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Quilting Arts

Description

Host Susan Brubaker Knapp provides innovative tips and stitching techniques for making one-of-a-kind art quilts. Offering something for everyone, "Quilting Arts" explores art and design concepts for quilts which include surface design techniques, fabric collage and quilted home decor. Episodes include short features that relate to the show's theme and weekly digital segments. Some projects include hand-painting fabrics with silk screening paints, fabric marbling using stencils, and frameless screen printing.

Upcoming Episodes

  • Dynamic Dimension

    Dimensional fabric tabs; using traditional smocking in non-traditional ways. (30 minutes)

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  • Color Practice

    Exploring multiple methods for applying color to stamped designs, blending and building with different tools; playing with value in monochromatic color waves. (30 minutes)

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  • Traditions of Texture

    Sekka shibori; dyeing to create collisions of color; tufting involves layering yarns over a template. (30 minutes)

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  • Inspired by Nature

    Geode quilt designs using foundation piecing; using ombre fabric and foundation piecing to create skyscapes. (30 minutes)

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  • Layers

    Adding depth and dimension by building quilted compositions one layer at a time; adding elements from background to foreground, stitching each layer before adding the next; creating pieced strata from short strips. (30 minutes)

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  • Construction Contrasts

    A turned-edge machine piecing technique that is not applique; raw edge applique. (30 minutes)

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