Quilting Arts TV

First, Karol Kusmaul creates an improvisational collage composition. She demonstrates how to use compositional guidelines to create an effective portrait quilt, creating balance and interest with color and value. Then, Sue King shows how to make enhanced cyanotypes. Learn the difference between wet and dry cyanotypes and how to enhance them with free-motion stitching. Sue also shows how to add photographic images, beading, and more to create innovative artwork.

In this episode, our creative adventure includes revisiting some traditional techniques. First, Melissa DeLisio takes a step beyond the basics and manipulates the marbling tray to create traditional marbled patterns. Then, join Susan Brubaker Knapp as we revisit free-motion quilting motifs she demonstrated in “52 Free-Motion Quilting Motifs and Fillers.” Susan’s bonus content is part of a video in our library, available for purchase here.

Learn some new layering techniques in this episode. Machine quilting expert Beth Schillig demonstrates how to add couched fibers as elegant embellishment to your quilts. Beth often couches and quilts at the same time, an efficient and creative idea. Ann Rebele’s background as a painter came in handy when she could not find the fabric she wanted in a store—she painted her own! Ann shares her tips for painting on cotton with a wet-on-wet technique.

It’s always the details that make memorable art quilt projects. First, Donalee Kennedy creates a small improv piece featuring threads, yarn, and ribbons. Gather bits, bobs, and precious scraps to create your own improvisational art project. Then it’s little block prints with Sharon Wall. Learn to transfer designs, cut, and print using vinyl block scraps to create what Sharon calls ‘charms’ and then incorporate them into a quilt as personal expressions of art.

Learn how to look for inspiration in simple objects on this episode. First see how Lyric Montgomery Kinard is inspired by autumn leaves, capturing their essence by scanning, printing, and stitching. The resulting mixed-media textile art is a reminder of nature’s beauty. Then, Karol Kusmaul talks about still life artwork and shares the many sources of design inspiration for her fiber art and art quilts.

This episode focuses on a quilting essential—thread. First up is Catherine Redford with walking foot quilting tips for wholecloth quilts. Go ‘beneath the surface’ with Catherine’s organic curves, sharp points, and grid work—a few of the many techniques she demonstrates. Then, Nina McVeigh creates a bag on the longarm with ruler work featuring double needles, appliqué, and zipper insertion. Nina also demonstrates that a longarm is not just for machine quilting!

Printing techniques are featured in this episode. Sharon Wall begins the episode with a multicolored silk screen design accented with stencils and free-motion quilting. This is a fun and playful technique that is sure to delight all ages. Then, Sue King demonstrates screen printing as a base layer for textile artwork using both deconstructed printing and applying thickened dyes inks through a Thermofax screen directly on the surface.

This episode offers lessons on using color and collage. The first lesson with Sarah Ann Smith is about mixing paint colors. Sarah has years of experience as a painter and color expert—accept Sarah’s invitation to play with and mix paint colors to learn oh so much about color placement in your quilts.

Learn how to create over-the-top designs on this episode. Lyric Montgomery Kinard show how she uses actual vacation photos—printed on fabric—that she enhances with quilting and embroidery to create a lasting memory. Lyric also demonstrates how she mounts these pieces of artwork on gallery wrapped canvas. Then, Ann Rebele shares a lesson on painting with a dry brush technique. She uses a quilting weight muslin and when the painting is done, it is cut, rearranged, and sewn into a pieced quilt.

The artists on this episode share different and unique visions for their materials. Ann Rebele demonstrates painting on silk organza, creating a beautiful and ethereal fourth layer—a different vision for a new material. Then, Donalee Kennedy shows her approach to create mounted mini improv art. Following a few art principles and jumping in with enthusiasm, Donalee shows that good things really do come in small packages.

This episode features new ideas for surface design. First, Sarah Ann Smith demonstrates paint techniques with sour cream consistency paint for wearables and quilts using printing, monoprinting, and screen printing. Let Sarah share her vast experience with paints to help you create something fabulous. Then, Sue King begins with a whole quilt from an earlier episode that used various layers of screen printing. On this episode she shows you what to do with that creation by building up layers and adding depth with free-motion and decorative stitching.

On this episode, the artists show how they take creative risks but still honor tradition. First, Catherine Redford makes a wool crazy quilt pincushion inspired by a vintage quilt. She demonstrates making the blocks, embroidering with feather stitch, and finishing while also showing how she used the same technique to create a pieced border on a quilt. Then, Melissa DeLisio breaks all the rules when it comes to marbling by demonstrating how to manipulate the print bath, use compressed air to create a new design, and how to enhance marbled fabric with resists. So many techniques to try!

In this episode, the guest explore shapes. First, Sharon Wall with free-form circles. She’s paints on fabric with layers and patterns of circles in a fun and freeing way. This is a great technique for varied skill levels and ages. Sharon uses the resulting fabric in wholecloth quilts and, after cutting, pieced quilts as well. Then, Beth Schillig creates appliqué frames and shapes with a multi-purpose stabilizer also known as washable appliqué fiber. The product is firm and easy to work while sewing the appliqué but softens when the final quilt is washed. A win-win for large and exciting appliqué projects!