FONS & PORTER’S LOVE OF QUILTING

#4401 Chocolate Cherry Pie
On this episode, Sara Gallegos presents a quilt that is simply delicious, Chocolate Cherry Pie by Lynn Christenson. You’ll see the original quilt, as well as Sara’s twist on the fabric choices to switch up the "ingredients.” Using classic patchwork techniques for a sweet design, this is a quilt pattern you’ll find yourself making again and again. Enjoy a sweet slice of Chocolate Cherry Pie!

#4402 Heartfall
Angela Huffman fell for Heartfall, a quilt designed by Rachelle Craig with columns off-set falling quilt blocks. Its ‘Wrapped Heart’ quilt block is a fun one to make, and easy to adapt—a good one for any quilter’s block library! Angela teaches you how to create setting triangles and corner triangles, strategies for skinny sashing, and how to address bias edges with stay-stitching.

#4403 Rainbow Geese
Rainbow Geese is a joyful, colorful quilt by Susan Deshensky, presented by Sara Gallegos. The patchwork units include half-square triangles, flying geese units, and split-point flying geese units—all classic techniques for the quilter’s toolbox. This quilt can support a wide range of looks, from patriotic to traditional to contemporary, so tune in for this episode of Love of Quilting!

#4404 Embroidered Spiral Quilting
Guest Nancy Bronstein joins Sara Gallegos on the set of Love of Quilting to share a fascinating technique—embroidered spiral quilting! Using the sewing machine’s embroidery functions and hoop, Nancy showcases this method on the quilt Sara created in the previous episode (Rainbow Geese), showing yet another way to personalize the pattern.

#4405 Secret Meadow, Part 1
For the 25th anniversary of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, Angela Huffman created a medallion quilt that spans two episodes. In this first episode, appliqué is the focus, and three methods for creating the appliqued flowers. You’ll also learn how to construct the border diamonds and the Jacob’s Ladder Block.

#4406 Secret Meadow, Part 2
On part two of the 25th anniversary quilt, Secret Meadow, Angela presents a faux LeMoyne Star quilt block that comes together with surprising ease. You’ll see how to create a floating, medallion-style quilt with lots of open space for quilting, but also introduce some fun patchwork with the cross blocks. Join a 25-year tradition with Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting.

#4407 A Bounty of Bindings
Binding a quilt is that last finishing step for quilters, and an important one. On this episode, Sara Gallegos invites us to focus on the techniques needed for a successful binding, walking through construction, application, mitering corners, and joining ends. There are also quick tips for bias binding and creating perfect corners for double fold binding.

#4408 Brilliance
Explore color theory while creating a quilted pillow! Designed by Kari Matthews, this project gives the effect of transparent layers of color with overlapping diamonds. The diamond-shaped angles are created using mirrored foundations, so we’ll brush up on our foundation-piecing skills, and as a bonus, we’ll show a little feed-dog quilting using a guide bar.

#4409 Curved & Crazy
Sara Gallegos loves a Pickle Dish design, and decided to get “crazy” with it! This episode features two methods for creating crazy pieced fabric, and then how to cut and sew that fabric for the curved patchwork of the quilt block. Next, we’ll investigate thread options for the decorative stitching that defines crazy quilting, and hear a few tips for working with heavier threads on your machine.

#4410 Diamond Sparkle
Guest Gigi Levsen joins Sara Gallegos on this episode to teach Diamond Sparkle, a unique, creative quilt that is both feels both traditional and strikingly modern. Making pieced diamonds requires some unusual techniques, such as cutting strips sets on a new 60-degree diagonal. The settings for these diamonds also require an approach that you may not have encountered before, but the results are worth it!

#4411 Nature-Inspired Free-Motion
Let patchwork—and nature—inspire your free-motion quilting! Angela Huffman uses the butterfly-shaped blocks in this quilt to guide her quilting choices, including fillers and floral motifs. You’ll learn a little digitized quilting, and also hear tips about different backing fabrics that will come in handy!

#4412 Patchwork Postcard
The patchwork postcards we featured on a previous series of Love of Quilting were so popular, we invited guest Nancy Bronstein to join us and try out a few more designs! These patchwork postcards are a no-pressure place to play with designs and stitches. Learn how to stitch-and-flip in the hoop, adapt a mini-block to be a standard postcard size, and even a special aging technique to give your postcard a vintage look!

#4413 Banner
This Quilt of Valor designed by Krisanne Watkins features three fabrics and one block, and creates a wonderful optical illusion simply through the quilt block’s placement. Banner is a fun quilt to make, using the power of the 45-degree angle combined with strips sets for an amazing design. You’ll get the added bonus of a few sweet sawtooth stars to create the patriotic patchwork.