Fons & Porter's Love Of Quilting

There’s nothing as cheerful as a bright pink peony on a gray spring day. With the right color values and some forgiving flippy corners, this quilt block just blooms. The sashing introduces the simplest of partial seams, easing you into a useful technique. Let Peony Patchwork inspire some sweet, spring stitching!

Get busy as a bee with patchwork techniques that make the focal fabric the queen. Instead of constructing this block in quadrants, learn to build it like a hive! Non-mirrored combo units and the right pressing strategy help the quilt go together as smooth as honey. It’s a one-block quilt that’s abuzz with inspiration!

Veteran quilt instructor Kate Colleran shows you how to unleash your creative potential. For this episode, she takes Firework Flowers by Reed Johnson, and transforms the pattern into something completely different by altering value choices, playing with color and placement, and re-sizing paper-pieced blocks. Learn how to hone YOUR quilt style on this episode of “Love of Quilting.”

Every quilter has a notebook where they capture their creative ideas, so why not create a lovely patchwork cover? On this episode of “Love of Quilting,” Sara Gallegos shares a linen-style journal cover, embellished with couched yarns and circular stitches. Treat yourself or a loved one to some pretty stitches!

Whether you’re finishing your quilt on a domestic machine or a longarm, you can optimize your skills with classic, versatile quilting motifs. On this episode, we’ll explore the ever-useful clamshell motif, which works in blocks, borders, and sashing. If you’re looking for a little finishing finesse, make sure you tune in to this must-see episode of “Love of Quilting.”

Guest Debi Keunnen-Baker knows her way around a sewing machine. In this episode, she takes inspiration from an elegant tablerunner (English Wreaths, by Kristen Clay), creating a dazzlingly different project! Find out how bold colors and flat seams/quilt as you go, radiant stitches, and floating stitches can take something lovely, and turn it into something exquisite!

There’s more than one way to fly a goose! On this episode, Angela Huffman shares two ways to make the main quilt block, both with different effects. The patchwork border blooms with summer flowers that are constructed with flippy corners, and includes one extended block for some fun asymmetry. Join us for a quilt that’s as sweet and bright as a Summer Saturday.

Sara Gallegos presents a quick-piecing quilt that’s easy to adapt to different color palettes—which is spectacular when you need a fast quilt to give as a gift. Techniques featured on this episode include no-waste flying geese, quick-cut strip sets, and self-sashed blocks.

Snowy Stars, designed by Jo Moury, is a spectacular quilt with some challenging techniques. Veteran instructor Kate Colleran joins us in this episode to walk you through some of these techniques, including 45-degree diamonds and a fabulous ribbon border, as well as showing an alternate color palette.

Windy Blooms is a summery throw quilt, the perfect project if you’re wanting something quick and fun! The colorful quilt blocks are set in motion with partial seams. The unique border design, which looks complex, is actually a breeze! Angela and Sara also explore freemotion echo quilting on your domestic machine.

As our Quilt of Valor for the series, A Mark of Honor is a special quilt. The two blocks, which use batik fabrics, create a circular design when they come together. This episode features paper piecing, and creating a flange in the binding for a pop of color.

Guest Debi Kuennen-Baker has a knack for taking attractive patchwork to whole new dimension! On this episode, she took a Hawaiian-inspired quilt made by Natalie Crabtree, and went wild! Translating the design to a pillow, she broke some wonderful machine stitches to embellish, couch, and quilt. It’s those custom embellishments that take your quilting to the next level!

On this episode, we get to see what Angela Huffman did with a scrappy challenge! A friend sent her an assortment of scraps, and it was her job to come up with a design. Dash for Scraps features two sizes of Churn Dash blocks cut from one fat eighth, as well as a tiny paper-pieced alternate block. If you’re intimidated by scraps, check out this episode to ease into a whole new world of patchwork!