My guests today are from C&T Publishing. which is a midsize, family-run, independent publisher of quilting, sewing, and crafting books based in Concord, CA. It was founded in 1983 by Carolie and Tom Hensley, owners of The Cotton Patch, a quilting and sewing supplies store in Lafayette, CA.

Roxane Cerda is the Senior Editor and Betsy La Honta is the Product Development Manager. They are responsible for books, authors, editing, product development and so much more. I’m excited to dive into the conversation about how their books and products all come together for the quilting world and sharing it all with you.

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BIG NEWS!!! Watergirl Quilt Co and the Quilter on Fire have teamed up to sail the seas on the Celebrity Millennium. Sail with us on a JAPAN CRUISE in 2026! 

Registration is now OPEN! The first 16 people are eligible for the VIP package of goodies worth over $175 dollars. SIGN UP TODAY! 

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This week (August 2024) we lost a beautiful, creative voice in our industry - Carole Lyles Shaw. She was a bright light in the quilting world and a very much loved member of our community. Carole was a very talented quilter and teacher but also one of those really positive good friends to so many of us. As I processed the news of her passing the day before her podcast episode was supposed to air last week I just took a pause. It was hard to accept after having interviewed her with so much joy just a few weeks ago, but I’ve realized that she put in a lot of work to prepare for her episode and it would be good to honour her memory and share her voice and her story with you. My heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. 

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My guest today is Carolina Moore. She is a talented quilt pattern designer, notion inventor and popular YouTuber. This is a follow up episode since I've had her on the show before and she has done so many new things from blinging out an Oliso iron and a Babylock machine to inventing a new ruler and creating some AccuQuilt dies plus so much more!

Carolina's's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/craftmoore/
Carolina on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarolinaMoore

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OLISO IRONS - Host of the Quilter on Fire Podcast Lounge each year at QuiltCon!
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Kristy’s Quilt Picture Book
Quilter on Fire Patterns
Free Quilter on Fire Holiday Table Runner VIDEO 

2025 TOUR of England & Wales ending at the Festival of Quilts  - Call Judy at Opulent Quilt Journeys at 1-877-235-3767 or go to the Opulent Quilt Journeys Website.  

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Have you ever been to quilt Canada? Well, I just attended this Canadian quilt show last week. And I've got a recap episode in store for you today. I'm Brandy. Maslowski also known as the quilter on fire today. I'll share some stories of my trip to Vancouver for quilt Canada, 2022. I had so much fun from staying with friends on a boat and taking in the show to meeting past podcast guests for the first time and about to share it all with you.

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There is so much to learn about quilt history, curation of shows, care of quilts and preservation. And I love the topics and guests that the six know-it-alls have on their show.

These talks just work because these six knowledgeable women come at the topics from all different angles. It is important to them to bring the viewer along to learn quilt history. They want to bring about an understanding. They want to let quilt makers know how much value they can get by looking at older quilts.

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This week's guest is the owner and founder of eQuilter.com Luana Rubin. She has been a designer in the quilt, textile and garment industries since 1980. She's a BERNINA Ambassador,  and a Chair Holder in the Color Marketing Group and International Color Forecasting Association. She is a Textile Design Consultant and has designed for Robert Kaufman, Timeless Treasures, and many other quilt fabric companies for well over two decades in the quilting industry, and eQuilter.com has their own exclusive line of digital printed fabrics. Luana is an  industry expert on digital textile design. She has her finger on the pulse of the quilting world from quilt travel and quilt activism to the latest trends. She has a strong voice for our earth and on this episode we're going to dive right into her story.

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Today's guest is Abby Glassenberg president and co-founder of the Craft Industry Alliance. I started following Abby's blog While She Naps well over a decade ago while I was fumbling away in my tiny studio in Manitoba.

And I was dreaming of doing my passion full-time she has since co-founded Craft Industry Alliance, and now serves as the President, she's a sewing pattern designer, teacher and journalist. She's dedicated to creating an outstanding trade association for the crafts industry. And I'm so happy to share her story with you.

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Abby's Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/ca/market/abby_glassenberg

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Christa Watson is award-winning quilt maker, pattern and fabric designer, teacher and speaker who has created a really great business and website with loads of educational content.
Christa will fill your toolbox with an abundance of great new quilting skills. She has an ask me anything approach, which really tackles current problems where quilters are stuck and helps her students and followers grow. Be sure to join her on Facebook, YouTube and check out her website at Christaquilts.com.

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My special guest is Alex Anderson! Laughter is plentiful in this in-depth interview with the one and only Sweetheart of Quilting.

OK yes, there are many sweethearts in the quilting world, but Alex has risen to the top for decades with her caring, happy demeanour and this interview "simply" makes my heart sing. That's an old school pun on her first show.

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This week's guest is Mary Fons, famous for learning to quilt from scratch on a public stage, bringing new quilters into their comfort zone, and pushing the boundaries of how quilting is taught with her engaging, delightful personality. Her quirky demeanour takes a front stage in her content again and again. She has been a TV host, a writer, magazine editor, a lecturer, and has a passion for quilt history research.

She creates original, raw engaging content across all media, which is astonishing because social media changes every single day and on the podcast I share the best bits of her story with you.

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Link to Mary's website: https://www.maryfons.com/
Link to Quiltfold Magazine: https://www.quiltfolk.com/

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Deborah Fisher is the docent and ringmaster of a crazy mixed up cabinet of curiosities, the circus juggler and the museum curator. And it's the perfect description of herself. Actually, her lines of fabric, quilt patterns and handcrafted items create the perfect menagerie of joy that just makes you want to collect it all.

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Link to the Fish Museum and Circus website: https://fishmuseumandcircus.com/

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Bridget O'Flaherty is an award-winning textile artist and all around creative inspiration who specializes in thread painting. Bridget has a Bachelor of Arts with an Environmental Studies Major and she just graduated with Honours.

This is such a valuable conversation to have, and she really has her toes in the water when it comes to the topic of sustainability and she carries that expertise into quilting.  She brings the conversation forward, not to say that we should never buy fabric again, but with the notion that we can have a good conversation about how we can take little steps to start making a difference.

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Anna Maria Horner is best known for her unique fabric designs. She uses bold colours and a gorgeous, vibrant mix of designs and patterns to create instantly recognizable fabric. Her pattern designs are bold and beautiful and her trunk show  was just filled with eye candy and very inspiring. This is the story of a mom of seven with a passion for fabric design, quilt, pattern design, and an entrepreneur with a thriving quilt shop. And on top of all that goodness, she takes the time to nurture and mentor upcoming designers in her field. I love it when it quilter's story is filled with hard work well-deserved success and a mindset of abundance. 

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My guest today is Janine Lecour. She is a talented surface pattern designer who has taken her first step into the world of quilting with the design of her new AccuQuilt dies. It's so interesting to dive into the story of someone behind the scenes of creating designs for clothing, fabric, and so much more.  So let's explore the story of Janine Lecour.

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My special guest today is Stephanie Hackney Director of Sales and Marketing for Hobbs Bonded Fibers. She is a brand professional known for her expertise on batting. She has lectured at many major quilt shows such as Quilt Market, Quilt Festival, Road to California, AQS Paducah and many more. She also delivers this great content to guilds and retail stores all over North America. She really has a passion for providing quilters with the info they need to choose the best batting for their quilted, sewn and crafted projects. I have invited her twice to be a part of my recent lecture series - once in December featuring holiday projects and once in January featuring everything you could every want to know about batting and I just can’t get enough of this information, so I had to have her on the podcast. 

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This week my special guest is Tracy Mooney. When I first met her recently at quilt festival in Houston, I learned first hand that it is very cool to meet a podcast personality and hear their voice in person for the first time. I'd been listening to the Quilt'n'Tell Podcast for a while. I started to feel like I was getting to know her and her fellow hosts.  It's kind of hard to believe you're meeting that person behind the voice on the podcast. Tracy Mooney is the Editor of Quiltmaker Magazine and Fons and Porter's Quick and Easy Quilts. She is Producer and one of the three hosts of the Quilt & Tell podcast with Lori Baker and Ginger Sheehy-Tatic.

She thrives in her roles because she is a deadline driven writer and journalist with over a decade of experience. So let's take a listen to her story...

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Join me for an episode all about of my visit to QuiltCon 2022 in Phoenix, AZ. You'll hear my favourite moments, interviews with influencers, quilters, vendors, the organizers of the show and some special exhibits as well. 

LINKS to things I mention in this episode:
Social Justice Sewing Academy with Sara Trail: https://www.sjsacademy.org/
The Navajo Quilt Project with Susan Hudson: https://www.frenchgeneral.com/products/navajoquiltproject
The AccuQuilt on the Go! QuiltCon Part 1: https://youtu.be/faLLrPbJhMA
The AccuQuilt on the Go! QuiltCon Part 2: https://youtu.be/Gmn_k38O2Os

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EQ Educator Yvonne Menear. She has had a passion for EQ for over 20 years. She speaks to quilt guilds, at retreats, at regional, national and international sewing and quilt shows. She does projects and blogs for EQ and teaches at their annual retreat. She creates bespoke workshops to give the student exactly what they need. And today we are going to talk everything EQ! 

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Kim Neidzweicki is a sewist, quilter, and pattern designer with a passion for social media. One thing I loved hearing from her on the podcast is that no one is really a social media guru or maven because it changes every single day. We get massive doses of the unknown from social media and there is so much pressure to go viral. It is intimidating. You finally figure out how to make a reel on Instagram and then TikTok comes along and steals the show. The hardest part of it all is just going gloves off and diving into the ring to try everything. It’s new to everyone. We are not alone. And Kim is out there spreading the word about how people can grow.

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Vivika Hansen Denegre is an avid artist and crafter who lives and works in New England. By day, she is the editor of Quilting Arts and QuiltCon Magazines and serves as the Director of Quilting Content for Golden Peak Media. You’ve likely seen her on Quilting Arts TV, listened to her on The Quilting Arts Podcast, and read some of the many articles and blogposts she writes for traditional quilting publications and QuiltingDaily.com. By night, you can find Vivika hard at work in the studio where she knits, sews, quilts, and draws. She enjoys her work as a volunteer board member of both SAQA and the Modern Quilt Guild and is fascinated by the work of art quilters from around the world.

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On today’s episode you’ll meet Katie Fowler. I had the pleasure of meeting her in person for the first time at the Houston Quilt Festival and wow - she instantly felt like a kind-hearted mentor. Katie is a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, an award-winning artist and a former teacher who loves facilitating learning. The very first day I met her she had her book in my hands and we were chatting about creativity. If you are stuck she guides creative people in connecting with themselves, with others and with their own passions.

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I’ve been so excited to have Berene Campbell on the show. I first heard of her when my local Okanagan Modern Quilt Guild hired her as a speaker. I loved every word she said. She was heartwarming and inspiring to say the least, and our guild then took on her Mini Mod Swap which is a challenge for the Handmade Collective Awards which we talk about today on the show. Secondly, she’s a delightful person. Berene is a quilt pattern designer, teacher, speaker and community project instigator. Her patterns have been admired by the likes of Tula Pink and her community and charity projects have raised over 35,000 thousand dollars and inspired quilters all over the world.
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This week’s guest is Clara Nartey. She is an Artist, Entrepreneur and Coach creating Educational programs for Creatives. She suddenly found herself jobless after a dream career in the corporate world and forged ahead to discover her own creative path only to realize she’s not the only one who could use the skills and systems she’s learned along the way. Now she helps other creatives find their path and we are going to dive tight into her story.

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Clara Nartey's Website: https://claranartey.art/

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Rhonda Pierce, is the stitch savvy Marketing Director for Schmetz Needles. She offers her needle expertise around the world in workshops, lectures, monthly Facebook Live sessions and she’s also available to talk for your local guild. Once life returns to normal, watch for Rhonda at quilting shows and events around the country. She’ll be delighted to talk to you and to find out how you use your favourite SCHMETZ needle.

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My guest today is Tiffany Turner of Tipstitched. She is a talented sewist with a background in civil engineering. She has a step by step methodical nature in sharing what she creates that really makes sewing achievable.

She has a popular blog and social media presence that hits the important topics like cost effective sewing, custom made clothing to fit you, and using technology to your advantage. It's not so scary. So let's explore the story of Tiffany Turner.

Tiffany's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tipstitched

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Free Quilter on Fire Holiday Table Runner VIDEO 

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It's Episode 52! Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of 2022. I cannot think of a better topic to start off the year than ergonomics, efficiency & organization. It’s kind of like a new year’s resolution except wouldn’t it be great if we could do this all year round?  My guest today is Lois Hallock. She is a quilter, a professional Engineer and a professional organizer. It sounds like a perfect combination to me. I met her in the fall at the Houston Quilt Festival and you know I love talking about studios so I loved meeting her to find out what she has a passion for and what she offers in her business. She actually had a full room at Quilt Fest and does private studio consultations. Lois has professionally designed hundreds of quilting studios and has been published numerous times in magazines. She has applied her organization and problem solving skills from her engineering career to her passion for quilting help quilters create a space they love.

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I’ve been so excited to have Rob Appell on the show because first of all, he is a bundle of energy that is contagious, he’s a delightful person and when we first met for our discovery call to do this podcast he became an instant mentor to me in all things audio visual.  He has a fantastic YouTube presence working with Michael Miller Fabrics on his channel called Making it Fun with Rob Appell. His videos are filled with projects, inspiration, guest interviews and so much more. I first discovered Rob many years ago when he created an incredible series of art quilts called ENDANGERED SPECIES and I can’t wait to share his story with you. 

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Link to Making it Fun on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MakingItFunwithRobAppell/featured

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Allison Aller is has been stitching, sewing, knitting, and writing since she was a child....and that child is alive and well in the joyful work she creates today from crazy quilting to stained glass quilting and so much more. She has been quilting non-stop for over 4 decades. She dove deep into more than a decade long passion for crazy quilts and wrote her first two books on the topic and more recently did the same deep dive and wrote a book on Stained Glass Quilting. Allison has been a featured quilter in dozens of magazines and on the Quilt Show with Ricky Tims & Alex Anderson and she is a multiple award-winning quilter at big shows like the American Quilters Society Show in Nashville and The International Quilt Festival in Houston. 

The incredible resource Allie mentioned for nationally documented quilt collections: www.quiltindex.com
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Welcome to Episode 49 of the Quilter on Fire Podcast! Today my guest is a descendant of 2 Gee's Bend Quilters - Tangular A. Irby. She is an author, educator and quilter who is highly educated in Business Administration, Educational Leadership and has a Masters in the Art of Teaching. Her love of children's books developed during her time as a second grade teacher. She is the granddaughter of Gee’s Bend quilters, Pearlie Kennedy Pettway and Jensie Lee Irby. She grew up admiring the beauty of the quilts gifted to her by family. Quilting her very first quilt was a way to honour the legacy of her maternal and paternal grandmothers, Gee's Bend quilters, who passed on long before their creations were recognized as more than just a means to keep their families warm.

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Victoria Findlay Wolfe is an international award-winning quilter known for her designs which portray a sense of old school comfort while breaking the boundaries of contemporary design. They have elements of tradition but with a twist like a dissolving double wedding ring or a photo of her hands right in the quilt as part of the story. She trained in fine arts college as a painter who also sculpted and loves photography, but quilts have become her greatest passion. She is a sought after speaker, teacher, author, and fabric & pattern designer who loves quilting for herself and others through private commissions. Her quilts have been featured in private collections, in museums, and at quilt shows all over the world. Today, I have a chat with Victoria Findlay Wolfe.

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Welcome to PART 2 of the Houston Quilt Festival Recap on the Quilter on Fire Podcast. For this 2nd episode I will give you a little more about my experience at my very first Houston Quilt Festival. I'll share my stories from start to finish from my entire trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Quilt Festival and then off to the Texas Quilt Museum. At Festival I asked quilt business owners what they are most excited about featuring this year in their booths. I got a huge variety of answers, of course and I also interviewed a show winner, a lecturer and some quilters featured in special exhibits. So grab a cup of tea, sit back and join me for the Houston Quilt Festival 2021 extravaganza PART 2. 

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Reed Johnson of Blue Bear Quilts has won design competitions, He's a sought after designer for fabric companies, he has had numerous quilt pattern features in magazines and he recently launched his first line of fabric. He started quilting at 40, opened up his pattern design business at 60 and has never looked back. Looking for some quit biz inspiration? Just check out the sampling of his beautiful patterns below and click on any photo to head on over to his website for even more. Reed truly believes it's never too late to follow your dreams. 

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Welcome to the Houston Quilt Festival Recap episode of the Quilter on Fire Podcast. I literally got off a plane last night at 7pm to arrive home from a whirlwind week and it feels like I’ve been compiling audio clips ever since. There will be two podcast episodes from the interviews I captured at Houston. You are in for a treat. For this first episode I ran around the classrooms for days interviewing teachers. I managed to get 40 teachers to answer one compelling question and I got a huge variety of answers. Here’s the QUESTION:  If there was one tidbit of wisdom you love to share in each and every class you teach what would it be? So grab a cup of tea, sit back and join me for the Houston Quilt Festival 2021 faculty extravaganza. I guarantee you will be inspired.

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On today’s show I interview Kimberlee Piers - Moore. She is a famous Canadian Tik Tokker who created the adorable little world of Mr. Bones. He’s a goofy little sidekick who snoozes, quilts, helps and hinders in all kinds of hilarious ways. Every little video has a warm and playful approach and brings on a smile each time. Kimberlee’s TikTok channel has grown to epic proportions and I can’t wait to share her story with you. Halloween is just around the corner so it’s the perfect time to discover the world of Mr. Bones.

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I’m thrilled to have LAURA WASILOWSKI on the show because first of all, she’s an art quilter after my own heart and secondly I’ve been following along with her books and inspiration for many, many years. I first saw her on Quilting Arts TV and I can’t get enough of her creativity and inspiring projects. She is an award-winning art quilter, author multiple times over and a sought after teacher and speaker. She has travelled the world doing what she loves and I can’t wait to share her story with you.

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My guest today is Gloria Loughman. This is one of those episodes where I can’t imagine how I’ll catch all of the best bits to share with you because her list of achievements spans over 30 years. If you were to do a study on light, colour, photography and capturing all of that in your art quilts, Gloria’s website would the only place you need to go. She is known worldwide as the vibrant landscape quilter. If you’ve seen a special exhibit of her work up close or even poured through the galleries on her website it will steer your understanding of colour and value in a brand new direction !

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Today my guest is Jennifer Swope, the David & Roberta Logie Associate Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Their latest exhibit called Fabric of a Nation - American Quilt Stories is a rich historical presentation that spans 300 years of American Quilts. And I’ll quote the website directly to share that “the remarkable examples on view are by an under recognized diversity of artistic hands and minds from the 17th century to today, including female and male, known and unidentified, urban and rural makers; immigrants; and Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ Americans."

The exhibition invites visitors to celebrate the artistry and intricacy of quilts and coverlets and the lives they document, while also considering the complicated legacies ingrained in the fabric of American life. I cannot even imagine the research and work involved in pulling together a project like this.

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It's Episode 41! I’ve been so excited to have KELLIE KACZMAREK of Silly Moon Quilting Company on the show because I have never tried guiding my quilting at the needle of my machine with a ruler. I know, everyone’s doing this and I haven’t even tried it. Since recording this podcast I've taken one of Kellie’s online workshops and it was super fun! I do everything free motion or walking foot right now and I can’t wait to use this simple technique more often because I’m so behind the curve. Quilting with rulers is all the rage right now. Kellie and her husband built their Canadian owned, family run business from scratch when she wanted to start quilting with rulers that she could use both on her longarm and her domestic machine. And her husband said, I can do that, and a business was born. So let’s get right into it! 

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Link to Silly Moon Quilting Company: https://sillymoonquiltingco.ca/

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Welcome to Episode 40 of the Quilter on Fire Podcast! My guests today are the 2 quilting friends behind the business Brimfield Awakening. Their website is gorgeous and their patterns are fresh and colourful and it is all about a unique vintage style of English Paper Piecing. Wait until you check out their Instagram feed. You just can’t stop scrolling. Kim Martucci and Nisha Bouri teamed up to build their company after finding a little treasure in a pile of old textiles at their local antique market. That precious find led to some research and a quilting adventure in business.

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Welcome to Episode 39 of the Quilter on Fire podcast. We have a great podcast today with Tara Sinclair of UhOh Creations. She is an absolute expert when it comes to bag making. This is her jam and she does it well. She has been teaching bag making for retreats, designing bags inspired by fabric lines and just making bags because she can to build her business UhOh Creations from the ground up. This is really a topic that might just stretch your zipper installation skills. and I can’t wait to share her story with you.

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Welcome to Episode 38 of the Quilter on Fire podcast. Today I'll introduce you to award winning quilter Teri Lucas. She calls herself the Chief Creative Weirdo at www.terificreations.com which is right up y alley as I’m certainly the resident weirdo in my home. We’ll share her quilting story and talk about her latest book COLOR, THREAD and FREE MOTION QUILTING - Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon. And wait until you see the cover - it’s gorgeous. Teri has this incredible way of using multiple colour runs of threads in her quilting that is so eye catching. This is really a topic that might just stretch your skills. and I can’t wait to share her story with you.

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Welcome to Episode 37 of the Quilter on Fire podcast with my guest Timna Tarr. The thing that drew me to Timna’s work is her incredible use of colour. And it’s not just the choices of colour it’s her use of value. If you scroll through the gallery on her website you will be blown away. It’s like eye candy or animal candy, well - either way it’s all good. .  Today we’ll talk about her work and her process.  She is an award winning quilter who’s been featured in exhibits, magazines, books as well as on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV. She is a fabric designer and popular teacher and I can’t wait to share her story, her travels, her favourite moments, what she’s up to now, and so much more. 

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Denyse Schmidt is one of the most talented and renowned modern quilters of our time. If you are a quilter, especially a modern quilter, you have probably heard her name. She is famous for her appearance on Martha Stewart in 1999, but even more so for her role in the modern quilting movement from its inception to this day. She grew up in central Massachussets with highly educated and very creative parents and has been making things her whole life. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and is now a sought after teacher, speaker, author, and designer in the quilting world. I can’t wait to share her story with you! 

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My guest is Celeste Compion and I’ll share her story of growing up in south Africa, falling in love with the local textiles and why she decided to bring a specific type of heritage fabric called Three Cats Original Shwe Shwe into Canada to sell in her online store. Celeste has a wonderful social justice story about this unique fabric and I can’t wait to share some of that with you. 
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Welcome to Episode 34 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Today’s interview is a quilt business story you are going to love. Jenn McMillan a graphic designer, quilter and fabric obsessed sewist living in rural Ottawa, Ontario Canada. She is also the maker behind Sew Fine Thread Gloss.  She likes to call herself the thread whisperer. She has created a niche product in quilting that hand stitchers all over the world now know and love. It conditions your thread for hand stitching and makes the process smooth and simple. And she added the little twist of wonderful fragrance to each tiny pot of Sew Fine Thread Gloss. And on top of it all she is a very talented quilter. Today we’ll dive into how all of this came about and I can’t wait to share her story. 

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Episode 33 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Joanne Kerton - the Canuck Quilter has been quilting for over 20 years and has published over 20 patterns along the way. She loves to play with shapes, colours and layouts and figuring out the math that goes along with it. She has had her patterns featured in quilting magazines and catalogs and now teaches and speaks about quilting as well. On her website she writes, “I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up: a quilter!” Joanne is a quiltmaker, pattern designer and proud Canadian who has created a really great business and website with loads of educational content and patterns to choose from. Joanne’s the kind of teacher that will fill your toolbox with all kinds of great new quilting skills. 

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My guest today is Wendy Liu. She is a YouTube sensation on the do it yourself clothing scene, with videos ranging from the supplies you need to get started, all the way to thrift flips and viral dresses.

She's kind of a dress queen, actually. She made her own wedding dress. She pounces on do it yourself projects that people are desperately trying to figure out on their own at home, like how to resize your jeans and making a dress from only scraps. She has such great playlists like Wendy Tries Everything, Self Care, Travel, and recently she even did a video on Pounding Flowers.

Her YouTube channel is called WithWendy, and she is approaching A million and a half followers. It's a whole bunch of really original content.

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Welcome to Episode 32 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Meg Cox is a nationally known thought leader on the topics of quilting and family traditions. She is a writer who has lectured and taught all over the US and authored five books. She was president of the National Non-Profit organization Quilt Alliance for 6 years and writes a very popular monthly newsletter called Quilt Journalist Tells All. The testimonials for her newsletter just jump off the page on her website. Quilters are raving about the great content, giveaways, top-notch interviews and reviews. 

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Melanie Testa is an art quilter and textile designer who paints, prints and stitches on fabric. Melly’s creations are colourful, imaginative, inspiring and so innovative that they have been featured in Quilting Arts Magazine, the Studio Art Quilts Journal, on Quilting Arts TV and so much more.  Melanie graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Textile/Surface Design and has authored three books. The more recent and perhaps most important part of Melanie’s story is the cancer advocacy journey of a breast cancer survivor. I can't wait to share her story with you…

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Today's guest is Yasmita Magan, the founder and creator of Yazzi Bags. From a simple idea for a better way to travel with jewellery and a self-made prototype 20 years ago, Yasmita has built a thriving business in the craft industry that has helped crafters and quilters organize their bits and baubles and travel with their projects on the go or just keep them organized at home. The very first craft storage bag was born out of a meeting with an avid crafter in 2001 and her story blossomed into a world-wide business from there. She has designs for every possible need you can imagine in a beautiful array of colours and uses input from her customers as the basis for her designs.

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