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Long-time quilter, teacher, and self-confessed "obsessive quilter" Ann Petersen thrives on producing sharp points and perfectly pieced blocks, and loves to share her techniques for piecing success.

In this episode, Ann demonstrates her method for piecing accurate curves with the aid of freezer paper and just five pins! She also reveals her ingenious method for foundation piecing...without the fuss of paper to remove.

Finally, if you suffer from arthritis, you'll appreciate our visit to the home and studio of Bend, OR, artist Sarah Kaufman, who has successfully adapted her quilting methods to cope with this debilitating ailment, and shares her nifty process for making the Folded Log Cabin block.

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Here's a Zoom quilt from a TQS favorite, Mary Buvia.  You'll remember Alex interviewed Mary about her quilting back in December.  Here's Mary's entry for 2013 AQS QuiltWeek - Paducah, Once Upon a Time.

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Join Alex and Ricky on the set with Ann Petersen for Episode 1211: Fresh Techniques for Old Favorites. Ann Petersen thrives on producing sharp points and perfectly pieced blocks, and loves to share her techniques for piecing success.

In this episode, Ann demonstrates her method for piecing accurate curves with the aid of freezer paper and just five pins! She also reveals her ingenious method for foundation piecing...without the fuss of paper to remove.

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Sweet Memories by Dominique Ehrmann from Quebec, will fill you with delight as explore all the little nooks and crannies that make up this "sweet treat" of a quilt direct from AQS Quilt Week in Paducah.

The quilt is Dominique's idea of a whimsical chocolate cake factory.  She calls the center block "extreme trapunto."  She quilted it on her home sewing machine.  The border is paper pieced.

Sweet Memories won Viewer's Choice at the Vermont Quilt Festival in 2012.

To watch a video and learn more about Dominque and her teaching, click here.

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Four Seasons by Leslie Rego took 3rd Place - Large Wall Quilts: Longarm/Midarm Machine Quilted at AQS Paducah.  It measures 90" x 41" and also took home First place, Art Painted Surface at Houston 2012. You can learn more about Leslie's quilts by visiting her website, www.leslierego.com.

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Go around in circles with Libby.

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Straight from AQS Paducah is the beautiful Enchanted Garden by Molly Culp of Waco, TX.  Molly's work is no stranger to Paducah as her 2011 Entry, Autumn Serenade was winner of the APQS Longarm Machine Quilting Award. Enchanted Garden certainly demonstrates her artistry in both machine quilting and applique.

Autumn Serenade

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The "stars are out" at the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch in Gallatin Gateway, MT, as Alex demos some clever - and easy - variations on the traditional Sawtooth Star block, and Ricky shows how to piece his Lone-Star-based Montana Star.

(Cutting directions for the Montana Star will be available on the TQS website.) This "stellar" show also features a visit to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Florentine Blue Thunder shares his amazing Lakota Star quilts and Vi Colombe shows us her stunning Circular Stars.

Can't get more star-studded than that!

Premiers May 6, 2013. Join Now and See the "Stars" for $5 Off.  

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Margo has a great method for paper piecing the stars in the center of the sashing. She also shows you how to piece the stars into the background fabric so that you will not have to applique them.

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Fabulous machine quilting, piecing, and applique can be found in Rainbow Nouveau by Margaret Solomon Gunn, winner of First Place, AQS Lancaster - Bed Quilts, Machine Quilted.

Margaret began sewing 35 years ago and hasn't stopped since.  She makes quilts of all sizes and types, including over 100 quilts for Project Linus.  You can visit her website by clicking here.