Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! On today's episode, I announce the two winners of the Giveaway bundles from me! My guest on this episode is Yvonne Fuchs, Quilting Jetgirl. Yvonne is a quilter, pattern designer, tech editor and blogger.  https://quiltingjetgirl.com   We talk about her previous career in the aerospace industry as an aeronautical engineer, and how her love of quilting...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Originally published 10-15-20 In this episode, I talk about my experience with Procreate, learning it and now getting to the point of being comfortable in using some of the features to draw quilt designs on top of a photograph of my quilt top.  It is really cool! Today's guest is Michelle Graham, Community Manager at Sew Sweetness.  Michelle is a tale...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Welcome to the Season 3 premier episode!! On today's episode, I am solo with so much to chat about!  I review Lori Holt's Cute Cuts rotary cutting mat and Tula Pink's cutting mat, and chat about the winding down of summer and my garden, upcoming sewing and quilt projects, my pre-order of Tula Pink's new line of fabric - Linework....and...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Hello, I am popping in for a bonus episode between seasons 2 and 3. A new recorded segment at the beginning of the episode, and then a replay of one of my most downloaded episodes with guest Sophia from My Great Challenge. Check out more show notes on my podcast page:  https://stephaniesochadesign.com/podcast-make-and-decorate Website: http://stephaniesoch...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This is the Season 2 Finale episode!   My guest on this episode is Kate and her amazing YouTube channel is The Last Homely House.  Kate lives alone in a little cottage on a hill farm in Northumberland right at the top of England, next stop Scotland. But is she really alone? There are four cats, fifteen hens, Eileen the very bad goose, thousands of bees, so...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! My guest on today’s episode is Laurie Russman from Neon Kitty Quilts.  Laurie is a fiber artist and creates textile art inspired by photographs of animals, nature and travel. Laurie shares the appliqué and mixed media techniques she uses in her art quilts. In my opening chat segment, I update on my container gardening project and my review/experience with...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! My guest this week is Peter Byrne of Peter Byrne Quilts.  Peter is an international award-winning, published modern quilter and teacher with a deep passion for innovation and design.  Two of Peter's quilts won at QuiltCon 2020: Best in Show for his "Starring You" quilt and Best Machine Quilting Frameless for "Cityscape". Peter has...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Today's guests are a husband and wife podcast team and side hustle creative business owners, Gerald and Elena Flores. Their podcast is Sew Taco and they talk about their side hustle businesses, Sew Bonita and Taco Gear.  https://www.sewtaco.com https://sewbonita.com and https://tacogear.com I talk about different types of wire and how to choose and us...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This is a super raw, pared down episode: no music, no editing.  Never fear, I still have good content for you to listen to on today’s episode.  I tell you about a new release of a sewing machine, the Juki 3000 QVP, which has high end features yet is more affordable. Visible mending is something I have been wanting to try, and now is the perfect time for me...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This episode is long, but full of various topics from sewing and quilting to cooking and entertainment as well as a lesson on Decor - grommet drapery panels.  I also try to make sense of the face mask debate on whether it is or not helping, plus a link to a step by step mask tutorial on YouTube. I've got more YouTube channel recommendations, chat abou...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Hi all,  I hope this finds you well.  I have seen many artists and creatives giving extra freebies and gifts to their followers/customers this past week so that we have a little more happiness as most of us are sheltering at home.  I wanted to do something for my listeners as well, and I decided to publish this bonus Patreon Subscriber Only episode to the...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! In the first segment of today’s episode, I talk about various resources for interesting activities for not only creative and Quilty projects but also cooking recipes, free fitness classes and virtual museum tours you and your kids may enjoy.   My guest is Brett Lewis from the Natural Born Quilter blog.  Brett is a quilter and has just launched his first qu...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! My guest on today’s episode is Vicki Holloway from the podcast, My Creative Corner 3.  We chat about quilting, crafting and Vicki’s newly released premium podcast  Zen and the Art of Creating . Her premium podcast is available to purchase in her Etsy shop.  She made the podcast to help creatives find zen and mindfulness. In the first segment, I talk about...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! In this episode my guest is Christian Henry from The Featherweight Shop, a family owned business that specializes in restoring and selling Singer Featherweight sewing machines in their online shop. They also help customers learn to maintain their machines on their own, which is one of the great things about the Featherweight machine - no computer, which re...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! In the first segment of this episode, I talk about a quilt that I am making in a fast time-frame.  I am making the Alison Glass Cathedral quilt pattern, which is a raw edge appliqué throw size quilt.  My guest is Sophia. Sophia's YouTube channel is My Great Challenge. Her videos are about home management and range from cleaning and organizing to DIY h...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Today's episode focuses on foundation paper piecing (FPP), with my guest, Juliet Van der Heijden, The Tartan Kiwi.  Juliet designs and sells foundation paper piecing patterns. Juliet is also the author of the book Animal Quilts,  which has many foundation paper pieced patterns designed by Juliet.  You can find Juliet's patterns at http://thetarta...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Happy New Year 2020!  It's a fresh start of a year, a decade and an extra day with Leap Year :) I have lots to update you on with new crafts and arts I have tried, new tools and notions, and starting the year off with a renewed sense of creativity.  Also, I finally made my pj's!! They turned out amazing and were easy peasy to make, plus no altera...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! In this episode, I chat with artist and fabric designer for Art Gallery Fabrics, Katarina Roccella.  Katerina is one of my favorite quilt fabric designers because she often uses the cool watery colors that I love...purple, teal, aqua, navy.  Her collections are often filled with elements of nature, animals and has a fun sense of whimsy.   Earthen is Katari...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! Happy Thanksgiving all!  I hope you will enjoy time with family, friends and your sewing machine - LOL! this holiday week!  On this episode, Stephanie gives a few updates on holiday decorating and the scoop on all of those Dollar Tree you tube videos on crafting holiday decorations. This is part 2 of my conversation with Scapbook Gal, Tracie Claiborne.  In...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! My guest this week is Tracie Claiborne, from the podcast “The Scrap Gals”. This episode is part 1 of 2 podcast episodes with Tracie.  Tracie is a co-host of “The Scrap Gals” podcast, a hand lettering artist, scrap book memory maker, and interior decorating enthusiast.  Tracie shares how quilters can start making memory books/journals on their special proje...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This is an information packed episode with updates on what's going on here, fabric and pattern sales that I splurged on last week, Quilt Market and Thanksgiving entertaining/decorating tablescape ideas, host/hostess gift ideas, and new recipes to try. You can find links to everything we talk about in my show notes https://stephaniesochadesign.com/podc...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This is a super information packed episode with Cheryl Sleboda of Muppin.com and Sew Much Cosplay.  We chat about different sewing techniques that can be used across all types of sewing and quilting.  Learn about incorporating technology into sewing projects, heirloom sewing techniques of smocking and ruching, and get an interesting glimpse into the world...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! It's Season  2!!!  and I introduce my Patreon membership page, and there are rewards for each tier.  Every patron will receive an exclusive monthly bonus episode of the podcast that is only available to subscribing patrons.  Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makeanddecorate I get you caught up with what's been going on here with projects...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! This is the final episode of the Series: Different Types of Quilting, and the final episode of Season 1.  Season 2 will resume in the fall, so stay subscribed to be notified of new episodes. My guest on this episode is Amanda Murphy, and she is a Spokesperson for Bernina, a book author, fabric designer, quilt pattern designer, and has various longarm and d...

Click Here to Send me a Fan Mail Message! On this episode, we continue the series on the different types of quilting.  We take an in-depth look at longarm quilting and how you can translate Natalia's tutorials to both longarm and domestic machine quilting.   Also, Natalia has just added another quilting ruler, she designed, to her shop.  It is called the inside out ruler.  In addition to the...