What's a season of Quilting Arts without an episode on color-wonderful, transformative, expressive color? In this episode of Quilting Arts, artist Lisa Thorpe explores multiple methods for applying color to stamped designs, blending and building with different tools. Next, artist Brandy Maslowski challenges you to play with value in monochromatic color waves. Put color theory into color practice with this episode of Quilting Arts!

Whet your appetite for applique! Artist Sarah Anne Mattson Spencer presents her technique for Pop Art style pet portraits, from tracing to fusing to sewing. Fabric Artist Sondrasa simplifies complex applique by pre-building layers on a silicone mat, before adhering it to a background. With the techniques featured in this episode, you'll be able to 'apply' your creativity to any type of fusible applique.

New technologies can enable you to tell the story YOU want to tell, and on this episode of Quilting Arts, we embrace those creative opportunities. First, guest Shannon Conley creates 3-dimensional topographical landscapes using a digital cutter. And then guest Kestrel Michaud - who is always exploring the intersections of tech and art - discovered that augmented reality glasses can be a healthier, pain-free solution to quilting woes!

This episode of Quilting Arts presents two different impressionistic takes on the natural world. Vicki Conley's improvisational techniques provide an energy that brings her nature-scapes to life. The backgrounds that Pat Bishop creates are natural, textural, and complex...and still allow the more realistic subject shine. Tap into your own wild, stitching nature!

On this episode of Quilting Arts, we're celebrating surface design! Guest Mel Beach teaches the basics of block printing, from carving the stamps to printing on different substrates. Brandy Maslowski incorporates metallic foil, felting with wool roving, and using thicker machine stitches for a textured look.

The episode begins with David Owen Hastings' lessons for planning your quilting; he uses simple tools like vellum and markers to test layered designs that complement the piecing. In the second segment, Susan Brubaker Knapp presents a more free-form approach using free-motion, also complementing the fabrics and piecing, for a big impact on little quilts. Two different approaches, two different results, two methods worth learning - on this episode of Quilting Arts.

Threads bind us together on this episode of Quilting Arts! Having created quilts with a million stitches, artist Kestrel Michaud has some tried-and-true advice for working with lightweight thread, particularly silk. David M. Taylor is passionate about thread and needles, his lessons provide practical tips on how it all works together. Join us for the joy of a needle pulling thread!

There are all kinds of ways to shake up your creativity, but the best way is by trying something new. Artist Cindy Lohbeck discovered a new technique in dyeing, where the folds allow "glitches" of color to bleed through, creating fascinating intersections of color. Susan Brubaker Knapp shares something new she has been experimenting with - little landscapes. Whether you're working with dye or thread, let this episode of Quilting Arts spark something new in your own art.

Let's get adventurous with paint! Pat Bishop shows how you can create luminous, custom backgrounds by applying acrylic paint to fabric. Fiber Artist Mel Beach makes sun printing accessible! See how she dyes fabrics using pigment, with or without sunshine. Paint a colorful world with this episode of Quilting Arts!

Patchwork tends to have a regular rhythm, unless you get crazy with it! On this episode, we dive into two approaches to crazy quilting! Kimberley Pierce Cartwright has an intuitive approach, incorporating diverse fabrics from satin to gingham to sequins, to create meaningful, entrancing designs. Brandy Maslowski takes a "vintage now" approach to crazy quilting, with linens and decorative machine stitching to bring this bygone artform into the current day.