Meet talented quilt and applique artist, Alice Wilhoit. Follow her as she shows hand applique, crazy patchwork and others.
Follow Alice Wilhoit over this 12 month series and receive: 12 video workshops, live web seminars, forums, beautiful easy to follow electronic pattern packets FREE. In combination with the BOM, you will learn techniques on quilting each block of the month. Along with Alice's monthly block workshop, you will be inspired on how to quilt each block of the month with Linda's fantastic freehand quilting. You will be amazed how this enhances the beauty of Alice's amazing applique work. When the BOM series is completed, Linda's complete workshop will be available to guide you through the steps of quilting the borders and blocks. Forums and web seminars will also be available.
Linda Taylor's quilting of each block is available here.
A continuing series of videos from Eleanor Burn's Block Parties!
Follow Eleanor Burns in one of her latest videos series.
Eleanor Burns sews the seeds of creativity in this stunning applique sampler quilt. Using innovative applique techniques, you will quickly reap a harvest of twelve beautiful blocks that can be arranged in a sampler quilt or turned into imaginative one block projects. From the whimsical Distelfink block to the charming Sweetheart Wreath block, your quilt garden will bloom with an array of flowers, birds, and fruit, reminiscent of the popular turn of the century "album quilts."
Celebrate the season with Eleanor Burns as she hosts her new festive holiday Quilt in a Day® series, "Bringing the Holidays Home." Filled with a collection of colorful projects, each program is designed to warm the hearts and homes of viewers. Following Eleanor's step-by-step and entertaining instructions, folks of all ages can create a wonderful array of gifts and decorations. Patchwork stockings, lacy angels, and whimsical snowmen are just a taste of the delightful projects. In seven project filled programs, Eleanor Burns inspires home crafters to prepare their homes and hearts for holiday cheer.
Join Eleanor Burns and friends for a country celebration! In this seven part video series, old-fashioned pinwheels spinning in the breeze quickly turn into Double Pinwheel quilts. Star gaze some bright Northern Star quilts. Don't miss the ice cream social reminiscent of the good old days, complete with a banana split. Fancy fans and flowers are stitched in a breeze. Round out easy livin' with some prize winning quilts at the country fair.
Return with Eleanor Burns to explore the attic for more quilt ideas. As she shows each pattern, she shares interesting information, historical and personal. Eleanor goes on to apply her modern Quilt in a Day® approach to quilt construction, making the work fast and fun. Each of the items is an inspiration, challenging today's quiltmakers to recreate these traditional designs with Eleanor's contemporary tools and techniques.
The perfect series for every quilter with a treasure of scraps put away for that special quilt. Join Eleanor Burns as she sorts her scraps and organizers her sewing room, then gets down to work creating beautiful quilts out of odds and ends. Enjoy historical blocks made from patterns published in the Kansas City Star during the 1930's, when most quilters used scraps of fabric left after clothes were sewn. Learn the basics of machine quilting to make your quilt a masterpiece! Beginning and experienced quilters alike will enjoy this colorful and educational series.
Come on an exciting treasure hunt with Eleanor Burns as she explores Grandma's Attic. Discover a cache of charming collectibles long since forgotten. Traditional quilt patterns, as popular today as when Grandma was young, will challenge and delight novice and experienced quilters. Marvel as Eleanor recycles forgotten treasures into useful nostalgic articles for today.
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.
Home Pride Quilts celebrates the spirit of America with a collection of starspangled quilts. Eleanor Burns shares her patriotic enthusiasm by showing you how to make projects fi t for any patriot. The Country Flag and Independence Eagle wave high in red, white, and blue! Americana pillows, tablerunners and quilts add splashes of color. Salute this seven part series full of creative ways to show your patriotism!
Eleanor Burns goes back to the country for American fall and winter traditions in this seven-episode holiday Quilt in a Day® series. She decorates her holiday table with handmade gifts and ornaments, makes a basketful of woodsy quilts, then spends a cozy Christmas just like our pioneer ancestors. Join Eleanor as she celebrates winter under the pines.
A collection of various videos by Eleanor Burns that aren't a part of a series.
Join Eleanor as she wanders through the rural countrysides of America, one barn at a time. We're looking for bright-colored wooden quilt blocks mounted to the sides of barns and buildings along highways and country roads in small towns. The blocks, ranging from two to eight square feet, are painted in timeless quilt patterns.This book has been designed to be a sampler quilt. Instructions are for 12" and 6" blocks.
Jump aboard the train for a historical look at quilts from the 1860's and the significant part they played in helping slaves communicate "undercover." We'll gather our "monkey wrench" and hop onto the "wagon wheel," follow the "bears paw" trail through the mountains, and gather safely at the "crossroads." This is an adventure that you won't want to miss.
Join Eleanor and her sons in the land of good and plenty. Begin the journey setting up the ideal sewing center. Then, step back in time as this seven-part video series reveals the history of the highest peaks of "Delectable Mountains." Venture into forbidden gardens of large-scale prints and how they enhance the look of quilt projects. Travel East and stroll through the cobblestone streets into "Boston Commons."
Hari Walner brings us her incredible talent on domestic quitlings, and keeps us entertained with her addorable wit.
At a time when it can be tough to find the money to pay for a private class or travel to a major quilt show to seek out machine quilting classes, this DVD provides the next best thing. Let award winning quilter Kim Brunner show you the important fundamentals of machine quilting. With four Teacher of the Year nominations under her belt, Kim brings her popular humor and experience to the world of in-home DVD classes.
You'll learn how to deal with quilts that have 'issues,' how to make sure the quilt is loaded straight and square and stays that way throughout the quilting process, how to set up your studio and machine in the most efficient way, and more! With techniques that are applicable to any longarm or midarm machine quilting setup, this DVD, dubbed an 'instant classic' in magazine reviews, is suitable for all beginner level stand-up machine quilters
Basic: 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.
Advanced: [AAF] 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!
Grandmother's Garden has stumped many a longarm quilter on how to quilt. Let Linda inspire you with freehand motifs to add to your next quilt!
Along with Shar Jorgenson's amazing quilting series "Inspired By Shar", Linda Taylor takes you through ideas on great ways to quilt each project.
Episodes 1 through 13 of Linda's famous TV Series that first aired on PBS.
Episodes 1 through 13 of the second season of Linda's well known TV Series.
Episodes 1 through 13 of Linda's famous TV Series that aired on PBS before moving to TheQuiltingSchool.com
Creativity and inspiration in longarm quilting continues with the 4th season of Linda V. Taylor's hallmark video series - Linda's Longarm Quilting. You won't want to miss these all new episodes - beginning October 2011!
Sharpen your skills in pattern placement, laser light use, and more!
Follow Linda Taylor over this 12 months as she shows you imaginative ways to add excellent quilting to each block in Alice Wilhoit's Springtime in the Garden monthly workshop.
The Introduction and Sections 1 to 5 of a freehand workshop by Linda V. Taylor for beginning freehand techniques.
Veteran quilt artist and teacher - Shar Jorgenson - does it again with this exclusive and exciting workshop. Now you no longer have to wonder if you have these shows in your area, they are all right here 24/7. Each month a new quilt project is added with full-length videos, and a lot of great quilting fun. All you need is a site membership to enjoy.Watch Linda quilting this amazing quilt here!
Join veteran quilter of 30+ years as she teaches techniques on her older "Quilting from the Heartland" series. Originally aired on PBS, this excellent series provides the foundation you need to master quilting.
Join veteran quilter of 30+ years as she teaches techniques on her newer "Quilting with Shar" series. Originally aired on PBS, this excellent series provides the foundation you need to master quilting.
Follow this 9 lesson workshop to learn the art of digitizing for the Statler Stitcher.
Join Linda Taylor & Todd Fletcher as they guide you through working with computerized quilting patterns in new and interesting ways and adding beautiful freehand techniques in and around the different motifs.
Follow this 9 lesson workshop to learn the basics of using CreativeStudioTM. (Shot with v1.2, but is applicable to all versions.)
For over 10 years, Victoria has been a professional book artist. She currently works as a professor of book arts. Join her in learning some exciting techniques for creating beautiful art that surrounds the books we enjoy!