FONS & PORTER'S LOVE OF QUILTING

#4501 Boho Bliss
Angela Huffman’s fun quilt, Boho Bliss, requires a little strategic color placement to achieve the striking design. She’ll share some tricks for keeping organized, sewing the correct number of patchwork pieces for each color, and chain piecing for efficiency. She also shows two methods for aligning seams just so, ensuring a nice alignment where the colors meet.

#4502 Winter Woodland
Sara Gallegos takes you on a wintery walk through the Michigan woods. You’ll learn to create a unique evergreen tree block using flying geese, strips sets, and half square triangles. These blocks are framed by a chaining quilt block that travels through the quilt. et the wonders of a winter forest inspire your patchwork on this episode of LOVE OF QUILTING!

#4503 Rope & Cable Motifs for Quilting
Rope and cable motifs are classic way to quilt sashing and borders. Angela Huffman presents three methods for quilting this design: using a template, quilting free-motion, and using software. She’ll also explore free-motion fillers for contemporary motifs. Whether you quilt on a longarm quilting machine or a domestic sewing machine, add ropes and cables to your quilting repertoire!

#4504 A Scrappy Boro Box
The Japanese tradition of boro bags (“boro” is the Japanese word for “visible mending”) is a wonderful way to expand your scrap quilting joy! Guest Robin O’Neil joins host Sara Gallegos to instruct you how to create a soft-sided boro box, covering it with scrap fabric and creative stitching. Dig into your scrap stash and break out some sashiko-friendly thread!

#4505 Carolina Blooms, Part 1
Carolina Blooms by Jocelyn Karran is a treasure trove of quilt blocks. On part on of a two-part series, you’ll see several blocks showcased. You’ll hear tips about switching up the colorway, learn about optimizing your triangle square methods, and see how the pieced setting triangles come together. Watch your patchwork skills grow!

#4506 Carolina Blooms, Part 2
Baskets and blooms, Y-seams and U-seams—part two of Carolina Blooms includes some next level patchwork! Learn to sew the complex, show-stopping blocks that make this quilt heirloom-worthy. And learn the tips and fixes that will help you piece to perfection!

#4507 Twilight Stars
Angela Huffman’s Twilight Stars quilt is an instant classic. It’s an ideal design for larger, showy prints, and Angela provides tips for matching up fabric repeats to create seamless designs. She teaches a few more techniques that you’ll want to add to your skillset, including three ways to make flippy corners and how to properly attach borders to keep your quilt square and flat.

#4508 Sewing a Rope Bowl
Guest Elaine Theriault joins Sara Gallegos to teach methods for constructing a three-dimensional rope bowl on the sewing machine. To embellish the bowl, Elaine tweaks a pre-existing design using software...but this technique also works with traditional appliqué!

#4509 If You’ve Got It...
It’s our swimwear episode! Sara Gallegos re-creates a playful quilt originally designed by Cathy Laird, so that she can teach you all kinds of tips to make this quilt easy as a sea breeze! Tricks for foundation piecing using stabilizer scraps, and for pin-matching make for plenty of fun in the sun on this episode of LOVE OF QUILTING.

#4510 DIY Quilt Repairs
Over the years, guest Robin O’Neil has repaired many quilts for quilters, and every time, she tells them, “You can do this yourself, you know. It’s very simple!” If you want to USE your vintage and family heirloom quilts, repairing holes, stains, and frayed edges is absolutely do-able with a few easy techniques. On today’s episode, she’ll show you just how simple it is to repair a quilt for home use!

#4511 Machine Quilting and Big Stitch Binding
Angela Huffman pairs machine quilting with hand quilting in this episode. For machine quilting, you’ll learn about the types of thread best suited to the technique, as well as methods for marking your design. And this design is a triangular grid, so it’s walking foot friendly—no free-motion quilting required! For a human touch, Angela hand-stitches the binding, talking you through the threads, needles, and techniques needed for a charming finish.

#4512 Vinyl & Zipper Project Bag
Guest Elaine Theriault joins Sara Gallegos on today’s episode to teach methods to construct a zippered project bag with a see-through vinyl window. You’ll learn to install a zipper and to work with vinyl. Elaine even throws in some tips for embellishing your new project bag. Have you ever embellished with yarn? After this episode, you’ll want to give that a shot!

#4513 Sew Happy
The quilt on this episode is called ‘Sew Happy,’ and you’ll see exactly why! This row quilt features three fun-to-piece quilt blocks, each with special lessons about cutting, sewing, and pinning. You’ll also learn some clever tricks for attaching borders. Sew some happiness with this episode of LOVE OF QUILTING!