FONS & PORTER'S LOVE OF QUILTING

#4601 Embellished Springtime
Take flight with embellishment on today’s episode of Love of Quilting! Sara Gallegos presents two quilts-- Springtime Flutters and Tulip Tour--that feature unusually embellished quilt blocks: a satin-stitched hot air balloon and a butterfly with a ribbon body. She also teaches a technique for adding trim to your binding. Embellish your springtime with creativity and color!

#4602 Tied to You
This episode of Love of Quilting features a sentimental keepsake table runner made from men’s ties, a popular style of remembrance quilts. Learn key techniques for deconstructing ties, as well as tips for creating an unusual template. The table runner is sewn using a Dresden Plate technique paired with a 'quilt-as-you-go' method that results in a fun-to-make memento of the men in your life!

#4603- Creative Quilting with Your Walking Foot
Guest Catherine Redford joins Sara Gallegos on the set of Love of Quilting to show you how to achieve extraordinary quilting on your home sewing machine with just a walking foot. Explore organic curves, serpentine stitches, and spirals.

#4604 Bead Boards and Piano Keys
Straight-line quilting can be one of the best motifs for quilt borders. Angela Huffman teaches how to “tickle the ivories” with piano key and beadboard-style lines. Whether with rulers or channel locks or even computerized designs, you can tune your quilting skills to match the music of your patchwork!

#4605 Serging Techniques for Quilters
The quilted garment is making a comeback, and guest Sadie Metter couldn’t be more delighted! She’s joining us on Love of Quilting to show you how you can use your serger to—yes—quilt-as-you-go and bind edges! These techniques are excellent for quilts, but if you want to make Sadie’s patchwork vest, stay tuned, because you’ll learn how to work with the simple, stylish pattern, and even how to add clever little closures! Blow the dust off your serger, and let’s get stylish!

#4606 Tulip Dance
Angela Huffman’s Tulip Dance table runner is a sweet place to play with curved piecing. Refresh your skills by testing out two methods: a 3-pin method and a freezer paper template method. The quilt block itself is easy to complete with a simple strip-piecing, so your table runner is ready to grace your table for your next springtime celebration.

#4607 Pie à la Modern
Inspired by a Marianne Fons quilt called American Pie from the Love of Quilting TV archives, Sara Gallegos was determined to make a variation with a more modern color palette. She shows different methods for strip cutting and fabric lay outs, as well as tips for nesting the many seams of this spectacular quilt.

#4608 Fun with Free-Motion Fillers
Are you a quilter who finishes quilts on your home sewing machine? Build up your ‘portfolio’ of free-motion fillers with guest Catherine Redford, who has been teaching quilters how to quilt on a home sewing machine for years. Learn different designs that can stand alone as edge-to-edge motifs, or can be used to creatively fill spaces. Turn free-motion ‘fear’ into free-motion ‘fun’ on this episode of Love of Quilting!

#4609 Appliqué Three Ways
Appliqué is a technique that can unlock astonishing levels of creativity and beauty. On this episode of Love of Quilting, Sara Gallegos presents three approaches to appliqué for intricate motifs: reverse appliqué, fusible raw-edge appliqué, and fusible turned-edge appliqué. Discover your way to appliqué!


#4610 Cutting Mat Bag
For your quilting adventures, you need the perfect quilter’s tote! On this episode of Love of Quilting, Angela Huffman presents a cutting mat bag featuring fat quarters, fusible batting, stepping out key elements of construction, so that you can make and customize your own version—from pockets to handles—to show of your ‘Love of Quilting’ wherever you go!

#4611 Mulberry Grove
The Anvil quilt block is an heirloom design with wonderful creative potential. Sara Gallegos presents her quilt, Mulberry Grove, as one potential quilt design for this block. On this episode of Love of Quilting, you’ll learn the construction techniques for this block, as well as tips for working with scrappy fabric collections and various ways to sash.

#4612 Triangle Trio
Make the triangle the star of your quilt! Angela Huffman demonstrates the construction of Triangle Trio, a quilt by Marci Baker, which is created entirely with 60-degree angles. You’ll learn three different approaches for cutting triangles, as well as tips for sewing it all together. Triple your fun with nested triangles on today’s episode of Love of Quilting!

#4613 Quilter's Playground
Have fun on a ‘Quilter’s Playground’ with Sara Gallegos and Angela Huffman! The quilt on this episode of Love of Quilting is a row-quilt style sample designed by Kari Matthews, that features quilt blocks perfect for showcasing foundation piecing, fusible appliqué, and quilting in the embroidery hoop! Enjoy fun designs and cool techniques on a ‘Quilter’s Playground’!