer, and teacher Sue Spargo was born and raised in Southern Africa, and attributes the evolution of her signature, layered and embellished, "primitive"-style work to her childhood memories and her exposure to the energy and color of traditional African designs. Join us as she shares her wonderful folk-art quilts, and demonstrates her technique for adding dimension to a wool "base" leaf with layers of velvet, silk, and cotton. As if that's not inspiring enough, Sue then offers seven creative ways to introduce even more texture with embossing, embroidery, beads, and other embellishments. We wrap up the show with an on-site visit to the Monument, CO, home of Barbara and Bob Normoyle. Barbara, a prolific quilter, has a fantastic eye for decorating, and uses quilts throughout to enhance the decor. You won't want to miss this jam-packed episode!
Featuring: Don Linn
Posts On: November 7, 2011Admittedly "drug to a show of blankets" by his wife, Don Linn discovered a whole new world in quilting. The quilt artist, teacher, and author - now known as Mr.Quilt among friends and fellow quilters - describes how he began by quilting for others on a longarm machine, and soon moved to designing his own work. He shares his current passion for Art Deco with a show and tell of his quilts, and demos the "how-I-did-its" of his quilt, Flying High, inspired by this episode's location, the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel in Colorado Springs. Alex adds to the learning with a lesson on how to make "chicklette sticks" (you'll need to watch to understand!), and Alex and Ricky view the Academy's weekly parade formation of 4,300 cadets and enjoy a Chapel tour with Cadet Teddy Reicks.
Featuring: Debbie Caffrey / Charlotte Angotti
Posts On: May 7, 2012Spoiler alert: Skip over segment 2 if you'd like to make the mystery quilt…and want it to remain a mystery. Do you love a mystery? Quilt artists and design teammates Debbie Caffrey and Charlotte Angotti define what constitutes a mystery quilt, and how they collaborate on their mystery-quilt designs. Then each of these "designing women" reveals (to the audience and to her partner!) the mystery quilt that she's made using two pre-determined blocks. It's not all a mystery: Debbie "spills the beans" on her power strip-cutting technique, and Charlotte "comes clean" with tips and techniques for crosscutting and machine quilting. All's well that ends well, however, as the pair serves up a tasty snack to Alex, Ricky, and the audience. (Instructions for the mystery quilt and recipes for the snacks will be available on the TQS site.)
Featuring: Daniela Stout
Posts On: November 5, 2012TQS goes back to Eleanor Burns' Quilt in a Day Studio in San Marcos to meet designer and publisher Daniela Stout, whose monthly "strip club" is a huge hit at her quilt shop in El Cajon, CA. Each month, club members take on a new project using fabric strips, and in this episode, Daniela shares some of her favorite techniques and tips for turning strips into versatile tubes, squares, and blocks. (You'll have a chance to "strip" as well: Daniela's Strip it Tube Block Quilt will be available as a free project on the TQS website.) We wrap up with a visit to Washougal, WA, where Barbara Shapel treats us to a show of her award-winning two-sided quilts, in which the quilt back offers viewers a different perspective of the design on the front.
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Posts On: May 6, 2013The "stars are out" at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch in Gallatin Gateway, MT, as Alex demos some clever—and easy—variations on the traditional Sawtooth Star block, and Ricky shows how to piece her Lone-Star-based Montana Star. (Cutting directions for the Montana Star will be available on the TQS website.) This "stellar" show also features a visit to Valentine, NE, where Florentine Blue Thunder shares his amazing Lakota Star quilts and Vi Colombe (from the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD) shows us her stunning Circular Stars. Can't get more star-studded than that!
Featuring: Rose Sheifer
Posts On: November 11, 2013Rose Sheifer has designed dozens of quilting books in her career, and now she has combined her artistic eye with a love of vintage linens to transform a collection of treasured family table covers into beautiful quilts. Rose shares helpful info about finding, auditioning, and preparing the vintage linens; methods for devising a compatible block and/or quilt design; and the process for combining the two. (Note: The pattern for the Dogwood Quilt seen in the sewing demo will be available to Star members on the TQS website.) If that's not enough, Ricky shows a super landscape technique using a background fabric, fabric "slivers" and "confetti," and oversized random stippling stitches.
Featuring: Bonnie Hunter / Shelly Burge
Posts On: May 12, 2014The TQS gang goes "on the road again" for a visit with author, designer, blogger, and self-described "scrapaholic" Bonnie Hunter, who made her first quilt using her grandmother's cardboard templates. Nowadays Bonnie, who still enjoys stitching on her beloved treadle machine, uses a webcam so that her followers can watch her at work in her studio! In this show, Bonnie shares her quilter-friendly system for cutting and sorting scraps, her technique for making quick 2"-finished half-square-triangle units from strips, and her ingenious "Leaders and Enders" technique, which makes thrifty use of leftovers and thread. In addition, Bonnie shows how she builds a quilt using fabric "strings" and phonebook-page foundations, and how to play with the finished blocks. We end with a field trip to meet Nebraska quiltmaker, author, teacher, and quilt judge Shelly Burge, who currently incorporates copper crimping in her quilts—while curating her collection of over 300 (!) vintage sewing machines.
Featuring: Leslie T. Jenison
Posts On: November 10, 2014While "on the road" near Mica, Texas, we caught up with artist, author, and educator Leslie T. Jenison, who shares her playful, "serendipitous" screen-printing techniques for transforming natural-fiber fabrics and paper with unusual materials such as plastic Fiesta flags, product packaging, common household items, and hardware-store finds. She also describes her experience as co-curator of the juried Dinner at Eight exhibits and companion catalogs with California artist Jamie Fingal.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 24, 2010Linda continues working on the Princess Wall Hanging and shows a different technique for background filler using pinwheel and "C" designs.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: September 28, 2016Sharon completes the process of making a reversible binding.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 23, 2011Alex talks about pin basting a quilt.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: October 2, 2012Laura demos hand stitching and a wrapped binding technique.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: December 21, 2016Libby has you seeing double and triple...
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: September 17, 2013Selecting the fabric.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 1, 2014Julie works on the U, W, and X blocks.
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Posts On: March 13, 2014In addition to Ernest's unique processes, he developed his own signature style. This style included things like stained-glass effects, original design borders, complex and puzzling geometric designs, large stars, and bold color choices.
Featuring: Joanne Sharpe / Jennifer Murche
Posts On: May 11, 2015Joanne Sharpe’s quilts and fiber art pieces are filled with vibrant colors and joyous words. Her love of philosophy and her life work as an art teacher for all grade levels brings a special joie de vive to her work, which started on canvas and paper, and is now incorporating fabric. Joanne demonstrates how to use your own hand-written word to make a simple but unique small quilt. She also shows Ricky how to use Dyna-Flow dye to create a flower with a few easy brush strokes. Earlier in her career she designed holiday outdoor flags, and shares some of her products. On a field trip to Portland, TQS visits with Jennifer Murche, who creates incredible bowls with just fabric and thread. Learn her secrets and try it yourself!
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: May 25, 2015In Lesson 4, Lea shows you how to rinse out your project and heat set it with an iron. She then shows you some options for what you can do with your batik once it is finished.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard / Deborah Langsam / Libby Lehman
Posts On: November 8, 2015Artist Lyric Kinard shares her transition from the use of bold colors to a preference for soft neutrals, emphasizing composition and texture. She then demonstrates transfer printing techniques, and the use of foil to add zing to a project. In a completely different printing technique, Artist Deborah Langsam demos her photo mosaic method of printing 1”-square photos onto fabric, then sewing them together to create entirely new images. She discusses how to choose good images, and how to match images when sewing them together. Be inspired as Ricky helps Libby Lehman return to quilting after her massive stroke.
Featuring: Alex Anderson / Ricky Tims
Posts On: August 31, 2015
My dad had always wanted to keep bees. He read all the books he could find on the subject and joined our local beekeepers association. Our bees arrived and settled in. Many months later they swarmed, and we found them clinging to a branch of an apple tree in the orchard. Dad had prepared for this day and had a new beehive ready. All we needed to do was capture the swarming bees and relocate them to their new home! Imagine, if you can, me standing under an apple tree, holding a big bucket over my head. Dad was in the tree above me, sawing the branch that held the swarm. You guessed it - I ended up covered in bees, but it was Dad they chased around the garden! The bees in this block are very content and aren’t going anywhere. There are lovely flowers everywhere in this garden to keep them happy.
The pieced blocks this month are Garden Path. I chose them to remind me of Dad running down many garden paths to shake the bees off his trail. For easy piecing, we’ll break the block down into half-square triangle units.
Alex and Ricky will give you some great tips for pressing when working on your half-square triangle units.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: August 14, 2015Lynn takes the mystery out of creating a "Y"-square component.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 17, 2015In this class Julie will show you how to prepare your quilt for binding, how to prepare your binding, determining where to start your binding on your quilt, and how to join the ends of your binding. A special tip for creating a perfect mitered corner is icing on the cake.
Featuring: Marci Baker
Posts On: May 8, 2016Alex leads off the show with some great tips for turning T-shirts into a quilt. Master the tricks that make "strechy" fabric easier to work with. You will be surprised at how easy it is to use a stabilizer to achieve a needle turn applique look.
Quilting Engineer Marci Baker then shares her passion for simplifying quilt making, whether through tools or techniques. Learn a clever triangular log cabin block using 1½” strips. You will love her tips for improving accuracy when chain piecing. Then see great organizational ideas that allow you to ”seamlessly” return to old projects without making errors. Know the secrets for creating both the Tumbling and Hollow block designs, including fabric selection and creating units and strips. Marci shows a variety of quilts and also talks about her penchant for taking photos of state and provincial capitals.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 31, 2016Julie Cefalu gives you some tips for measuring and cutting your border to create the perfect finish to your quilt.
Featuring: Cheryl Arkison / Catherine Kleeman
Posts On: November 20, 2016
Canadian artist and writer Cheryl Arkison juggles a quilting career along with a busy house filled with three children, so finding time for personal creativity can be a challenge. When you only have snippets of time in your day, it’s about ‘getting into the zone’ every day to just ‘do some sewing’. Cheryl shares Slabs and Curves, two fast, fun and very addictive methods for sewing together elements that allow you to build a quilt in a very short amount of time. She then shares how these basics can be used as a jumping off point for more creativity.
TQS visits the studio of fiber artist Catherine Kleeman who loves to create surface design and texture by shrinking a quilted piece in the washing machine before adding paint and other elements.
Featuring: Lyric Kinard / Tonye Belinda Phillips
Posts On: June 18, 2017
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: February 22, 2017Dee shows you an easy "sew-and-flip" method for creating a flying geese block.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: July 14, 2017In this video:
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Featuring: Judy Ahlborn
Posts On: November 5, 2017Judy Ahlborn grew up surrounded by a family of artists. It’s no wonder with her love and of painting, sewing, and computers she ended up with a degree in Textiles and Technology. After her retirement from a career in computer science, she came back to art by creating collage style quilts using software. In this show, Judy uses Photoshop to create background fabric. She then layers it with paint and thread stitching through which she achieves a subtle, translucent quality. She completes the work by adding Peltex and backing fabric. She finishes the edge with a non-traditional binding technique.
In the After Set, Judy demonstrates her other talent as she demonstrates the acrobatics that she keeps up with this day.
And follow along with the TQS cameras as Ricky and Justin share their town of La Veta, Colorado.
Featuring: Alex Anderson / Ricky Tims
Posts On: August 31, 2017Alex and Ricky guest host this month and shares numerous tips on pressing your patchwork.
Featuring: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Posts On: May 6, 2018Ricky starts off the show with a fun and easy technique for drafting a multi-pieced patchwork goldfish block. The design elements become more interesting as he expands the number of paper-pieced units within the block design itself.
Never one to sit still, Alex and Ricky welcome back Katie P. Masopust to share the secrets behind her new art quilts built using log cabin blocks. Her love of tradition led Katie to see how far she could expand the block.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: January 4, 2018In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the June ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: December 4, 2017Using his Innova, Jamie Wallen shares three different background "fillers."
Featuring: Lynn Carson Harris
Posts On: November 4, 2018Alex kicks off the show with a fast, fun, and cuddly quilt that can provide a warm hug for a loved one. Then, quilt teacher and author Lynn Carson Harris stops by the studio to share her love for using every last bit of fabric. Growing up on a farm, where nothing was wasted, fits perfectly with her style of quilting.
Spontaneously sewing small bits together for the sheer fun of it, resulted in stacks of small parts that later become the springboard for larger designs. Lynn says it’s about enjoying the process and not focusing on precision. And her tips for making small improv log cabin blocks will teach you not to toss your scraps aside. And, if that weren’t enough to get you thinking that small is good, wait till you see her teach Alex the cutest 2” finished Amish style basket block. We know you’ll be hooked on tiny. You won’t want to miss this show!
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: November 26, 2018Straight line quilting, orange peel, and other accurate patterns are best done with a ruler. Nina and Hayley show you how.
Featuring: Teresa Coates
Posts On: May 5, 2019Ricky starts the show with a tutorial on his "Dancing Squares" quilt. It is a fun variation on Seminole piecing featuring dancing squares.
Alex and Ricky greet Teresa Coates of Shannon Fabrics. Teresa loves working with challenging and unusual fabrics. She has always sewn, and made her first quilt in 1992 when she was pregnant with her son. It wasn’t until 2000 that she started working with quilts in earnest. She approached Shannon Fabrics as she was up for working with their wide and diverse range of unusual fabrics. Currently she is their Events/Education coordinator, but, she still loves designing her own quilts as well. Teresa shares some of her quilts.
Teresa shares tips for working with Shannon or Minky type fabrics. Don't be intimitated by these fabrics. Teresa says that once you know the tricks, you will love them. Once you learn the tips, it’s on to finishing a cuddle blanket by attaching a fast and easy binding. The entire quilt can be made as a gift in about three hours. Want to work on a smaller project? Teresa shares a fun pillow idea that is sure to be a hit for any recipient.
In the After Set, Teresa talks about moving her family to Vietnam in 2006. The kids were 9 and 14. Moving to another country taught her to take risks and that she could tackle anything. She shares photos from Vietnam.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: February 5, 2019In this lesson, you will be crocheting branches and working a very basic beginning tatting flower. Then you will be adding them to the background.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: May 16, 2019Becky Goldsmith shows you how to cut out your freezer paper templates for "Sizzle" the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Jean Wells
Posts On: December 15, 2019 (Coming Soon)
Featuring: Susan Cleveland
Posts On: September 3, 2007"Piping Hottie" Susan Cleveland demonstrates Piping Hot Curves by making perfect, tiny piping and accenting curved designs without piecing curves! Mother Superior, Heather Purcell (Superior Threads) talks about how different threads will affect the finished look of a quilt. Ricky plays a tune. You can visit Susan's website at www.piecesbewithyou.com.
Featuring: Annie Smith
Posts On: April 28, 2008Annie Smith, the first podcasting queen for quilters teaches her favorite workshop which includes tricks and tips for successful fabric selection to make your quilt sparkle. Annie also shares excellent piecing techniques. In addition Cheryl Uribe, Gizmo Girl joins us.
Featuring: Daphne Greig / Susan P. Mark
Posts On: October 27, 2008Join Canadian artists Daphne Greig and Susan Purney Mark as they teach you how to create fun and colorful quilts using fat quarters and fusible applique. Alex shares a really cool technique. Who would have thought that you could create perfectly pieced circles using freezer paper (in less than 7 minutes)? Be sure not to miss Bunny Rose as she opens the TQS Treasure Chest.
Featuring: Cindy Brick
Posts On: April 27, 2009Are you crazy for crazy quilts... or think you might be? You won't want to miss quiltmaker and author Cindy Brick as she takes you on an "up-close and personal" look at the history of this unique style of quilting using quilts from her own collection. Cindy also shares how to create your own crazy-quilt block using a variety of luscious fabrics and embellishments. Ricky invites an audience member to help him design a quilt block "from the outside in," and entertains and inspires with the flute piece, "Drum Circle," from his Sacred Age CD.
Featuring: Joanie Zeier Poole
Posts On: October 26, 2009You don't want to miss the incredible machine-quilting skills shared by award-winning quilter, Joanie Zeier Poole. (The audience and crew all fell in love with her work.) Discover how she uses very fine thread and tiny, tiny stitches to produce her incredibly rich and textured designs. Have you ever taken pictures at a quilt show and found that the colors change when you use the flash? Watch as Gregory Case uncovers the problem and gives you tips for getting the best shots possible.
Featuring: Bonnie Browning / Judy Woodworth
Posts On: April 26, 2010This super show brings you two outstanding teachers for "the price of one!" First, professional machine- and award-winning quilter Judy Woodworth uses a Gammill Longarm Quilting Machine to create freeform, out-of-the-box feathers, and encourages Alex to try her hand as well. Then: Who doesn't love a happy ending? Bonnie Browning, author of nine books, including Borders and Finishing Touches 2, involves our enthusiastic studio audience as she demonstrates a variety of innovative techniques, tips, and notions for giving our quilts the best endings ever! You'll be learning something every moment of this jam-packed episode.
Featuring: Marcia Stein
Posts On: October 25, 2010Learn to "plant your fabric stash with interest" as Alex and Ricky use colorful window boxes to demonstrate the concept of visual texture, and how mixing the patterns and print scale in the fabrics you choose can add interest and personality to your quilts. Then, TQS welcomes quilt artist Marcia Stein, who talks about developing a personal style, and demonstrates how she builds a quilt based on a photograph. Lots of juicy details here, including "the skinny" on needles, thread weight and color, stitch length, and Marcia's virtually invisible, super-tiny zigzag, machine-applique technique.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: April 25, 2011It's time for quilter, teacher, Silver Star Award winner, author, and TQS co-host Alex Anderson to take the floor in an on-location episode that's all about the fine art of paper piecing. In this "from start to finish" lesson, Alex introduces the tools you'll need to do the job, and then-using the New York Beauty block-she covers choosing fabrics, fabric placement, the basics of paper piecing...even how to paper piece curves and thoughts about quilting designs. As an added bonus, she takes you on a tour of host (and quilter) Cynthia Elliott's sewing room, and learns about making pizza in Cynthia's on-site wood-fired oven. Quilting and food? Perfect!
Featuring: Gyleen Fitzgerald
Posts On: October 24, 2011The work of quilt artist and author Gyleen Fitzgerald may be rooted in tradition, but she never fails to add her own contemporary spin. In this episode, Gyleen shares her method for stitching the "Grandmother's Flower Garden" block by machine using the "butterfly seam," shows how the same technique can be used for sewing a typical Y-seam; and demonstrates how to make a colorful "trash to treasure" Pineapple block using her pineapple ruler and lots of fabric scraps. Then, Brett Maddox (Executive Director of Red Crags Estate) introduces the "permanent residents" (aka ghosts) of our location: the picturesque, circa-1912 Onaledge B&B, in Manitou Springs, CO.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski
Posts On: April 23, 2012Alex and Ricky welcome back popular quilt artist, teacher, author, and creator of beautiful hand-dyed fabric and thread Laura Wasilowski (Episode 303) for an update on what she's been up to. Then Laura, a founding member of The Chicago School of Fusing, reviews the ten commandments of a fused art quilt, demonstrates a variety of hand embroidery stitches, and shows how to create and use hand-carved stamps to add texture and dimension to your fabric stash. You'll pick up lots of great tips, both on the embroidery and stamping processes and the products to look for. Speaking of fabric, we finish off with a visit to Violet Craft, a young Portland, OR, fabric designer whose work exhibits a fresh, contemporary flair.
Featuring: Karen Eckmeier
Posts On: October 22, 2012We return to the home of Betsy and Richard Ehrenberg in Santa Fe to welcome self-described "late bloomer" –AKA fiber artist, teacher, and author—Karen Eckmeier, who demonstrates how she uses overlapping and topstitched fabric strips to create her delightful "accidental landscape" quilts. In addition, Karen shares ideas for adapting her versatile technique for use on garments, and Lilo and Elena model some of Karen's wearable creations. (You'll need to watch to discover why you'll always find a "lucky lizard" stitched into Karen's show quilts.) The episode concludes with a tour of the Ehrenberg home, Casa de Vidrio (House of Glass), which houses the couple's amazing collection of contemporary art glass.
Featuring: Georgia Bonesteel / Charlotte Warr Andersen
Posts On: April 22, 2013Saddle up, as we stop by for a visit with renowned quilters, teachers, and authors Georgia Bonesteel and Charlotte Warr Andersen at their annual retreat at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch in Gallatin Gateway, MT. First the pair unveils a special quilt commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ranch, as well as retreat projects from previous years. Next Georgia demonstrates "picture piecing," her special method of paper piecing with gridded freezer paper, and Charlotte shows how it easy it is to use organza to create soft and shimmery effects in landscape quilts. We finish with a tour of our historic ranch location with owners Kim and Kelly Kelsey.
Featuring: Susan Else
Posts On: October 28, 2013In this episode, you'll meet "quilt sculptor" and teacher Susan Else, who made the leap from "flat quilts" to one-of-a-kind, three-dimensional quilted works and has never looked back. After showing a selection of her incredible quilted sculptures, Susan demonstrates how she uses felt, fabric-wrapped floral wire, and couching to create dimensional leaves, helps Alex construct a 3-D diorama, and shares some excellent tips for adapting your cutting tools to accommodate physical limitations. In addition, Alex demos the fast-and-fun, paper-pieced fan block that she used in her colorful quilt Hot Flash. Don't miss it!
Featuring: Linda Beach
Posts On: April 28, 2014Can you imagine being named artist-in-residence at several prominent US National Parks, including Denali (Alaska), Acadia (Maine), and Mesa Verde (Colorado)? That's the enviable experience of Colorado-based fiber artist Linda Beach! In this episode, Linda visits the TQS gang to show some of her amazing, nature-inspired, machine-pieced works, and to share some of the fabric-selecting and construction techniques she uses to create them, a process she compares to assembling a giant quilter’s jigsaw puzzle. In addition, Ricky shows how a traditional Sailboat block can be an inspirational springboard for a fun and funky new design. "Sail" in, settle down, and enjoy!
Featuring: Rosie de Leon-McCrady
Posts On: October 27, 2014Texas quiltmaker, embroiderer, businesswoman, and teacher Rosie de Leon-McCrady began collecting redwork while on road trips with her mother-in-law, an avid quilter and appraiser. In this episode, Rosie discusses the history of redwork, and shares examples of pieces that she has both collected and designed. Next, she covers the tools you'll need, demonstrates the three basic redwork stitches, and reveals how to update your work by introducing "the unexpected" in color and fabric. We also tour the famous San Antonio River Walk and the historic Drury Plaza Hotel, the latter with its stunning Art Deco architecture and stained glass details. Tons of inspiration here!
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 22, 2010Linda continues working on the Princess Wall Hanging demoing a 'stacked' feather design to highlight one of the princesses.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: October 17, 2011Sharon shares tips on what to do if your quilt needs more quilting.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 24, 2011Alex shows you how to baste using a spoon.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: October 9, 2012Frieda uses decorative blades on fused fabrics to create interest in her Prairie Flowers quilt.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: December 14, 2016Libby shares another fun decorative stitch.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: September 24, 2013Attaching the pattern, fusing, and cutting out pieces.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 1, 2014Learn tips for assembling the T, Q, and V blocks.
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Posts On: March 13, 2014What is Ernest's legacy that quilters today can learn from?
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: April 27, 2015Fiber Artist, Teacher and Author Lea McComas shows how she transforms her love of travel, faces and historical images into works of art. Her photo images are transformed via cropping, manipulating value and color, and even using gray scale. From designing, constructing, and on through intricate stitch work, Lea changes plain fabrics into realistic and vivid images. She also shares some of the antique textiles she picked up in her travels. Plus, bonus! Alex offers a clever method for facing a quilt while adding a built-in sleeve. This is a great technique for smaller quilts, when a common binding is too much.
Featuring: Jane Hall / Susan Brubaker Knapp
Posts On: October 26, 2015You might think that someone who has earned the title “Pineapple Queen” would live in a tropical climate, but Jane Hall has earned it through her amazing creations and alterations of the traditional pineapple block, which has held her interest for 25 years. She wrote the first book on the subject, and has since written many more. Jane shares some of her creations and techniques, and how she tweaks the block to invent many more designs. She also talks about her recent interest in making fabric baskets and bowls. Susan Brubaker Knapp has always been known for her nature-inspired works, and she shows some of her recent work. She then walks us through the basics of creating a piece, from taking a photo through the painting phase. She also demonstrates how her threadwork can add depth and realism to her pieces.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 1, 2015One of the local farmers still used horses to work his sheep farm. He had a pony called Misty, who taught all his children, as well as all the village children, how to ride. I'll never forget the day it was my turn! I still have one of Misty's metal horseshoes, and it holds a place in my heart. Misty would definitely have a home in a lush paddoch here at my dream home in the country.
Guest instructor Julie Cefalu will give you tips for machine applique and instruction on making a Churn Dash block.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: August 7, 2015Lynn shows you how to make "half-square" triangle components.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 10, 2015Julie gives you tips on pressing your seams. Press open or to the side, you decide, Julie gives you suggestions that work best for your block or strip set.
Featuring: Lola Jenkins
Posts On: April 24, 2016Ricky opens the show with a very clever method of adding piping to a seam, which works on both straight seams and curves! Piping looks great and adds interest and a tiny shot of color to a project. Lola Jenkins then shares her new interest in collage portrait quilts. She starts with a photo, looking for intriguing facial expressions and gestures. She demos how to use photo editing software, choosing the right fabric (including some unusual color choices) and quilting without prior planning. She talks about finding the best way to manipulate a large quilt under a domestic sewing machine. Lola has also devised some cunning finishing techniques that don’t require a lot of stitching. Check out her ideas for binding with ribbons, buttons and canvas backing.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 31, 2016Julie gives you some great ideas for adding a label to your quilt.
Featuring: Cyndi McChesney / Stacy Iest Hsu
Posts On: November 6, 2016
Cyndi McChesney is going to take what you've always thought about a pre-printed quilt panel and turn it on its ear. As the 2015 NQA Certified Teacher of the Year, she is often asked, “what can a quilter do with a pre-printed panel?” Cyndi says that it comes down to a bit of basic math and some imagination. From creative cutting to the addition of other quilt elements, Cyndi shows you how to take a panel from dull to divine!
Then we meet fabric and product designer Stacy Iest Hsu, whose adorable fabric panels featuring a doll and animal friends encourage story telling and creative play in children. Stacy shares creative ideas for personalizing the individual doll or animal for the little person in your life.
Featuring: Meg Hawkey / Sally Frey
Posts On: April 23, 2017As a child, Meg Hawkey loved to draw and make quilts for her dolls, but it was her husband who encouraged and pushed her to launch Crabapple Hill Studio. Meg's easy quilting tutorials show you how to achieve a vintage look using crayons and hand embroidery stitches that will give your work an added dimension. She says it is all about rediscovering the joys of sitting and stitching something beautiful. You will welcome the easy quilting techniques whether you are beginning quilting or looking for new quilting techniques to add to your current project. Plus Meg says, "Everyone will have the chance to rediscover the joys of sitting and stitching something beautiful."
Sally Frey loves to redesign modern quilts based on antique quilt patterns and designs. Her quilts become a blending of old and new that you are going to be excited to try. Is it Antique Quilts or is it Modern Quilting? Take a look and you decide.
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: February 15, 2017Dee shows you how to make a Triple Triangle Block.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: June 30, 2017In this video:
Stencils (BDR0083) are available at TSC Designs. Their phone number is 1-713-664-9943. You may have to call to check availability. If BDR0083 is not available, Ann suggests you use BDR -003, 005, 018, 062, or 066.
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Featuring: Michele Sanandajian / Laura Wasilowski
Posts On: October 22, 2017Textile artist Michele Sanandajian’s incredible talent was noticed early on by her art college professor. It was with his encouragement that she applied and was accepted to the Parson’s School of Design as a Junior. But, it was due to her desire to learn all of the fundamentals, and probably much to her parent’s dismay, that she began as a Freshman. Bits of dryer sheets, netting for produce, candy wrappers, and scraps of leather make their way onto a surface painted design in a layer-by-layer effect using her Innova longarm. It is this drive and need to push the boundaries of what constitutes a quilt, that make Michele’s collage work and her use of out-of-the-ordinary mediums stand out. Michele is fearless, putting the machine through its paces, with stunning results. Finishing off the work, is her hand spun yarn that becomes the edge finish of the quilt.
Then, TQS catches up with Laura Wasilowski in Sisters, OR, to see her new Pretty Planet quilt series and how she binds these unusually shaped quilts.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: July 1, 2017Gina introduces her Ruler Mastery Series, a 10-month program in which you will be creating a whole-cloth quilt sampler using a different ruler each month. You will develop ruler skills and learn new designs to add to your quilting arsenal. With Gina’s program you can use your longarm machine or your domestic sewing machine and master your ruler skills.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
All classes are free. They can be watched at any time once they have been introduced.
Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: August 1, 2017Carolyn shows you the Add-a-Quarter ruler and gives you tips for paper piecing your flying geese borders.
Featuring: Katie Fowler
Posts On: April 22, 2018
Featuring: Sally Collins
Posts On: January 1, 2018Sally shows you how to bring accuracy to every step of piecing, so your quilts come together perfectly every time. In this DVD on workmanship only, Sally is in her sewing room sharing exactly how she does what she does in great detail with camera close-ups.
Star Members can watch this class online for FREE!
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: September 17, 2017Using his Innova, Jamie Wallen shares five smashing border designs all based on one basic motif.
Featuring: Eleanor Burns
Posts On: October 21, 2018Eleanor Burns, the Queen of Quilting and 2011 TQS Legend, is celebrating her 40th anniversary. And she shows no signs of slowing down as she made her entrance along the red carpet! Join us as this teacher and entertainer shows you how to piece with precision, twirl your seams, and cut the fastest log cabin strips you’ve ever seen…all while making you laugh along the way. It’s a show not to be missed.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: November 19, 2018Tote Bags and other projects that use heavy fabrics (such as duck canvas) can be an issue for sewers, but using the proper foot makes all the difference.
Featuring: Christa Watson / Bill Volckening
Posts On: April 21, 2019Alex and Ricky visit with Christa Watson who was introduced to quilting 25 years ago. Where she really excels is machine quilting, and it is her passion. She fell in love with the quilts at the first QuiltCon and opened an online fabric shop to support her "habit" and family. Her shop is called The Pre-Cut Store. She was even one of the first stores to advertise on TQS! They take a look at her quilts.
Christa loves working with pre-cuts. They create dynamic and interesting quilts…and you can get to the machine quilting faster. She shares tips for quick and easy quilt blocks using pre-cuts (2 1/2" jelly rolls and 5” square charm packs). Not one to waste fabric, Christa shares a fast and fun way to make improv blocks. It’s a great way to use left over scraps.
Christa loves combining straight walking foot quilting with free-motion. Then she demonstrates how easy it is to quilt some of her favorite free motion motifs.
Then, Bill Volckening is back to shares quilts that are antiques, but speak very much to Modernism. He said quilters from the past headed toward the future and many were very daring in their designs.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: January 15, 2019Becky shows you how to pin and sew the the center circle into the round block using Block 8 as an example for "Sizzle," the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: January 30, 2019This week you'll be working some details with embroidery stitches including the whipped running stitch, back stitch, split stitch, and the stem stitch for outlining. Then you'll be making satin stitch tulips.
Featuring: Jayme Crow
Posts On: November 17, 2019 (Coming Soon)Alex loves straight line quilting and wanted to avoid the stop and start process. She starts the show off by sharing a fun Bubble quilt with machine appliquéd circles using turned edge appliqué after the background was quilted.
We are then introduced to eclectic quilter Jayme Crow, a fabric designer for Island Batiks, who dabbles in many different styles. Jayme shares a fun technique for creating a strip design using batik fabric with zero waste. To wrap up the show, Jayme shares her diamond shaped Boondoggle ruler and the basics of cutting and assembly with the ruler to make an infinite variety of quilt designs.
Featuring: Mary Fisher
Posts On: August 13, 2007Mary Fisher, quilt artist, author and AIDS activist, demonstrates unique ways of creating original fabric by stamping and block printing, and shows how she used the technique in African-themed quilts from her book, ABATAKA. An ambassador for the United Nations AIDS program, Mary discusses how she uses her art to raise awareness about AIDS' impact, especially on women. She recently taught HIV-affected women in Africa to make bead bracelets brought to the U.S. market by Fair Winds Trading, Inc., through partnerships with O, The Oprah Magazine, and Macys.com. Also, Ricky and Alex both demonstrate how to make a memory block.
Featuring: Jane Davila
Posts On: April 14, 2008Jane Davila, mixed media, author and fiber artist teaches aspects of good design along with embellishing "out of the box". Bob, The Thread Guy explains sewing machine needles and Ricky performs Remember December.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: October 13, 2008Gina Perkes is one of today's leading quilt artists. Learn how to improve your own quilting skills as Gina walks you through the process of creating intricate grids and continuous curves. Her easy to follow step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to design your own masterpiece. Gregory Case (Photo Man) shares great tips on what to emphasize in your quilt photos when submitting them for a show. Then follow Alex and Ricky as they visit and learn about San Francisco General Hospital's rehabilitation project called "The Great Cover-Up."
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: April 13, 2009Ricky had his turn and now we feature Alex Anderson. Discover the charm and elegance of quilts made exclusively with neutral fabrics from Alex, who's made all-neutral quilts for years, and has even written a book about them! Along the way, she shares bits and pieces of her quilting history, demonstrates the Daisy Chain block, reveals "What in the world is a crumb catcher?"... and shows you how to make one. Follow along as TQS ventures beyond the La Veta studio to visit the quilters of the Mother's Guild of Boys Town in Omaha, NE.
Featuring: Paula Nadelstern - NYC
Posts On: October 12, 2009You have a special backstage pass to the opening of an exhibit featuring the work of a great quilter and a good friend. Join us for a trip to the Big Apple, New York City, where we visit the American Folk Art Museum for the one-woman show of Kaleidoscopic Quilts by Paula Nadelstern. Then Paula takes us on a personally guided tour of her favorite "not-to-be-missed" shops in the NY Garment District. It's a tour that includes all the fabric and embellishments any quilter could covet for his or her stash.
Featuring: Pat Holly / Jennifer Forest
Posts On: April 12, 2010Ever wonder how an award-winning quiltmaker creates those perfect, teeny-tiny berries in their applique designs? Wonder no more, as master machine-appliquer Pat Holly shares her prize-capturing techniques for successful circles. Pat also shows us how she uses decorative machine stitching to create background fabric for her applique work and reveals her personal sampler book of decorative stitches. Then, stitchers and Austen fans alike will delight as author Jennifer Forest joins us via WebTV to chat about her book, Jane Austen's Sewing Box: Craft Projects and Stories from Jane Austen's Novels. Last - but certainly not least! - Alex, inspired by the stitching on an antique sleigh quilt, demonstrates the beautiful hand featherstitch.
Featuring: Terrie Hancock Mangat / Gayle Hillert
Posts On: October 11, 2010In this "dazzling" show, Alex and Ricky chat with textile artist, embellishment pioneer, and repeat Quilt National exhibitor Terrie Hancock- Mangat about the evolution of her art, and enjoy a show and tell of her unique, inventively embellished quilts. Then Terrie teaches Alex (and us!) her reverse- applique technique, including how she uses floss as an accent. In the spirit of the embellishment "thread," Bernina educator Gayle Hillert returns to share more ideas for using the decorative stitches on the sewing machine to embellish children's clothing.
Featuring: Jo Morton / David Taylor
Posts On: April 11, 2011Join the celebration as Alex, Ricky, our in-studio guest - quiltmaker, author, and designer Jo Morton - and our studio audience mark a TQS milestone: our 100th show!! Jo shares a great show and tell of her vintage-inspired quilts, and unveils super suggestions for success with color and terrific tips for accurate piecing. Then it's off for an at-home visit with an old TQS friend, quilt artist David Taylor - plus, Ricky shows an easy mono-print technique using fiber-reactive dye and soda ash. All are interspersed with memorable moments from past TQS shows. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll learn...don't miss it!
Featuring: Dianne S. Hire
Posts On: October 10, 2011An early career in couture clothing gave way to the quilting life for fiber artist, quiltmaker, innovative designer, and colorist Dianne S. Hire...and she's never looked back. Dianne brings along a fantastic show and tell of her unique and colorful quilts, gives us the scoop on how she makes "wedgies" and "danglers" to enhance her work, and partakes of an informative Q&A exchange with our studio audience. Also on tap: Alex shares some of her best sewing tips for "when things "go funky!" and we head off to the Katy, TX, home of quilt artist Tom Russell to take a look at his work and reap the benefits of his best techniques and tips.
Featuring: Robbi Joy Eklow
Posts On: April 9, 2012Don't waste a second! Join us ASAP as quilt artist, author, Quilting Arts columnist, and self-anointed "Goddess of the Last Minute" Robbi Joy Eklow shares some of her quirky and colorful work, including a recent series of cog-and-wheel-based pieces. In addition, she shows how to use Adobe Illustrator, a sheet of fusible web, and an inkjet printer to create a ready-to-cut-and-use design, and demonstrates an absolutely ingenious method for squaring up large quilts. In the final segment, Alex teaches Ricky (and the rest of us) how to make a quick- and-easy gift using a 4" block, pre-made piping, and a secret ingredient from the pet store.
Featuring: Barbara Persing / Mary Hoover
Posts On: October 8, 2012The stunning Santa Fe home of Betsy and Richard Ehrenberg provides the backdrop for this "must-see" episode. Alex leads off by demonstrating a terrific product that will save you time and effort with your paper-based appliqué. Then the TQS gang welcomes quilt artists, pattern designers—and sisters!—Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover. Mary, a former quilt-shop owner, shares the many creative possibilities of designing with strata sewn from colorful fabric strips. Then Barbara, a professional longarm quilter, author, and popular TQS Classroom host (Listen to Your Quilt), teaches four simple steps for designing an effective quilting plan, and Mary "ties it up with a bow" by sharing a clever ribbon-like quilting pattern.
Featuring: Sue McCarty
Posts On: April 8, 2013Only 27 quilts have been awarded the distinction of Master Quilt by the National Quilt Association, and Tribute to Tolkein, made by this episode's featured artist Sue McCarty, is one of the honored few. After demonstrating how to personalize a computer-generated quilting design by adding your own unique flairs and touches, Sue unveils "What I Wish I Knew," her nine most valuable tips for launching a successful career as a longarm quilter. If you've ever considered quilting for others, you won’t want to miss this! In addition, Ricky demonstrates a quick-and-easy sleeve for displaying your quilt.
Featuring: Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Posts On: October 7, 2013Renowned quilt artist, teacher, and author Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry takes Alex, Ricky, and the gang on a tour of Bryer Patch Studios, her lovingly designed 8,000 square-foot shop, studio, and home. You'll love seeing Caryl's first quilt, as well as the beautiful, artistic features she has incorporated into this very special place that she now calls home in downtown Paducah, KY. You'll also love learning about how she designs and executes a quilt using a hybrid method that she calls "appli-piecing," her techniques for creating work based on the Fibonacci series, her 30th Anniversary Project (which debuts in Houston in fall 2013), and so much more!
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: April 14, 2014Quilt artist, author, teacher, musician, and TQS co-host Ricky Tims takes center stage in this project- and technique-focused episode, filmed on location at the AccuQuilt headquarters in Omaha, NE. Inspired by an antique Amish quilt spotted in a book he received as a gift, Ricky has created Northern Lights, a fresh spin on a Nine-patch strippie-style quilt. Discover how he quick-cuts and builds his nine-patch and triangular setting units, arranging the colors so they flow seamlessly from one to the next, and how to update a traditional top with a contemporary "fiddlehead-fern-feather" quilting motif. Then Shari Ruwe and Karen Ruwe (no relation!) demonstrate examples of their collaborative work on the Nebraska State Raffle Quilt, including Shari's technique for making and embellishing pleated poppies, and Karen's tips for adding texture and pizzazz to a quilt with metallic thread.
Featuring: Valerie C. White / Elizabeth Hartman
Posts On: October 13, 2014Explore new techniques—and have lots of fun!—as mixed-media textile artist Valerie C. White reveals the pleasures and rewards of creating prayer flags from leftover fabric scraps. Valerie, one of 44 artists invited by the Historical Society Museum in Washington, DC, to create a quilt celebrating the 2008 election of Barack Obama, shows how she produces her thoughtfully constructed little (5" x 11") artworks, and shares ideas for enhancing them with hand and machine stitching, paint sticks, watercolor pencils, and markers. Then we switch gears for a field visit with busy Oregon quilter Elizabeth Hartman. Elizabeth—known for her clean modern style, use of bright color, and masterful handling of negative space, demos her favorite technique for making pieced letters.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 21, 2010Linda demonstrates free-from feathers in the sashing and shares a tip on how to "not" quilt into the binding area. Linda also demonstrates how to use patterned meandering to highlight part of a block.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: October 17, 2011How to create a Drunkard's Path without the scary curves.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 30, 2011Alex talks about marking your quilt top.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: October 16, 2012Frieda shows you how to do a "pillow case" finish for your quilt.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: December 7, 2016Libby shows you one of Ricky's favorite stitches.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: August 26, 2013Lea McComas introduces you to her class.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: June 1, 2014Learn about the blocks for letters N, P, R, and 0. Julie also shares how to piece an accurate 1/4 square triangle block and gives a tip for pressing open seams.
Featuring: Sue Bleiweiss / Thomas Knauer
Posts On: April 13, 2015From corporate businesswoman, to trained pastry chef, to wonky skyline collage quilter, Sue Bleiweiss has done a bit of everything! Here she shares her fabric collage techniques, walking us through the process layer by layer. She also demonstrates using dye magnets to create wonderful tone-on-tone fabrics. We tour Sue’s studio and uncover her artistic inspirations. Next, textile and quilt designer Thomas Knauer presents a trunk show to illustrate how he infuses his quilts with meaning via stories and messages.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: November 13, 2018Nina and Hayley share how straight line quilting and other ruler work quilting can be easily done using BERNINA's #72 Adjustable Ruler Foot.
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: October 12, 2015Jamie Wallen loves to play. His playground is his studio: he draws pictures with his longarm machine; he paints with threads; and he uses a grid as his field when creating a new design. When Jamie was a child, his mother took in mending, and he often fell asleep to the sound of the sewing machine. As an adult, he left a highly stressful nursing career after seeing an ad in a quilting magazine, and he took to longarm quilting as easily as picking up a pencil. Jamie shares how he strives to make threadwork look like a photograph, blending multiple shades of threads to create one color. He offers ideas about printing your own fabrics, as well as creating quilt designs both simple and complex by utilizing a grid and starting with basic shapes. To open the show, Alex demos a fun and fast quilted mini basket using just two squares of fabric and a piece of fusible batting.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: July 1, 2015
I can’t remember a time when I did not share my life with a cat or two. Although cats are very independent, they bring a gentle joy to my life. This very contented cat is named Goody Two Shoes. It looks like he got into the cream, but as you can see butter would not melt in his mouth. In fact, he is patiently waiting for Mr. Bird to fly off and find Mrs. Bird, so he can try to catch the little mouse he thinks he saw running past just now. I pieced a small friendship star into the cat block to remind me of the cats who have been part of my life.
This month Alex Anderson will show you how to make a Sawtooth Star. There’s no better pieced block to represent the aloofness of a cat! Learn a template-free method for making quarter-square triangle units.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: July 31, 2015In this class, Lynn talks to you about the block components you'll be making and the tools you'll need to complete the job.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: August 3, 2015Julie Cefalu gets down to the basics of rotary cutting. Let Julie show you how to navigate without an unexpected accident - or injury. Consider it driver's training for your rotary cutter!
Featuring: Sue Nickels & Ashley Nickels / Roderick Kiracofe
Posts On: April 10, 2016Sue Nickels is a longtime quilter, who often finds inspiration from quilts of the 1800s. Her daughter, Ashley Nickels, is new to quilting, and found her niche after attending QuiltCon and viewing the modern quilts. Together they cover the spectrum of quilting eras In addition, Sue and her sister, Pat Holly, run the annual Holly Girls Quilt Retreat, so it’s all in the family! Sue demonstrates how she designs and lays out an old-fashioned appliqué flower border, often starting with an inspiring focal fabric. She uses simple tools, working from a rough sketch and then refining it. She also demos how she makes a complex little bird, and then later embellishes its eye. Ashley loves grid work, and has found inspiration in the front gates she sees in her San Francisco neighborhood. After photographing them and designing the quilt tops, she uses a sketch program to audition a quilting design on top of the photo.
We also visit Roderick Kiracofe who invites us to see some of the unique quilts in his collection.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 1, 2016Julie shows you a quick method for making half-square triangles.
Featuring: Carol Morrissey / Cyndi Souder
Posts On: October 9, 2016Carol Morrissey’s love of nature has had an enormous impact on her quilting. It propelled her from making traditional quilts to creating realistic images of flora and fauna. Carol shows you how to add details to objects (in this case, a bee) using paint and inks. The end result looks almost like a watercolor. She also demonstrates how to make a fast, fun, fused postcard you can actually mail. Her tips include how to remove fused pattern pieces, as well as fabric-saving techniques. Later, Cyndi Souder takes you through her process of creating personalized celebration quilts, using both traditional and original designs. She shows how to enhance personalized pieces with free-motion written messages.
Featuring: Brenda Rahm
Posts On: June 22, 2016Brenda Rahm shows you an easy background filler on her Innova longarm using a teardrop, clam shell, and pearl design.
Featuring: Melissa Sobotka
Posts On: April 9, 2017
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: February 8, 2017Dee shows you four different ways to create half-square triangles.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: June 13, 2017In this video:
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Featuring: Deborah Boschert / Julie Silber
Posts On: October 8, 2017 (Free from January 1, 2019 through March 1, 2020)Watch artist, author and teacher, Deborah Boschert as she explores the possibilities of creating surface design with commercial fabrics. Seeing a need to help students overcome the struggle of getting started, Deborah shares a practical and easy way to self-evaluate your composition throughout the entire design process.
Then quilt historian, curator, and quilt broker Julie Silber, takes us on a history lesson via the lives of ordinary women, using quilts from the 1820’s to 1950. You don’t want to miss this fun and information packed show.
Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: June 29, 2017Carolyn shows you how to make "perfect" pinwheel blocks.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: December 6, 2017In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Bette ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
Featuring: Maria Shell
Posts On: April 8, 2018
Featuring: Susan Cleveland
Posts On: October 7, 2018 (Free from December 31, 2018 through March 1, 2020)We have translated this show into English, Spanish, Italian, German, French & Russian. Watch in your language and let us know if it's good. Susan Cleveland is in the house and that means precision, fabulous workmanship, and lots of laughs. Having avoided the Dresden plate for years because she wasn’t happy with her own results, she is now a full-fledged convert…working with a traditional block in an upbeat and contemporary way. With a nod of thanks to her quilt sisters of yore, Susan shares tips for creating perfect points, avoiding the dreaded wonky bias volcano center, and fun and contemporary ways to add spark and fun to this much loved block. A stickler for impeccable piecing, Susan then shares tips about thread, needles and feed dogs that can make a huge difference when it comes to results. Don’t miss this show!
Featuring: Heidi Kaisand / Linzee Kull McCray
Posts On: April 7, 2019Alex and Ricky greet Heidi Kaisand, a former editor of American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, in her Hen and Chicks Studio. It is a studio because they carry and teach all types of media arts. They learn about Heidi's quilting background and take a look at her quilts.
Heidi loves working with wool. She uses the die cutter system to cut out elements faster and more efficiently. Heidi shares a fun and contemporary wool circles on flannel-covered canvas project. She also shares a work in progress that is a king size Suzani (South Asian) inspired wool embroidery design she saw in a Sundance catalog.
There's more to come from Heidi when she demonstrates that simple embroidery stitches can be done simply as directed, or varied in their look when combined with other stitches. She shows you the basics to making a stem stitch, buttonhole, lazy daisy and couching, followed by examples of variations in design.
Also joining Alex and Ricky in this show is Linzee Kull McCray. Writer and photographer for craft, art and textile publications, Linzee shares the fascinating history of feed sacks. What once was just an ordinary way to store and ship grain, flour, and other staples became a phenomenon once frugal women began taking apart the bags to use as fabric for foundation piecing. Feed sack companies caught on to this idea and began designing prints on the feed sacks, as well as patterns for embroidery, children’s soft toys, etc. Linzee shares examples of some of the fabrics, advertisements, and wonderful items made using feed sack fabrics.
Lovers of vintage fabrics will be delighted with the Moda collections of fabrics based on original designs. Linzee’s book covers the wide span of this fabric (18,000 prints were made) and how it became a household norm for many in the Iowa and other farming regions. She then shares a fun string piece quilt and talks about how to keep the chaos of prints from becoming overwhelming.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: January 15, 2019Becky gives you pinning, pressing, and trimming tips for creating Block 2 of "Sizzle," the TQS BOM 2019.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: January 23, 2019In Part 4 of the A Little Birdie Told Me project, you will be turning the edges of appliqué pieces with glue and then stitching them to the background.
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Featuring: Sarah Ann Smith
Posts On: October 6, 2019Sarah Ann Smith, a TQS member from the very start, shares her story of discovering quilting while working in Bolivia, teaching herself using Quilter’s Newsletter magazines. Sarah Ann shows us how we can achieve realistic results for recreating photographs using a variety of techniques that can be done individually or layered in a collage effect. She ends the show by teaching how threadwork and the type of thread you use can blend, enhance or accentuate an area of your work.
Also in this show, Ricky demonstrates two techniques for sewing a perfect mitered border corner, one involving pressing a crease and the other using a ruler. He follows this up by offering tips for avoiding puffy or tapered borders and how you can use this same process to create a multiple border mitered corner.
Featuring: Jean Wells
Posts On: July 23, 2007Special Guest Jean Wells uses inspirations from nature to create a series of small quilts. The surprise is how they are combined and displayed! Ricky demonstrates making a flying geese block with only one seam, Photo Man gives advice on selecting photos for use in quilts and Gizmo Girl helps us get portable.
Featuring: Sue Patten
Posts On: March 31, 2008Sue Patten, Canadian long arm professional, award winner and teacher joins TQS to share how she masters painting with thread on a long arm. In addition Cheryl Uribe, Gizmo Girl, visits with great gizmo garb.
Featuring: Paula Nadelstern
Posts On: September 29, 2008New York native, Paula Nadelstern, shows you how to "puzzle" your friends by using one block and complex fabric to create a quilt that is dramatic yet easily accomplished. Using a few tools and some careful observation, you too can achieve stunning results. Gregory Case, our TQS Photo Man, joins Ricky and shows the importance of photo sizing. You will also enjoy a special visit to the studio of Maggie Weiss.
Featuring: Elsie Campbell
Posts On: March 30, 2009Do your Eight-Pointed Star blocks "tent" in the center? Is a button your solution for mismatched center seams? If so, this is definitely the show for you! Join master quiltmaker and author Elsie Campbell as she demonstrates her award-winning techniques and favorite tools for achieving pieced perfection with this problematic block. In addition, Alex shows how focusing on a simple traditional shape - in this case, the half-square triangle - can add pizzazz to your quilt. And-you'll love this!! - Gregory Case (Photo Man) takes us on a nostalgic and fun-filled photo journey of TQS history.
Featuring: Jeanie S. Ajero / Rebecca K. Brent / Judith B. Montano
Posts On: September 28, 2009Join us for a show that is chock-full of ideas for hand-crafted gifts. We know it's hard to find items to please both your quilting and non-quilting friends. Not to worry! Jeanie S. Ajero, Rebecca K. Brent, and Judith B. Montano share a variety of unique quilted gift ideas, from stunning kaleidoscope cards, to small machine-embroidered items, to a little purse pattern that can also be used to create a baby's hat or a yarmulke. All are sure to please any recipient on your gift list.
Featuring: Rami Kim
Posts On: March 29, 2010Get your fabric-folding fix as fabric artist Rami Kim, author of Folded Fabric Elegance, shares a collection of her quilted works in an inspiring show and tell. Next, Rami demonstrates how to make her trademark, three-dimensional folded "chopkey" in both a square and hexagonal shape. We wrap up our visit with a fashion show of her wonderful wearable art, featuring Ruth and Lilo as models! (You don't want to miss that.) In keeping with the "dimensional" theme, Ricky demonstrates how to make three versions of prairie points for edging or embellishing quilts and garments.
Featuring: Judy Mathieson
Posts On: September 27, 2010Where do we begin? Award-winning quilt artist? Best-selling author? World-traveled teacher? NQA-certified judge? Quilting icon Judy Mathieson does it all... and in this episode, she demos some of the techniques that she is famous for, including her precision paper-piecing method - no paper to remove! - and how she builds her characteristic star circles, segment by segment. If that's not enough, Judy also offers valuable pointers on what judges look for in a quilt when judging a quilt show. This not-to-be-missed episode was shot on location at the beautiful Wente Winery in Northern California, and also features a brief winery tour, a lovely redwork pattern featuring grapes, vines, and leaves, and Ricky singing opera... in a cave!
Featuring: Ronda Beyer / Gregory Case
Posts On: March 28, 2011After viewing this episode, you'll understand why quilter and teacher Ronda Beyer took the Best of Show award at the 2010 AQS Show and Contest in Knoxville with her friend, Gail Stepanek, for their spectacular quilt, Star Berries. Ronda is an expert on her longarm quilting machine, and she loves to put her own unique spin on traditional designs. In this episode, she demonstrates ideas that you can adapt for hand quilting as well: how to create cross-hatched and double cross-hatched motifs and how to customize premade quilting stencils to fit your needs. She also shares a few of her beautiful quilts, including the aforementioned show-stopper. Then, if you're thinking of entering a show, Photo Man Gregory Case offers suggestions for improving the quality of those required photos.
Featuring: Tonya Ricucci
Posts On: September 26, 2011Prepare for some fun, as that UnRuly Quilter, Tonya Ricucci, shows you how to get your message across with "word play" on your quilts. Tonya - an author and popular blogger - shares a sampling of her whimsical quilts, and demonstrates her fun-and-freeing techniques and tips for piecing improvisational letters, words, and phrases. Alex "gets a word in" too, demonstrating how to make easy fabric letters with the aid of an index card. Then we head off to the Rocky Mountain town of Estes Park, CO, to check in with textile artist Patty Hawkins, who treats us to a look at her beautiful quilts, inspired by the ever-changing Colorado landscape and crafted from her own luscious fabrics.
Featuring: Pepper Cory
Posts On: March 26, 2012Quilt-maker, teacher, and author Pepper Cory began her journey into quilting as a college student, with the yard-sale purchase of a handmade quilt. In this episode, Pepper joins us for a delightful show and tell, and to share the history and "how-to's" of the classic Japanese stitching technique called sashiko. She also presents vintage and contemporary examples of a traditional pattern from the Isle of Man that she refers to as "the original quilt-as-you-go" block, and demonstrates its assembly with a simple running stitch. Finally, Ricky provides the evocative musical background for a tour of the day's location, the Museum of Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.
Featuring: Tami Pfeil / Kim Kleine
Posts On: September 24, 2012"Quilting cousins" (and accomplished fiber artists) Tami Pfeil and Kim Kleine have always been fascinated with "repurposing," and have carried their inclination to rescue and reuse salvaged materials—particularly wool—into their quiltmaking. From our location at the Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Tami reviews the stabilizers, threads, and stitch length recommended for working with felted wool, and Kim offers a variety of creative ideas for combining wool with traditional quilting fabrics. (You won’t want to miss our special models, Lilo and Elena!) As an added bonus, Ricky introduces Shockwave, a dynamic pattern based on a 3" paper-pieced Kaleidoscope block.
Featuring: Hollis Chatelain / Bonnie Browning
Posts On: March 25, 2013You won’t want to miss this show, as (self-taught!) textile artist Hollis Chatelain visits us on location at friend Caryl Bryer Fallert's Bryer Patch Studios in Paducah, KY. Hollis reveals how her previous experiences as a photographer and as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa—as well as her vivid dreams!—have informed her amazing, award-winning work. She also shares how she combines a fast-and-fun reverse appliqué technique using recycled denim and hand-dyed fabric to create texture, as well as insight into her incredible threadwork. Then quilter and AQS Executive Director Bonnie Browning drops by to show Hollis, Caryl, Alex, Ricky, and Justin how the fun, relaxing, and improvisational art of the Zentangle can translate to quilting.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 23, 2013It's a fabric lover's dream as co-host Alex Anderson "anchors" aboard the USS Yorktown with a boatload of inspiration and tips for creating sensational and successful scrap quilts. From building a healthy stash to choosing a scrap-worthy block to establishing and implementing a viable "plan"—Alex touches all the bases. (Our self-described "queen of pinning" even demonstrates a quick-and-easy, no-pin technique for piecing the Bowtie block.) Then join us for an enlightening field piece on how a group of Egyptian artisans, known as the Tentmakers of Cairo, are adapting their traditional talents to the world of quilting.
Featuring: Kim Diehl / Christine Barnes
Posts On: March 31, 2014Quilt and fabric designer, author, and highly sought-after teacher Kim Diehl loves to combine unexpected elements in her traditionally inspired quilts, and she brings many of these "hybrid" pieces along to share. Then stick around as she offers some of her best time-saving machine-appliqué techniques, demonstrates how combining ‘big stitch’ quilting with machine quilting can give your quilts added visual and textural interest, and shows how to add a final pop of color to your finishing. We wrap with a field piece featuring quiltmaker, author, and teacher Christine Barnes who shares valuable insights into the properties of color, including value, temperature, and intensity.
Featuring: Cheryl L. See / Pat Sloan
Posts On: September 29, 2014We discovered the work of award-winning "hexpert" Cheryl See while taping our 2012 Legend Show (Episode 1113) with Meredith Schroeder at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY. Fasten your seatbelt! Cheryl launches English paper piecing into the 21st century, and you'll be amazed by her quilts: each incorporates a little "secret" or two that draws you in for a closer look. In this episode, taped at the Drury Plaza Hotel in San Antonio, TX, Cheryl shares loads of tips for making precise and perfect hexies and diamonds, and then shows a number of clever and versatile 3-D projects for trying her techniques without committing to a huge project. Finally, we corral radio personality Pat Sloan in Portland, OR, where she shares some of her quilts and demos how to do an appliqué running stitch by hand.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 17, 2010Linda begins work on a Disney Princess wallhanging. She begins by stitching the wallhanging directly to the batting and lining (backing). Then she uses stitch in the ditch to stabilize the wallhanging. She follows up with stitching around the embroidery with her "applique" helper.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: October 18, 2011Reverse Applique - Or is it called "Give and Take Applique?"
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: August 31, 2011Alex talks about the proper marking tools to use on your quilt.
Featuring: Laura Wasilowski & Frieda Anderson
Posts On: October 23, 2012Frieda shows you how to machine quilt Prairie Flowers.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: November 30, 2016Libby treats you to another fun stitch.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: October 1, 2013Adding pieces to the base fabric.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: May 1, 2014Learn about square-in-a-square blocks, fabric choices, and aligning points.
Featuring: Jane Hardy Miller / Peg Pennell
Posts On: March 30, 2015Quilter Jane Hardy Miller’s stitched together her first French Braid quilt many years ago. Over the ensuing decades she has refined and elevated the pattern into a complex design with 12 colors and a sophisticated palette. The results are stunning! Jane shares her secrets for selecting fabrics (often surprising), and using contrasting colors, accents and different values. She demonstrates her COB technique – working out from the center of the braid. She takes us on tours of both of her studios and talks about the highs and lows of each one. We continue the studio tour in Nebraska, where quilter Peg Pennell shares her space. Her quilts are unique because of their shapes, but they also feature heavy quilting, beading and embellishment. You will learn a lot from Peg!
Featuring: Lynette Anderson
Posts On: June 1, 2015
As you can plainly see, these two bunnies are in love. I think everyone loves a rabbit - except maybe some farmers! When I was a child, the large, sweet-natured dog we named Butch liked nothing better than to please everyone. One day he decided that bringing home a whole litter of baby rabbits would be a fun way to amuse his people! I’ll never forget the look on my mother’s face when she realized that there were a dozen or more tiny weeny rabbits in the middle of the sitting room. Butch had carefully carried each and every baby bunny home in his mouth! We laughed so much as we raced around the house trying to catch the bunnies and return them to the field behind the house where they had come from.
Our pieced blocks this month are called Night Vision, which I chose in memory of Butch. Although dogs don’t have such good night vision as cats, they can see a lot better that we humans can in the dark. Maybe that’s how Butch got to catch all those baby bunnies!
Featuring: Deb Tucker / Carrie Bloomston
Posts On: September 28, 2015There are so many tools that are available to quilters nowadays which make the process much easier, faster, and more accurate. Have you ever wondered who comes up with those tools? Meet Deb Tucker, who is one of those amazing people. Deb has been quilting for 30 years and she began teaching soon after she mastered many quilting techniques. She notes that accuracy was a recurring challenge for students, so she set out to create tools to help them be successful. Her tools are designed for improving ease and precision when piecing. She demonstrates how they help simplify the creation of a LeMoyne Star with foolproof accuracy. Do you think of a LeMoyne Star as traditional? Not necessarily! Deb offers infinite variations on this block. She also dissects a quilt pattern, examining its parts and offering ideas for changes and simplifications. Later, author and fabric designer Carrie Bloomston shows us how to cool down a wild color with paint and fabric.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 27, 2015Julie shows you how to make an adorable pincushion. It's a great quick gift to make and fun project to do with your kids.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: July 29, 2015Lynn Wilder invites you to join her for Easy Patchwork Math. Lynn has found a way to make quilting math palatable for all of us and wants to share her tips with you.
Click here to download the formulas you'll need to make the components in Lynn's classroom.
Featuring: Katie Fowler / Joe Cunningham
Posts On: March 27, 2016Katie Fowler’s work was influenced heavily by negative remarks she received from her college art professor. It caused her to change her major from Art to Education, but it stuck with her, and returned later, forming her resolve to fight fear and negativity. Katie shows her quilts, and refers to Alice in Wonderland, and the need to face fears, jump down the rabbit hole, and enjoy the ride. Katie shares her paint, layer, stitch method of quilting, using PFD fabric and some amazing “play tools.” She walks Alex through the process, noting that mishaps can turn into new and wonderful discoveries. She coaches quilters to explore their creativity and move past external factors that may hold them back. To prove her point, she does something startling to one of her quilts in progress, saying “it’s about the process, not the product.” She also shares the wisdom she gained from a devastating fire that destroyed her studio. Later, Joe Cunningham gives a tour of his San Francisco studio and shares his design process.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: June 1, 2016Julie gives you tips on pressing your seams. Press open or to the side? Julie gives you suggestions that work best for your block or strip set.
Featuring: Brenda Rahm
Posts On: July 6, 2016Brenda Rahm gives you some great ideas for filling up that border with variations on a scroll and flower theme.
Featuring: Lois Podolny / Nancy Arseneault
Posts On: September 25, 2016The show begins with Ricky sharing a quick-and-easy method for backing a small quilt top, which cleverly renders the backing seam almost invisible. Quilting friends Lois Podolny & Nancy Arseneault then tell the tale of their meeting and mutual admiration, and offer a trunk show of their work. The two have very distinctive styles, but often critique and offer suggestions for each other’s works in progress. Each then shares a technique for machine quilting. Lois gives you a clever way to quilt concentric circles in metallic thread, using a drafted freezer paper pattern that acts as a bumper guard for your machine foot. Nancy walks you through her machine quilting process, offering advice from preparing your sewing machine and work area, through proper bobbin winding and making sample thread sandwiches. Their combined wisdom will do wonders for your quilting!
Featuring: Karen Kay Buckley / Lynn Gorges
Posts On: March 26, 2017With fifteen Best of Show ribbons to her name, Karen Kay Buckley knows what a judge is looking for when it comes to a perfect quilt. From perfect circles to ovals and stems, Karen shares tips and tricks for taking your work to a whole new level. But wait, there's more. Karen shows her technique for squaring up the perfect block.
Then meet North Carolina Textile Conservator Lynn Gorges, who spends her days preserving textiles for future generations to enjoy.
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: February 1, 2017Dee talks about thread selection and how to achieve that perfect quarter-inch seam allowance.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: May 31, 2017Create a beautiful butterfly by turning a simple drawing into a quilt block. You’ll learn how to make freezer template pieces which are hand stitched together. It's a great 'take-along' project.
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Featuring: Bethanne Nemesh / Lesley Riley
Posts On: September 24, 2017Join us as multi-prize winner and youngest ever recipient of the of ‘Master Quilt Award’ Bethanne Nemesh, shares her stunning artistry. Known for her inventive use of details, she shares a beaded piping finishing technique that adds that ‘wow’ element and a method for creating machine quilted feathers that requires no backtracking.
And, the TQS camera crew visits the home and studio of Maryland artist Lesley Riley who shares a fabric collage technique for creating your own story in fabric. This tip filled show is not to be missed.
Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: May 31, 2017Carolyn discusses using double floaters in your quilt.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: November 1, 2017In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Amelia ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
There are no downloads for this class.
Featuring: Cheryl Lynch / Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: March 25, 2018
Featuring: Paula Doyle / Lea McComas
Posts On: September 23, 2018 (Free from April 28, 2019 through May 5, 2019)Join us as Paula Doyle shows you how easy it is to create beautiful and complex designs using one large-scale print fabric. It’s a stack, pin, cut, and off-to-sew method that leaves zero waste. Don’t believe it’s possible? We didn’t either… until we saw it demonstrated. Then, Lea McComas unlocks the secret to making fabric color choices work nicely together. This fast and simple method saves you hours of frustration before you make that first cut into your fabric.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: November 5, 2018Nina and Hayley share the wonderful world of sewing with cork fabric. It is versatile and unique and great for many types of projects.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: January 1, 2019Becky shows you how to pin and sew the round blocks into the corner units.
Featuring: MJ Kinman
Posts On: March 24, 2019Ricky and Alex meet MJ Kinman. A corporate job at a Fortune 100 company kept her busy, but it was quilting that tugged at her heart. In1991, an advertising mailer featuring a gem captured her imagination. She wanted to see if it was possible to create a gem using fabrics.
MJ has designed a freezer paper technique pattern based on the 12 birth-month gem stones. Colorway fabric kits make fabric selection easy for those just dipping their toe in the water. The pattern has numbering and registration marks for building the quilt. A big puzzle, MJ suggests working one section at a time, to avoid getting lost in the process. She also shares tips to avoid sewing through your paper pattern as well as tackling that ever tricky set in seam. Then it's time to see examples of gems that include different color combinations.
In order to replicate the colors and fire in gemstones, MJ had to learn how to paint her own fabrics. She shows Ricky how fun and easy it is to paint your own cotton sateen fabric temporarily stapled to a stretcher bars. After discussing tools, it's on to adding paint to create blending and movement of color (the perfect fabric for gemstones).
We wrap up the show with a Tour of the Iowa Quilt Museum. Iowa Quilt Museum Director, Megan Barrett, shares the history of this gem in Winterset, IA, that opened its doors in May 2016.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: January 14, 2019In this lesson, you'll be tackling Oya, a Turkish edging. You'll work a tiny crochet beaded lace trim and separate crocheted motifs. Grab those magnifying glasses and get started!
Featuring: Sherri Lynn Wood / Ann Myhre
Posts On: September 22, 2019TQS opens its doors to improv quilter extraordinaire Sherri Lynn Wood, who embraces the idea of working with what you have. With a Masters in Theology and Fine Art, Sherri Lynn brings a voice to her works, where she considers her quilts to be sculptures. Then using the traditional Hole in the Barn Door block, Sherri Lynn and Alex cut and build a variation to explore pattern as they build a "new" block. We follow this with Sherri Lynn discussing the process of making bereavement quilts, using garments owned and worn by a lost loved one, and how these quilts become a tangible item that gives you emotional comfort.
Ann Myhre finishes up by offering a look at her collections of intended work and how she likes to store them, via vintage tea cups, baskets, small containers, and other various objects. Ann then presents a collaged work featuring a fox that includes a multitude of techniques.
Featuring: Denise Labadie
Posts On: July 2, 2007Denise Labadie, award-winning quilt maker uses her profound love of the Irish landscape and ancient megalithic stones as a theme that is central to her quilting. To best express the moods and textures inherent in her complex landscapes, Denise uses a wide variety of colors, fabrics, and threads. She demonstrates how she achieves the effect of realistic looking "fabric stones." Show includes a visit from Cheryl, The Quilt Show's Gizmo Girl and a piano performance of Danny Boy by Ricky.
Featuring: Bill Kerr / Weeks Ringle
Posts On: March 17, 2008Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle: Artists, designers, teachers and owners of Fun Quilts,a company which produces heirloom - quality contemporary quilts, join us to share their unique approach to color and design. In addition we visit their organization which provides training and jobs for developmentally disabled adults in Chicago.
Featuring: Kim Deneault / Bunny Rose / Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 15, 2008Join us as we learn how young quilters can foster a love for our craft. Kim Deneault will have you raiding your stash once you see her technique for creating fun and textural quilts using her quick and easy reverse appliqué techniques. Fortunately after you have made a mess in your quilting space, Bunny Rose has quick and useful tips for bringing it back in order. We also visit Alex's daughter Adair Anderson, an 8th Grade teacher, as she teaches government using student designed quilt blocks.
Featuring: David Taylor
Posts On: March 16, 2009We feel especially lucky to bring quilt artist David Taylor to the attention of the TQS family. If you've been to any of the major quilt shows recently, you've probably stood before his work in awe. In this episode, David brings his current "work in progress" to discuss and demonstrate the development, techniques, and fabrics he uses to create his award-winning quilts. Also not to be missed: the always-welcome Thread Guy, Bob Purcell, gives you a handy guide to troubleshoot your thread problems.
Featuring: Esterita Austin / Jan Krentz
Posts On: September 14, 2009Jan Krentz Skypes in from San Diego to demonstrate how to build a LeMoyne Star. Want to see how the star will look before you cut the fabric? Jan has a great trick for you. Then meet Esterita Austin, who will amaze you with her quilts, which she creates using photographs and freezer-paper templates. She shows how tulle can suggest different shading effects when used with Mistyfuse. Traditional blocks, artistic shading, and Dan Purcell with "What's on the Internet?"...in addition to being informative and fun, this show is a visual treat.
Featuring: Philippa Naylor
Posts On: March 15, 2010Award-winning quiltmaker Philippa Naylor brings it "all to the table" in this inspiring show. Philippa, who has returned to her native Yorkshire, England, after living for fifteen years in Saudi Arabia, describes how she became interested in quilting and how living in the Middle East influenced her life and her work. She also shares a show and tell of her heart-stopping quilts and demonstrates the techniques she has developed for creating the amazing trapunto that is a hallmark of her style. For the piecers among us, Alex demonstrates a simple method that yields a perfect set-in seam for a Split Lemoyne Star or other similar block.
Featuring: Camille Roskelley / Susanne Woods
Posts On: September 13, 2010Wondering what's hot on the quilting scene these days? You've come to the right place! In this episode, designer Camille Roskelley, a fifth-generation quilter and author of the new book, Simplify with Camille Roskelley: Quilts for the Modern Home, demos three fast, fun, and fresh directions for spicing up your work using monograms, blanket stitch, and rickrack. Then Ricky chats with Susanne Woods, the acquisitions editor from C&T Publishing, about what to watch for in the sewing and crafting book market in the coming months. All this and more! from our on-location studio at beautiful Alden Lane Nursery.
Featuring: Verna Mosquera
Posts On: March 14, 2011Do you own-or have your ever dreamed of owning-a home-based, quilting-related business? If so, you'll want to hear what quiltmaker, fabric designer, and successful businesswoman Verna Mosquera has to say about the challenges of balancing business-her pattern company, The Vintage Spool, focuses on romantic and timeless quilt designs--and family life. Then Verna shows some of her beautiful quilts, and gives Ricky a lesson in hand applique, focusing on clean, sharp points and deep Vs. The episode concludes with a tour of our location for the day, the home of Trish and Frank Cvetovac, where you'll enjoy a glimpse of the various rooms devoted to baseball, grandmother, and other "interesting" themes.
Featuring: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Posts On: September 12, 2011For this show, TQS returns to the beautiful Monument, CO, home of Hugh and Dee Dee Eaton with none other than the renowned art quilter, author, and teacher, Katie Pasquini Masopust. After touching on the high points of her quilting journey, and sharing some of her amazing work, she puts Alex to work on a design exercise that begins with a "no-peeking" sketch drawn to the accompaniment of classical music. (You definitely will want to try this at home!) Katie then shows how to work with the results to create an original quilt design. In addition, Ricky demonstrates the "Flip and Sew" technique on a variation of the Drunkard's Path/Fan block. (You can try this one at home, too: We'll have a pdf of the 8" block available on the TQS website.)
Featuring: Linda Thielfoldt
Posts On: March 12, 2012Gammill Quilt artist and long-arm machine specialist Linda Thielfoldt talks about her roots - her mom was an excellent garment maker - and brings a touch of humor to show and tell. You'll be amazed by her easy and efficient method for stitching "mock feathers" (no backtracking!) on a long-arm sewing machine, and her helpful tips for preparing to quilt fabric for use in a garment, selecting (and reading) a suitable pattern, and achieving the perfect fit. Watch...and then wear!
Featuring: Brian Haggard
Posts On: September 10, 2012The TQS gang visits The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM, to greet quiltmaker and author Brian Haggard, who has parlayed his love for traditional crazy quilts into a body of work that puts a contemporary spin on a familiar genre. After sharing some of his beautifully embellished pieces, Brian demonstrates an easy way to showcase a cherished photo as the centerpiece for a special memory block. He also shows his technique for creating three-dimensional flowers using die cuts, and Ricky jumps on the embellishment bandwagon with creative ideas for free-motion couching.
Featuring: Lauren Vlcek
Posts On: March 11, 2013Dollmaker, mixed-media artist, and TQS classroom teacher Lauren Vlcek enjoys combining her various talents to create one-of-a-kind mixed-media pieces. In this info-packed show, Lauren demonstrates how she uses her deconstructed crazy-quilt technique to make a small wall shrine, sharing tons of tips for fabric selection, pressing, decorative machine stitching, and embellishment along the way. She also shows how to insert a reverse-appliqué "window frame" in a pieced block background, and a variety of ways to employ the results. But that's not all: Ricky also shares tips for working with guild exchange blocks, and offers a few potential block suggestions (available on the TQS website).
Featuring: Sheila Frampton Cooper / Angela Walters
Posts On: September 9, 2013Although she's been making art all her life, LA native Sheila Frampton Cooper is relatively new to quilting. That hasn't stopped her from making a splash, as evidenced by the award-winning quilts she shares in today's fun- and info-packed show. In addition, Sheila demonstrates her clever technique for piecing curves without pins and offers loads of tips and suggestions for machine quilting, including how to tackle multiple thread changes. Also on hand: machine quilter, author, and popular blogger Angela Walters, who shows how she gives traditional quilting designs a modern twist and determines strategies for quilting the negative spaces in those Modern (and other) Quilts.
Featuring: Tula Pink / Karen Marchetti
Posts On: March 17, 2014It may sound like a quilter's dream, but it's "real life" for popular blogger, author, fabric and pattern designer Tula Pink. Within 24 hours of posting her first fabric designs on line, Tula was contacted by a major fabric company who wanted to produce the entire collection! The rest is history. In this episode, Tula—who loves to give traditional patterns a contemporary twist with current fabrics—shares a clever method for building a color scheme and demos how to "fussy cut the Tula way" using 1/4" masking tape and your rotary ruler. But wait! There's more! Award-winning longarm quilter Karen Marchetti also drops by with tips for expanding your machine-quilting repertoire—and your confidence—by building on the basics already in your toolbelt.
Featuring: Lisa Sipes / Nola Emerie
Posts On: September 15, 2014Prepare to be inspired! In 2008, during a dark period in her life, artist Lisa Sipes was encouraged by her mom to give quilting a try—and a passionate new quilter was born. Now a well-regarded professional longarm artist who loves detailed work, Lisa shares fun ways to add visual and textural interest to a wholecloth quilt with a variety of stitches and colored threads. She also shows how she creates her signature "triple stitch" and alternative ways to finish the edges of your quilt. We end by visiting with the amazing and inspirational Nola Emerie, who—after suffering a massive stroke at age 52 that paralyzed the right side of her body—decided to take up quilting. You won’t want to miss this.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 15, 2010Linda demonstrates a feathered wreath which she begins with a circle template. She also shows her method for quickly unpinning the quilt from the canvas.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: October 25, 2011Sharon makes wonderful 3D flowers that pop out for a fun effect.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 13, 2011Alex answers more hand quilting questions.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: November 23, 2016This is one of Alex's favorite stitches.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: October 8, 2013Putting the layers together.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: April 1, 2014Julie shows you how to use the Bloc_Loc rulers and gives a tip on aligning your appliqué.
Featuring: Cindy Needham / Bari Ackerman
Posts On: March 16, 2015It’s amazing what happens over the course of 200+ TQS episodes! Designer and Teacher Cindy Needham was a guest on Episode 202 and she returns to show us how her work has developed. She reviews her past quilts, which incorporate and highlight the handwork of antique linens, and then she shares her most recent projects. She also creates stencils, and demonstrates how they can help you fill whatever design space you need. She offers tips for turning simple quilting designs into stunning works of art. Lastly, Cindy gives expert advice on selecting threads to match antique linens. Traveling to warmer climes, TQS visits with whimsical quilter Bari Ackerman, in her Scottsdale AZ studio. Bari is a fabric designer, author and designer of home décor wall stencils. She will demonstrate her creation of fabric collages.
Featuring: Lynette Anderson
Posts On: May 1, 2015Quick the naughty fox is running away with the hen, looks like they are having fun perhaps they are in a race! I have fond memories of foxes, when I was young the fox hunt used to come through the fields near my home and my mum used to stand in our large garden and tell the hunters to go away, in my mind the naughty fox was hiding in the bushes in our garden where he knew he would be safe!
I have teamed the naughty fox up with two simple to pieced ‘Golden Gate’ blocks. Which represent my mum the gatekeeper to our garden.
Featuring: Andrea Brokenshire / Melody Crust
Posts On: September 13, 2015Art Quilter Andrea Brokenshire’s style when she started quilting is radically different from what she currently produces. A debilitating illness changed the course of her quilt journey, moving it from hand appliqué and quilting onto other pathways. She now works with more contemporary looks, and favors a confetti technique she developed, along with the use of silks for appliqué pieces. Her inspiration comes from Monet’s garden paintings. Her confetti backgrounds are created with batik snippets that are haphazardly sprinkled on a matching background, which are then stitched down randomly, creating a dimensional texture. She also demonstrates tricks for mastering appliqué with slippery silk charmeuse. Artist Melody Crust then offers tips for perfect straight-line quilting, which can be used to enhance both contemporary and traditional quilts.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 13, 2015Join Julie as she shows you how to use up your batting scraps.
Featuring: Mary & Garry Olson / Barbara Groves & Mary Jacobson
Posts On: March 13, 2016
Mary & Garry Olson are a quilting couple. Garry designs the quilts (he majored in art) and Mary sews them. Many of Garry’s designs are based on a combination of Jacobean, Persian and Celtic influences. He demos how a design takes shape, from an initial sketch to a finalized drawing. Mary takes Garry’s designs and makes a pattern, often adding appliqué elements. She shares how she uses trapunto to increase interest. Mary claims she sews at the speed of a turtle, but she and Garry are winning top prizes with their quilts. Mary uses blue painter’s tape to create her crosshatch designs.
Next, sister team Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson of Me and My Sister Designs have quilter cred: they have owned a quilt shop together, written books and patterns, and designed fabric lines for Moda. They share a clever four-patch technique that will impress you!
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: May 1, 2016Julie shows you a great technique for making an Hourglass block.
Featuring: Allie Aller / Barbara H. Cline
Posts On: September 11, 2016When Allie Aller began quilting in high school, she started with the basics, moved on to broderie perse, followed by landscapes, and then found her true passion with crazy quilting. With a large collection of doilies, feedsacks, petticoats and other antique textiles, she shares with you a unique way to give them new life, turning them into quilt blocks. Allie then combines machine stitches with embroidery, paint and beads, making it all look like hand stitching. Our second artist, Barbara Cline, a Mennonite, considers her work to be traditional, but with flair. She tackles difficult blocks and finds ways to simplify them. She demonstrates her technique for taking apart a block using templates, then reassembling the block in a much easier way. As the author of four quilting books, she definitely knows what she’s doing!
Featuring: Ann P. Shaw / Rosalie Dace
Posts On: March 12, 2017Have you ever wondered why some quilts draw you in for a closer look? It is through the use of line, shape and unusual or often overlooked fabrics, that Ann P. Shaw unlocks the mystery of adding 'gesture' to her quilts. A former student of Ruth McDowell, Ann took over thirty classes and now, with Ruth's blessing, is taking this technique and adding her own unique spin on the process.
Rosalie Dace takes us on a walk in Sisters, OR, and opens our eyes to seeing line and shape in the world around us.
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: January 25, 2017Dee gives you great tips for pinning your quilt blocks accurately.
Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: May 1, 2017Carolyn discusses using "floaters" in your quilt to give definition to the design.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: May 19, 2017In this video:
For additional help with appliqué watch:
Featuring: Meg Cox
Posts On: September 10, 2017Making quilts for wordsmith Meg Cox is about meaning, importance, and carrying on a tradition. This former Wall Street Journalist accepts the challenge to join Alex and Ricky in making a quilt based on their favorite musical. Each person's work was veiled in secrecy and you will be as surprised as they were by the results. They will share the message, tips, and techniques used to meet the challenge. Lo and behold, one of the three needs a bit of help when it comes to spelling. We won’t spill the beans, you will have to watch to find out the answer.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: July 2, 2017In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Shirley ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
Featuring: Annie Moody / Lynda Remmers
Posts On: March 11, 2018
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: February 8, 2018Jamie Wallen gives a tutorial on Grid Designs and shows you how to travel through the design without breaking threads.
Featuring: Jamie Wallen
Posts On: September 9, 2018Alex and Ricky welcome back Jamie Wallen who shares the touching story of how the quilting community came to his aid during the 2016 Houston Quilt Festival after the entire contents of his trailer with 70 quilts, products, and class materials were stolen the night before the show opening.
With eyes forward, Jamie is excited to share his method of flushing out ideas on paper to avoid problems later during the quilting phase. Along with tips for planning and building a border design, Jamie shares ways to make your machine stitches pop and removes the fear of a complex medallion by dividing it into manageable pieces. It’s all just another day in the office for this talented artist.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: October 30, 2018Hayley shares with Nina how she easily stitches super thick and heavy trims using BERNINA's very strange looking Leather Roller Foot (#55).
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: January 1, 2019Learn how to sew the two halves of your round blocks together.
Featuring: Heidi Proffetty
Posts On: March 10, 2019Ricky begins the show by teaching a technique for creating interest and a bit of shimmer to a leaf design on a small quilt. He also shows a tip for creating a nice sharp point with yarn when machine couching.
Then Alex and Ricky greet Heidi Proffetty. Heidi originally began as a traditional quilter but gradually moved to art quilting. Having outgrown her basement, they added a full fledged studio space to her house where she now works on her mosaic quilts and photography. Early on she worked with a variety of hand cut shapes to create a design, but has since honed that method to now using a digital cutter to cut equal size squares at the touch of a button. This new method allows her to blend her own photographic images into an art quilt piece. Heidi also discusses the SAQA Mentorship program.
Then on to Digital Cutting 101. Heidi walks us through the ins and outs of the digital cutter and how it differs from the traditional die cutter system. From there she shares her technique for using a photograph that then becomes a mosaic design.
In the After Set, Heidi talks about beekeeping and how the family has taken on the hobby as a group activity.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: January 8, 2019In this lesson, you'll be working reverse appliqué inset circles, blanket stitch, adding beads and quilting with seed stitch around the bird.
Featuring: Shelley Scott-Tobisch / Bernie Tobisch
Posts On: September 8, 2019 (Free from September 8, 2019 through December 31, 2019)Alex and Ricky are introduced to Shelley Scott-Tobisch and Bernie Tobisch of Easy Precision Piecing, creators of the Acorn Easy Precision Piecing Seam Align Glue, Easy Press Solution, Easy Press Pen, and the Block Builder Base. Shelley has been quilting for twenty years, while Bernie has had a forty-three year career as a sewing machine tech. Combined, they offer students a wealth of knowledge when it comes to achieving perfection in their piecing results. Having serviced over 50,000 machines, Bernie walks TQS through tips to help resolve issues that all quilters face, like tension, tilting stitches, and the proper needle for the job.
Then, Bernie and Shelley talk about the special features of the Block Builder Base, a portable patchwork block base developed to keep pieces in place and aid in assembly without shifting when it comes time to move from the cutting area to sewing. Bernie and Shelley cap off the show by talking about the many wonderful years they spent living on a boat.
Featuring: Barbara Olson
Posts On: June 4, 2007Barbara Olson, renowned fiber artist, author and international quilt teacher shares her formula for jump-starting creativity. Her insightful process will help generate the creative energy needed when you have too many ideas - or none! By using a variety of unusual fabrics, you will learn how to think creatively.This is all about the process, not the technique. Show includes a visit from Bob, The Quilt Show's Thread Guy and a visit to the home of Cheryl Sterling - a developing new talent with an unbridled spirit.
Featuring: Bonnie McCaffery
Posts On: March 3, 2008Bonnie McCaffery author, vidcaster, designer and teacher shares her innovative approach to digitized bobbin embroidery. DigiBobbE is a unique technique invented by Bonnie for enhanced thread surface design. Gregory Case, Photo Man joins us to discuss properly photographing quilts.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Hayley Grzych
Posts On: October 19, 2018Nina McVeigh and Hayley Grzych are back to give you tips for using your walking foot and recommendations for books that feature straight line quilting.
Featuring: Eleanor Burns
Posts On: September 1, 2008Join us for an hour of quilting and fun with the effervescent Eleanor Burns. Eleanor, creator of Quilt in a Day, has the audience and the hosts in stitches as she teaches blocks from her newest venture. But what Eleanor does not know is that Alex and Ricky also have a little surprise up their sleeve for her. In addition, Ricky shares a little stripping action of his own.
Featuring: Valori Wells
Posts On: March 2, 2009We are all doing our part to "go green"... and the quilting community is no exception. Quiltmaker, author, and fabric designer Valori Wells shows how to make a quick-and-easy, reusable fabric grocery tote, and - as a bonus - shares other "quilty" items, such as coverlets and stuffed animals, that you can create to enhance your home or to give as gifts. To continue the "green" theme, Bunny digs into the TQS Treasure Chest and comes up with a variety of eco-friendly products for quilters. Finally, check out Ricky's technique for adding lush texture to your quilts with bobbin trapunto work.
Featuring: Challenge Show
Posts On: August 31, 2009TQS members joined with Carol Schillios and Fabric of Life to create quilts from fabric made by women in Mali. The challenge extended our design capabilities and increased our awareness and sensitivity for women around the world. Discover who won and see the designs created by Ricky, Alex, and some surprise participants. As an added bonus, Ricky and .?. show how their designs were created. You will then see how to paper piece a Compass design. This is a show brimming with design, color, and heart.
Featuring: Kate Cox / Dan Purcell
Posts On: March 1, 2010British-born textile artist Kate Cox shares her work and shows how to employ raw-edge appliqué and free-motion quilting to create an impressionistic quilt based on a favorite photograph. Kate, who now lives in Colorado and is greatly inspired by the American landscape, also demonstrates her freehand approach to cutting with a rotary cutter. Ricky introduces a terrific method for resist-dyeing a design on fabric using school glue, Procion dyes, and soda ash. Finally: Would you like to watch TQS on "the big screen?" No problem! Digital Dan (Purcell) shows how easy it is to link your computer to your TV so that you can watch TQS from your favorite easy chair... and he does it in language even a technophobe could love!
Featuring: Frieda Anderson
Posts On: August 30, 2010If you love to collect tips-and to fuse-you'll love this show! First, Jennifer Keltner, editor of American Patchwork and Quilting, shares "Tricks in Your Toolbox: Top 10 Quilt Tips" - a sampling of great ideas for making your quilting experience even more enjoyable, accurate, and efficient. Next, quilt artist and teacher Frieda Anderson joins us for a show and tell of her fabulously fused quilts and to demonstrate how she builds a fusible applique design and how to make a decorative-edged fused binding. Finally, in a moving field piece, TQS visits New York City to view The National Tribute Quilt, conceived and orchestrated by the Steel Quilters of United States Steel Corporation in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Keep the Kleenex handy.
Featuring: Darra Williamson / Christine Porter
Posts On: February 28, 2011Travel back to the 1930s as quilter, author, editor, and quilt collector Darra Williamson sheds some light on Depression-era quilts, shares some stellar examples, and presents tips for working with those sometimes-challenging reproduction (and authentic) ‘30s fabrics. When Alex reveals an earlier faux pas about a particular quilting icon, British quilter, teacher, and author, Christine Porter joins the show via WebTV to help unveil the 21st-century model and to share up-to-the-minute tips and techniques for working with fusibles and the machine blanket stitch. Will Alex be forced to eat her words? Tune in and find out!
Featuring: Anita Grossman Solomon
Posts On: August 29, 2011We guarantee that you won't want to miss this "tip-top" technique episode, as New York City quiltmaker, author, and teacher Anita Grossman Solomon brings to the set an abundance of inventive and time-saving methods for cutting and piecing. Discover how to cut two blocks at once and how to use striped fabric to create dramatic effects. Pick up a bucket-load of rotary-cutting tips, as well as ideas for storage, sorting, and working in a small space. Even Ricky gets into the act, demonstrating three quick, alternative techniques for finishing: faux binding, facing, and framing.
Featuring: Pat Yamin / Gina Perkes
Posts On: February 27, 2012It's another fabulous "twofer" show! First, award-winning machine quilter, Gammill spokesperson, author, and teacher Gina Perkes demonstrates how you can appliqué and quilt at the same time on the long-arm machine...and add a little "dazzle" from the bobbin as well. Then quilt artist, author, designer, and (fast-talking) teacher Pat Yamin visits the set, showing some of her quilts and divulging her brush with Hollywood fame. She also shows how to use templates to quickly and accurately cut and piece a two-patch pattern, using Robbing Peter to Pay Paul as an example. You'll pick up tons of tips on this info-packed episode.
Featuring: Cara Gulati
Posts On: August 27, 2012Do you get nervous just thinking about curved seams? Fear not! In this "tip-top" episode, fiber artist, designer, teacher, and author Cara Gulati is on hand to demonstrate her fabulous, no-fuss, pin-free technique for sewing curves. She also reveals the simplicity and versatility of freezer-paper templates, with a bounty of tips for making, marking, using, and removing them, and Ricky unveils his top five tips for machine quilting. This show is loaded with ideas, info, and inspiration. Don't miss it!
Featuring: Sue Rasmussen
Posts On: February 25, 2013Quilt artist and teacher Sue Rasmussen began her sewing career as an 11-year-old on an 830 Bernina purchased for her by her dad. In this show, she joins the TQS gang on location at the Main Street Quilting Company in Bozeman, MT, to demonstrate her terrific techniques for adapting a traditional pictorial block or personal photograph for simplified piecing. Along the way, she shares loads of good info on fabric choices, construction, and even on using your iPad for creating templates! Then we visit the Coffee Creek Quilters, whose quilting classes for women incarcerated at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, OR, have dramatically changed the lives of the participants.
Featuring: Mickey Lawler / Gwen Marston
Posts On: August 26, 2013 (Free from April 18, 2019 through April 22, 2019)Quilt artist Mickey Lawler began painting sky fabrics in the mid-80s when she couldn’t find the pieces she wanted for her original quilted landscapes. Before long, her company Skydyes was born…and the rest is history! Mickey visits the TQS set to chat about her newest work, engages Ricky in a fun, hands-on fabric-painting exercise (complete with tips), demos how she builds a landscape design by combining painted fabric with touches of piecing or appliqué, and shares her practical method for designing a quilting plan that enhances the finished quilt top. As an added bonus, we track down the legendary and "Liberated" Gwen Marston on the road in Sisters, OR, where she shares her method for creating "skinny finishes" and Amish-style bindings.
Featuring: Karen Gloeggler / Janet Finley
Posts On: March 3, 2014The discovery that beloved English writer Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) had made a quilt, and a visit to the author’s home in Chawton, England, was just the impetus that Karen Gloeggler needed to create a series of quilts (and a quilt book) inspired by Austen’s romantic novels. In this episode, Karen shares how to find, and then incorporate vintage fabrics, handkerchiefs, and doilies into your quilts to give them a period flair, and shows a clever technique for making a scrappy pieced border, perfect for a Jane-inspired (or any other) quilt. Then, in a field piece, we meet author and quilt historian Janet Finley, who has amassed the world’s largest collection of 19th- and early-20th-century photos of people with quilts, and the book she created to showcase them.
Featuring: Priscilla Knoble / Yoko Saito
Posts On: August 31, 2014We return to the Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX, to meet Priscilla Knoble, a "lover of all things fiber-related" who grew up the daughter of missionaries in Japan. As a quilter familiar with the Japanese design aesthetic and fluent in the language, Priscilla emerged as the obvious (authorized) choice to translate, publish, and distribute the books of renowned Japanese quilt artist Yoko Saito. Priscilla discusses the subtle, but surprisingly complex Japanese taupe color palate, shares images from the Tokyo International Quilt Show, and then demonstrates some of Yoko's favorite tools and techniques, including how to create and hand appliqué teeny tiny bias stems, design an original House block, and stitch a fully-lined inside pocket.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 14, 2010In this class you'll learn how to do tessellating hearts in the border. You'll also learn to use the Workstation Heart Template to quilt hearts into the center of the quilt.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: August 3, 2016Learn how to make a crazy quilt block - In 2 parts. (Part 1)
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 14, 2011Alex talks about quilting frames.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: November 9, 2016You will learn to "fuzzy the edge" and create letters.
Featuring: Lea McComas
Posts On: October 15, 2013Finishing up your quilt.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: March 1, 2014Julie works on the roof of the house block and gives a tip for accurate piecing of the Irish Chain.
Featuring: Barbara Shapel
Posts On: March 2, 2015Alex opens this stimulating show with tips for quilting on Dupioni silk. This gorgeous fabric requires additional TLC, but the results can be stunning! Contemporary Fiber Artist Barbara Shapel then joins the show, to share her quilting odyssey. She too uses silk, spending as much time on piecing as she does on threadwork. Barbara works with themes of motherhood, nature and words, and her work reflects all of these elements. She will share how she approaches her work, and will offer tips to improve your quilting and threadwork. She demonstrates a dense, free-motion stitch she calls “Herky Jerky,” which blends thread colors. While she discusses keeping your quilt stable and keeping your shoulders healthy, Ricky will show how Barbara creates an invisible sleeve, which she uses on her numerous two-sided quilts. To round out the show, Barbara discusses how her family’s stamp collection is like a miniature art gallery!
Featuring: Lynette Anderson
Posts On: April 1, 2015Spring is in the air! My heart sings, because I know my best friend is waiting for our arrival at the front gate. Butch, the black dog, with his wonky ears and a little heart tag, is so pleased to see us. Mr. Bird is sitting on Butch’s back, hoping that Mrs. Bird will notice him.
The pieced gate goes together quickly. I could not resist the chance to make some more hexagon flowers!
Featuring: Louisa Smith
Posts On: August 31, 2015Louisa Smith loves creating designs, and especially tessellations. She is fascinated by the work of M.C. Escher, and she demonstrates how to make one of her patterns, the Curved Diamond Footwarmer, also called the “Tootsie Toaster,” which is derived from a tessellating curved hexagon. Her footwarmer pattern is being made available as a free gift to TQS members. Louisa also loves Dupioni silk, and currently works mostly with the lustrous fabrics. Louisa, who was a guest on TQS previously (Episode 204), shares a fun new technique she calls “Double Vision,” which came to her while doodling during a car trip. Louisa uses the “Hugs and Kisses” pattern elements (circles and diamonds) to illustrate her new technique. She discusses both fused and pieced options. Also during the show, Ricky shares some ideas for basting quilts.
Click here for Louisa's Foot Warmer, "Tootsie Toaster," pattern.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: July 6, 2015Julie shows you two ways to start piecing your fabrics without tangling your thread or mangling your fabric.
Featuring: Charlotte Hickman
Posts On: February 28, 2016Ricky opens the show by sharing tips for constructing a Snowball block, which is used in his quilt, Sir Lancelot, the second in his Arthurian Legend Quilt Series. His method produces a bonus block to be utilized elsewhere.
Charlotte Hickman is a storyteller and quilter, with a long career in school administration, and a creative background in knitting, spinning and playing the organ. She took up quilting after retirement and has been going non-stop ever since. Her charming personality is always present as she shares stories about her life and her work. Charlotte incorporates her roving yarns (fuzzy-textured wool fibers) into many of her quilts, and she demonstrates how she creates tree trunks using the needle punch attachment on her BERNINA. She also shares her method for thread painting leaves, which she creates in units, using a wooden hoop and a water-soluble stabilizer.
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: March 30, 2016This month, Julie talks to you about thread weight, needle selection, and the types of threads you should be using on your particular project.
Featuring: Brenda Rahm
Posts On: June 8, 2016Brenda Rahm uses the Wave Edge ruler as a starting point for quilting designs in sashings.
Featuring: Barbara Yates Beasley
Posts On: August 28, 2016Learn how to give a "retro feel" to your quilt as Alex demonstrates how you can bind a quilt with a Zigzag edge without using bias-cut fabric. Our featured artist Barbara Beasley, was introduced to quilting with a stack of quilt tops she inherited from her mother. Her quilting career might have ended with finishing the quilts, but a friend sent her to an animal portrait class and she was hooked. A lifelong lover of animals, Barbara says, "it is all about capturing the expression of the animal and finding its soul, that makes a photograph or a quilt look realistic." She demonstrates how to create a pattern from a photograph with clear plastic film and a Sharpie. Using a muslin base and silk fabrics for the eyes, she adds shadows and sparkle with other threads and fuses fabric pieces into place, to create her animal portraits.
Featuring: Laura Fogg / Ann Horton
Posts On: February 26, 2017
Featuring: Dee Christopher
Posts On: January 18, 2017Dee describes the difference between ironing and pressing your fabric. She also shows you how to press properly so that you do not stretch the bias in your blocks.
Featuring: Carolyn Hock
Posts On: March 31, 2017Carolyn gives you a fabulous tip for trimming the curved flying geese blocks.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: May 5, 2017In this video:
Note: On the pattern, the peacock feathers are just to the edge of the page, if necessary, close the line drawing to complete the pattern.
For additional help with appliqué watch:
Featuring: Allie Aller / Pepper Cory
Posts On: August 27, 2017
Always one to use her unique and personal style when it comes to quilting, Allie Aller is back to share a new and updated spin on Stained Glass quilts. But you won’t find any bias tape in this method that easily translates into traditional, landscape, or any other style of quilting. The sky’s the limit when it comes to the variety of design options too. No longer bound by using only cotton, oh no! Allie mixes silk, cotton, brocades, and even wool together to create stunning detailed and dimensional results.
We then take you on a journey to North Carolina to learn about Pepper Cory’s love affair with shot cotton and how she is using it to create stunning effects in traditional quilt blocks.
Featuring: Gina Perkes
Posts On: September 6, 2017In this Ruler Mastery Series quilting tutorial, Gina Perkes shows her tips and tricks to get the most out of using the Elizabeth ruler.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store. Click here.
There are no downloads for this class.
Featuring: Diane Kirkhart
Posts On: February 25, 2018
Featuring: Patty Murphy / Julie Silber
Posts On: August 26, 2018As a quilt teacher and designer, Patty Murphy has heard the frustration of quilters who struggled to ‘get it right’ when it came to their patchwork. Patty loves a sharp point and perfectly pieced block and wants to help others get off on the right foot to quilting success. She shares a wide range of techniques for improving your cutting and piecing skills, cutting off minor imperfections at the pass, as well as clever ideas for combining orphan blocks into fun and colorful quilts.
Then quilt historian, curator, and quilt broker, Julie Silber reveals the secrets to deciphering a true antique crib or doll quilt vs. an imposter. These rare, made with love, little beauties are sure to charm you.
Featuring: Becky Goldsmith
Posts On: January 1, 2019Becky demonstrates how to sew the diamonds and wedges of your round blocks together.
Featuring: Barbara Black / Bill Volckening
Posts On: February 24, 2019Alex and Ricky talk to Barbara Black, who has worked in the educational office at the Houston Quilt Festival for 20 years. She began quilting in 1985 and decided she needed to up her game when she discovered TQS BOM designs by Sue Garman. She obviously achieved her goal when her quilt, Red & White by The Numbers, was selected as the 40th Anniversary quilt for Quilts Inc. Overnight, she and her quilt became famous.
Barbara shares her thoughts on three things you do wrong in quilting...cut, piece, and press. She has tips to address these three problems.
Then, Barbara gives you more tips to achieve beautiful binding. She teaches you how to calculate the amount of fabric you need, how to prep the quilt, and how to add a sleeve during the binding process.
Up next is Bill Volckening and his elegant antique quilts. Bill has over 500 quilts in his collection that cover the years 1750-2008. He then shares elegant quilts that debunk the myth that quilts in America were only made from scraps as utilitarian.
We wrap the show with Barbara talking about her Sunday sewing group, the Sew and Sews, who gather to work on TQS BOMs. She also talks about her home studio.
Featuring: Ann Myhre
Posts On: December 30, 2018Welcome! Thanks for joining me on another hand stitch journey! In this first lesson, we'll stitch the bird, the centerpiece of the pillow. You'll learn how to work a free-form embroidery from a photo.
Featuring: Nina McVeigh / Mary Fons
Posts On: August 25, 2019Nina McVeigh, the 2018 Educator of the Year for BERNINA, stops by The Quilt Show for the first time as a guest after having been featured in mini BERNINA teaching videos with TQS since 2007. During the show Nina shares tips and tricks for working with watercolor paper, leather, and even cork. Nina’s creative ideas will have you rethinking what your longarm can do. Then Nina shares a fun wool tote that features perfect machine quilted circles.
To close out the show, quilt historian, and current Editor of Quiltfolk Magazine, Mary Fons shares her family history with quilting, Fons & Porter, learning to quilt on camera, and how she came into quilting at the age of 29. She talks about the magazine, its coverage of quilters around the US, and quilting culture.
Featuring: Cheryl Malkowski
Posts On: May 14, 2007Cheryl Malkowski, author and traditional/innovative quilter shares how one, easy-to-make quilt block can be used to reap unlimited design possibilities. A WOW for both beginners and experienced quilters alike. Show includes Gregory Case, The Quilt Show's Photo Man and a visit to Quilter Resource distribution center in Chicago.
Featuring: Louisa Smith
Posts On: February 18, 2008Louisa Smith's global perspective on needlework began in Indonesia where she was born. In this episode Louise teaches curved-edge and strip piecing, her fresh ideas and fabulous inspiration will inspire you to try these techniques. In addition, Ricky shares his caveman style of curved piecing and Gregory Case, Photo Man joins Alex to discuss the ins and outs of photo sizing.
Featuring: Sue Garman / Merrily Parker
Posts On: August 18, 2008Sneak a peek into how our own Block of the Month designer, Sue Garman, is able to "set up" an entire applique block using quick and easy steps to save you valuable time. We guarantee it will be an "aha, that's how she does it" moment. Wouldn't you love to play on a long-arm machine? Watch Merrily Parker, shop owner, teacher and prolific quilter as she teaches Alex to write her name on the smallest of the Gammill machines. Ricky also gives us a treat by showing how to create a totally new design by turning a traditional block on point.
Featuring: Elly Sienkiewicz
Posts On: February 16, 2009Legendary Baltimore Album applique artist and historian Elly Sienkiewicz demonstrates how to add elegance to your quilted projects with decorative stem-stitch embroidery and crisp dogtooth borders. Follow along as she outlines the construction of a charming case for storing and transporting individual blocks. Learn how to care for your quilts and other heirlooms with Bunny's suggestions from the TQS Treasure Chest. To complete the hour, Alex offers a lesson on using fabric selection to make your quilt come alive.
Featuring: Marti Michell
Posts On: August 17, 2009Marti Michell is a pioneer in the quilting world. Do you want to develop techniques that are fast and accurate? Marti shows you how. You'll love her demonstrations of the Circular Log Cabin block and quilting "as you go." Watch as Alex shows you how to divide a block into its parts so you can draw the block any size you wish. Finally, see what fun products are hidden in the TQS Treasure Chest.
Featuring: Linda Taylor / Photo Man
Posts On: February 15, 2010Linda Taylor and Cheri Meineke-Johnson are well-known for their award-winning quilted and embellished creations. (Cheri makes and embellishes the quilts and Linda does the machine quilting.) In this episode, Linda joins us and uses a longarm machine to show how easy it is to build a quilted feather by "doodling." She also demonstrates how variegated thread can add extra depth to a quilted design. Alex demystifies the process of drafting an Eight-pointed Star with an easy-to-follow demo, and our in-the-know Photo Man (Gregory Case) shares valuable info for upgrading your camera to expand your photography options, including what to look for if you're in the market for new equipment. Don't miss this one!
Featuring: Dale Fleming
Posts On: August 16, 2010You'll be going around in circles-the good kind!-when quilt artist, teacher, and author Dale Fleming reveals how she came to design her famous "6-Minute Circle." In addition, she shares her nifty technique for soft-curve piecing, offers some "gotta-try-‘em" tips for designing quilts that incorporate large-scale prints, and shows a variety of fabulous quilts to whet your creative appetite. Not only will you be informed and inspired, but you're sure to be motivated by Dale's "just do it" approach!
Featuring: Ricky Tims
Posts On: February 14, 2011This episode is so "meaty" that we had to break it into two parts! You'll want to be on hand for both as quiltmaker, teacher, author, fabric designer, musician, and our own TQS co-host Ricky Tims walks you through the complete process for making your own, unique Rhapsody-style quilt. Learn to create the design, make the templates, prepare the background, prepare and stitch the appliques, and assemble the component parts into an original masterwork that you and your family will treasure. In addition to the step-by-step process, Ricky will have lots of fantastic quilts on hand to inspire you. It's almost like having him come to your sewing room for private lessons...and you can replay each step as many times as you wish!
Featuring: Sarah Vedeler
Posts On: August 15, 2011In 2002, Sarah Vedeler left a career as a software engineer to become a full-time mom - and fell in love with quilting and embroidery. Nowadays, she calls upon her software background to design outstanding embroidery and embroidered appliqué patterns, teaches, and creates beautiful quilts. She joins us to demonstrate how to use the AccuQuilt Go! Fabric Cutter and dies to create embroidered appliqué and shares some helpful hints for giving your digital embroidery "a pop" with quilting. Speaking of quilting: Alex shows how easy it is to create an original quilting design to fill a specific area of your quilt.
Featuring: Nancy Prince
Posts On: February 13, 2012Yes, you can do it! Artist, teacher, and author Nancy Prince taught herself to "paint" with thread, and now she shares her "secrets." Discover how to create an off-the-quilt thread painting: what stitches to use, how to size them, shade them, highlight and blend them. With Nancy's guidance, learn to "pump up" a commercially printed fabric with thread and how to use your computer to convert a personal photo into a pattern. Ricky concludes by sharing a video about the Colorado Quilt Council and the benefits of a state guild. Don't miss a minute!
Featuring: Tommy Romano
Posts On: August 13, 2012For this episode, we travel to Santa Fe, NM (the second largest art market outside of New York City!) to catch up with Texas quilter and teacher Tommy Romano, who shares his top ten tips—or "ten commandments"—for precision piecing. Preparation, appropriate tools and their maintenance, technique… even the proper state of mind—Tommy puts his precise approach to work while demonstrating a new twist on the traditional Nine Patch block. You'll learn a bunch and love the results! The episode comes to an "artful" conclusion as Peter Stoessel, executive director of our day's location, the beautiful Blue Rain Gallery, takes us on a tour of the site, which features regional and non-regional art by top Native American artists.
Featuring: Cathy Miller / Jill Gorski
Posts On: February 11, 2013Join Cathy Miller, a.k.a. The Singing Quilter, as she shares her journey to quilting via a quilting stage production. Her effervescent personality and quilting songs will have you in stitches. Cathy then shows Alex how to use the Japanese art of Notan in quilting. Jill Gorski, the button lady, will expand your knowledge of antique buttons, you might otherwise have overlooked. Jill also shows creative ideas for using those special buttons in your stash. It's a double dose of fun show. You don't want to miss it!
Featuring: Wendy Butler Berns / Sue Spargo
Posts On: August 12, 2013The TQS gang returns to The Charleston Tea Plantation for a visit with quilt artist, teacher, and author, Wendy Butler Berns, known for her amazing photo-based pictorial quilts. Wendy, recipient of the 2009 Jewel Pearce Patterson scholarship for quilting teachers, presents practical solutions for designing and implementing pieced borders, offers a wealth of tips for adding texture to a variety of quilt projects, and compares notes with Ricky about their simultaneous foray into quilting—with their respective dads! Then we check in with contemporary folk artist and teacher Sue Spargo (Episode 810), who shares a sampling of her newest adventures in dimensional stitching.
Featuring: Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Posts On: February 17, 2014New York City quilt artist, blogger, and author Victoria Findlay Wolfe has made over 300 quilts (including Best of Show winner at Quiltcon 2013) and in this inspiring show, she shares her secrets! Discover how just 15 minutes of creative activity a day, coupled with scraps of fabric, orphan blocks, and other odd bits, can result in an impressive and satisfying collection of finished quilts. You'll also learn about a community service project that provides quilts for those in NYC who are transitioning from homeless shelters to their own homes. We finish with a tour of our beautiful location, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, just outside the historic city of Charleston, SC. How's that for inspiration?
Featuring: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero / Connie Fanders
Posts On: August 18, 2014Alex and Ricky welcome artist and author Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero (Episode 507) back to the TQS studio for a look at some of her newest work, which marries machine embroidery with her trademark Kaleidoscope designs. Jeanie, a former software engineer for Hewlett-Packard, explains how to select an image, print it on fabric, transform it into a unique design using her Kaleidoscope Kreator program, and then enhance it with machine embroidery. In addition, Connie Fanders, Director of Education for BERNINA USA, shows a quick-and-easy way to make a rag quilt (and more) using your serger.
Featuring: Linda Taylor
Posts On: December 10, 2010Linda continues to stabilize the quilt by stitching in the ditch throughout its center.
Featuring: Sharon Pederson
Posts On: July 27, 2016Learn a fast way to make snowball blocks.
Featuring: Alex Anderson
Posts On: September 20, 2011Alex talks about quilting with a hoop.
Featuring: LIBBY LEHMAN
Posts On: October 26, 2016If the straight stitch is the "salt" of your sewing machine, this stitch is the "pepper."
Featuring: Julie Cefalu
Posts On: February 1, 2014Learn about bias strips, accurate 1/2 square triangles, and feeding your pieces through your machine properly.
Featuring: Lynn Wilder
Posts On: February 16, 2015Do you find that the mathematics of quilting make you run screaming from the room? Fear no more! Designer, teacher and lecturer Lynn Wilder has found a way to make “Patchwork Math” palatable for all of us. While visiting at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Lynn explains her system for breaking down quilt designs into smaller components, making complex projects much more manageable and accessible. With a combination of grid units and various tools, she makes the daunting become doable. She also di