Rainbow Geese is a joyful, colorful quilt by Susan Deshensky, presented by Sara Gallegos. The patchwork units include half-square triangles, flying geese units, and split-point flying geese units-all classic techniques for the quilter's toolbox. This quilt can support a wide range of looks, from patriotic to traditional to contemporary, so tune in for this episode of Love of Quilting!

Guest Nancy Bronstein joins Sara Gallegos on the set of Love of Quilting to share a fascinating technique embroidered spiral quilting! Using the sewing machine's embroidery functions and hoop, Nancy showcases this method on the quilt Sara created in the previous episode (Rainbow Geese), showing yet another way to personalize the pattern.

For the 25th anniversary of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, Angela Huffman created a medallion quilt that spans two episodes. In this first episode, applique is the focus, and three methods for creating the appliqued flowers. You'll also learn how to construct the border diamonds and the Jacob's Ladder Block.

On part two of the 25th anniversary quilt, Secret Meadow, Angela presents a faux LeMoyne Star quilt block that comes together with surprising ease. You'll see how to create a floating, medallion-style quilt with lots of open space for quilting, but also introduce some fun patchwork with the cross blocks. Join a 25-year tradition with Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

Binding a quilt is that last finishing step for quilters, and an important one. On this episode, Sara Gallegos invites us to focus on the techniques needed for a successful binding, walking through construction, application, mitering corners, and joining ends. There are also quick tips for bias binding and creating perfect corners for double fold binding.

Explore color theory while creating a quilted pillow! Designed by Kari Matthews, this project gives the effect of transparent layers of color with overlapping diamonds. The diamond-shaped angles are created using mirrored foundations, so we'll brush up on our foundation-piecing skills, and as a bonus, we'll show a little feed-dog quilting using a guide bar.

Sara Gallegos loves a Pickle Dish design, and decided to get "crazy" with it! This episode features two methods for creating crazy pieced fabric, and then how to cut and sew that fabric for the curved patchwork of the quilt block. Next, we'll investigate thread options for the decorative stitching that defines crazy quilting, and hear a few tips for working with heavier threads on your machine.

Guest Gigi Levsen joins Sara Gallegos on this episode to teach Diamond Sparkle, a unique, creative quilt that is both feels both traditional and strikingly modern. Making pieced diamonds requires some unusual techniques, such as cutting strips sets on a new 60-degree diagonal. The settings for these diamonds also require an approach that you may not have encountered before, but the results are worth it!

Let patchwork and nature-inspire your free-motion quilting! Angela Huffman uses the butterfly-shaped blocks in this quilt to guide her quilting choices, including fillers and floral motifs. You'll learn a little digitized quilting, and also hear tips about different backing fabrics that will come in handy!

The patchwork postcards we featured on a previous series of Love of Quilting were so popular, we invited guest Nancy Bronstein to join us and try out a few more designs! These patchwork postcards are a no-pressure place to play with designs and stitches. Learn how to stitch-and-flip in the hoop, adapt a mini-block to be a standard postcard size, and even a special aging technique to give your postcard a vintage look!

This Quilt of Valor designed by Krisanne Watkins features three fabrics and one block, and creates a wonderful optical illusion simply through the quilt block's placement. Banner is a fun quilt to make, using the power of the 45-degree angle combined with strips sets for an amazing design. You'll get the added bonus of a few sweet sawtooth stars to create the patriotic patchwork.

Angela Huffman's fun quilt, Boho Bliss, requires a little strategic color placement to achieve the striking design. She'll share some tricks for keeping organized, sewing the correct number of patchwork pieces for each color, and chain piecing for efficiency. She also shows two methods for aligning seams just so, ensuring a nice alignment where the colors meet.