Not Your Granny's Quilt Show

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, we’re taking a moment to look back and celebrate the wisdom of 2025. ✨ This episode is a special recap filled with the tips, advice, and heartfelt insights shared by the incredible guests who joined me this year. From creative encouragement to practical reminders and moments of deep reflection, this episode is a thank-you to every maker who showed up and...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m thrilled to welcome Bianca Springer, the creative force behind Thanks I Made Them. Sew Can You. (@thanksimadethem). Bianca has an incredible eye for transforming second-hand clothing and quilts into bold, unforgettable garments that celebrate creativity, sustainability, and skill. She’s especially known for her striking dresses made from yoyos and dis...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by the incredibly talented UK quilt and textile collage artist Russell James Barratt. Born in Scotland and now based in London, Russell has spent the last two decades immersed in the world of fashion, costuming, and garment conceptual design. Textiles are in his DNA. His mother and grandmother both ran small sewing and knitting businesses, surr...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m so excited to finally sit down with Joshua Dunn of Lifting and Stitching, a maker who blends strength, science, and stitching in the coolest way possible. Joshua and I have spent plenty of time chatting behind the scenes, bonding over vegan food, lifting weights, and all the unexpected ways our creative lives overlap. His quilting inspiration often co...

This week I’m joined by Sarah Ruth Morris of Ruthlessly Handmade. Education researcher, quilter, and mother of two boys in Texas. Sarah’s quilts are stitched with purpose: each one is part of her ongoing practice of learning to love more deeply. Through quilt fundraisers, she has rallied makers and supporters to uplift children in need. She raised funds for Isaiah 117 House in the fall and beginni...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m honored to sit down with Hillary Goodwin (@entropyalwayswins) , the featured artist for QuiltCon 2026 and a creator whose work moves, breathes, and tells stories in every stitch. 🧵✨ Hillary is an ER doctor, and quilting has become her refuge, a place where things can be imperfect, messy, emotional, and real. Her quilts capture that energy. Her style...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Jenni Engleman, owner of HandCraft Happy Hour in Baltimore. It's a cozy, colorful craft shop that feels like home the moment you walk through the door. ☕🧵💖 Jenni shares how a dream she once imagined with her aunt turned into a thriving community space where makers come to learn, laugh, stitch, snack, and sometimes just grab a hug and a cu...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Laura Raquel Duran and Lina Owen of Quilting With Latinas, two passionate makers who are bringing bilingual resources and cultural connection to the quilting community! Laura and Lina are the co-authors of Learn-to-Quilt: Bilingual Guide Book, a first-of-its-kind quilting resource written in both English and Spanish. After realizing how few...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, we’re chatting with the one and only Chelsea Porter (@chelsea_b_porter), viral quilter, content creator, and all-around creative powerhouse! 🧵✨ You’ve probably seen her online after thatincredible moment when she designed, sewed, and tossed a custom quilted vest to Benson Boone on stage during his Utah N2 concert! Chelsea shares the whole behind-the-sce...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by John MacPhail of Art East Quilting Company, the creative mind behind some of the quilting world’s most charming and imaginative patterns. 🧵 John’s journey into quilting began back in university while studying Costume Design, though it took a decade (and a little help from Instagram and YouTube!) for him to rediscover his love of the craft....

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Theresa Benson (@theaiquilter) — award-winning quilter, enthusiastic learner, and dynamic teacher blending tradition with technology. With a background in electrical engineering and artificial intelligence, Theresa brings a fresh perspective to the craft, making complex ideas simple, inspiring, and fun. We talk about how quilting started as...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show my guest is Kaye Collins of Oh Kaye Quilting, The Lazy Quilters Club, and HandiQuilter. Kaye spent years as a high school band teacher before retiring and leaning fully into her quilting practice. A member of the Salt Lake City Modern Quilt Guild, Kaye had a fateful (and masked!) meeting during Covid with HandiQuilter’s Kim Sandberg, which opened the door...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by the endlessly creative and always entertaining Adam Burch of Adam Sews! Based in the UK, Adam is a bag-maker, pattern writer, and die-hard Tula Pink fan whose colorful creations and infectious enthusiasm light up the sewing community. Adam shares how he designs functional yet fabulous bags, totes, and caddies, plus what inspires his signatur...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Chris English of Chris English Quilts. Chris studied textile art at university before spending nearly twenty years in the corporate world of web design. Quilting was always in the background, sparked years ago by the Liberty Book of Home Sewing. Now, with corporate life behind him, Chris is diving fully into his creative practice, making the w...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Sarah Spencer, also known as Io the Alien. Sarah is an artist who uses textiles as her main medium, always following her curiosities and giving her attention to the work that brings her joy. Lately, she’s been creating striking sketch portraits of women and “interesting men,” blending paint on canvas with stitched thread lines to bring her dra...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Diana Li Fitzgerald, better known as Banjoflannel. Diana’s new book, Patchwork Sashiko: Transform Your Scraps, releases at the end of this year and is already available for preorder through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, C&T Publishing, and wholesale. Diana’s sewing journey began in 2005 when she set out to make her own purse. That spark led to bag m...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Justin Stafford, owner of Keaton Quilt - the last standing quilt shop in New York City. Nestled in the heart of the Flower District, Keaton Quilts is a hub for fabric lovers, offering a wide selection of fabrics and notions, longarm quilting, classes, and the warmth of Justin’s passion for the fiber arts. Justin’s love for sewing began at age...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Sara and Debbie of Salty Sews. The two met in a sewing class back in 2019 and have been connected through their craft ever since. When the world began opening up again, Sara signed them up to teach a class at the very same sewing event where they first met, and from there, Salty Sews was born. Sara and Debbie have built a community-driven sp...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Miri A., co-owner and founder of Capital Stitch Co. Miri’s passion is making embroidery approachable for beginners through her thoughtfully designed DIY kits. She believes that something magical happens when people put down their phones and pick up a needle and thread - and she’s on a mission to make that joy of creating accessible to everyone...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is psychologist, knitter, and author Nicole Nehrig. Nicole’s new book, With Her Own Hands, explores the deep personal meaning of textile work for women around the world throughout history. Drawing from her professional research and her own knitting journey, Nicole dives into how fiber arts have shaped—and been shaped by—women’s lives. Nicole shar...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Hannah, the creative mind behind Honey Fibers. Growing up surrounded by her great-grandmother’s quilts, Hannah’s love for stitching started with a deep connection to heritage. In 2020, she picked up quilting to keep her hands busy—and found herself completely hooked. Recently, Hannah brought the quilting community together for a collaborative...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Dee Bushrod of Pixel Quilts! Originally from the UK and now living in the U.S., Dee’s quilting journey started with a heartfelt gift and quickly evolved into something extraordinary. In 2020, she found connection and creativity through quilting with her daughter—turning favorite pop stars into pixelated quilt portraits. Since then, Dee has c...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m joined by Kim Moos, the creative force behind Cotton Cuts—home of the beloved Puzzle Mystery Quilt! 🧩✂️ Kim’s sewing journey started when she was young, but she first found herself in the corporate world of Biomedical Engineering. Luckily for quilters everywhere, she returned to her sewing roots and launched Cotton Cuts in 2016, bringing the magic of...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, I’m chatting with Lindsey of Pen + Paper Patterns. Lindsey is a talented quilt pattern designer known for her fun, whimsical style and her love of glue basting. Nearly ten years ago, she released her very first pattern, Rainy Day—and now she’s come full circle with her latest design, Chance of Rain, a delightful mix of umbrellas and daisies that’s perfect...

This week on Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show, my guest is Jessica Ahlstrand Kwan of Sugar Mill Quilts. Jessica’s quilting journey began back in 2001 when she learned the art of traditional Hawaiian quilting while living in Hawaii. Today, she blends those timeless hand skills with modern longarm quilting and digital pantographs, bridging past and present in her craft. We talk about the four-year proce...