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Simply Quilts Season 11 Episodes

39 Episodes 2013 - 2013

Episode 1

Quilting Tips and Tricks

Mon, Apr 4, 2005 30 mins

How to organize quilting paraphernalia; and avoid seeing pin dots of the bobbin thread in the quilting stitch.

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Episode 2

Fortune Cookie Challenge

Mon, Apr 11, 2005 30 mins

A "fortune cookie quilt challenge" is featured. Three quilters have a month to make a quilt based on a fortune cookie's fortune.

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Episode 3

Quilt Toppers

Mon, Apr 18, 2005 30 mins

How to make quilt toppers that can be displayed for the holidays and various seasons.

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Episode 4

Casting Shadows with Discharge

Mon, Apr 25, 2005 30 mins

A discharge technique that creates shadows on quilts is demonstrated. Also: how to organize components prior to quilting.

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Episode 5

Victoria and Albert Quilts

Mon, May 2, 2005 30 mins

The Slater Museum in Connecticut is visited. Also, textile artist Kaffe Facett discusses his reinterpretation of an historic British quilt.

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Episode 6

Funky Little House

Mon, May 9, 2005 30 mins

How to create a house-like quilt that includes a yard, roof and walls.

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Episode 7

Gourmet Fabric Painting

Mon, May 16, 2005 30 mins

How to paint on fabric. Also: a water-soluble gutta technique is demonstrated.

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Episode 8

Stitch and Split Applique

Mon, May 23, 2005 30 mins

A stitch-and-split technique for creating applique quilts is demonstrated. Also: how to move quilt blocks from a design to the sewing machine.

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Episode 9

Blending Photos with Fabric

Mon, May 30, 2005 30 mins

How to create quilts based on photographs.

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Episode 10

Longarm Fashions

Mon, Jun 6, 2005 30 mins

Marilyn Badgers shows how to make lacy garments. Also: How to prepare a quilt top for a long-arm service.

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Episode 11

Wave Topography

Mon, Jun 13, 2005 30 mins

Tristan Blakeman, who creates contemporary and traditional improvisational quilts, and Dan Olfe, who designs whole-cloth fabric quilts, demonstrate their quilting techniques.

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Episode 12

Shining Star Quilt

Mon, Jun 20, 2005 30 mins

How to make a shining-star quilt. Also: hand-quilting is discussed.

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Episode 13

Painted Faces Quilts

Mon, May 2, 2005 30 mins

How to re-create photos and paint realistic faces on quilts.

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Episode 14

Patchwork Puzzle Balls

Mon, Jun 27, 2005 30 mins

How to make quilted puzzle balls and block a large quilt on the floor.

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Episode 15

Star's Surrounded

Mon, Jul 11, 2005 30 mins

A look at how wool batts are processed. Also: the history of the antique "Burgoyne Surrounded" quilt, and a 21st-century version.

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Episode 16

Kameleon Quilt

Mon, Jul 18, 2005 30 mins

Norwegian quilter Eldrid Royset Forde shares her system for creating her Kameleon quilts. Also: how to square up embroidery blocks.

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Episode 17

3-D Explosion

Mon, Jul 25, 2005 30 mins

Donna Albert shares her art quilts, which look like paintings. Also: Cara Gulati demonstrates how to create 3-D appliqued quilts.

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Episode 18

Trash to Treasure Quilt Challenge

Mon, Aug 1, 2005 30 mins

Three quilters transform fabric scraps into quilts.

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Episode 19

Get Chopping! Sneaky Piecing Tricks

Mon, Aug 15, 2005 30 mins

Piecing is discussed; and cutting multiple layers of fabric is demonstrated.

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Episode 20

Artist Trading Cards

Mon, Aug 22, 2005 30 mins

"Interior landscape" art quilts are spotlighted. Also: trading miniature quilted art.

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Episode 21

Folk Quilts

Mon, Aug 29, 2005 30 mins

Artist Joan Lockburner Deuel discusses her contemporary quilts. Also: Sue Spargo shows how to use unusual fibers and embellishments in folk-art quilts.

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Episode 22

Design Embroidery Software

Mon, Sep 5, 2005 30 mins

Machine quilter Diane Gaudynski demonstrates ergonomic quilting; quilter Charlotte Warr Andersen shows how to design embroidery embellishments with software.

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Episode 23

The Baby Show

Mon, Sep 12, 2005 30 mins

How to make baby quilts; and throw a quilt-themed baby shower.

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Episode 24

Fusing Fun: Fast, Fearless Art Quilts

30 mins

Pictorial quilts are showcased.

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Episode 25

Dimensional Quilts

Mon, Sep 26, 2005 30 mins

How to make a fabric vase; and a fabric recipe box.

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Episode 26

Diamond Quilts and Beyond

Mon, Oct 3, 2005 30 mins

Quilt artist Ed Johnetta Miller shows off her improvisational quilts; quilt teacher/designer Jan Krentz discusses charm quilts and offers a new method for creating diamond blocks.

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Episode 27

Cosmic Spirals

Mon, Oct 10, 2005 30 mins

Quilts with swirls and spirals are spotlighted. Also: piecing quilt backs is discussed.

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Episode 28

Impressionist Quilts of Japan

Mon, Oct 17, 2005 30 mins

An Oceanside, Cal., exhibition of contemporary quilts; Japanese artist Noriko Endo, who creates naturescapes with a long-arm quilting machine.

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Episode 29

Make It Simpler Rotary Cutting

Mon, Oct 24, 2005 30 mins

Quilter Anita Grossman Solomon shows how to simplify rotary-cutting techniques. Also: how to prepare a quilt to be bound.

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Episode 30

Episode 30

Mon, Oct 31, 2005 30 mins

How to make a family-tree wall hanging.

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Episode 31

Landscape Quilt Challenge

Mon, Nov 7, 2005 30 mins

Quilts inspired by a seascape photo are showcased. Also: the quilters explain the techniques they used.

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Episode 32

Sunflower in a Square

Mon, Nov 14, 2005 30 mins

Three-dimensional art quilts are spotlighted. Also: how to give quilts texture.

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Episode 33

Quilted Duvet

Mon, Nov 21, 2005 30 mins

Transforming a quilt top into a duvet cover.

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Episode 34

3D Art Quilts

Mon, Nov 28, 2005 30 mins

Barbara Barrick McKie shares her realistic still-life quilts. Also: Esterita Austin explains how to use color to create depth in art quilts.

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Episode 35

Winding Ways Quilts

Mon, Dec 12, 2005 30 mins

How to work with curvy pieces on quilts; how to form a mitered joint on binding.

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Episode 36

Piping Adds Pizzazz

Mon, Dec 19, 2005 30 mins

Featured: incorporating fabric tubes into fiber collage quilts. Also: using piping to add sparkle.

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Episode 37

Pieced Curves So Simple

Mon, Dec 26, 2005 30 mins

Featured: quilts inspired by nature, urban and rural surroundings, and science. Also: techniques for machine-piecing circles and curves.

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Episode 38

Egg Money Quilts

Mon, Jan 9, 2006 30 mins

Traditional quilt blocks are featured, including garden-walk blocks, the peony block and the Dresden Plate block. Also: calculating the dimensions of a prairie-point border.

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Episode 39

Tis the Season for Quilting

Mon, Dec 5, 2005 30 mins

A Christmas quilt event in a Wisconsin county is featured. Also: holiday projects, including how to make stockings, calendars and gift boxes.

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