Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Season 8 Episodes

Episode 1

Garden Window

Sat, Jun 3, 2006

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter show how to make a simple, stunning quilt using large-scale floral prints.

Episode 2

Fabric Valentines

Sat, Jun 10, 2006

Learn how to make romantic fabric valentines, complete with printed, heartfelt sentiments, embellished details, and a fabric envelope.

Episode 3

Design Your Own Fabric with Machine Stitching

Sat, Jun 17, 2006

Guest Faith Reynolds shows how to use your machine's embroidery stitches to create unique fabric you can use in your quilts.

Episode 4

Double Wedding Ring, Part 1

Sat, Jul 1, 2006

Liz Porter and Marianne Fons share great techniques and hints for making Double Wedding Ring, one of the most popular traditional quilt patterns in the world.

Episode 5

Double Wedding Ring, Part 2

Sat, Jul 1, 2006

Learn how to handle binding for Double Wedding Ring quilts and others with irregular edges.

Episode 6

Thread Embellished Border Prints

Sat, Jul 8, 2006

Episode 7

Fabric Fun with Paintstiks

Sat, Jul 15, 2006

Liz Porter and Marianne Fons use stencils and texture plates to create interesting patterns on fabrics.

Episode 8

Fantastic Freemotion Quilting

Sat, Jul 22, 2006

Multi-talented machine quilter and musician Ricky Tims demonstrates ways to build basic free motion machine quilting skills. He also shows an easy technique for mock bobbin machine quilting.

Episode 9

Wagon Wheel Quilt

Sat, Jul 29, 2006

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter show how to cut and combine odd-shaped pieces for a hexagonal quilt block and how to make yo-yo centers for blocks.

Episode 10

Multi-Frame Machine Quilting

Sat, Aug 5, 2006

Guest John Flynn shows how to make a better quilt back using less fabric, how to mount a quilt in his frame system and plan quilting designs for home machine quilting. Don't miss his tip segment on fluffing rag quilts with a weed whacker.

Episode 11

Weaver Fever Quilts

Sat, Aug 12, 2006

Marianne Fons and Liz Porter teach you how to choose and combine light, medium, and dark value fabrics to make a wall quilt with a 3-dimensional feel.

Episode 12

Bobbin Play

Sat, Aug 19, 2006

Guest Faith Reynolds demonstrates ways to use special, decorative threads in new, unique ways by putting them in your machine's bobbin.

Episode 13

Interfacing Appliqué

Sat, Aug 26, 2006

Liz Porter and Marianne Fons show a special technique for using fusible interfacing to prepare pieces for appliqué. They demonstrate several machine appliqué methods.