FONS & PORTER'S LOVE OF QUILTING

#4701 We Are Connected
Sara Gallegos presents We Are Connected by Maria Matthews, but re-interprets the design, swapping in a ‘holiday green’ for the ‘patriotic blues;’ for a festive take on this classic quilt. The quilt features one core block in two colorways, and Sara introduces a little piecing challenge with directional fabrics.

#4702 Passion Flower
Passion Flower is a big, bold design that comes together so quickly, you could sew it in single a weekend. We’ll work our way around the center star with classic techniques gone jumbo-sized. We’ll deal with big seams, creating large templates, and tips for squaring it all up. Let’s quilt big and quilt fast on this episode of Love of Quilting.

#4703 Starring Y-Seams
On this episode of Love of Quilting, we’re joined by Lindlee Smith, an author and designer who specializes in star quilts. She breaks down how to sew diamonds and Y-seams in ways that make this challenging classic achievable. Gain the skills you need to make an enduring classic!

#4704 On-Point Illusion
On-Point Illusion by Cory Hadler is a strip set boot camp! Let’s build our strip set skills, starting with proper cutting and pressing, to popped intersections and nested seams. We’ll also dive into color theory: learn how the gradation of fabrics creates an illusion of seamless shifting values.

#4705 Quilt Upcycling: Indigo and Zippers
This episode features guest Paige Plihal, a sewist, fabric dyer, and educator who has some fabulously fun techniques for share. We’ll start off by dyeing a ‘cutter quilt’ in an indigo bath, then move on to installing zippers and working with bulky seams. The end result is a wonderful belt bag that’s stylish and brings new life to un-salvageable quilts.

#4706 Tubular Techniques
On this episode of Love of Quilting, we’re using leftover pre-cut fabric and batting strips to create a 3-dimensional, stacked cylinder—and technique perfect for a tote, a basket, a tub, or a carry-all! We’ll show how to create tubes using a special tube-making tool, as well as decorative stitching options. And we’ll even show a tubular construction method that you may not have known your machine could do!

#4707 Fair Charm
Fair Charm is a blue-ribbon worthy quilt design that celebrates the power of flippy corners! Angela Huffman’s one-block design relies on flippy corners, ombre fabric, and floating stars. She adds a little extra flair with clipped quilt corners—an unusual shape that we’ll show you how you how to bind!

#4708 Cascades Fall Foliage
Become attuned to autumn by stitching a quilt called Cascades Fall Foliage. This three block quilt features falling leaves, patchwork chains, and a delightful pieced border. Sara Gallegos steps out the design with an alternative fabric palette to incorporate textures and prints, and even couch yarn for extra coziness.

#4709 Mix-and-Match Materials
Does your scrap bin include fabrics other than quilting cottons? Because you can do so many things with different substrates. Guest Paige Plihal shares some clever methods for creating patchwork with silk, leather, denim, and other bulky fabrics. We’ll construct a laptop sleeve with bound edges and a button closure—excellent skills for any sewer.

#4710 New England Afternoon
New England Afternoon by Heather Davis is an ode to barn quilts. We’ll step out the design in a different color story, but the techniques—including double flippy corners—are the same. Learn to customize the “barn block” with string-piecing for extra scrap-busting fun!

#4711 Exploring Custom Quilting
On this episode of Love of Quilting, Angela Huffman takes a quilt from an earlier episode—Passion Flower—and quilts it. We’ll show you how to combine free-motion, ruler work, and computerized quilting, talking through the how’s and why’s of each method. From straight lines and curves to lettuce leaves and curls, we’ll walk you through our quilt plan and techniques.

#4712 Lights of Hope
Deb Stanley’s table runner, called Lights of Hope, features lighthouses fussy-cut from a fabric print. But the design itself can be adapted to any print. We’ll show you how you can play with on-point fussy cutting, how to piece dense points, and how to incorporate a quick mitered border.

#4713 Meadow Whirl
Angela Huffman’s quilt design, Meadow Whirl, celebrates pink and polka dots, as well as her love of floating patchwork. We’ll explore why certain piecing methods suit this projects better than others, and learn the best cuts for the setting units. Piece in pink with us on this episode of Love of Quilting!