Authors and Applique Artists Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins, owners of ""Piece O' Cake Designs,"" tell about their designs. Next, they explain their North Pole Bakery Block and give helpful hints. Finally, Alex shares some gift ideas for the quilter you love.
An easier way to create a mariner's compass quilt.
Author Donna Lynn Thomas demonstrates bias strips.
A flag quilt; tea-dyeing quilting material; the house block.
Pattern trends; creating fabric lines; background fabrics.
Fashioning a quilt with a special heart design for Valentine's Day.
The folding design technique called shibori is examined.
Making a bow tie quilt out of ties and fabric; pillows made from ties.
Adding finishing touches to quilts; prairie points border; shark's teeth border.
Star of Bethlehem design.
Barbara Brackman explains the calico flag and demonstrates the strip technique.
Pickles and petals quilt.
Table runner; Christmas tree designs; stockings; cranberries.
Caring for quilts; wholecloth quilts.
og cabin blocks; stockings.
Halloween Wall Hangings and Trick-or-Treat Bags.
Village quilt.
The history and impact of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Quilts for ill children; baby quilts.
Mother-child quilt classes; safety measures for children in quilt classes; how to get boys interested in quilting.
Train Quilt.
Gingerbread house quilt with Diana McClun
Runner, stocking, cranberries and Christmas trees with Lynette Jensens.
How one triangle unit of fabric leads to several different quilt blocks; Flying Geese block.
How to design quilts inspired by nature; creating a leaf outline.
How to make "Remembrance Rose" quilts with French fabrics; how to make inscriptions.
Quilts from around the world at a Pasadena, Calif. exhibit; French block.
Quiltmaker and fiddle player discusses similarities between the two; garden quilt.
Tortilla Quilt Book; how to make and piece the quilt blocks, add the border and quilt the layers.
The Fairfield Fashion Show; history of folk dress; how to make quilted fashions.
History and uses of Native American quilting; quilt patterns; Seminole patchwork quilts.
Quilters share fellowship; how to make a quilted pillow.
How to make a clamshell quilt; hand-stitched and machine "invisible stitch" appliques.
Internet advantages for quilters; fabric printing; quilt designing; cyber quilting.
Magic base block; Canadian star pattern.
Actress Tricia Cast shows the crazy quilt she made for fellow "The Young and the Restless" actress Lauralee Bell.
Hybrid block "Hot Cross Bun" by Mary Ellen Hopkins.
Bow-tie quilt; tie pillows; the grandmother's fan.
Male quilter; floral needle-turned applique; having a quilt serialized in a national quilting magazine.
Deidre Scherer discusses images on fabric; the importance of drawing and translating to fabric.
Faye Anderson tours her home and studio.
California quilters who make quilts for children of broken homes; how to make an angel quilt.
Making a stash quilt from various fabrics; how to group different fabrics.
Celebrating Hanukkah with quilted objects; a "Happy Hanukkah" quilt.
Making a double pinwheel quilt with the strip piecing technique.
Officer Pam Munns, California Highway Patrol.
International Quilt Market in Houston; a Japanese sashiko stitched tote bag.
Quilting with treadle sewing machines; foundation piecing with newsprint.
Karen Stone shares her technique for making the New York Beauty block.
Women dedicated to preserving U.S. quilt heritage; broderie perse.
Machine quilting quilt tops; tips for marking quilts.
Pioneer quilter Carrie Hall's historic blocks; how to make templates.
Tools used to make quilts, from the antique to the modern; memory book; Victorian pin cushion.
Carol Armstrong demonstrates designing applique flowers using a light box.
Tumbling blocks pattern; the benefits of paper piecing; assembling rows efficiently.
Maverick quilts that don't fit a category; the Louisa May Alcott block.
Techniques from two mirror images of the same block; the importance of a design wall.
Mini quilts of the months that can be used as banners.
History of the triangle-shaped pine tree block.
Houston Quilt Show (for children in need). Six-hour loving quilt with Kaye Wood.
Tahitian design applique quilts with Didi McElroy.
With Barbara Garrette.
Hidden in plain view with Jacqueline Tobin. Crossroads block with Serena Wilson.
With Patricia Cambell Dianna McClun.
With Debbie Caffrey.
With Cindy Walter.
Impressionist quilts of Japan. Japanese Shahiko with indigo blue fabrics with Gaye Sunada.
Quilt-colored home with Freddy Moran.
Shooting star quilt with Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins.
With Eileen Trestain
With Pati Shanbaugh.
With Ellen Anne Eddy.
With Anita Shackleford.
With Jodie San Chirico.
Quilt Novelist – Earlene Fowler; Goose and Pond Block – Nillie Lauder.
With Linda Long
Folk Art Christmas Quilt.
African American community quilt guild making quilts for babies. Using old clothes in quilts with Billie Lauder.
Teaching schoolchildren to quilt with Kelly Gallagher Abbott.
With Dina Pappas.
Holiday Applique Embellishments (Santa Block) with Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins.
With Linda Milligan and Nancy Smith.
La Conner Museum. Piecing-expending with Ruth McDowell.
Borders With Paulette Peters.
The geometry of quilting. A new twist on triangles with Mary Sue Suit.
Silk screen printing with freezer paper with Jean Ray Laury.
Two sets of twin sisters appear on the show to show their techniques for using flowers in quilts.
Bosnian refugees’ quilts. Colors from the heart with Gai Perry.
With Shannon Reed Williams.
South American callalily with Marie Morel-Seroski.
With Joe Cunningham
With Jackie Robinson
Portrait quit techniques.
Preserving Quilts with Nancy Kirk, Quilt Appraiser; Scaling Down Quilts; String Piecing
Quiltin’ Anonymous, Seattle, WA; Quick Simple Blocks – Billie Lauder.
Pacific Northwest quilter Joan Colvin.
Mother/daughter quilters Jean and Valorie Wells and their crazy quilted roses.
Tea Party Quilt with Marinda Stewart. Mother and daughter question.
Fractal quilts with Rose Rushbrooke. Twenty-four tile quilt design method with Raymond Houston.
One-week quilt course in artist Judith Trager’s home. Personalized Patterns with June Colburn.