ooooooooooooooooh I love all these quilters - but there is one voice that is like fingernails on the chalkboard - and she never lets anyone talk without HER interrupting - I can't think of her name right now - but she is President of Education with Husqvarna Viking.

sewing with nancy is a good one, also i find one called
America Sews with Sue Heisman (the last name maybe be wrong, but its close) should be able to find it with just the america sews with sue...here with our Dish it is on the local PBS station on saturdays at 4.
i used to LOVE watchind simply quilts at 9 am every morning and it broke my heart when it got canceled. i know lots have sprung up on the internet but there seems to always be (join/membership) conditions in order to watch the shows and some are way out of my ability to afford, and one year i did join one of them and found in the whole year i actually watched maybe 1/2 a dozen times so decided it definitly was not the way for me to catch shows.

All our local PBS stations have canceled all the sewing shows. When we called and ask why, they said there was more demand for cartoons and children's programs. I watch most of them on my internet.

Our ASG chapter used to support their stations and even did telethons for them, Not any more.

in defense of Alex,...
she did not 'take' her show off so she could join Ricky Timms, HGTV canceled the show, after determining that we quilters are really an insignificant percentage of viewers...she did not join forces in a different direction until she was forced out!
and yes, i agree...the Quilt Show is too expensive to join for lots of us...they do offer a free limited membership that does offer some good stuff, i visit their site very regularly but wont join because i don't believe i would take advantage of the offerings enough to justify the cost.

in defense of Alex,...
she did not 'take' her show off so she could join Ricky Timms, HGTV canceled the show, after determining that we quilters are really an insignificant percentage of viewers...she did not join forces in a different direction until she was forced out!
and yes, i agree...the Quilt Show is too expensive to join for lots of us...they do offer a free limited membership that does offer some good stuff, i visit their site very regularly but wont join because i don't believe i would take advantage of the offerings enough to justify the cost.

If you like Elanor Burns watch www.zeeltv.com
Lots of guest there. Nancy Niemann too.
Billy Lauder and so on.. the guest change form time to time

Boy you all have better cable channels than I do. I can get Fons and Porter maybe twice a month, Sewing with Nancy every Saturday and that's all I've been able to find.
I used to get America Sews and Simply Quilts, never got Quilt in a Day though.
My DD gets almost all the above on her cable.
Although my cable does have 3 or 4 ESPNs....who needs that???
Seems like men doing the programming for other men.
How about a few channels just for us?
And (I'm going to rant) why does baseball, football, golf etc pre-empt other shows coming on?
I can just imagine if Sewing with Nancy (or one of the other craft shows) needed more time to finish a project and pre-empted something....lol.

WHAT???? Cancelling ALL the sewing shows to put on CARTOONS?? What is the name of the one site online - something like zee1 or wee1 - Someone on the board told me about it - and it was great - but NOW I forgot. Do you know? Thanks

THAT is
what I was trying to find again - zeeltv.com!! Thanks!

Have you seen the ones on the internet? QNN.com, thequiltshow.com

If I run across a quilt show I will watch it, I usually don't, I only watch TV after 8PM. I have never learned anything from watching a quilt show, they are entertaining.

I am going to have to try & find some of the other shows you have listed here. I miss Simply Quilts & El Burns they took them off my channels, I'll see if I can find El on 345 Don't know if I get that one. I also miss Carol Duval, she did alot of different crafty projects and showed projects & tips sent in by viewers. I only have dail up, so I can't watch any of the internet shows. BOO!

I am in North Jersey. I get the Create channel. It is channel 133 here. They have Sewing with Nancy. When I found this channel in the fall of 08 they had Fons and Porter and a few others. Now they are all off. I emailed and requested to get them back many times. No response. I haven't seen many quilt shows, but I thought Fons and Porter were very clear and helpful.

Most Sunday afternoons one of our local PBS stations has about 4-5 quilting/sewing shows in a row (Fons & Porter, Nancy Zieman, Sue Hausman, Martha Pullen, etc), except for those weekends when they are running their donation drives. I can spend the whole afternoon watching those while I sew, and it's great!

I joined this for a year but decided not to renew. The small screen video was clear but really too small to see what they were doing. When I went to the full screen option, the picture was so grainy it hurt my eyes to watch it. I called their number and explained my problem and was told there had been a lot of complaints about that. Evidently it's the quality of their video equipment and there are no plans to change it. I thought it might be my screen resolution but they said not.

stitchinwitch, are you talking about Sue Hausman. Her voice and manner is so irratating to me I can't watch her. She never lets anyone finish a sentence.

With Dish---for FREE---you can have them put another dish on your roof that gets you a ton of quilting and craft shows!

I am soooo jealous Can't get anyone of the shows on Knology.com

DishTV does carry the RFD statioin; there used to be much more sewing programs than there are now. We have DishTV; I've dvr'd a few Sewing with Nancy and Quilt In A Day shows

I'm going to call Dish and see if they offer that in my area.
Thanks for the heads up on that. I think they should have 1 channel devoted to quilting/craft shows. Who cares if they have reruns.. That would be better than anything else on t.v.
Leaving Martha Stewart out of course.
I'm an Eleonor Burns fan. I met her at the Sewing Expo in Western Washington in February and she was awesome along with her 2 sons. Some people do find her annoying but I think she is fun. "Just get rid of it". :thumbup:

On the Internet, try : http://www.sharonschambernetwork.com
Sharon Schamber has a website with several free tutorials re: different aspects of quilting. An amazing quilter and a great teacher !! (Parts of this website require a fee, but worthwhile "free" videos easily accessible to all )

We only get an hour of quilt shows on saturday mornings starting at 7am. PBS out of Dallas. I hate it as its hard to watch anything at 7am . Worst of all is its always the first programing changed when they do the special programing to get money to fund the station...Like I am going to donate money when they don't show my fav programs?

Here in Cedar City Ut. Direct Tv:
Thursday:
channel 09 starting at 4:00 pm quilting arts, F & P,knitting daily, needle arts studio

Friday:
channel 68 4pm scrapbk memories, martha sewing rm

Saturday:
channel 9 6am Quilting Arts,F & P,Needle Arts Studio,Knitting Daily.....this is usually a repeat of thurs. thursday line up

Monday:
channel 68 4pm Martha Sewing Rm

Sunday:
channel 9 2pm Sewing W/ Nancy

RFD is on Dish networh on 231

qnntv.com has some great quilting shows. I subscribed to the one year service and just love it. No more expensive than a magazine subscription and much more informative. You can watch it as often as you want, anytime you want.

I have DirecTV in Oregon, and although quilting shows are on the schedule, I get nothing when I try to watch them except a blank screen. Bummer.

We still get RFD on DISH here.

DISH still has the RFDTV channel. It's Channel 231 in my area (central LA), too--and the same in AR and MO. This channel has a live cattle and/or horse auction running part of the time, so many don't realize they also have some very interesting programs concerning differnent parts of rural life. I'm a night owl, and they rerun Eleanor Byrne's show late at night, too.

PBS in my state (LA) offers Martha Pullen, Nancy, and Fons and Porter weekly (with late-night repeats). Each state's public TV schedule differs though. I donate to public TV and get their TV guide monthly (along with a great Louisiana magagine quarterly).

I agree with a poster above that the frequent fundraising drives by PBS-TV stations is irritating. I know they are hard pressed for money to fund their scheduling, esp. in today's economical crunch, but I'd donate more just to have the shows I pay/donate to see left alone. Those special shows they run during fund drives are even more expensive, and I'm not interested in seeing most of them--esp. those with some self-proclaimed guru telling me how to run my life.

I totally agree that she has a unique approach to teaching and her work is wonderful. I'm just not sure that I can hang on long enough for her corniness to grow on me. I DID like the machine she was using and now I am checking out the Babylocks. Hm, maybe I do need to give her a second chance....maybe just turn down the volume a bit.

i have direct tv in the nj area and i get:

sewing with nancy
fons and porter
sue hausman
martha pullen
quilt in a day

i used to get alex anderson, but that's gone. it all comes in on public television, many from as far away as missouri and/or the dakotas. depending on where you live it comes in on different days at different times from different public stations. you have to check them all.

i have it set up to tape and on rainy days i watch it all. one of the fons and porter ladies has such a soothing voice that it puts me to sleep, even though i want to see they're doing.

Loved Simply Quilts. Recorded all episodes but lost quite a few due to Katrina.

public tv is public-driven. if they don't get enough interest, they drop the shows. you have to make noise and write letters to get your shows back on. if you belong to a guild, have everyone write and phone. be a pest. make them realize that there are people who want those shows to continue. also, write and call sewing sponsors and ask them to sponsor quilting shows. in yiddish we say:
a bisseleh, a bisseleh, macht ah fulleh schisseleh.
a little, a little, makes a full pot. or, little by little you get what you want.

WWW.QUILTTV.COM

I agree with your comment - we got into Simply Quilts a couple of years ago via Foxtel (cable) and don't have any toher such shows in Australia - inspirational to say the least :roll: :roll:

i loved simply quilts when it was on. i used to tape them-actually still have some that i watch oncein a while. i learned about 80% of my so called quilting skills from watching all the quilting shows on tv. i miss them a lot.

BINGO! YES!!!! That's her! When her show comes on. the tv goes off!

I actually caught El Burns this week on PBS. We also have Georgia Bonesteel, but her shows are from 2002!! There has to be something on PBS more recent than 8 years old. But she is on at 6:30 am, so maybe they think no one is watching. LOL

i get Quilt in a Day, Fons and Porter, Georgia Bonsteel, Sewing with Nancy and and a few others.....I have comcast and I usually channel hop most every day because sometimes they are different times each day. Mostly on the Create Channel#198, also #189, #22 and #17. Most are PBS channels. Also Donna Dewberry has some quilting on her show now.

i get America Sews With Sue Hausmann too but maybe only 1x a week