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Sew Easy Lessons are techniques we think make quilting easier - and more fun! You can find more Sew Easy Lessons in our Love of Quilting magazine.

Happy Quilting! -- Liz and Marianne

Quilty: Finally, a home for rookie quilters.

Not everyone knows how to thread a sewing machine. It's okay! Quilty is here to help.

Quilty is a weekly quilting show offered online that seeks to inform and inspire the next generation of quilters. Hosted by Mary Fons, co-host of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting on PBS, Quilty delivers great quilting instruction with humor, zest, and respect for the art of quilting. Many of today's newer quilters visit quilt shops or randomly surf online with little to no knowledge of quilting basics. They feel bummed out and lost and often bail on the idea of making a quilt altogether.

This is a tragedy of epic proportions!

But it's no wonder: The home ec classes our mothers and grandmothers took were replaced by computer classes when we were in school. So it's Quilty's mission to teach rudimentary quilting skills in a friendly, welcoming way. There will be more advanced techniques, too, but the goal is always to inspire every viewer to make a quilt of her own after seeing just one episode.

There's a new Quilty episode once a week. Find it on QNNtv.com.

With style, class, and a sense of humor, Quilty aims to ignite new passion for the American quilt. Let's do this.

In each issue, Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting will feature a quilting celebrity, her sewing space, and a trunk show of her work.

Join host Mary Fons as she interviews the quilting celebrity, shows her works of art and shares a project with us. Step by step instructions will be found in the corresponding issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine.