Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting

Alongside host Sara Gallegos, Marianne Fons shares two quilts, Town Square and Concentric Circles.

Quilt designer Gina Gempesaw shares an entrancing original quilt block.

Hexagons abound in Parisian Posies, a lovely, small quilt constructed with English paper piecing.

Designer Christina McCourt's Patchy Stars is rich with unexpected techniques, including a strip-set corner that looks mitered, but isn't.

Put your sewing machine through the paces!

A traditional, 8-pointed star design by Debra Finan is the featured quilt on this episode.

Bright, fresh, floral fun!

Guest Mallory Donohue and host Sara Gallegos join forces to teach crazy quilting!

Guest Angela Huffman and host Sara Gallegos focus on the three D's for this longarming episode: Drama, Direction, Diversion.

This series' featured Quilt of Valor is made by Marianne Fons.

An incredibly fun quilting technique, mirror-imaging helps isolate motifs within fabric to fussy-cut into spectacular, kaleidoscopic designs.

The Double Irish Chain is a quintessential quilt pattern, and on this episode, we color it Irish!

A scrap quilt masterpiece inspired by an antique, Waste Not, Want Not is a strip-pieced design by guest Marianne Fons.

Special guest teacher Angela Huffman and host Sara Gallegos teach It Waves Forever, a column-style Quilt of Valor.

Cabins of Carolina combines two heritage quilt blocks to create an ideal canvas for freemotion quilting.

Guest Patti Buhler shares patchwork and pillows that are fit for a princess.

Liz Porter joins us once again on Love of Quilting as a special guest to teach her quilt Friendship Rings, bringing along samples of wonderful alternate quilts from friends.

Pioneer Rose, designed by Jennifer Schifano Thomas, is a favorite quilt at Fons & Porter, in part because there's so much to learn!

Back for a few episodes as special guests, Marianne and Mary Fons teach a special quilt in this episode.

Guest Barb Eikmeier adapts an Orange Peel block in an unexpected way, showing us that old stand-by's can have more to give!

Beloved teacher Angela Huffman joins host Sara Gallegos to teach you what exactly goes into custom longarm quilting.

Marianne and Mary Fons are back on the set as special guests.

Landscape blocks join elongated log cabin blocks to create a fun, quick project.

Marianne and Mary Fons stop back this season as special guests to teach a few fun quilts, including Piecing a Blue Streak, a sassy column quilt from Mary.

Liz Porter stops back to the set of Love of Quilting to share a classic-looking quilt design, Martha Washington's Star.

Starring Sunflowers is a wonderful design for anyone dreaming of summer.

This applique wall hanging is built entirely in the hoop.

Special guest Angela Huffman joins host Sara Gallegos to teach the easy and artistic fusible collage technique.

Returning to "Love of Quilting" for a few special episodes, Marianne and Mary Fons get scrappy with a "classic Fons & Porter" quilt.

The elongated Chain Link pattern is a traditional charmer.

Every longarmer will encounter applique quilts at some point during their quilting journey.

Pieced in the aftermath of 9-11, the quilt top for Angela Huffman's Patriot waited for the right time to be completed.

Designed as a wedding gift for two family friends, the quilt taught on this episode by Marianne and Mary Fons celebrates the joining of two families - separated by 7,047 miles!

This applique wall hanging is as easy as ABC, 123!

Come visit with Marianne and Mary Fons as they join us for a few episodes, this time with an update on a Liz Porter design.

Marsha McCloskey's design combines two quilt blocks, the Ohio Star and the lesser known Ohio Circle.

Sara Gallegos is joined by two guests, Sue Harvey and Sandy Boobar, to teach their darling throw quilt.

Crazy piecing is a fun, scrappy patchwork technique, and you can even create your own "fabric".

Quilts serve as mementos in many ways, from Album quilts to T-shirt quilts, but here's a technique that may be new to you!

Marianne Fons plays with value in the Shoofly blocks, alternating her Triangle-Square placement to create dark-side-in or light-side-in quilt blocks.

Celebrate everyone's different creative styles by building a patchwork neighborhood-row by row-with your quilting friends.

Learn to make jar-shaped blocks for this wall hanging, perfect for novelty prints featuring vegetables or, in this case, butterflies and lightning bugs!

The patchwork V-block is amazingly adaptable. Even though it's made with straight lines, it gives the illusion of circles!

Sometimes, you can only escape to your sewing machine for just a few moments, and those few moments are sometimes just enough.

Quilt block lotto-you could be a winner!

Patterned from a World War II quilt, Star-Spangled Banner incorporates a rare, vintage quilt block called the Hummingbird block.

Sara Gallegos demonstrates how to make a three dimensional quilt block that's actually a secret pocket!

Guest Angela Huffman joins Sara Gallegos to show you an amazing way to practice your freemotion technique on a longarm-panels!

Host Sara Gallegos is joined by Karla Herrin to use the sewing machine to make the normally time-consuming Cathedral Windows design into a quick-and-easy, machine-done table runner.

Sara Gallegos is joined by special guest Angela Huffman to teach the quilt Magic and Illusion.

Angela Huffman and Sara Gallegos join forces to teach a lovely quilt that combines patchwork and applique, angles and curves, and batiks with non-batiks.

Marianne Fons appears as a special guest on this episode that celebrates leftovers, those extra blocks and scraps from previous projects too good to throw away.

A classic, spiraling quilt block, the Snail's Trail block is the star of this show!

Thread-sketching techniques have changed over the years, making it easier and more fun to create unique artwork.

To Y-seam or not to Y-seam? How to construct a LeMoyne Star quilt block can be a matter of choice.

There's more than one way to construct a quilt block.

Quilt blocks flourish in the right setting, and on this episode, Sara Gallegos showcases a ribbon-like lattice that has these quilt blocks blooming!

Light up your quilting with this stunning quilt!

Once you've pieced your patchwork, it's time to quilt!

Bliss and Blossoms is a phenomenal quilt, with a dynamic design made from simple patchwork.

Quilts can preserve memories, but they can also create them.

Fabric choice, color placement, and size adjustment allow any quilt design to bloom in new ways!

On this season's longarming episode, Angela Huffman coaches us through the oh-so-versatile scallop shape.

Home to Kentucky features two traditional quilt blocks, the Log Cabin and the Ohio Star.

On this episode of Love of Quilting, Angela Huffman and Sara Gallegos take direction from dyeing techniques!

On this episode, Angela Huffman explores column quilting-all free motion!

Angela Huffman's Cynthiana is an ode to the Civil War-era masterpieces!

Commemorative T-shirt quilts are a perfect way to preserve memories, and are often the first quilt people want to make.

Guest Carmen Geddes joins Sara Gallegos to teach a simplified Double Wedding Ring pattern-one that is perfect for a baby quilt!

With her usual creative flair, Angela Huffman engineers a complex-looking quilt using streamlined techniques.

Tackle a traditional Pickle Dish quilt-this one sewn in a delicious palette of solids-with the help of Sara Gallegos.

Guest Barbara Eikmeier takes a lovely heirloom quilt block, Cut Glass Dish, and builds it out into a dazzling quilt called Cut Glass Echoes.

This episode features Ribbons of Valor, a quilt that maximizes the stitch-and-flip technique!

The 1930s gave use some cheerfully fresh color palettes that endure to this day.

Guest Carmen Geddes takes the simple Triangle-Square patch and a basic grid, and transforms them into a quilt that blooms!

Forest Jubilee feels like a woodland celebration!

This bright quilt revives-and re-invents-classic patchwork.

Guest Lori Baker joins Sara Gallegos to create a little patchwork magic with Presto!

Snowy Stars, designed by Jo Moury, is a spectacular quilt with some challenging techniques.

Windy Blooms is a summery throw quilt, the perfect project if you're wanting something quick and fun!

As our Quilt of Valor for the series, A Mark of Honor is a special quilt.

Guest Debi Kuennen-Baker has a knack for taking attractive patchwork to whole new dimension!

There's more than one way to make a perfect circle!

Inspired by the barn quilt trails popular across the country, Sara Gallegos designed Barn Dance, a project that serves as a sampler quilt.

Scrappy string-piecing is the way to go when you need 3 college quilts!

Barbara J. Eikmeier used the Prairie Lily quilt block, a classic from the 1890s, in her Block-by Block sampler quilt.

Open up your imagination to swim in the moonlight with mermaids!

The traditional Storm at Sea quilt pattern is a rewarding challenge!

Your sewing machine is capable of so much!

Angela Huffman's elegant quilt combines traditional straight-stitched patchwork with several different approaches to applique.

The Drunkard's Path quilt block is very traditional, and yet looks completely fresh and contemporary.

Debi Kuennen-Baker is featured in this episode to teach a few fun, fresh elements that will have you expanding your quilting boundaries!

Whether you call them "spirit quilts" or "daughter quilts," use up leftover fabrics from a previous project with a simple, quick quilt!

Angela Huffman's quilt Songbird Stars features a single quilt block that creates two stunning star designs.

What are you grateful for? On this episode, Sara Gallegos shows how to make a Thanksgiving wall hanging featuring fusible applique and braided borders.