Design from a fresh perspective. Free-motion quilt artist Christina Cameli echo quilts and contrasts curves and lines to create new designs. Art historian and quilter Allison Evans joins modern quilter Heather Grant to discuss charity quilting events. Quilt innovator Jacquie Gering quilts with gentle curves.
Use shapes in new ways. Modern Quilt Guild marketing director Heather Grant discusses the modern quilt aesthetic and modern quilt designs. Blogger Rossie Hutchinson joins quilter Elizabeth Dackson to talk about improv quilt events. Instructor Rebecca Kemp Brent uses the latest cutting and quilting technology to create a confetti star quilt design.
Curved or straight, pieces define the design. Modern quilter Jen Carlton-Bailly uses templates to create contemporary curves. Fiber artist Shelly Gilliland joins Heather Grant with ideas for a quilting Service Day. Textile artist Chawne Kimber’s colorful designs emerge as she pieces and sews a log cabin design with very small strips.
Triangles and wedges are the building blocks of modern quilts. Color enthusiast Rebecca Bryan creates graphic quilt samplers with bold-colored triangles. Quilters Kara Sanders and Elizabeth Dackson talk about organizing quilting retreats that re-fuel creative energy. Designer Christina Cameli uses 10-degree triangles to create versatile blocks for a variety of modern designs.
Modern quilts express personal statements. Quilt artist Chawne Kimber creates raw edge applique quilts focused on social justice. Quilt guild activist Katie Burford and Elizabeth Dackson share ideas for organizing unique quilt shows on a shoe-string budget. Using the latest design and quilting technology, Rebecca Kemp Brent quilts an updated feather design on a whole cloth quilt.
Everything old is new in the hands of the modern quilter. Pattern designer Elizabeth Dackson reinterprets vintage blocks using a modern aesthetic. Brenda Ratliff and Heather Grant trade tips on booking the faculty for quilt events. Modern quilt enthusiast Elizabeth Dackson uses half-square triangles to create dynamic blocks.
Up-end traditional designs for a fresh look. Modern quilt designer Jacquie Gering manipulates the traditional quilting grid to make high-impact designs. Avid quilter Katie Burford shares how to start a modern quilt guild. Engineer and quilter Latifah Saafir creates bold designs with bias tape applique on the surface of quilts.
Build a quilt from the ground up. Textile designer Luana Rubin shares designs inspired by colors of Cuba. Allison Evans discusses concepts for charity sewing with Heather Grant. Pattern maker Rossi Hutchinson creates colorful geometric and organic quilt designs with machine piecing and reverse applique.
Scraps and pieces become beautiful quilts. Scrappy applique artist Shannon Brinkley collages scraps of fabric into whimsical quilted designs. Jacquie Gering and Heather Grant discuss guild scholarship programs. Using small scraps, author and paper piecing expert Elizabeth Dackson shows techniques for foundation paper piecing.
Look at quilting from a fresh new angle. Quilt designer and author Latifah Saafir uses templates and paper piecing to design with half-square triangles. Heather Grant and Elizabeth Dackson give tips for creating a guild demo day. Painter-turned-quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe creates compelling designs with die-cut shapes.
Play with color, contrast and shapes to create modern quilt designs. Color expert Rebecca Bryan pulls complimenting and contrasting fabrics from her stash to inspire her designs. Fabric designer Luana Rubin and Heather Grant share ideas for charity quilts. Using templates and a lot of creative sass, Jen Carlton-Bailly cuts and sews all sorts of curves with stunning results.
The maker’s vision flows through modern quilts. Using a photo, author and teacher Heather breaks the image into components, creates pattern pieces and calculates yardage to create an abstract quilt. Kara Sanders and Elizabeth Dackson talk about building a modern quilting community on line. Shannon Brinkley shares tips for cutting, fusing and stitching applique motifs.
Create it. Then recreate it. Improv quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe precision cuts fabrics and pieces free-form. Quilt blogger, Brenda Ratliff joins Heather Grant with ideas for starting a quilting Round Robin. Designer Heather Jones enlarges a single traditional block into a full-size quilt design. She shows how to handle large pattern pieces and cuts of fabric, too.
In the Season 2 premiere, basic piecing techniques are experimented with. Included: combining piecing with appliqué techniques. Also: Stitching lazy eights; and adding colorful pieced strips to solid blocks.
Creating custom fabric with today's technology. Also: tips for group quilting projects; and using machine embroidery to design and embellish a custom fabric.
Modifying traditional blocks with new colors and placement; using a walking foot to create spirals; and creating quilts with quarter square triangles.
Design principles for improvised quilts. Also: tips for hosting a hand-sewing happy hour; and using thread sketching to add a whimsical touch.
Precisely building quilts with foundation piecing. Also: finishing quilts with multi-colored binding.
Using transparency as a design element. Also: working with a virtual group to make a quilt; combining hand quilting with machine quilting.
An exploration of global fabric trends. Also: grid-based designs using a walking foot and free motion stitches; and appliquéing traditional motifs with a modern twist.
Celebrate the creatures of the land and sea. Whimsical quilt artist Samarra Khaja combines colorful shapes to create cute fish faces. Karen Womack shares tips on leading a local quilt guild. Blogger and designer Violet Craft sews a regal lion using English paper piecing.
Piecing embroidered fabric along with solids. Also: stitching topographical spirals; carving custom blocks and printing custom fabric.
Fussy cutting paper piecing motifs. Also: stitching free motion motifs using rulers; making large scale designs with foundation piecing.
Making mixed media appliqué with die cut shapes. Also: tips on promoting your guild through local media; and mixing rulers with free motion stitches.
Designing with negative space. Also: cutting, piecing and sewing curves without a ruler.
In the Season 2 finale, traditional designs are deconstructed for new motifs. Also: tips for making arcs in free-motion quilting; and free-form appliqué techniques for bouquet quilts.
This episode of Fresh Quilting features blocks—the most basic of quilt techniques. First up is Ebony Love using negative space in nontraditional quilt blocks. Then, Lee Chappell Monroe shares her basic techniques for attaching blocks together. Finally, Eliane Bergmann shows us how to create panels with scraps using a quilt-as-you-go method and then turn those panels into coasters, pouches, and more.
In this episode of Fresh Quilting, we put things together with piecing techniques. Up first is Catherine Cureton to show us how to strip-piece to save time. Simply cut and sew strips together, then subcut before assembling into blocks. Next, we meet Laura Hartrich and learn pieced modern letters. Make a whole alphabet with just 3 blocks! Finally, Eliane Bergmann is back with walking foot curves in today’s machine segment.
Sometimes as quilters, we struggle to throw out even the tiniest scrap of fabric! In this episode of Fresh Quilting, learn how to utilize those scraps in modern quilts. First, Rossie Hutchinson combines scraps and fat quarters for a multitude of options we can use to create our own unique modern quilt. Then, appliqué meets patchwork with Ginny Robinson. Usually appliqué blocks are stitched down onto a background, but Ginny explores letting the appliqué run into the seams, resulting in endless opportunities for new shapes and contrasts. We finish up the episode with machine tips from Eliane Bergmann and her fussy-cut binding technique. Spruce up your binding and eliminate the pesky problem of running short of binding by adding in a cute fussy cut motif.
Quilt blocks are the true building blocks of modern quilting. In episode 304 of Fresh Quilting, Brenda Ratliffe is our first guest with a lesson on mixing and using string blocks, a popular technique that creates endless variations. Next, Rossie Hutchinson is back to give the traditional log cabin block a modern update. Finally, learn about using decorative stitches on your quilts with Eliane Bergmann and this episode’s machine tip.
One of the hallmarks of modern quilting is the creative use of negative space. We begin this episode of Fresh Quilting with Audrey Esarey and her thoughts on how to use negative space to highlight motifs. Then, Ebony Love returns for a lesson on partial seams – once you learn this technique you will be surprised just how much you use it! Lastly, our machine tip with Eliane Bergmann is chain piecing: you can chain piece an entire quilt, really!
Think small in episode 306 of Fresh Quilting as we look at the bits and pieces that make up modern quilting. Laura Hartrich is first up with quilt label tips. Labels are an integral part of every quilt and Laura has three methods for creating them. Then, Audrey Esarey is back with paper piecing – the modern way. Finally, it’s all about stitch lengths with Eliane Bergmann on our machine tip, plus a bonus tip on victory laps.
The world of modern quilting is wide open. The many ways to interpret designs and styles can be overwhelming. In episode 307 of Fresh Quilting, we impose our own limits to help narrow down design choices. Ebony Love shares tips to limit the palette when placing color. Next, Catherine Cureton shares a great pieced appliqué technique that her guild mate Rebecca Roach taught her in the development of the Flight School pattern. It leaves no raw edges and uses a sewing machine – it’s a fun new technique to add to your modern quilt arsenal! Last up is a lesson on seams with Eliane Bergmann. Learn how to make the perfect ¼” seam and how to stitch a partial seam.
We invite you to broaden your thought process and learn to take a fresh look at quilting with some creative thinking in this episode of Fresh Quilting. Ginny Robinson kicks things off with modern quilts that are inspired by other crafts. Whether the goal is to translate a silhouette, a pattern design, or a texture, designing with an eye for other crafts can give you a new outlook. Next, Rossi Hutchinson uses creative thinking to put together improv quilts utilizing a design wall. Then, Anne Sullivan has another improv technique using strip piecing. And we end with a lesson from Eliane Bergmann on how to save money by using up leftover batter, a technique commonly known as “franken-batting.”
In episode 309 of Fresh Quilting, we learn some techniques that can help us keep things under control. Catherine Cureton is first to illustrate that idea with controlled scrappy quilting. She has a new method for sorting fabrics that allows for stress-free scrappy quilting. Then, Audrey Esarey guides us through some simple tips for keeping stitching under control when sewing curves. We end this episode with tips for walking-foot quilting from Eliane Bergmann.
Theories usually have a basis in some traditional thought process. In this episode of Fresh Quilting, we look at a few common theories and how to use them in our modern quilting. First, join Steph Skardal as she walks us through color theory. She begins with the color wheel then talks history and color schemes using basic color theory. Next, we explore a completely different theory on pressing as Lee Monroe helps us use pressing to create a professional finish. We finish up with today’s tip when Eliane Bergman shares various ways to mark on fabric.
Traditional and modern are not mutually exclusive terms in the quilting world as modern quilting is rooted in traditional techniques that have been interpreted in new and different ways. Brenda Ratliff explores how to take a traditional design and update it to create a fresh modern look. Then, Ginny Robinson shares a modern take on a traditional memory quilt featuring raw edge appliqué. We end with our machine tips featuring Eliane Bergmann and three binding tips for a professional finish on your modern quilt.
Explore your inner child and let them out as we have playtime in this episode of Fresh Quilting. We begin as Steph Skardal encourages us to play with color by starting with paper before adding fabric into the mix. Then, Catherine Cureton plays around with a mini quilt and shows us how to turn it into a functional pillow. Finally, Eliane Bergmann answers common questions about presser feet including “when do you raise and when do you lower?” and “what is that knob on your machine?”
In this episode of Fresh Quilting, we explore intentional quilting. Laura Hartrich kicks things off with her annual intentions quilt which can lend a more cerebral thought process to quilting. Then, we talk with Lee Monroe about the importance of scant ¼” seams. They do make a difference! Finally, it’s our last machine tip with Eliane Bergmann as she shares a different way to quilt your quilt – tacking. Tacking stitches can be a modern alternative to the yarn ties of the past.