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Get ready to raid your recycling bags. We prove that quilting can incorporate much more than just fabric. Natalya Aikens challenges us with eco-friendly quilting and new materials to incorporate into your designs. Then, meet Eric Drexler for a luxurious fashion accent featuring ultrasuede.  Next, it’s another fashion accessory with Debbi Crane as she creates a clutch purse in Chicago. Also on location, Nancy Eha discusses beaded embellishments. Finally, check out what you can do with photos and fabric when you print larger than the standard 8 ½ x 11 size with Andrea Bishop.

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First we’ll meet Judy Rush; she describes her technique as simply stitching, then building, then cutting—basic concepts, but with a fascinating result. Then, it’s time to dress up your studio with a quilted table skirt that can be adapted to any color scheme.  Next, we’re back to Chicago with designer Judy Perez.  Not sure how she stumbled on this technique, but it combines ink and aloe vera gel for a unique idea. Finally, Shelly Stokes returns with a new way to stencil.

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First are some of the quilts from Quilt National—one of the most prestigious international showcases for contemporary quilts. Next, we’ll meet Paula Prass for a still-life framed art quilt. Then it’s time for Bonnie McCaffery and a machine-embroidery technique we filmed on location. Finally, meet Amy Milne and learn about the Alliance for American Quilts and how it can help you as a quilter.

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Liz Debellis starts us out with how to make a collagraph printing plate, from which you can create your own printed fabric. Then, meet Michele Muska for ruching and a challenge to try out new tools and trims. Next, it’s time to raid the medicine cabinet for shaving cream and learn a surface design technique from Ginny Eckley. Finally, Andrea Bishop challenges us to get those quilt designs off the computer and onto fabric.

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Susan Brubaker Knapp returns as our first guest.  Her inspiration was a plant from her garden. She starts out with a photo of a coleus leaf and creates a small art quilt using white fabric, textile paint, and thread. Then Jeanne Delpit is inspired by fashion trends to reproduce a bag style that features interchangeable covers. Next, we’re off to a final segment in Chicago for resist painting with Jane Davila. And finally, Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero creates her own fabric using software and an over-dye technique on black and white.