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Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Season 7 Episodes

13 Episodes 2005 - 2006

Episode 1

Brave New World

Sat, Dec 3, 2005

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter demonstrate triangle trimming techniques to make piecing this versatile unit fast and easy.

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Episode 2

English Paper Pieced Ornaments

Sat, Dec 10, 2005

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter share a great take-along project to do during the busy time before the holidays. These lovely Christmas ornaments can serve several purposes and can be made by hand quickly and easily.

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Episode 3

Embroidering Large Quilt Blocks

Sat, Dec 17, 2005

Guest Faith Reynolds joins Liz Porter and Marianne Fons to show how to incorporate machine embroidery in your quilts. Learn how to embroider large designs without re-hooping and how to align and re-hoop large designs.

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Episode 4

Wedding Wishes Quilt

Sat, Dec 24, 2005

Liz Porter and Marianne Fons illustrate design options for using pieced equilateral triangles. They also demonstrate cutting and assembling equilateral triangles and showcase a clever idea for creating a wedding quilt.

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Episode 5

Let's Quilt

Sat, Dec 31, 2005

Guest Ann Kisro joins Marianne Fons and Liz Porter to provide insight on the use of novelty prints in quilts. She hammers out the basics of patchwork techniques and how to coordinate other fabrics with busy, novelty prints.

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Episode 6

Pine Burr Quilt

Sat, Jan 7, 2006

Quilters in the past considered Pine Burr a challenging pattern. Marianne Fons and Liz Porter demonstrate tips and tricks for creating this vintage pattern.

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Episode 7

Vintage Handkerchief Quilts

Sat, Jan 14, 2006

Guest Faith Reynolds joins Marianne Fons and Liz Porter to demonstrate how to use antique handkerchiefs in a quilt. She also shows how to make your own vintage handkerchiefs and create many pattern variations from one embroidery design.

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Episode 8

Thread Painted Scene

Sat, Jan 21, 2006

Guest Ann Regal joins Marianne Fons and Liz Porter to teach the art of turning a photograph into a thread painting. Learn to prepare your fabric and machine for free-motion stitching and creates various effects with free-motion stitching.

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Episode 9

Longarm Quilting

Sat, Jan 28, 2006

Guest Marilyn Badger joins Marianne Fons and Liz Porter to showcase the art of longarm quilting with tips and tricks to enrich your longarm quilting projects.

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Episode 10

Rotary Cutting Basic Shapes

Sat, Feb 4, 2006

The rotary cutter has revolutionized cutting for quilters. Marianne Fons and Liz Porter describe how to square up fabric and cut straight strips, how to cut accurate squares and rectangles and how to cut two types of triangles.

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Episode 11

Flying Geese Units

Sat, Feb 11, 2006

A special new ruler is used as Marianne Fons and Liz Porter explain how to cut both types of triangles for Flying Geese units from the same width strip. They also show how to join triangles for Flying Geese units.

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Episode 12

Point Trimming

Sat, Feb 18, 2006

A point trimmer is a handy tool to use when making a quilt block. Marianne Fons and Liz Porter show how to determine the angle to trim a triangle point and how to join pieces using trimmed triangles for to more accurate patchwork.

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Episode 13

Half-Yard Challenge

Sat, Feb 25, 2006

The challenge is on. Liz Porter and Marianne Fons challenge quilters to use only five half-yard pieces to create a wall quilt. They demonstrate cutting squares, half-square triangles and quarter-square triangles from the same width stripe.

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