Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting

Dimensional Patchwork Pinwheel

A "gift box" quilt block features a three-dimensional pinwheel as a bow; how to audition free-motion designs using a vinyl cover sheet and dry erase marker; a unique approach to facing a quilt for a clean edge. (30 minutes)

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Thu, 2/13 at 6:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Fabric Strips Beach Bag

Making a beach-style tote bag made from woven cotton strips; interfacing types, installing handles and snaps. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/13 at 12:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Fabric Strips Beach Bag

Making a beach-style tote bag made from woven cotton strips; interfacing types, installing handles and snaps. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/13 at 2:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Fabric Strips Beach Bag

Making a beach-style tote bag made from woven cotton strips; interfacing types, installing handles and snaps. (30 minutes)

Sat, 2/15 at 6:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Wool Applique on a Scalloped Pillow

A bench pillow featuring wool applique with dimensional handwork; building a beehive shape and a few birdhouses; adding some scalloped edges and a lap-backed pillow closure. (30 minutes)

Sat, 2/15 at 9:00 am on Austin PBS Create

A Scrappy Boro Box

Creating a soft-sided boro box, covering it with scrap fabric and creative stitching. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/20 at 6:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Dresden Plates and Partial Seams

A floral quilt with a pinwheel effect; making Dresden plate blades; framing the final blocks with Irish chain blocks in a "controlled scrappy" style. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/20 at 12:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Dresden Plates and Partial Seams

A floral quilt with a pinwheel effect; making Dresden plate blades; framing the final blocks with Irish chain blocks in a "controlled scrappy" style. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/20 at 2:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Dresden Plates and Partial Seams

A floral quilt with a pinwheel effect; making Dresden plate blades; framing the final blocks with Irish chain blocks in a "controlled scrappy" style. (30 minutes)

Sat, 2/22 at 6:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Applique Frayed-Edge Style

A quilt using raw-edge applique features a homespun look that is underscored by three non-traditional fabrics -- flannel, linen and "dobby" wovens -- tacked down with black thread. (30 minutes)

Sat, 2/22 at 9:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Carolina Blooms, Part 1

Switching up the colorway; optimizing triangle square methods; how the pieced setting triangles come together. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/27 at 6:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Piecing With Patriotic Panels

Selecting fabrics to coordinate with a panel; when and how to miter strips; making sawtooth star blocks that can be swapped into almost any design. (30 minutes)

Thu, 2/27 at 12:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Piecing With Patriotic Panels

Selecting fabrics to coordinate with a panel; when and how to miter strips; making sawtooth star blocks that can be swapped into almost any design. (30 minutes)