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The Quilt Show welcomes Alethea Ballard, a middle school teacher for 16 years, but one who doesn’t like to play by the rules when it comes to her art. Alethea shares her collage techniques for large scale prints to help tell a story in her work. She also has a great technique for finishing and hanging her completed pieces.
Then Tami Pfeil comes back to TQS to talk about floor canvases, and shares examples of fast, easy, and striking designs, while also providing some sewing tips.
Alex and Ricky are introduced to and learn about the life of Alethea Ballard and take a look at her quilts as she talks a bit about her process and the story of each quilt.
Alethea says to "work to your strengths." She can’t sew a perfect ¼” seam but loves the freedom a longarm gives her to draw with a needle. She shows a technique for finishing using black batting as the backing.
Tami Pfeil comes back to The Quilt Show to talk about floor canvases, and shares examples of fast, easy and striking designs. Tami also provides some sewing tips, which she says are just as easy as making a traditional quilt.
Alethea has always wanted to challenge herself by learning an instrument. She’s been studying and playing the accordion for three years and performs a Waltz for Alex and Ricky.
Kevin Womack shares his quilts from the Swaddling to Shroud Series and those influenced by New Orleans. He then shares a variety of techniques to create your own fabric by creating an appliqué bouquet and using Soy stamps, painting, and stenciling on fabric to make your own mark! Cheryl Phillips demonstrates how you can make a Braided Twist table runner.
Pam Raby explores the various ways to use the square in a box and create a new block. She also demonstrates how to bind a quilt with a single layer binding. Andrew Ngai demonstrates the three Wonderfil threads every quilter needs.
Michelle deGroot shares a variety of techniques to enhance your next quilt with painting on silk and thread work. Andrew Ngai gives you threaducation on WonderFil thread and how to choose the right thread for your project.
Alex and Ricky continue their trip in Sisters, Oregon and visit the home of June Jaeger, sister of Jean Wells. On this show, June has numerous techniques and tricks she shows off, including her layered fusible appliqué process and how to paint the Cascade Table Runner. Then, Anna Bates explains Sashiko and demonstrates tracing and stitching.
Alex and Ricky are visiting Sisters, Oregon and are delighted to welcome Sandra Mollen to the show, who shares her love of silk and how to use it in appliqué. In addition to her work with appliqué, Sandra demonstrates how she adds dimension to her quilts and projects with oil pastels and inking. Then Sheila Sinclair Snyder stops by to share how you can construct a quilt “row by row” with a pieced block border.
Violet Craft shares her “Abstractions” series of quilts and the stories behind them. She then demonstrates her method for using Foundation Paper Piecing to make her fabulous designs. Violet also shares her technique for pieced hexagons and designs with unusual shapes that are pieced the same way. And finally, enjoy a tour of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show with local artist, Kathy Deggendorfer.
Karlee Porter evades the quilt police and shares graffiti quilting, hand-lettered quilting, and modern couching. Learn about her new books, Honest Fabric, and how you can design your own message.
Self-taught quilt artist Kim Lacy stops by the show to demonstrate the secret to getting great texture in your quilts and an excellent way for doing a painted mosaic technique. Also, Ricky shares with us his love of Trapunto and takes it to a new level with “Thread Crusted Trapunto”.
Kathy K. Wylie shares her incredible appliqué quilts and new fabric line. She then demonstrates how to make hand-tied scalloped binding and a quilted frame. Valori Wells shares tips to make a zippered pouch out of your favorite fabrics.
In this show Debbie Grifka shares her minimalist approach to creating Modern quilts. Often inspired by photographs, she walks through the basics of creating a quilt based on a photo fo the Canterbury Cloisters. Debbie also discusses her 100-day project and several ways to make bias tape for your quilts.
Cheryl Phillips loves circles and shows Alex and Ricky a simple process for working with circles by using her Cut a Round tool.
The Quilt Show is introduced to Cindy Seitz-Krug, a quilter for almost thirty years, who shares her approach to quilting designs that are grid based with techniques that are great for whole cloth quilts and easily adapted for patchwork quilts. Ricky also shares tips for adding machine quilted lettering to your quilt.
Our Block of the Month 2020 is Sue Garman's Afternoon Delight with tips by Barbara Black.This video is packed with tips for making the Shoo Fly Block and how to machine appliqué all the fun and exciting parts of our new BOM.
Also, Alex Anderson demonstrates how to prepare hexies using Print & Piece Fuse Light and Oakshott Cottons to create a wall hanging, along with how to apply Swarovski crystals to your quilt.
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