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Quilting Arts

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.

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Sat, 7/19 at 9:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/22 at 6:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/22 at 12:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/22 at 2:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Sat, 7/26 at 9:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/29 at 6:00 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/29 at 12:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Tue, 7/29 at 2:00 pm America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

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.

Sat, 8/2 at 9:30 am America/Chicago on Austin PBS Create

Color Practice

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