Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting

Since 1999, Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting has promoted the spirit of traditional quilt making with tried-and-true patterns, insider tips, and time-saving tutorials. Master the basics of making your first quilt or gain inspiration for your hundredth.

FROM MARIANNE & LIZ

Love of Quilting

SHOP HOP • Look for these products at your local quilt shop!

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SEW & TELL • Readers and viewers share their creativity!

Morning Glory • There’s something very compelling about Nancy Mahoney’s clean, crisp quilt made up in green and purple prints set against a white background. Don’t let the appliqué scare you off—it’s all fusible, so all you have to do is press and sew.

Quick Triangle-Squares • The Fons & Porter Quarter Inch Seam Marker offers a neat way to mark accurate sewing lines for this method.

Semaphoric • Inspired by a collection of vintage orphan blocks found at a festival, Marianne designed a simple setting for them… And then made two more quilts! For the original orphan block quilt and a batik variation, see pages 24 and 25.

Quick Hourglass Unit • Try our quick and easy method to make hourglass units without cutting triangles. The Fons & Porter Quarter Inch Seam Marker helps you draw stitching lines quickly.

Star Bright • If you love beautiful floral borders, Jackie Robinson has designed both the fabric and this quilt for you! The Star blocks feature hydrangeas in their centers to tie it all together.

Using Tri-Recs™ Tools • These triangle units were nicknamed “Peaky and Spike“ by quilter Doreen Speckmann, who used these units extensively in her quilts. The larger, central triangle is “Spike, “ and the two smaller, side triangles are “Peaky. “ Follow our instructions to use the Tri-Recs™ tools to make cutting and piecing these units a snap.

Mitered Borders • The subtle seam of a mitered corner creates the illusion of a continuous line around the quilt. Mitered corners are ideal for striped fabric borders or multiple plain borders.

Berry Blue • Whether you use this quilt as a throw or to cover a large wall space, you’ll love its sophisticated, classic style. A beautiful blending of taupe and blue makes it so chic.

MARSHA MCCLOSKEY

Three-Color Hourglass Units • Try our quick and easy method to make Hourglass Units without cutting triangles. The Fons & Porter Quarter Inch Seam Marker helps you draw stitching lines quickly.

Trimming Oversized Hourglass Units • Try this method to make perfect Hourglass Units every time.

READY, SET, QUILT! • For decades quilters only had their hands, a needle and thread as tools for putting quilts together. Then along came sewing machines to speed things up, and now longarm machines provide even more time-saving features such as computerization and eliminating basting.

Greeny • What a wonderful celebration of greens! The blowing pinwheels with the playful greens have all the joy of a spring wind flowing across fresh meadows.

8-at-a-Time Triangle-Square Units • Try this method to make 8 matching Triangle-Square Units at the same time.

A QUILTER GOES FROM THE HOOP TO THE TREADLE • Once an admitted “hand quilting snob” when it came to creating original whole-cloth quilts and finishing vintage quilt tops, Tim Latimer had a change of heart—and discovered a new world of quilting possibilities—after he bought an antique treadle sewing machine.

Eclipse • The ‘corona’ star points seem to sparkle, especially with the reversed color placement. This delightful block builds a delightful quilt!

Quick-Pieced Flying Geese Units • Try this method to make 4 perfect Flying Geese Units at the same time.

Orange Peel Two-Step • Barb Eikmeier combines fun cowboy prints from...