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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

  • Re-Thinking Patchwork

    Creating from a basic, standard square of quilting fabric; using precisely cut-and-stitched traditional Dresden Plate patchwork in a modern art quilt. (30 minutes)

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  • Applique Two Ways

    Creating captivating narrative quilts; broderie perse, an applique technique that can be used with commercially available fabric or custom appliques. (30 minutes)

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  • Free-Motion Couching

    Working on a domestic sewing machine, showcasing several options for presser feet; methods for preparing a surface as well as fiber possibilities; working on a mid-arm quilting machine, using couching to complement the quilting. (30 minutes)

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  • 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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