Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Season 10 Episodes

Episode 1

Cottage Square

Sun, Jun 3, 2007

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter make a Cottage Square quilt, which is an easy, quick scrap quilt. Learn how to choose fabrics, how to strip-piece sashing, and how to pre-sash blocks. Gerald Roy joins for a "This Old Quilt" segment.

Episode 2

Radiant Blue, Part 1

Sun, Jun 10, 2007

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter teach the techniques for a quilt called Radiant Blue, designed by Marsha McCloskey, such as sewing partial seams for feathered star blocks and combining blocks into rows.

Episode 3

Radiant Blue, Part 2

Sun, Jun 17, 2007

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter continue teaching the techniques needed to create Radiant Blue, a challenging quilt designed by Marsha McCloskey.

Episode 4

Suns and Moons Quilt

Sun, Jun 24, 2007

Liz Porter welcomes guest Jane Sassaman, who shares her techniques for a unique layered appliqué design for a wall quilt, and how to use your machine's decorative stitches to enhance your quilting design.

Episode 5

Basketweave Baby Quilt

Sun, Jul 1, 2007

Episode 6

Quilting Windmills

Sun, Jul 8, 2007

Guest John Flynn showcases unique spiral quilt blocks. He teaches how to make spiral quilt blocks, how to make a "Y" seam fool proof, and techniques for sewing machine quilting with a special quilting frame.

Episode 7

Spice Islands Compass, Part I

Sun, Jul 15, 2007

The Spice Island Compass quilt made from the challenging Mariner's Compass blocks. Marianne Fons and Liz Porter shows how to experiment with color placement for a compass design and how to paper piece mariner's compass sections.

Episode 8

Spice Islands Compass, Part 2

Sun, Jul 22, 2007

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter teach how to sew the central compass units into a perfect, circular center for this heirloom-style quilt. They are joined by Gerald Roy, who shares antique samples of Mariner's Compass quilts.

Episode 9

Desert Stars

Sun, Jul 29, 2007

Desert Stars by Margaret Miller uses unique fabrics and construction techniques. With Marianne Fons and Liz Porter, learn to use variegated fabric, to use templates with pre-trimmed points, and how to organize the many pieces.

Episode 10

Petite Baskets

Sun, Aug 5, 2007

Small quilts mean quick fun. Liz Porter and Marianne Fons show using quarter-inch seam markers and triangle trimmers for perfect patchwork piecing, and how to cut background pieces for diagonally set quilts.

Episode 11

Digital Thread Painting

Sun, Aug 12, 2007

Marianne Fons is joined by guest Sylvain Bergeron, who shows how to incorporate machine embroidery into quilts. Learn to digitize an embroidery design, to design a quilt using embroidered blocks, and choose the stabilizer for your project.

Episode 12

Longarm Mastery

Sun, Aug 19, 2007

Guest Marilyn Badger shares her prize-winning tips on planning designs for longarm quilting, how to adapt designs to fit specific areas, and how to mark and quilt a unique background filler design.

Episode 13

Binding: The Perfect Finish

Sun, Aug 26, 2007

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter talk binding, an essential part of completing a quilt. Learn to join and press binding strips, turn corners perfectly, and use a binding tool. Gerald Roy brings antique quilts for "This Old Quilt" segment.