The Quilter on Fire Podcast

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 recogniz...

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 fo...

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 buil...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.  Link to Podcas...

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 o...

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...

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. Th...

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 th...

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...

On today’s show I interview Karen Brown of Just Get it Done Quilts. Just that name alone makes me want to drop everything and get in front of my machine. Karen has exploded with popularity on her Youtube Channel since 2018 and now has about 250K followers. Her videos are bursting with her happy demeanour and she’s not afraid to tell it like it is. She loves to take on viewer questions, examine qui...

Whether you are just thinking about trying your first fibre art technique or you’ve been making art quilts for years, today’s topic will bring out your artsy side. Studio Art Quilt Associates, or SAQA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing art quilting as a fine art medium. Stay tuned to meet the Executive Director of SAQA - Martha Sielman and learn all about this creative organization...

Today’s episode is all about irons and we know that quilters love their irons! My guest is the Director of Content and Community Relations for Oliso and her name is Michele Muska. I ask her all of my ironing questions and she'll share the story about how that cool lifting technology for the Oliso iron was invented. Ironing is a great topic for quilters and I’m so thrilled I reached out to Mic...

My guest for episode 26 is Valerie Wilson. I have known for over a decade and often been up to my elbows with fabric dyeing and flour resist paste in her studio. Oh, how she had the patience to put up with me I have no idea. I had the joy of working with Val on a Fibre Art Network challenge several years ago. We had to partner up and one quilter (Val) was to make a fabric portrait and her challeng...

My guest for episode 25 is Elizabeth DeCrooz and she loves quilting, pojagi, embroidery and sewing in her studio. Her business is called Epida Studio and she has a super fun O Canada Sew Along happening right now just in time for Canada Day. She has a wonderful story about where she’s lived in the world and why she’s in love with Pojagi. LINK TO THE PODCAST TRAILER - https://youtu.be/mXyaIEYsBgg L...

Peter Byrne is an international award winning modern quilter, teacher and speaker with a passion for innovation and design. He went from beginner quilter in 2009 to winning “Best in Show” and “Best Machine Quilting Frameless” at QuiltCon 2020. Along his path he became a full time student of the craft and joined the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild in 2017 to further his quilting experience. He made nume...

Laura Coia is the brains and the talent behind Sew Very Easy on youTube. If you are checking her channel out for the first time, the hours will slip by and you’ll have a dozen new projects on your UFO list! Whether you’re attempting your first projects or you are an experienced sewist or quilter, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon Laura brings you education, entertainment and loads of tips and t...

Felicity Ronaghan and Nadia Sokal take us through their process for what they call being "accountabilibuddies."  Whether they’d say so or not - they are excellent at keeping each other accountable. I know this because they are my friends from the Okanagan Modern Quilt Guild and at the monthly show and tell we see their projects unfold. I also follow them on Instagram and I’m consistently...

QOF Podcast Episode  21 with Dara Tomasson - longarm quilter, author of 2 quilting books, free motion quilting liberator and certified life coach at Love Yourself Thin.  LINK TO YOUTUBE TRAILER - https://youtu.be/2ER1VkLNDXk LINK TO GIVEAWAY - https://kingsumo.com/g/ncpxs5/qof-episode-21-giveaway LINK TO Dara Tomasson on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/daratomasson/?hl=en Support the show Th...

QOF Podcast Episode 20 is an interview with Wendy Zvara. I just had to have her on the show. You know how much I love and support Quilts of Valour and Wendy is a military mom of 3 raising a young family with her husband Michael. She is working, going to school and juggling it all while still finding a little bit of time for her love of quilting. Her heartwarming story caught my eye on social media...

Pokey Bolton is the founder of Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines, and Founding Host of Quilting Arts TV.  I poured through her magazines and watching her shows for over a decade and I can truly say that the wonderful techniques and guests that she has featured over the years have shaped the art quilter I am today.   With the wealth of experience she has in publishing, media, events,...

QOF Podcast Episode 18 is an interview with Rose Parr of Healthy Quilting. She’s a Canadian Long Arm quilter living in Guelph Ontario and she speaks about Healthy Quilting to guilds all over the world. Today we are going to chat about her new book - Sew Happy & Healthy, Smart Ergonomics, Stretches & More for Makers.  LINK TO THE PODCAST TRAILER - https://youtu.be/3J49GECAaQM The Episode 18...