Piecing
This episode offers tips and techniques for piecing. Candy Glendening starts with improv piecing, inspired by the designs of the fabric and then cutting up those precious designs and even using the leftovers. Then, Vivien Zepf shows how to expand the use of compositional strip piecing in your art quilt projects. Compositional strip piecing relies on strips cut at angles and then sewn together to create dimension and visual movement.
Episode Duration: 28 minutes and 0 seconds
Episode Number: 2612
Embellish
Learn how to use unique embellishment for your art quilts. Margarita Korioth creates beautiful dimensional accents for art quilts with modeling paste! Then, it s the Summer Flower project, a beautiful wild flowers path, with Ana Sumner. Ana teaches the processes of creating a design, stabilizing fabrics, drawing a path with free motion stitching, and embellishing with silk ribbon and beads. Last, host Susan Brubaker Knapp shows how to make fabric beads from silk sari fabric and perle cotton.
Episode Duration: 28 minutes and 0 seconds
Episode Number: 2611