Quilter explains cotton theory

Information on making jewelry, replicating maps through embroidery, and creating horsetail floral arrangements will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon. (All times are Mountain.)

Designer and crafter Ann Butler will show how to use a clear casting epoxy product to make some beautiful pieces of jewelry. Butler’s company is Ann Butler Designs in Villard, Minnesota.

Catherine Jordan represents the Embroiderers’ Guild of America in Louisville, Kentucky. She is going to show how to replicate maps through embroidery. She will explain how maps are designed, stitched and hand painted.

Floral designer Carly Cylinder will show how to use two different techniques when working with horsetail, which is a type of bamboo. The final product looks like an advanced floral arrangement. Her company is Flour LA and Flour LA Jr. and she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Information on cooking with strawberries, cotton theory quilting, and hoop ‘n quilt machine embroidery will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Sue Harrell represents the Florida Strawberry Growers Assn. in Plant City, Florida. She will talk about the growing season, selection and storage of strawberries as she prepares a strawberry spinach salad. Sue’s advice is “8-a-day (of strawberries) for good health.”

Patsy Shields is a national educator with Sew Better Seminars, and she explains that cotton theory quilting is a method in which all fabrics are quilted first, and then put together — thus you are never left with an unfinished quilt top. It’s a fast, easy quilting method and a great way to use your embroidery machine to embellish as well as quilt. She lives in Sellersburg, Indiana.

Designer and digitizer Laura Waterfield is the owner of Laura’s Sewing Studio in Tomball, Texas. She’s going to demonstrate a technique she calls “hoop ‘n quilt machine embroidery.” Waterfield says this technique makes an impossible quilt ‘possible’ and there is no piecing in the hoop.

Strawberry Salad

• 1 pint Florida strawberries, sliced lengthwise

• 3 tablespoons hazelnut oil

• 3/4 cup chestnuts, peeled and thinly sliced

• 1 tablespoon raspberry vinegar

• Salt & pepper, freshly ground

• 3 or 4 shallots, minced

• 2 small navel oranges, peeled, sliced crosswise and cut in half

• 1 quart small spinach leaves, stemmed and torn

• 1 quart garden lettuce, cut in narrow strips

Blanch the water chestnuts for 2 minutes in boiling water and immediately refresh in cold water. Combine with greens and shallots. Add oil and toss. Add vinegar, salt and pepper. Add fruit and gently toss again.

“Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque.