Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 14 (2009)

• Season 14 Episode 13: Triangle Boot Camp

  Blocks that use half-square and quarter-square triangles, and the correct cutting for each.

• Season 14 Episode 12: In a Clutch

  Quilted purses created in the hoop of an embroidery machine.

• Season 14 Episode 11: Pantographs for Longarm Quilting

  Pantograph-type quilting designs; pantograph quilting on the Lenni longarm quilting machine.

• Season 14 Episode 10: Churn Dash & Pinwheel

  Using a Half & Quarter ruler to cut triangles for two kinds of blocks for a baby quilt.

• Season 14 Episode 9: Dimples and Duckies

  A quilt made with Fons & Porter's specialty rulers; designing and printing a ducky fabric.

• Season 14 Episode 8: Cinnamon Stars

  No-waste Flying Geese units from squares.

• Season 14 Episode 7: Daisy Doodle

  Drunkard's Path style block with no curved seam sewing.

• Season 14 Episode 6: Travel 'n Style

  Tote bag for carrying quilting supplies.

• Season 14 Episode 5: Shadow Play

  How to press strip sets; cutting with Marti Michell's Kaleido-Ruler.

• Season 14 Episode 4: Curved Paper Piecing -- Grandmother's Daisy Garden

  Jodie Davis demonstrates her unique way to do curved paper piecing.

• Season 14 Episode 3: Baby Needs a Quilt

  Easy-to-make baby quilts; preparing a quilt to for quilting on a home sewing machine.

• Season 14 Episode 2: Star of Bethlehem

  Measure perfectly for the inset squares and triangles for Lone Star blocks.

• Season 14 Episode 1: Star of Bethlehem

  Choosing fabric for Lone Star or Star of Bethlehem designs; fabric placement.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 13 (2008 - 2009)

• Season 13 Episode 13: Blended Borders

  Making a blended borders quilt.

• Season 13 Episode 12: Lets Make Cake

  Couching, embroidery and crystals.

• Season 13 Episode 11: A Peek at the Past

  Quilt historian Margo Krager shares 19th century French fabric sample books and information about reproduction fabrics.

• Season 13 Episode 10: Printed Labels

  Personalizing and printing labels for every kind of quilt.

• Season 13 Episode 9: Longarm Quilting Artists

  Stand-up quilting versus sit-down quilting; computerized longarm quilting.

• Season 13 Episode 8: My Style Pillows

  Marianne Fons and her daughter, Mary, discuss how they selected fabrics and finished their pillow projects.

• Season 13 Episode 7: Kalamkari Strippy

  Making a strippy zigzag quilt with a Pyramid Ruler.

• Season 13 Episode 6: Autopilot Paper Piecing

  A pieced cardinal block demonstrates fun and easy paper piecing.

• Season 13 Episode 5: Hand Applique Techniques

  Preparation and stitching methods for hand applique; oak leaf and rose block.

• Season 13 Episode 4: Jumbo Embroidered Ferns

  Placement techniques for stitching embroidery designs on a sweatshirt.

• Season 13 Episode 3: Diamond Leaves

  Planning a quilt with interdependent blocks made from irregular shaped pieces.

• Season 13 Episode 2: Embroidery Makes the Quilt

  Placing machine embroidery designs on a special quilting project; sewing curved blocks.

• Season 13 Episode 1: Autumn Stars

  Sewing diagonal seams and making a complete quilt block for the Autumn Stars quilt.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 12 (2008)

• Season 12 Episode 13: Buggy Days Baby Quilt

  Using yo-yo units for buggy wheels on a patchwork and applique crib quilt.

• Season 12 Episode 12: Painted Patchwork With Susan Fears

  Adding machine embroidery and free motion quilting to paintstik patchwork.

• Season 12 Episode 11: Three Zinnias Wall Quilt

  Setting up the machine for accurate diagonal-seam piecing.

• Season 12 Episode 10: Bandanna Beauty Quilt

  Creating a large, symmetrical central applique block; hand embroidery.

• Season 12 Episode 9: Williamsburg Basket Wall Quilt

  Two methods for making half-square triangles; trimming points for perfect patchwork.

• Season 12 Episode 8: A Visit to Colonial Williamsburg

  Historic artifacts inspire new fabrics at Colonial Williamsburg.

• Season 12 Episode 7: Ginger's Flower Garden Wall Quilt

  Combining small patchwork blocks to make a whimsical wall quilt.

• Season 12 Episode 6: Cutting Mat Bag

  Using pre-quilted fabric to make a tote bag big enough to carry a large rotary cutting mat.

• Season 12 Episode 5: Embroidered Wall Flowers With Susan Fears

  Fitting digitized embroidery designs into applique shapes.

• Season 12 Episode 4: Seams Too Easy Quilt

  Combining techniques, including wavy rotary cutting, to make a quilt-as-you-go quilt.

• Season 12 Episode 3: Longarm Basics With Heidi Kaisand

  Choosing fabrics and threads for quick baby quilts.

• Season 12 Episode 2: Flip Flops

  Windowing fusible applique; machine applique stitches.

• Season 12 Episode 1: Spin Wheel Quilt

  Partial seaming is used to create a hexagon-shaped block.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 11 (2007 - 2008)

• Season 11 Episode 13: Celebrate a New Star

  Personalized baby quilt; patchwork ribbon design used in the center and as the border.

• Season 11 Episode 12: Appli-Crazy

  Quilting ideas for Log Cabin quilts; circle attachment; decorative stitches for applique; cutting and joining circle blocks.

• Season 11 Episode 11: Wrap It to Go

  Customizing a notebook cover and applying bias binding.

• Season 11 Episode 10: Quilting Log Cabin Quilts

  Log Cabin quilts; marking designs using a cookie cutter stencil; using hand-held guides to make unique designs.

• Season 11 Episode 9: Mother May I

  Getting a new quilter started; the mother/daughter team makes flying geese units; joining long strips and strip set units.

• Season 11 Episode 8: Birthday Stars

  A quilt features free-form stars in two sizes; using freezer paper for patchwork templates; aligning and sewing irregular shapes.

• Season 11 Episode 7: Let It Snow

  Flannel snowman quilt combines patchwork and applique; layering fusible applique; sewing buttons on by machine.

• Season 11 Episode 6: Thread Scarves

  Free-form scarf, fringed scarf and a cowled scarf; couch yarns for added texture.

• Season 11 Episode 5: Monsters in My Closet

  A quilt features 3-D doors opening to reveal cute monsters; using novelty fabrics and photos printed on fabric; machine buttonholes.

• Season 11 Episode 4: T-Shirt Quilts

  Preparing T-shirts for a T-shirt quilt; charting a design for a T-shirt quilt.

• Season 11 Episode 3: Twice Quilted

  Continuous line quilting; stitching focus designs and filler designs, and how to use them together.

• Season 11 Episode 2: Flip a Coin

  How to layer and cut strip sets to save time; cutting long lengthwise strips.

• Season 11 Episode 1: Nouveaux Bargello

  Bargello wallhanging; tubular strip sets; making a design appear by 'unsewing.'

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 10 (2007)

• Season 10 Episode 13: Binding -- the Perfect Finish

  A special tool makes binding look its best; This Old Quilt with Gerald Roy.

• Season 10 Episode 12: Longarm Mastery With Marilyn Badger

  Longarm quilting artist Marilyn Badger works with designer Claudia Myers to finish a competition quilt.

• Season 10 Episode 11: Digital Thread Painting With Sylvain Bergeron

  Embroidery module method created by Sylvain Bergeron.

• Season 10 Episode 10: Petite Baskets

  Charming little basket quilt; perfect piecing; joining blocks for diagonally-set quilts.

• Season 10 Episode 9: Desert Stars

  Block construction techniques; staying organized when making a unique, dramatic quilt.

• Season 10 Episode 8: Spice Island Compass

  Applique Mariner's Compass units to background blocks and join them to make a batik quilt.

• Season 10 Episode 7: Spice Island Compass

  Paper piecing Mariner's Compass units.

• Season 10 Episode 6: Quilting at Windmills With John Flynn

  Spiral patchwork quilt blocks; special machine quilting.

• Season 10 Episode 5: Basketweave Baby Quilt

  How to stay organized; using partial seams to create a baby quilt for a boy or girl.

• Season 10 Episode 4: Sun and Moons With Jane Sassaman

  Jane Sassaman demonstrates the techniques she used to create her contemporary circle quilt.

• Season 10 Episode 3: Radiant Blue

  Step-by-step methods for assembling a Feathered Star block.

• Season 10 Episode 2: Radiant Blue

  Bias-strip piecing method for making half-square triangles; Feathered Star blocks.

• Season 10 Episode 1: Cottage Square

  Pastel florals are combined in a beginner quilt.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 9 (2006 - 2007)

• Season 9 Episode 13: Rain Forest

  A unique way to cut, stitch and trip a one seam block.

• Season 9 Episode 12: Invisible Machine Applique

  How to prepare pieces for invisible machine-applique stitching; adding free-motion quilting with a stitch regulator.

• Season 9 Episode 11: Split Nine Patch

  Cutting pieces for Split Nine Patch to make a Blue Streak quilt; several setting variations.

• Season 9 Episode 10: Longarm Tools of the Trade

  Customizing longarm quilting designs.

• Season 9 Episode 9: Layered Machine Applique

  Using a non-stick pressing sheet and other tricks to prepare applique shapes for layered projects.

• Season 9 Episode 8: Make a Quillow

  A quilt that folds up into a sofa pillow.

• Season 9 Episode 7: Flannel Brick Road

  Choosing fabrics for Bricks, and several variations of the quilt.

• Season 9 Episode 6: Fabric Bowls With Joyce Drexler

  Using fabric scraps and thread to make three-dimensional bowls; adding yarn and other fibers.

• Season 9 Episode 5: Peek-a-Boo Crib Quilt

  Novelty fabrics in a reversible quilt-as-you-go baby quilt.

• Season 9 Episode 4: Wool Applique Stitches

  Decorative embroidery stitches for wool applique; wool projects.

• Season 9 Episode 3: Designing Quilts With Embroidery Software

  How to design a quilt and plan the quilting with special software; machine quilting with a stitch regulator.

• Season 9 Episode 2: Chenille Cuddle Quilt

  Four-patch units; working with chenille fabrics; finishing a quilt without binding.

• Season 9 Episode 1: Homespun Galaxy Quilt

  A quick way to make hourglass units that become the star points on a cozy, homespun quilt.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 8 (2006)

• Season 8 Episode 13: Interfacing Applique

  Using fusible interfacing to prepare pieces for applique.

• Season 8 Episode 12: Bobbin Play

  Putting decorative threads in a machine's bobbin.

• Season 8 Episode 11: Weaver Fever Quilts

  Combining light, medium and dark value fabrics for a wall quilt with a 3-dimensional feel.

• Season 8 Episode 10: Multi-Frame Machine Quilting

  Making a better quilt back by using less fabric; mounting a quilt in a frame system; designs for home machine quilting; fluffing rag quilts.

• Season 8 Episode 9: Wagon Wheel Quilt

  Cut and combine odd-shaped pieces for a hexagonal quilt block; yo-yo centers for blocks.

• Season 8 Episode 8: Fantastic Free Motion Quilting

  Building basic free motion machine quilting skills; mock bobbin machine quilting.

• Season 8 Episode 7: Fabric Fun With Paintstiks

  Stencils and texture plates create interesting patterns on fabrics.

• Season 8 Episode 6: Thread Embellished Border Prints

  Using free-motion thread embellishment, computerized embroidery or fabric paints to create an original look.

• Season 8 Episode 5: Double Wedding Ring II

  Binding for 'double wedding ring' quilts and others with irregular edges.

• Season 8 Episode 4: Double Wedding Ring I

  'Double wedding ring' is one of the most popular traditional-quilt patterns in the world.

• Season 8 Episode 3: Design Your Own Fabric With Machine Stitching

  Embroidery stitches create unique fabrics for quilts.

• Season 8 Episode 2: Fabric Valentines

  Romantic fabric valentines with sentiments, embellished details and an envelope.

• Season 8 Episode 1: Garden Window

  Large-scale floral prints.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 7 (2005 - 2006)

• Season 7 Episode 13: Half Yard Challenge

  Using only five half yard pieces to create a wall quilt; cutting squares, half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles.

• Season 7 Episode 12: Point Trimming

  Point trimmer; how to determine the angle to trim a triangle point; how to join pieces using trimmed triangles.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Flying Geese Units

  Cutting both types of triangles for Flying Geese units from the same width strip; joining triangles.

• Season 7 Episode 10: Rotary Cutting Basic Shapes

  Squaring up fabric and cutting straight strips; cutting accurate squares and rectangles; cutting two types of triangles.

• Season 7 Episode 9: Longarm Quilting

  Tips and tricks for longarm quilting projects.

• Season 7 Episode 8: Thread Painted Scene

  Turning a photograph into a thread painting; preparing fabric and machine for free-motion stitching.

• Season 7 Episode 7: Vintage Handkerchief Quilts

  Using antique handkerchiefs in a quilt; vintage handkerchiefs.

• Season 7 Episode 6: Pine Burr Quilt

  Creating the vintage pine burr pattern.

• Season 7 Episode 5: Let's Quilt!

  Novelty prints in quilts; patchwork techniques; coordinating other fabrics with busy, novelty prints.

• Season 7 Episode 4: Wedding Wishes Quilt

  Pieced equilateral triangles; cutting and assembling equilateral triangles; wedding quilt.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Embroidering Large Quilt Blocks

  New attachment for embroidering large designs without re-hooping; aligning and re-hooping large designs.

• Season 7 Episode 2: English Paper Pieced Ornaments

  Christmas ornaments made quickly and easily by hand.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Liberated Baskets

  Free-form piece a block without any templates.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 6 (2005)

• Season 6 Episode 13: Basic Borders

  Adding borders to quilts and handling corners.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Pre-Quilted Backpack

  Making a trendy, quilted backpack from pre-quilted fabric.

• Season 6 Episode 11: Longarm Quilting 101

  The basics of longarm quilting.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Cute Chenille Applique

  Designer products feature pre-purchased and homemade chenille strips.

• Season 6 Episode 9: State Fair Blue Ribbon Quilts

  Quilt judging at the Iowa State Fair.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Embroidery Stitch Recipes

  Using decorative machine stitches and machine embroidery software to make a wall hanging.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Gone Fishin' Panel Quilt

  A block features sections from a fishing-themed panel fabric at block center.

• Season 6 Episode 6: Machine Quilting Methods

  Quilting on a home sewing machine.

• Season 6 Episode 5: Baby Room Accessories

  Nursery items include quilt, crib sheet, bumper pads and dust ruffle.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Needle Punch Embellishment

  Needle punch wool.

• Season 6 Episode 3: Bodacious Bloomers

  Fusing technique for making little wall quilts; fabric preparation, design and cutting.

• Season 6 Episode 2: Diagonal Set Quilts

  Standard diagonal set; diagonal set with sashing, zigzag and strippy layouts.

• Season 6 Episode 1: Off the Beaten Path

  Cutting curved pieces for an antique reproduction quilt.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 5 (2004 - 2005)

• Season 5 Episode 13: Big Block Quilts

  Adapting complex blocks for a full-size one-block quilt.

• Season 5 Episode 12: Fun With Nine-Blade Fan Blocks

  A neat, curved-seam fan block can be set many ways.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Embellishing Your Quilt

  Unique sewing-machine features enable free-motion quilting and couching.

• Season 5 Episode 10: Traditional Log Cabin Quilts

  Cutting and chain-piecing Log Cabin blocks.

• Season 5 Episode 9: No-Mark Quilting Designs

  Transferring designs without markers or stencils; choosing threads.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Luminosity Stars

  Choosing and fussy-cutting fabrics to create a kaleidoscope quilt.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Perfectly Planned Quilting

  Using long-arm methods to customize quilt designs.

• Season 5 Episode 6: Make a Miniature

  The recent contest by Love of Quilting magazine; miniquilts.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Panorama Quilts

  Using panoramic photo images in designs.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Winter Stars II

  Setting side pieces in beautiful star blocks; simplified borders.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Winter Stars I

  Creating split diamonds for spectacular star blocks.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Easy Quilted Rag Throw

  A machine-embroidery module demonstrates quilting squares for a throw.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Sassy Stars

  Partial seaming; tilting and trimming star blocks; a unique and whimsical quilt for a girl.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 4 (2004)

• Season 4 Episode 13: Keepsaking Your Quilts

  Documenting quilts prevents anonymity of people of the past.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Printing on Cloth

  Liz and Marianne show techniques of using ink-jet printing on cloth.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Thread for Machine Quilting

  Joyce Drexler advises on colors and types of thread for machine quilting.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Diamond Four Patch

  Cutting and joining diamonds easily; piecing diagonal rows.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Longarm Quilting in Japan

  In Japan, Marilyn Badger learns new techniques and teaches longarm-machine quilting.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Blue Lagoon Tumbling Blocks

  Batik equilateral-triangles and diamonds go into a tumbling block quilt.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Crazy Quilts and Bobbin Work

  Patchwork, embellished needle-case.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Sunburst Quilt

  Rotary-cutting small patchwork; setting seams on a sewing machine.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Fashionable Quilted Totes

  Quilted, country-French fabric becomes roomy, multipocketed tote bags.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Washington Pavement

  Using only squares and rectangles to make triangles for Washington pavement blocks.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Appliqué Leaves Table Runner

  Using a machine embroidery module produces perfect appliqued leaf designs.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Tri-Recs Evening Star

  Cutting and piecing long, thin triangles to create star patterns.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Easy Pineapple Blocks

  Scrappy pineapple blocks without foundation piecing or special rulers.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 3 (2003 - 2004)

• Season 3 Episode 13: Caring for Quilts

  Methods for repairing, storing and laundering quilts.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Fabric Motifs for Embroidery

  Printed fabric motifs.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Easy Hourglass Units

  Patchwork unit.

• Season 3 Episode 10: New York Beauty

  Paper piecing.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Curing Curve-O-Phobia

  Carved seam piecing.

• Season 3 Episode 8: String Patchwork Stars

  String star patchwork quilt.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Quilting the Quilt

  Longarm quilter; stitching in small areas.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Flannel Patchwork

  Working with flannel fabrics.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Herky Jerky Stitching

  Machine applique that resembles stained glass; embroidery.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Machine Quilting Secrets

  Machine quilting.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Fun Fused Color Study

  Art quilt; fused binding.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Folk Art Wool Applique

  Types of wool, thread, stitches; wool applique projects.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Beginning Beading for Quilters

  Embellishing quilts with beads.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 2 (2003)

• Season 2 Episode 13: Fun Edge Finishes

  Adding trims to quilt edges; binding.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Free Motion Trapunto

  Raised trapunto quilting; planning designs; trimming batting.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Embroidery Module Trapunto

  Machine embroidery; trapunto.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Jubilee Album Quilt III: Machine Embellishments

  Sewing machine's decorative stitch capabilities; satin stitching; stitch sampler.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Jubilee Album Quilt II: Stem Methods

  Stem techniques: leaf-stem units, bias stems, skinny stems.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Jubilee Album Quilt I: Unit Applique

  Applique sampler quilt; building combination applique units; pre-joining applique elements; fusible reverse applique.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Fusible Bias Embellishments

  Using fusible bias; decorating a vest.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Free Motion Thread Applique

  Water-soluble stabilizer; applique; longarm machine.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Embroidery Module Thread Applique

  Sewing machine embroidery module; lacy appliques.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Rag Quilt Techniques

  Layering and joining fabrics for rag blocks; clipping and assembling blacks.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Chenille Pumpkins

  Layering and slicing stacked fabrics to make chenille; pumpkin-shaped appliques.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Continuous Prairie Points

  Making continuous prairie points from a single strip of fabric; alternating points; quilt edge.

• Season 2 Episode 1: String Spiderweb Patchwork

  Pressing strip sets; cutting string triangles; kaleidoscope ruler; joining wedges; spider web block.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting: Season 1 (2002 - 2003)

• Season 1 Episode 13: EPISODE: 13

  Halloween wall quilt.

• Season 1 Episode 12: EPISODE: 12

  Long-arm machine quilter Marilyn Badger.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Paper Foundation Piecing

  Paper foundation piecing.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Pillowcases

  Using a serger to make a pillowcase.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Applique Vines

  Making continuous bias for vines; border.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Courthouse Steps Log Cabin

  Log cabin variations.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Invisible Machine Applique

  Appliques; no-see stitching.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Labels for Your Quilts

  Using machine embroidery for customized quilt labels.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Cathedral Window

  Making cathedral window units.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Fun With Fusibles

  Fusing shapes from print fabrics.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Super Special Binding

  Piped binding.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Just Ducky

  Baby quilt; fabric designs for appliqués.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Holiday Napkins

  Gift napkins; embroidering napkins.