Program 901 Thread Tapestry Quilting plus Creative Star Quilts

Guest Sue Patten teaches how to create beautiful tapestry flower quilts with free motion on the quilting frame, free motion with your home machine or with hoop embroidery designs. Andrea Bishop demonstrates pieced stars for quilts, table runners and more.

Program 902 Creating Quilts with Printed Blocks plus Flying Geese and Easy Star Piecing

Stitch fabric prints, cheater blocks, and join them with pieced coordinate blocks for creative quilts, wall hangings and pillows with Guest Joyce Drexler. Learn easy star and flying geese techniques with Kimberly Einmo.

Program 903 Demystify Battings and Needles plus Personalized Fabric Postcards

Guest Nancy Goldsworthy demystifies how different types of batting look and feel after quilting and gives guides for needles, threads, and more. Andrea Bishop creates personalized postcards for mailing with the computer, printer and sewing machine.

Program 904 Quilting with Heirloom Techniques plus Needle Felting on Quilts

Learn techniques on your sewing machine including pintucks, hemstitching, insertion, puffing, ruffles, and more to create a beautiful quilt with Guest Patti Jo Larson. Marilyn Deas demonstrates how to mark challenging fabrics and needle felting for quilters.

Program 905 Quilting and Piecing Techniques plus Creative T-Shirt Quilts

Guests Barbara Rezac and Julie Mallory demonstrate appliqué, foundation piecing, outline quilting and trapunto to create a Four Season Wall Hanging. Use quilting software to design one-of-a kind T-shirt quilts with Andrea Bishop.

Program 906 Scrap Happy Projects plus Amish Inspired Quilts

Be inspired to create a variety of projects including a darling quilted tote bag with fabric scraps left over after making a quilt. Guest Carol Ingram shows us how. Andrea Bishop demonstrates how to take Amish style quilt patterns and create a new design by skewing the lines in quilt software.

Program 907 Marvelous Melon Quilts plus Quilting with Decorative Stitches

Guest Elisa Wilson shares quick rotary cutting with templates and how to piece many different beautiful quilts from the same three pieces. Marinda Stewart shows how to use different thread types and colors to add pizzazz with free motion quilting, appliqué and more.

Program 908 Pieced Pillow Techniques plus Fat Cats Tote Bag

See how to use shrinking thread, fusible web, ribbon, laces, and more to stitch an elegant pieced pillow with Guest Marinda Stewart. Kim Einmo demonstrates how to cut with templates to create a unique totebag.

Program 909 Thread and Ink Quilting plus Creating with Log Cabin Blocks

Guest Linda Visnaw teaches how to use fabric inks and free motion stitching to create beautiful textured quilting on whole cloth quilts, table runners and garments. Andrea Bishop shows how quilting software saves time as you design the layout of log cabin quilts.

Program 910 Vest Intentions plus Color Studies

Guest Shelley Hooke brings a variety of vests for inspiration then shows an easy way to cut out vests and how to fussy cut fabrics for design effects. Color Studies with Andrea Bishop demonstrates how to use software to design your quilt, so the values of colors and placement in your quilt give you the quilt you want to make.

Program 911 Crazy Cookie Quilt plus Tips for Quilting with Specialty Threads

Sew a Crazy Cookie Quilt in an afternoon. This easy to piece quilt is a great project for a beginner and fun for all skill levels. See how to make it with Jessica Horner. Nancy Goldsworthy, Jessica and Sue give tips and techniques for working with specialty threads and needles.

Program 912 Crazy Patch Quilting plus Fabric Printer Quick Miniature Quilts

Guest Denise Applegate-Schober demonstrates easy ways to stitch crazy patch quilt blocks and prairie points from old ties, velvets, silks and more. Andrea Bishop shows how to design miniature quilts in quilting software, print on fabric and finish fast and fun tiny quilts.

Program 913 Journal Quilts plus Circle Quilts

Guest Patricia Bolton creates Journal Quilts from a variety of fibers and mediums to show a creative way to capture a special trip or time in your life and more. Andrea Bishop demonstrates how to set circles into your quilt design in quilting software to see it before you sew it.

Uplink start date for Series 900: Sunday, July 1, 2007

Write to your public broadcasting station and ask for America Quilts creatively. America Quilts creatively uplinks to every public broadcasting station in the United States every Sunday 12:30-1:00 p.m. EST via NETA (National Education Telecommunication Association) Schedule 513

America Quilts creatively is available royalty free to all Public Television Stations. The series is in the NETA tape library. For additional information, contact Beachwood Studios 216-292-7300 or KS Inc. 800-348-3909.

A complete set of four DVD’s with all thirteen episodes of “America Quilts creatively” series 900 is available by sending a check for $24.95 including shipping and handling to America Quilts creatively 900, 31000 Viking Parkway, Westlake, OH 44145 – or by calling 1-800-358-0001.

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