QUILTING ARTS

#3101 Traditions of Texture
Exploring other artistic traditions can inspire you with new textures! In the first segment, fabric dyeing artist Cindy Lohbeck demonstrates sekka shibori, discussing triangle folds, templates, and ways to dye to create magnificent collisions of color. Next, Cheryl Whited teaches tufting, also known as stumpwork, which involves layering yarns over a template in a refreshed variation of this heirloom technique. Start your own tradition of texture after today’s episode of Quilting Arts!

#3102 The Spiritual Impulse
Spiritual impulses, sacred links, divine inspiration—today’s episode celebrates how two artists explore the mystical connections in our material world. Vivika Hansen DeNegre feels compelled by vintage studio photographs. She collects them to use in her art, embellishing and adorning them to honor these ‘Instant Ancestors.’ Using both manual and digital techniques, Judith Ahlborn presents approaches to creating mandala artwork for today’s art quilter. Open up to the artistic urgings of the universe, on today’s episode of Quilting Arts!

#3103 Creating With Resists
Preserving a space—keeping it clear of paints or dyes—has a marvelous artistic effect. Cindy Lohbeck explores dextrin from corn and potatoes to create a resist for fabric dye, showing you the techniques for mixing, applying, dyeing, and washing. Next, Brandy Maslowski uses tape as a resist with paint to incorporate words into her art. Learn how resistance can be the path to creativity on today’s episode of Quilting Arts!

#3104 Fold & Twist
By manipulating fabric through folds and twists, the two artists on this episode of Quilting Arts create fascinating results. The first segment features Cheryl Whited, whose appliqué technique relies on folding and twisting cloth to mimic tree bark. Next, Cindy Lohbeck plays with “Black Magic” reverse dyeing, a simple technique using products you have at home combined with any tie-dye twist or shibori fold. Fold and twist with us on this episode of Quilting Arts!

#3105 Out-of-The-Box Possibilities
Art quilters are always willing to think outside the box, and this episode of Quilting Arts TV will inspire you to do the same. Guest Eleanor Levie literally stretches boundaries with her “skinny quilts,” creating long quilt pieces that rely on a special, but accessible technique. Next, Brandy Maslowski issues a series of creative prompts that combine technique, form, subject matter, and embellishment in a way that will get those artistic juices flowing. Once you’ve watched this episode of Quilting Arts TV, you’ll be revved up to go sew!

#3106 Stitching Realism
Today’s episode of Quilting Arts TV two different artists demonstrate approaches to stitching from real-life imagery. In the first segment, Kestrel Michaud instructs you on creating photo-realistic subject matter by identifying and creating the highlight, midtone, and shadows. Next, Judith Ahlborn uses travel photos to show her method for editing her photos—from cropping to filters—before ultimately stitching on the fabric picture. Learn techniques that will get you stitching realistically on this episode of Quilting Arts!

#3107 Applique Two Ways
Appliqué is a powerful technique for an art quilter. On this episode of Quilting Arts, artist Kimberly Pierce Cartwright talks about her design process—from assigning colors to patterning to raw edge appliqué—for creating captivating narrative quilts. Next, artist Judith Ahlborn demonstrates broderie perse, an appliqué technique that can be adapted to your artistic needs, whether you are using commercially available fabric or creating your own custom appliqués. Bring your artistic intentions into reality with appliqué!

#3108 Dynamic Dimension
Introduce some dynamic dimension into your own art after this episode of Quilting Arts! Cheryl Whited’s technique of created dimensional fabric tabs can inspire you to take a new direction, and Shannon Conley uses traditional smocking in decidedly non-traditional ways. Fabric manipulation fascinates in this episode of Quilting Arts!

#3109 Inspired by Nature
Mother Nature never ceases to when it comes to inspiring artists. This episode of Quilting Arts presents how nature inspired two different artists. In the first segment, Diana Fox create geode quilt designs using foundation piecing. Next, Vicki Conley uses ombre fabric and foundation
piecing to create skyscapes. How will you let nature inspire you after today’s episode of Quilting Arts?

#3110 Construction Contrasts
The varied ways art can be constructed is endlessly interesting. In this episode, artist Vicki Conley demonstrates a turned-edge machine piecing technique… that is NOT appliqué. Next, artist Kimberly Pierce Cartwright’s passion for turning discarded fabric into new narratives of color and texture uses a bold take on raw edge appliqué. Whether turned edge or raw edge, you’ll find yourself constructing something new after today’s episode of Quilting Arts!

#3111 Re-Thinking Patchwork
Start with a square. On this episode of Quilting Arts TV, Jenny Lyon takes a basic, standard square of quilting fabric and shows you how it can make your creativity bloom. Next, artist Sally Manke demonstrates how to use precisely cut-and-stitched traditional Dresden Plate patchwork in a modern art quilt. On this episode of Quilting Arts, we remember that art quilting is a celebration of art… and quilting!

#3112 Free-Motion Couching
Let’s see how two artists interpret the same core technique. Free-motion couching is one of those traditional quilting techniques that, in the hands of an art quilter, can open up new levels of artistic detail and expressiveness. In the first segment, Sally Manke works on a domestic sewing machine, showcasing several options for presser feet, and explores methods for preparing your surface as well as fiber possibilities. Next, artist Shannon Conley works on a mid-arm quilting machine to share how she uses couching to complement her quilting, filling in the surface with intricate, colorful, textural details. Where will free-motion couching take you after today’s episode of Quilting Arts?

#3113 Color Practice
What’s a season of Quilting Arts without an episode on color—wonderful, transformative, expressive color? In this episode of Quilting Arts, artist Lisa Thorpe explores multiple methods for applying color to stamped designs, blending and building with different tools. Next, artist Brandy Maslowski challenges you to play with value in monochromatic color waves. Put color theory into color practice with this episode of Quilting Art