Quilting Arts TV

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Now in its 7th Season, Quilting Arts celebrates the new look for quilting where art and embellishment meet traditional quilt techniques.  Host Patricia (Pokey) Bolton the editor in chief of Quilting Arts magazine, and her guests teach you a broad array of tricks and techniques for contemporary quilting.  Pokey was introduced to embellished quilting and the related needle arts in 1998, and ever since she took her first stitch (a fly) and embroidered her first motif (a spider), she has been entangled in this hobby and doesn’t envision herself free. Art quilting and mixed-media have, quite literally, taken over her life–so much so that she left her doctoral program and full-time teaching job to found Quilting Arts Magazine®, and later with her husband John, Cloth Paper Scissors® magazine.

Details

LENGTH:  91 x 30 Minutes
FORMAT: How-to Series
CAMERA:  Seasons 1 -4 SD 4:3; Season 5 – 7 available in 16:9 widescreen
INTERNATIONAL TRACK: Yes
TEXTLESS: Yes
CLOSED CAPTIONS: Yes
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2008 – 2010
RELEASE YEAR: 2010
PRODUCER:  KS, Inc. Productions
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA
RIGHTS TERRITORY: Worldwide exclusive of Canada

Series 500 (shot in widescreen 16:9)

In the fifth season of “Quilting Arts TV,” host Pokey Bolton and her guests bring you even more fabulous art quilting designs, techniques, and adventures. In addition to covering contemporary quilt design, free-motion quilting, machine embroidery, thread painting, and fused appliqué, this season we explore the use of photos for inspiration, easy borders, fused landscapes, and eco-friendly quilting.

Embellishment topics include bead embroidery, fabric beads, and metal objects. Surface design techniques include stenciling, resist painting, over-dyeing fabrics, couched fibers, stitch-resist shibori, collagraph-printed fabrics, an ink and aloe vera gel technique, rubbings using oil Paintstiks^®, and even the use of shaving cream.

Projects include a clutch purse, an Ultrasuede® scarf, a fused and stitched table skirt, a frayed-edge patchwork apron, a painted floor cloth, fabric collage books, a bag with interchangeable covers, and a quilted eyeglass case.

Plus, we visit two major art quilt exhibits on location, and we learn about fiber-related travel in Italy and France.

There is something for every art quilter and mixed-media artist, beginning through advanced levels.

Episodes:
501 – Design with Photos
502 – Original Ways to Design Fabrics
503 – Machine Quilting
504 – Inspired by Color
505 – Reinterpreting Traditional Techniques
506 – Incorporating New Materials
507 – On Location
508 – Angles and Lines
509 – Eco-friendly Quilting
510 – Basic Concept, Stunning Results
511 – Contemporary Quilt Showcases
512 – Fun and Easy Printing
513 – Mixed Bag

Series 400

In the fourth season of “Quilting Arts TV,” host Pokey Bolton and her guests bring you even more fabulous art quilting designs and techniques. Explore contemporary quilt design, free-motion quilting, hand and machine embroidery, fused quilts, fabric manipulation (folding, pleating, gathering, and scrunching), graffiti quilting, thread painting, and machine stitching unusual surfaces (such as metal). Also covered are alternative finishes for small quilts, decorative stitching, photocopy transfer, over-dyeing and discharge techniques, fabric trends, and color explorations.

Inspiring projects include fabric portraits, canvas journal quilts, a patchwork tote bag with Project Runway’s Jay McCarroll, fabric paper pillows, a clutch made from recycled materials, a mini self-portrait quilt in an embellished frame, scarves made from quilt scraps, a framed art quilt, and more. There is something for every art quilter and mixed-media artist, beginning through advanced levels.

Episodes:
401 – Transforming the Surface
402 – Inspiration
403 – Technique
404 – All About Trends
405 – Today’s Quilting Arts
406 – Let Your Inner Artist Shine
407 – Interpreting Traditional Concepts
408 – Real World Solutions
409 – Innovative Designers
410 – Wearables
411 – Perfecting Your Skills
412 – Great Tips and Tricks
413 – Small Projects with Big Impact

Series 300

Host Pokey Bolton and her guests teach you techniques and tricks for free-motion stitching, art quilting, fabric stamping and stenciling, fiber collage, stitching with sheers and organzas, and mixed-media home decor. Also covered are art and design concepts, using quilting to raise environmental awareness, how to incorporate stitch into all areas of your life, and more.

Projects include a colorful purse that combines sheer fabrics and free-motion stitching, a table runner, journal quilts, mixed-media collages, creating fabric with paint and vegetable prints, 3-D fabric ornaments, embellishing vintage aprons, and many others. Plus, in this series, we taped on location at the International Quilt Festival/Chicago where we visited with some of our favorite art quilters who shared their tips and techniques for quilting. There is something for every art quilter—beginner or expert.

Episodes:
301 – Fabric Collage
302 – Lifestyle Sewing
303 – Fruits, Veggies, and Flowers
304 – Stitching with Alternate Fabrics
305 – Worldly Inspirations
306 – Home Dec
307 – Digital Designs and More
308 – Retro Designs
309 – Challenges and Personal Style
310 – On the Surface
311 – Color Our World
312 – Inks and Dyes
313 – Stitch This

Series 200

Host Pokey Bolton and her guests explore art and design concepts for creating art quilts, turning your hand-drawn designs into digitized embroidery, embellishment ideas, thread painting, surface design techniques, free-motion stitching, and much more.

Projects include whimsical pet portraits, fabric pillow charms that can be used as jewelry or to enhance your art, and a nine-patch quilt made of painted batting. Techniques include “gyotaku” printing with a rubber fish, how to over-dye fabrics to make original designs, and how to use the right color thread to completely change the appearance of your quilt.Episodes:

201 – Every Picture Tells a Story
202 – Color
203 – Texture
204 – Embellishment
205 – Thread Painting
206 – Fabric and Design
207 – Threads
208 – Green
209 – Photo Images
210 – Graphic Elements
211 – Paints and Dyes
212 – Keep it Simple
213 – Basics

Series 100

Host Pokey Bolton and her guests teach you a broad array of tricks and techniques for contemporary quilting, including how to use digital technology to transfer designs and add text to your quilts, used mixed-media methods to add texture and surface designs, easy ways to create landscapes, and make small quilts using fabric collage techniques.

Projects include a whimsical landscape quilts, creative self-portraits, a baby ensemble and tote, and a wholecloth quiltlet that blossoms with color. Techniques include transforming papers and gift wrap into “fabric” that can be stitched, adding interest with gel pens and markers, and making your own printed fabric with paints, oil sticks, and stencils.

102 – Mixed Media
103 – Embellishments and Encrustations
104 – Landscape Quilts
105 – Free-motion Quilting and Machine Needle Felting
106 – Pictorial Quilts
107 – Quilting Every Day
108 – Photo Fabric Collage
109 – Home Décor
110 – Quilted Collage – Getting Scrappy
111 – Text Messaging
112 – Tools of the Trade
113 – Flower Power

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