Crazy Patchwork - learn a fun technique and how to embellish with all those embellishments you have been saving

Alice is a well known quilter and teacher in the Texas area.  Come and get to know her so you too can learn the most amazing quilting techniques from this award winning quilter.

Travel along the journey in making this beautiful quilt.  Enjoy applique techniques, embroidery and inspiring  patterns as you follow Alice in making an truly inspiring quilt!

The Amish are noted for their simple quilt patterns and rich color combination. Quilt in a Day simplifies the versatile "Roman Stripe" pattern with strip sewing and quick cutting of the blocks. Full color photographs provide examples of many pattern variations. With the unique "quick turn" method of finishing, you can make a baby quilt in a single morning!

Length 26 min

Join Eleanor as she demonstrates finishing techniques, offering different settings and alternative methods of machine quilting.
Length: 126 min

Both large and small "ruched" flowers fill this enchanting basket. Follow along with Eleanor as she details the step by step process of creating this block.
Length: 101 min

Dogwood and tulips adorn this block which uses the colonial knots to decorate and the chain stitch to outline the vines that tie this delightful block together.
Length: 101 min

A traditional block in "album style" quilts, the Ohio Rose, Sweetheart Wreath, Distlefinch and Evening Blooms are great beginner blocks to learn Eleanor's innovative applique technique.
Length: 107 min

Add a touch of Applique to enhance your quilts. Fusible interfacing will help you turn the edges nice and smooth. Tips that will help you create beautiful applique.

Length 26 min

Eleanor has her day in Court convincing you just how versatile this traditional quilt pattern is by showing endless possible combinations of colors and values. She goes on to show how easily all the blocks are constructed by a single series of steps.

Length 51 min

Flying Geese heading north for the summer represented slaves heading north as well. They were directed to follow the geese, and stop at the same waterways for rest and water. Follow Eleanor as she flies through a quick way of making four geese from two squares!
Length: 28 min

In the late 1920's and 30's, Florence LaGanke Harris wrote a quilt column called the Nancy Page Club for syndicated newspapers around the country. Each week a new pattern appeared, along with a quaint story about the ladies that read like minutes from a quilt guild meeting. Eleanor Burns located the original Nancy Page Club clippings from Grandmother's Garden Quilt, which appeared in the Nashville Banner in 1928. This series centers on the construction of this charming old-fashioned quilt of baskets filled with appliqued flowers. Historical women from this time period are also featured.
Length: 52 min

Join Eleanor waving the red, white and blue with this patriotic flag wallhanging. Honor our country with extra touches of an embroidered eagle and patriotic slogans. Celebrate as a Fourth of July parade winds its way through the streets of Julian, California.
Length: 25 min

Remember your first warm quilt or blanket. Relive your childhood memories as Eleanor gives historical meaning to the old quilt designs you grew up with.
Length: 25 min

Eleanor shows you how to turn old-fashioned solid colored squares into a charming basket wallhanging.
Length: 25 min

Delectable Mountains was given its name by Colonial quilters to memorialize John Bunyan's allegory, "The Pilgrim's Progress". Eleanor demonstrates a strip technique of slicing rectangles into peaks then sewing them back together to form mountain and sky blocks. Climb to new heights with a pieced or appliqued epi-center! Then, scale down the mountain as Eleanor reveals how to miniaturize the Delectable Mountain quilt.
Length: 1hr 15 min

Sons Grant and Orion help Eleanor set up an ergonomic sewing center and design wall for optimum efficiency.
Length: 26 min

Double Pinwheel introduces an easy strip method for making pinwheel blocks with no squaring up or trimming necessary as long as seam allowances and strips are kept consistent. Instructions are provided for 7" and 11" blocks. Mirror blocks are created automatically in this method. Use the extra blocks in your border or create a second quilt that echos your color scheme. Instructions also include a great bonus project for extra four patches created from your strips. You will love the simplicity of Eleanor's techniques for this treasured, traditional pattern.
Length: 53 min

Using Wendy Gilbert's machine applique techniques, everyone can make the well-loved Dresden Plate. Her secrets will have you speed cutting and assembly-line sewing the plates in no time at all! Follow the beautifully illustrated step-by-step instructions to machine applique the plates onto blocks. The strip pieced lattice and borders are united with nine-patches. This book contains quilt sizes from baby to king.
Length: 41 min

Ruby McKim, writer for the Kansas City Star in the early 1930's, created this "art deco" tulip pattern. Eleanor shows how to serge it up from strips.

Length 51 min

Eleanor shows how to dress up the neigborhood buffet table with a patriotic fan tablerunner for an all-American neighborhood potluck. Celebrate the spirit of fans, food, family, and friendship. Eleanor appliques whimsical butterflies in nostalgic prints to a solid background, and adds final flourish with a charming scallop border.
Length: 51 min

Flying Geese heading north for the summer represented slaves heading north as well. They were directed to follow the geese, and stop at the same waterways for rest and water. Follow Eleanor as she flies through a quick way of making four geese from two squares!
Length: 60 min

A traditional beauty! Wendy Gilbert joins Eleanor with an exciting new variation on the Irish Chain.
Eleanor and Wendy finish their quilt with a wonderful scrap border treatment.

Inspired by the all-American pastime of gardening, Eleanor shows how to sew strips together and cultivate them with fabric flowers abloom with color.
Length: 27 min

Join Eleanor and her sister Patty and explore additional projects in the Grandmothers Garden book. Patty's Flower Pot Wallhanging, Salvage Sally baskets, Simple baskets, and French Bouquet Wallhanging from left over scraps. Create a button necklace and Yo-Yo pansy pin to accessorize your wardrobe.
Length: 1hr 41 min

Non-caloric fun! Eleanor and guest Sue Bouchard tempt you with ice cream flavored fabrics, and show how to applique them atop waffle cones. A visit to Julian's ice cream parlor tops it off! Create a fun Ice Cream Cone Quilt or a special Happy Birthday Quilt for your loved ones.
Length: 51 min

Eleanor teaches the styles of Log Cabin and shows you the quick way to cut and stick those blocks!
Length: 53 min

Make a beautiful Morning Star Wall Hanging with simple Quilt in a Day methods. Learn the trick to sewing together pieced triangles before the fabric has been cut.

Eleanor and guest Sue Bouchard take Flying Geese patches to new heights. See how to sew different sizes of squares together for a quilt that sparkles!
Length: 26 min

Join Eleanor Burns as she guides you through her techniques to re-create the flavor of the 1930's

Join Eleanor as she pays tribute to the Pioneer Women as the move there families across the west.

Join Eleanor as she pays tribute to the Pioneer Women as the move there families across the west.

Join Eleanor as she pays tribute to the Pioneer Women as the move there families across the west.

Join Eleanor as she pays tribute to the Pioneer Women as the move there families across the west.

Join Eleanor Burns as she guides you through her techniques to re-create the flavor of the 1930's.  Easy flying geese technique.

Another Egg Money Quilt - Follow Eleanor as she teaches you the Rose Bud Block using half square triangles in this sampler block

Celebrate the spirit of America with these country red and white patriotic table runners, a watermelon wallhanging, and star spangled porch pillows. Eleanor shows how to set the stage for country comfort, lazy lounging, and long conversations.
Yellow stars and stripes rally around a high fl ying red and blue proud eagle on Independence Square.

Length: 50 min

Eleanor brings new meaning to applique when she introduces Sunbonnet Sue and Suspender Sam, those time honored youths who have kept their charm for nearly one hundred years.
The blocks are done! As in a snapshot, the children are captured in their playful poses and ready to be called together into a quilt top.  Length 43 min

Length: 26min

Eleanor embellishes a paper pieced festive valentine with silk ribbon embroidery by machine.
Length: 27 min

Eleanor uses tropical fabric to make tropical fish.  The fish are simple squares, triangles and 1/2 square triangles! Buttons for eyes and beads for bubbles.  Length: 26min

Eleanor chops up fabric and strips it into a tall tree block with appliqued Cardinals perched in branches.
Length: 26 min

At Winter’s end, the Morning Star rises with perky flying geese points and fussy cut centers.

Length: 26 min

Eleanor salutes America with appliqued blocks of peaks and crowns made with fusible interfacing.

Make a charming scrappy quilt for cool fall evening from bits and pieces just too good to throw out. Length: 26min

Stroll along with Eleanor as she strip pieces chain blocks and sets them together with large floral prints.

Give thanks for techniques in this easy Horn of Plenty filled with leaves, sunflowers, and squash.

Eleanor is refreshing with her repeat blocks in fresh checks and flying geese chevrons.

Learn tips and techniques on how to turn those tops into beautiful works of dimensional artwork.

Quick as a bug, Eleanor sews triangles to strips and squares them to a perfect size using fat quarters. Length: 26 min

Take a nostalgic look at Town Square blooming in spring pastels, or a chilling winter palette. Eleanor builds the foundation with easy strip sewing for Edna's Pinwheel and Four Patch Blocks.

Continue with Eleanor and her great techniques.

Eleanor's latest techniques with complete, quick cutting and fast piecing methods.

Eleanor's latest techniques with complete, quick cutting and fast piecing methods.

Enjoy a glimpse of the past as she shares facets of rural life and the joy of the resilient women who made beautiful quilts from scraps.

Take a trip on the Underground Railroad! Join Eleanor Burns and Sue Bouchard as they guide you through the story of the Underground Railroad. Learn how fifteen quilt blocks may have played a significant role in communication between the slaves and how it helped them on their way to freedom. Length: 50 min

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Eleanor takes a break from her sewing machine to give you a historical look at creative women and their quilts from the early part of this century. Learn about influential designers such as Marie Webster, Ruby Mckim, and Anne Orr. Discover the history of the adorable faceless moppet Sunbonnet Sue.
Hot off the press- Quilt patterns! Join the Nancy Page club with Florence La Ganke. Find out who really created the pattern that contributed to the famous quilter Grandma Dexter. Length: 51 min

Watch Hari as she shows you how beautiful the Echo Quilting technique is done on your home sewing machine.  Length: 10 min

Here is another great technique for backgrounds on your home sewing machine!  Who knew how easy it would be to free motion quilt with this great technique! Length: 12 min

Learn the basics of free motion quilting on your home machine.  Hari was one of the first to master these great techniques!  Length: 43 min

Stippling has some rules!  Hari explains stippling and demonstrates using them on your home machine.  Length: 7 min

How best to use stippling around motifs?  Let Hari show you! Length: 17 min

How do you accomplish straight line on your home machine?  Hari explains and shows you what foot to use.  Length: 5 min

Hari "wrote the book" on Trapunto technique, literally.  Watch as she shows you this wonderful way to do trapunto on your home machine.  Length: 38 min

Need some good pointers on how to set up stippling?  Let Hari show you! Length: 24 min

Length: 14 min

Watch as Irena shares her great background ideas.  She has developed some fantastic techniques and now you can learn then too!

Length: 28 min

As an award winning quilter, Irena has developed some beautiful feather.  Come join her as she shares these techniques with you!  Length: 30 min

Now see great instructions for using your Design Center and applying them to quilts!!
Length: 11 min

Join Irena as she shows you how to embellish your quilts that you have used your workstation on. 
Length: 15 min

Feathers, feathers and more feathers.  Each quilt artist has many techniques and Irena has won many awards using hers.  Come join Irena as she demonstrates her feathers.  Length: 28 min

Getting bored with your meandering techniques?  Linda shows you how to catch the rhythm of quilting a lone star with only one start and stop; many more stippling and meandering patterns (including the "Texas Tornado"); a peacock fern medallion; additional freehand sashing ideas; and sensational  ideas from some of Linda's show quilts and book!. If she can do it, you can do it!

The class expands your library of meandering and stippling techniques. Linda shows you how to fill up the sashing with easy basic designs, give you a good basic understanding of how to quilt a feathered medallion and demonstrate basic freehand feathers, ferns, and leaves.  Not only will she explain how and demonstrate each of the techniques, but show many examples where the techniques can be effectively used on quilts.

 This is the most wonderful class to get you started on freehand quilting.
Here you will learn:

• 16 different background fill-in techniques
• 4-6 freehand sashing techniques
• A variety of feathers, ferns, and hearts
• Feather Medallion

Grandma's Garden has stumped many a longarm quilter on how to quilt.  Let Linda show inspire you with freehand motifs to add to your next quilt!

Linda Jenkins and Becky discuss being partners.  Tip: Things you should know about starting a business.  Then Linda shows you how to quilt a wholecloth using a pantograph.

Pam shows how to set designs using stencils.  Tip: Design ideas.  Where to get them and how to place them.  Linda show trapunto freehand feather.

Michelle shows you how to incorporate painting in your quilting.  Tip: Professional quilter and patterns.  Linda teaches faux trapunto and air brushing.

Laura discusses using specialty threads.  Tip: Preparing the quilt top.  Linda show freehand feathers.

Carol shows her "A Touch of Yellow" and demonstrates her technique.  Tip: advertising.  Linda quilts an Irish Chain showing how to use the Gam Guide, place freehand and use patterns.

How quilters and piecers can partner.  Cheri and Linda discuss their partnership.  Tip: Good partnering.  Linda shows how to quilt around applique and setting designs. Using contrasting thread.

Award winning Gina Perkes shows her quilts and award winning wearables!  Tip: Work at home and stay professional.  Linda demonstrates making a chenille vest.  "Bobbin Case Maintenance" by Rick Taylor

Sue Patton shows her quilts and demonstrates thread painting.  Tip: What to charge for quilting.  Linda shows reverse applique.

Hari teaches her famous Trapunto.  Tip: Copyrights. Linda quilts "Cabin by the Lake"-ideas for flying geese and inside, outside and around stars.

Good Gadgets

Learning to bind and when to bind.

Learning feather techniques with Linda.

Lone Star Quilt designs.

"Lone Star"

"Hearts"

"Stars"

"Sun Bonnet Sue"

"Four Sisters"

"Variable Hunter Star"

"Safari!"

"Freehand Feathers"

"Squares"

"Bargello"

"Embroidery"

"Antique Quilts"

"Shadow and Reverse Trapunto"

"Holiday Quilts"

"Little House Of Quilts"

"Garments & "I Spy" Baby Quilt"

"Thread Art & Lodge Quilt"

Piece & Quilt a "One step" table-runner on a longarm.

Sharon shows her quilts (Flower of Life shown here later won best of show), shows her technique to make her quilts more stable and shows Formal Feathers without marking.  Tip: Quilt finishing.  Linda shows an embroidered look with the longarm and enhancing with freehand.

Computerized quilting -learn how to make sashings and pillows.  Tip-Fixing oops.  Linda shows how to enhance computerized quilting with your own freehand

Join Linda McCuen as she shares how she won the 100,000 quilt contest with Bella.  Discusses tips for entering and winning. Tip: Ins and outs of bobbin cases  Linda shows freehand techniques for medallions and borders on the "Broken Star".