I have begun getting up with the birds to watch some of the quilting shows, but after some wasted time (and sometimes that I'd wished I'd taken notes!) I put this question to you, which are the best quilting tv shows?

we don't get quilting shows in Oklahoma City. what tv quilting shows do you get? we use to get quilting with Alex and they took her off she was good.
Annettel lol :D

I like Fons & Porters, Quilt in a day and Quilt Creatively. I sometimes watch Simply Quilts, but it's not detailed enough, they seem to rush through everything.

There are quilt shows online for free too.

Fons and Porter is my favorite

For learning in detail nobody beats Eleanor Burns. If you are a new quilter I suggest signing up with QNN for a year. You can see all the shows except Simply Quilts. It cost 24 dollars a year (it used to be free and it was great). Brightcove is free but they dont have the full lenght shows any more.
Quilt in a Day is on channel 379 Direct TV. Dish network also has it but I dont know what channel.

:twisted: I am totally disgusted. Just tried HGTV and it looks like they have dropped Simply Quilts; the only quilting program in the entire Detroit Metro area on cable TV. I know there are lots of quilt guilds in the area and hundreds of quilters, but it seems like there is a shortage of quilting stores and the TV world has completely dumped us, even PBS. What are we, orphans????

I love almost every quilting show I can get. My favorites are Fons & Porter, Sewing with Nancy (I usually skip the programs on garment sewing), and Simply Quilts (reruns). We no longer get what used to be on my favorites list and I sure do miss them: Kaye Wood, Sue Hausmann's America Quilts Creatively and Quilt Central.

I love the techniques and guests on Quilting Arts, but it is way too rushed and the hostess too inexperienced to make it on my favorites list.

When I first started quilting and self teaching, I loved Simply Quilts which was the only show on in my area. Now they have taken it off and I just don't like to watch tv shows on the puter..so :cry: I don't get any shows anymore and sure do miss them!

Use to watch Alex and Grandmas Attic on PBS, But both are gone and I don't get anything now. I really miss it to. I don't see any Sports programs taken off. Shows who pulls all the strings. LOL, Sorry but I call it like I see it.

I did was Rose is suggesting; I joined the Quilters Club of America, which gives me access to QNN so that I can see the shows when and how I want to. Quilters TV has Quilt Central and Quilt in a Day (along with several others) and is still free. Quilters TV will continually play the programming for the day, which I really like if I'm busy working on things. With QNN, you have to manually start another program after one ends (and they break up 1 program into 3 parts.)

I'm not a big fan of being stuck at the computer to watch the programs either; I was sneaky. DH's Christmas present was a 37" Hi Def TV, which has the connections to hook it up as a computer monitor. To ease the sting, I set it up so he can also watch movies over the net from Netflix :lol: DD finally bought herself a new computer, so my older one came back home and we just hooked it up to the tv.

I find myself going back to the Eleanor Burns, since I haven't been quilting long. I've picked up several of her books, but the instructions are easier for me to follow if I've seen the programs. Right now, I'm working on the 9 Patch and Stripe doing 2 baby quilts, and it helps to be able to pull up those programs.

I only get Simply Quilts but they knocked it down to 2 days a week here on HGTV. Wish I got more!

Now I feel a little spoiled for trying to sort through the choices. I get America Quilt's Creatively at 11 pm (cable), a bit odd to be on that late, but it's only on certain days. I can also catch Nancy and Sue H. in the AM on my local broadcast from the college version of PBS.

What is this QNN and Quilter's Club of America I've never heard of them are they online and I need to search it out? I'm not sure my little laptop can process much, (she isn't a dinosaur, but she had friends who knew them).

There was one show that was a real eye roller, they had quilt in the title but I tell you what the one time I watched they made stained glass (real stained glass, complete with glass cutting) and set tile on plywood (a bad idea if you know about water and wood) and worked for like oh I'll be giving and say 5 minutes. :x I'm sure it's title wasn't listed here. A friend of mine also recommended Fons and Potter, she said locally we get it once a week around 9 am, of course that's when life takes off...

Ladies,
Check out Quilterstv.com features quilters such a Billie Lauder, Eleanor Burns and such. You can watch at your leisure and not worry about you missing the show. Check it out and tell me what you think?????

Bebe

I did join Quilters News Network and I get hours of enjoyment watching all the videos they have to offer. The kit you get when you join almost makes up for the membership fee.

http://www.qnntv.com/

I also watch Kaye Wood on her website, she has some good videos too on quilting and handbags

http://www.kayewoodtv.com/ktv.html

I try to watch simply quilts too,I don't know what they are doing,sometimes it is on at 7 sometimes 6:30 sometimes not at all. It used to come on at 7 every morning,now I wonder if they are only comming on one or two days a week. I may just send them an email see what the heck is going on.

Hi all,

Our local cable company carries Simply Quilts but they have been playing around with their whole schedule on HGTV. Some days it is not on at all and others it is at a different time.

They are no longer making new shows anyway. Fortuneately over the years I have taped as many as possible. In the last year or so I acquired a DVD burner and copies all of my quilting tapes to DVDs. I still have some of the orginal Simply Quilts shows on VHS tape in anyone would like them.
Our local PBS station carries Fons and Porter at 6:00am on saturday along with Kaye Woods and then Nancy Zinman. At least once a month they change the schedule to do their fund raising. It drives me nuts. I also taped a lot of those shows and moved them to DVDs.
Since I am still a craft, home and garment sewer I still enjoy Nancy Zinmen and have a lot of her instructional tapes. I also have an embroidery machine and instructional tapes on that subject.

I belong to a professional quilting group as I am a hand quilter for hire. They are just as worried as any quilter about the lack of quilt shops. It looks like online shopping is going to be more and more the norm. The part of the quilting industry that is growing the most is long arm quilting. I would say that more than half of the professional organization I belong to his made up of long armers for hire. Another large segment is Art quilters. While they do magnificant work and I have done some it is still not what I consider a quilt. Some of them have so much thread work and or embellishments they are stiff as a board. I like a quilt that is good for cuddling.

We can only hope the pedulum swings back to handwork, sewing and quilting in our lifetimes.

Mpspeedy
rural Maryland