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• Visit Master Applique Artist Karen Kay Buckley on “Quilt Out Loud!”

  

    Mark Lipinski and Jodie Davis open the show from a glass shop Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Deb Fuller of LeTort Glass makes beautiful fused glass sewing scissor keepers for master applique artist Karen Kay Buckley, who is Mark’s door knock “victim” in this episode.   Merrily Parker has sold many a longarm machine and in doing

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• Quilt It The Longarm Quilting Show: Skill Builders for Free-Motion Quilting with Renae Allen

  

     Longarm teacher Renae Allen realized that her students needed a project before the project so they could build on basic skills. They needed to learn the rhythm, the motion, the repetitive motion and the motor skills of longarm stitching. She developed Skill Builders, a fabric printed with all kinds of lines to use as

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• Feast Your Eyes on Little Art Quilts and Bid on One!

  

  This week, the Quilt Alliance (formerly the Alliance for American Quilts) is auctioning off the last of the over 100 house-shaped quilts that were entries in the Alliance’s 2012 contest, “Home Is Where the Quilt Is.” These unique art quilts are small enough to frame (15 inches width by 19.5 inches height) and they enable

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• Designing Reproduction Fabric with Bobbe Benvin

  

  Quilt Out Loud #405 Trends in quilting are exciting and fresh, but traditional designs are forever popular and interest always cycles around. Mark shows the scrappy quilt he designed for the Nov/Dec issue of Love of Quilting magazine using reproduction fabrics. Modern or traditional: design and fabric choices are the key! Jodie visits with Bobbe

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• Realistic Quilting for Pictorial Quilts with Cathy Wiggins

  

    Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show #308 During her career in telecommunications Cathy Wiggins painted with watercolors and acrylics on paper, and is now painting on fabric. She’s known for her whimsical designs but is now moving towards more realism in her work. In this segment Cathy shows us how easy it is to

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• Want to See a Quilt Show Every Day?

  

  I know, I know, a lot of people don’t think they want to waste time on Facebook. Honestly, I would never have ventured there were it not for business purposes. Who cares about games and pictures of pets and grand children? Well, think again. This morning I checked my feed and it was in large

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• Six Bucks a Book Warehouse Sale at Martingale!

  

  Hurry on over and get some of the great books you’ve seen on Quilt Out Loud!

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• From Applique to Rug Hooking: A Creative Life

  

  Jodie and Mark show their latest rug hooking project and talk about Mark’s doorknock, Marion Sachs, who is a master at both rug hooking and quilting. Then Jodie does a “how to” demonstration showing how advanced features of today’s machines make stitching a buttonhole applique stitch a snap.   Quilter and rug hooker extraordinaire Marion

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• It’s All About Thread on “Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show”!

  

    Heather Purcell, a.k.a. Mother Superior, joins Jodie to tell us all about threads, specifically Superior Threads which she owns with her husband Bob. In the first segment, Heather tells us why the strong core of Superior metallic keeps it from fraying and breaking as other brands do and she adds helpful hints for perfect

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• Quilting and Rug Hooking in a Civil War Home

  

  It’s all about using color on this month’s show. Jodie and Mark open the episode from the Finishing Stitch, a shop located in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. They spotlight a new notion by Clover and Jodie visits with Merrily Parker of Merrily We Quilt Along for what to look for in a longarm machine. Mark’s surprise doorknock

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• Precision Quilting with Templates: Kimmy Brunner Returns for the Third Time to “Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show”!

  

  For her third appearance on Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show Kimmy Brunner shows us that for precision work that mimics the perfection of computerized quilting, templates and rulers are your new best friend. Kimmy uses templates either to create intricate and precise designs or to create the bones or skeleton of the design that

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• Quilt Study Investigation on “Quilt Out Loud!”

  

   Mark and Jodie travel to Pennsylvania and open the show among the quilt displays at the York County Historic Trust. Mark shows off a baby quilt he made and then we travel back to Spring International Quilt Market for Jodie’s meet-up with well-loved designer Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts who shows Jodie a clever

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• Meet Leslie Main, This Month’s Star of “Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show”

  

      Along with her husband Kevin, Leslie Main owns Country Traditions in Fremont, Nebraska where our publisher met Leslie and suggested her for the show. After meeting her I know why! And I know why her shop is so successful too. Not only does Leslie love quilting, she loves the tools and showing people

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• The World of Marie Bostwick, Quilting Storyteller

  

  Quilt Out Loud! – Episode #401 July 2012 Jodie and Mark open the show from the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, Connecticut, showing what they’ve been up to recently with thread. Then they head to Litchfield to scope out the town that inspired the novels of Mark’s doorknock “victim” Marie Bostwick. Guess who they

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• Edyta Sitar Introduces Her New Aurifil Thread Collection and Applique Shapes Ready to Fuse and Stitch

  

  Get right to the fun part of creating Edyta Sitar’s beautiful quilt designs with her new pre-fused and cut applique shapes. . Developed for her new patterns, these shapes are ready to fuse to your quilt top and stitch with her new Aurifil thread collection chosen expressly to match and complement the appliques. No more

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• Quilty Fan-Tastic: Do You Pre-Wash Your Fabric?

  

  The great debate continues! Some quilters pre-wash fabric before they start on patchwork, some don’t. Mary goes through Quilty fan comments and helps you decide which route you should take: pre-wash your fabric or no? Watch the video!

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• Pat Bravo of Art Gallery Fabrics Introduces Her New Aurifil Thread Collections for Quilting and Sewing

  

  Pat Bravo brings her gorgeous design aesthetic to thread, with three collections; one for quilters and two for sewers. The colors match the sumptuous fabrics she designs. If you haven’t experienced Art Gallery Fabrics you owe it to yourself to check them out, and sew with the highest quality thread chosen just for them: Aurifil!

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• Meet Moda Designer Sandy Gervais on Quilt with the Stars!

  

  Watch Sandy Gervais and Mary Fons as they discuss Sandy’s quilting career and what inspires her. Part One Sandy Gervais uses stripes to create a woven look in her Watermelon table runner. Follow along and make one yourself. Part Two Join Sandy Gervais and Mary Fons for a trunk show of Sandy’s work. Each project

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• Modern Quilting for Modern Quilts: Meet Angela Walters

  

  Quilt It! The Longarm Quilting Show: Episode #215 June 2012 With their large, often irregular designs and vast amounts of negative space, modern quilts present a new challenge to quilters. At the forefront of the modern quilt movement, Angela Walters shows us what the challenges are in quilting modern quilts and how to choose quilting

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• Six Bucks a Book!

  

  Yes, you read it correctly.  Last night, midnight began That Patchwork Place’s Six Buck a Book Sale.  Choose from more than 35 popular titles—all just $6 a pop through Monday. Stock up. Save $$$. Get stitching!

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