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- Episode 411 - Guest Mary Leahy teaches tips and techniques on how to wash, dry, and store quilts. Learn the best way to hang special delicate quilts. Create photo montage quilts with your computer and learn the new twin needle quilting technique with Jenny Haskins. To learn more about this episode, visit www.americaquiltscreatively.com and click on the Program Notes tab.
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- Episode 1801 - Stacking My Blocks
For more information about this show, visit www.KayeWood.com.
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- A documentary exploring quilting heritage then and now in the state of Nevada.
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- Episode 1109 - Watch this online-only extra footage from Mary and Marianne Fons' trip to Quiltology in Chicago!
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- Lisa Maki introduces her new pattern, “Memories to a T”tm which uses her Quilt-N-Go fusible technique to create t-shirt quilts so quickly and easily that a complete beginner can make one. The pattern even includes a template for cutting your t-shirts to just the right size. Visit www.crookednickel.com to learn more.
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- Create and print full-size continuous line borders for your quilt, all perfectly scaled to custom fit your quilt. Simply enter your quilt’s dimensions, choose from the library of over 90 designs, and print your pattern—all from your computer. Learn more about this online software and browse the designs at www.perfectborders.com.
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- Dream World introduces a new Bendable Bright Light made to attach to any sewing machine with 3M adhesive. The flexible arm puts brilliant pure white lighting right where you need it. The Sew Steady Table is the perfect sewing surface for your sewing machine. This clear, height adjustable table comes in four sizes and is made to fit your sewing machine. For more information visit www.dreamworld-inc.com.
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- Shop owner and teacher Rita Fishel demonstrates a new rotary blade sharpener that really works. This state-of-the-art diamond sharpening tool create a straight, razor-sharp edge in seconds. This all takes place inside a protective housing, so it is safe and easy to use. Find the sharpener and your local quilt shop or visit www.usasharpeners.com to learn more.
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- Keep your sewing scissors safe from non-sewing use with this handy combination lock made just for sewing scissors.
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- Cutting equilateral triangles is easy using the Pyramid Ruler designed by Liz Porter. Clear concise directions for cutting 1" to 6" pyramids are printed directly on the ruler. Each ruler also includes an instruction sheet with detailed photography along with design suggestions using Fons & Porter Hexagon and Pyramid companion rulers. Made in the USA by Omnigrid.
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- A specialty ruler designed by Liz Porter to cut precise 60-degree diamonds. All the directions for cutting 1" to 6" diamonds are distinctly printed on the clear acrylic ruler. Each ruler also includes an instruction sheet with detailed photography along with design suggestions using Fons & Porter Hexagon and Pyramid companion rulers. Made in the USA by Omnigrid.
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- Use our directional pins to designate pressing directions for seam allowances of quilt blocks, borders, and tops! You can also use these pins to help keep track of specific borders for sides and top and bottom of quilt when direction is important to design. Packaged in reusable decorative tin.
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- Perfect for quilt labels, memory quilts, paper crafts and more, the permanent ink in these markers is archival water-based pigment that will not smudge or bleed. Comes in a set of three 0.5mm fine-tip permanent ink markers in black, brown and red.
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- Protect your hands from treacherous rotary cutting blades with the cut-resistant Klutz glove. The nubs on the gloves give you traction on your quilting rulers too.
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- Organize strips of fabric as you cut them using these colored, spring loaded pins pre-printed with strip widths.
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- Jodie interviews Kathy Kansier or Ozark Missouri, designer, teacher, appraiser and judge, and now recipient of the 2008 Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for Quilting Teachers. The purpose of the scholarship is to provide a deserving teacher with the opportunity to explore her own creative talent and further develop her classroom skills. Meet this well—rounded and fascinating quilter and learn more about the award and how she will put it to use.
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- Virginia A. Walton of Creative Curves shows Jodie the latest ruler she has invented. The Multi-Angle Wedge Ruler is a completely different (non-curve) tool for quilters. It allows you to make blocks and quilts that combine different angles (wedges) easily. The Sampler Pattern Booklet that comes with each ruler has nine original blocks plus an additional Pieced Square in the Border. Instructions with extensive graphics and charts step you through how start with rectangles to cut and sew with the ruler to make blocks of various sizes. Find our more at CreativeCurves.com.
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- Episode 1 - Fay began designing Judaica patterns and her customers in her shop, Sunshine Quilt Sewing Company in Margate Florida, asked her to offer them as patterns. Her designs were so successful in her shop that she took them to Quilt Market to offer them to shops all over the world. Fay’s Judaica Art Quilt patterns are designed to be used year-round, for example jelly roll friendly Shalom using the Star of David as the centerpiece of the design. All patterns come with complete instructions and full size patterns. Enjoy the video, and listen carefully to the music—that’s Fay singing! See the full line of patterns at FayNicollDesigns.com
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- Hot of the press, the 2008-2010 tenth edition of the Quilters Travel Companion is the single largest authority on quilt shops and shows in North America. Arranged state-by-state, shops are easy to find. Simply go to state, then an area within that sate, and maps show where shops are, with shops listings close by with their own maps to guide you right to their doors. No more hunting for shops: you’ll know exactly where they are along with complete contact information. For those travelling with laptop, purchase the handy CD version of the book. Available at your local quilt shop or at the Quilters Travel Companion Web site!
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- Do you need to organize your tools and keep them within easy reach? Then you need the Handy Caddy. Available in two sizes, the generous inner pocket and the 6-8 outside pockets of this clear view organizer make finding the things so much easier when they aren’t hidden from view. Just place it on your table and you can see what you are looking for right away. When you’re ready to head to class, simply place the Handy Caddy in the Handy Caddy Tote bag and go! Learn more at HandyCaddy.net.
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- John Brady from Guidelines 4 Quilting shows us how to use the new connections kit. Learn more at www.guidelines4quilting.com/.
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- John Brady from Guidelines 4 Quilting shows us how to use their handy prep tool. Learn more at www.guidelines4quilting.com/.
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- Watch as John Brady from Guidelines 4 Quilting demonstrates his no-math, no-fuss, no-problems method of cutting squares, half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles using his Finished Size Quilting set. Make a variety of blocks with a stash of fabric and a little cutting. Take out the math and let the creativity begin! What a fun stash-buster!
Learn more at www.guidelines4quilting.com/.
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- We hope you enjoy this promotional video for Jodie Davis and Mark Lipinski's new show, Quilt out Loud! For more information about the show, please visit www.QuiltOutLoud.com.
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- Lonni finds inspiration from her travels, nature, and even in her dreams, and interprets the images with color and scale for her fabric lines. From lettering in a church to a wall in Rome, it’s all about textures for Lonni. Lonni offers viewers tips on creating their own original artwork for their quilts as she tells us about an upcoming fabric line. From inspiration in a dream to her first sketch, rescaling the fabric for an applique wall hanging, Lonni shows how she arrived at her inspired designs for her Viviana Collection for Andover Fabrics which uses her large scale designs in beautiful panels, paired with all over prints. Watch this fascinating video and visit Andover Fabrics and Lonni Rossi’s web site for more information.
www.AndoverFabrics.com.
www.LonniRossi.com.
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- Fabric designer and quilter, Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts, fills your world with color as she shares her techniques for selecting and combining fabrics in her new book, Hop to It! Edyta guides you through making twelve beautiful appliquéd blocks in the From My Garden Album Quilt with step-by-step instructions for fusible, machine and hand appliqué. You'll also learn the secrets of her fabric and color selection process with Edyta's unique "Rule of Five" system. Don't hesitate, just Hop To It! and you will be able to enjoy creating a beautiful appliquéd album quilt along with 8 charming projects that you are sure to cherish. Find out more by visiting Landauer Publishing’s web site.
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- Small quilts make Jo’s heart sing! Known for her reproduction fabric lines with Andover Fabrics, Jo marries these two loves in her lovely little quilts. In this video Jo describes how she works from her collection of antique quilts, fabrics and blocks to find inspiration for her fabric designs. She shows Jodie several quilts from her upcoming book about Doll Quilts. In her book, not only does she give complete directions for over twelve quilts, but also shows how to use them for decorating in your home. As Jo says, her color palette blends into most homes so well! To see Jo’s latest fabric lines, visit Andover Fabrics. To learn about her doll book, visit Jo’s web site, where you'll find information about the book as soon as it is published.
www.JoMortonQuilts.com.
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- Panels have always made creating quilts fast, but you won’t call today’s panels “cheaters” as we did yesterday’s panel fabrics. Gail Kessler, fabric designer and Director of Marketing for Andover Fabrics, joins Jodie to show her quilts made from panel fabrics from Andover fabric lines, many of which you would never guess are made from panel fabric. Gail shows quilts made from “Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” Eric Carl and “Cogsmo” by Cosmo Cricket are examples of updated kids quilt panels. To prove that panels aren’t just for kids anymore, Gail shows “Painted Posies” by Erinn Kennedy, “Fete Des Fleurs - Tulips” by Marjorie Post and her own “Lights, Camera, Action.” You’d never guess these lovely quilts started as panel fabric! Visit Andover Fabrics and Ladyfingers Sewing Studio for more information.
www.AndoverFabrics.com.
www.LadyFingersSewing.com.
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- Design Director for Andover Fabrics, Kathy Hall, who works with the licensed designs and museums to develop fabric lines, joins Jodie to discuss how she works with the Winterthur Museum, International Quilt Study Center, and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation collections to create fabric lines for today’s quilter. Kathy discusses reproduction, adaptation and interpretation as it relates to using the original museum pieces to design fabric and also for quilters in their quilt designs. Kathy shows fabric lines such as Global Gardens and finished quilts made from the fabric lines. Visit Andover fabrics web site for more information about these fabric lines and where to purchase them. Learn More about Kathy here!
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- Take the mystery out of creating intricate blocks with Penny Haren's amazingly simple technique. Achieve flawless points and curves and avoid inset seams by using Penny’s innovative technique to appliqué pieces to pieced blocks. In both Pieced Appliqué™ and Penny’s second book, More Pieced Appliqué™, you begin with nine basic foundation blocks and turn them into 25 "Wow! How did you do that?” blocks. While these blocks appear difficult they are simple enough that a beginning quilter will achieve immediate success. Let Penny help you take out the stress of creating perfect blocks! For more information about both books, visit Landauer Publishing’s web site.
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- Simply amazing quilts are amazingly simple with Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin.
Classic Log Cabin piecing creates unusual and gorgeous designs from simple to sophisticated in the thirty-four designs in this book by Sara Nephew with Marci Baker. Illustrated to guide you through each step of the project and with full color throughout to inspire your own creations Not Your Grandmother’s Log Cabin is full of tips and actual sizes printed in the book to make sure your piecing is perfect. Purchase the book from your local quilt shop or AliciasAttic.com.
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- This lovely dark cherry wood box keeps all of your hand sewing notions easily at hand yet looking very pretty as well. Watch how many sewing supplies (sold separately) fit in this lovely sewing box. The box is 5 1/2" wide and 7 1/2" long and has 3 tiers. The top tier is a hunter green velvet pin cushion. The tiers rotate smoothly at one end. The bottom is covered with a soft velvet so it will not scratch furniture. What an elegant gift this will be! Available from CottonClub.com.
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- You can machine quilt in sections on your own sewing machine! Even queen and king-sized quilts! Marti Michell shares ways you can finish more quilts without the expense, or delay, of sending them out. Just divide your quilts into smaller sections - easy to manage and easy to assemble. Marti’s book, Machine Quilting in Sections, shows you six ways to assemble quilted sections, three ways to add borders to quilted centers and a dozen examples of common quilt styles suitable for Low-Carb quilting: medallion, diagonal set, strippy, et cetera. For variety, try Low-Fat Quilting and divide the batting, not the quilt! Read more about the book at FromMarti.com.
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- Have you ever considered a career in quilting? Just about everyone has! If your dream is to quit that full time job and work in some aspect of the quilt world, why not take that extra step and make it happen?
This book will introduce you to the many areas of the quilting profession, including what it take to get there, the ins and outs, the money involved, and the income potential. In addition to the authors' personal experiences, this book includes information collected form interviews with numerous quilt professions. Written by Merry May and Linda J. Hahn, who together possess over four decades of experience in the quilting industry. Includes forms and reference materials to help you get started! Learn more about the book at Quiltwoman.com.
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- Started as a project on numbers in 1987 to 1988 the Pittsburgh Quilt is also called the Pittsburgh Friendship Quilt. With over 32,000 squares it took more than 600 volunteer hours to be sewn into the huge panel measuring eight-feet long! Squares are signed by four presidents, Mr. Rogers and Mr. McFeely, and Pittsburgh Steelers along with school children, civic groups, and more. The quilt was displayed when completed and then disappeared. In 2008 local quilt guild president Elizabeth Jones found an article about the quilt, found the panels in the museum’s basement, and with the help of members of her guild cleaned it up cornstarch and toothbrushes. The guild is now looking for a permanent home for the quilt. You can see the quilt at Quilt Festival in October 2009 in Houston.
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- Inspired by an episode on a PBS show, Lisa White Reber of DippyDyes started dyeing fabrics in 1996 and hasn’t looked back. Lisa starts with fabrics from Testfabrics and Robert Kaufman and even pre-printed white-on-white fabric. She adds and removes coloring, folds and scrunches the fabric, as the spirit moves. Fabrics range from dark and stormy, to delicately colorful fabrics for your most exquisite appliqué. Lisa is continually learning more about dye products, methods and techniques and applying that knowledge to making better fabric. She even dyes snow-resisted fabric! For more information, please visit www.DippyDyes.com.
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- Jodie catches up with Lissa Alexander at the Moda Fabrics booth at Quilt Market to see the quilt that inspired the latest Collections for a Cause quilt. Lissa explains that Moda’s owner Mark Dunn chooses quilts to reproduce in fabric and offer as both yardage and kits to benefit a worthy cause. This quilt, a nine patch from the Howard Marcus Collection from Western Pennsylvania, benefits the Alliance for American Quilts. The Alliance brings together quiltmakers and designers, the quilt industry, quilt scholars and teachers, and quilt collectors in the cause of documenting, preserving, and sharing our great American quilt heritage. The two main goals of the Quilt Alliance are to further the recognition of quilts and to preserve the history of quilts and their makers. Click to see the fabric collection here. Visit your local quilt shop to purchase the kit for the quilt.
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- Take a tour of the exhibit of exquisite quilts in the annual spring edition of the IQA Judged Show in which the theme is the season of renewal. Jodie shows you a sampling of the quilts and tells you about the artists and the techniques they used. You can see the entire Celebrate Spring exhibit at International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California July 24-29 and at International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas , October 15-18, 2009.
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- Renee Nanneman of Need’l Love® explains to Jodie how vintage designs inspire her fabric lines for Andover Fabrics. For example, her French Farmhouse line which was inspired by a 1930's dress. Renee finds inspiration pieces at flea markets and estate sales in the form of from clothing or fabric, or in the case of one line, even a chintz covered box. Her signature color palette is showcased in her fabrics and accompanied by a book of projects, including her current lines, French Farmhouse & Stone Cottage.
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- Elaine Waldschmitt of The Quilted Closet shows Jodie quilts she made demonstrating her new Applicurves technique, using her own fabric lines she designed along with other Andover fabric collections. Elaine shows Jodie how she made Drunkards Path Hearts and Gizzards and New York Beauty with a technique that mimics the look of curved piecing. Elaine's Appli-Curves technique allows you to create perfect curves every time.
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- Turn two 6” x 12” Guidelines4Quilting rulers into a 24”-long or 12” square ruler that is easy to carry to class and to store with this easy-to-use connection set. Learn more at the Guidelines4Quilting web site www.Guidelines4Quilting.com . Watch the video!
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- The Guidelines Ruler has three unique features: It is the only ruler available today that self-aligns to the edge of the fabric. Set the Fabric Guide for the measurement you want and cut multiple strips the exact same size. Made of Polycarbonate, it is 25 times stronger than acrylic rulers and comes with a lifetime replacement guarantee. It is also our guarantee that the ruler does not slip while cutting. Guidelines' Non-Slip Strips easily slide over the fabric, so you can make little adjustments with ease. But when you are ready to make the cut, you get more grip with less effort because it all gets concentrated into the narrow strips right on the edges of the ruler. The angle markers mark 30, 45 and 60 degree angles to make them easy to see on your ruler. For complete information and tutorials visit Guidelines4Quilting www.Guidelines4Quilting.com . Watch now!
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- Guidelines4Quilting's Seam Allowance Additions are Color-Coded Quilting Tools that eliminate complicated Seam Allowance Math from quilting and let you start Finished-Size Quilting: quilting solely based on finished size measurements. Visit the Guidelines4Quilting web site www.Guidelines4Quilting.com for complete information.
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