Mark Lipinski interviews Paula Kennedy, president of the huge guild in New York, asking her how to keep quilters involved and other keys to the success of her guild. Quilters from guilds large and small can learn a lot from Paula’s successful strategies.

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Mark Lipinski visits with Rachel Low who, when her career took a turn after caring for her mother, took the leap to her life-long dream of opening a quilt shop, Pins and Needles, in Manhattan. This isn’t just any sewing store; it’s all about community!

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Join Jodie Davis and Mark Lipinski at the American Folk Art Museum where Mark goes on a tour of the incredibly inspiring “Ohh, Shiny!” exhibit with Senior Curator Stacy Hollander that includes quilts and a whole lot more.

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Mark Lipinski and Jodie Davis open the show from a LeTort Glass Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mark brings us up to speed on the Quilt of Valor project and his experience at the pledge special for the cause. Jodie shows off a great new tool, the Triangle Genie.

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Mark Lipinski and Jodie Davis open the show from a glass shop Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Deb Fuller of LeTort Glass makes beautiful fused glass sewing scissor keepers for master applique artist Karen Kay Buckley, who is Mark’s door knock “victim” in this episode.

Merrily Parker has sold many a longarm machine and in doing so helped many longarm quilters start their business. Merrily joins Jodie at Quilt Market to you tips on getting started in your own longarm quilting business. From choosing a machine to setting up your business, this is what you need to know.

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Jodie and Mark open the show from The Finishing Stitch in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. They talk about the trends in quilting today and the interest in modern quilting. But, they conclude that reproduction fabrics and traditional designs will always bump the modern in popularity. Mark shows the scrappy quilt he designed for the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of Love of Quilting magazine featuring blue, cream and white reproduction fabrics from Andover Fabrics.

Jodie visits with Bobbe Benvin who has combined her love of history and quilting to find her niche in the world of antique quilts. What quilting designs were appropriate for that time period? She saw a need, had the expertise and filled the need by writing two books of historic quilting designs.

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The techniques of quilting and rug hooking are both similar and different and we’re finding lots of cross pollination among the various needlecrafts. Because of this quilt shops are selling more wool for both applique and rug hooking. Jodie and Mark show their attempts at rug hooking and talk about Mark’s doorknock, Marion Sachs, who is a master at both rug hooking and quilting. Do you know what a spite rug is? Watch and see. Then at the Quilt Patch in Littlestown, Pennsylvania Jodie does a “how to” demonstration at the Baby Lock sewing machine showing how advanced features of today’s machines make stitching a buttonhole applique stitch a snap. Here’s a hint…pivoting is essential in getting a perfect stitch.

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Jodie and Mark open the show from the Finishing Stitch, a shop located in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, that’s been in business 31 years. Owner Jean Mirizio worked at the shop 18 years before buying it.

In this episode they’ll show how quilting and rug hooking are both similar and different, but both are all about the colors. They spotlight a new notion by Clover. Jodie visits with Merrily Parker of Merrily We Quilt Along for what to look for in a longarm machine. Then Mark’s off for his surprise doorknock.

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Mark and Jodie travel to Pennsylvania and open the show among the quilt displays at the York County Historic Trust. Mark shows off a baby quilt he made and then we travel back to Spring International Quilt Market for Jodie’s meet-up with well-loved designer Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts who shows Jodie a clever technique to give “extra glow” to a traditional Shooting Star block.

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Jodie and Mark open the show from the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, Connecticut and, true to its name, the bookshop sells hickory walking sticks. In their “What’s Up?” Mark reveals his new passion for crochet (see his almost finished afghan) and shows the crochet hook that works for him. Jodie has rediscovered the pleasures of embroidery and its myriad stitches and shows her work in progress using wool felt and wool threads from Aurifil.

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