The Quilter on Fire Podcast

My guest today is Lori Miller! She is a quilter, pattern designer, and national quilt educator from Oxford, Michigan. With a career in IT software for 25 years you can imagine why she enjoys the design process and why one of her favourite tools is EQ8 Quilt Design software. She teaches EQ8 classes around the country and writes Lessons With Lori for the EQ blog. As an Accuquilt GO! Getter, she shar...

My guest today is Ana Buzzalino. Ana Buzzalino is a creator, maker, fibre and mixed media artist, surface designer, teacher and lecturer. Her love of layers and texture combine in her original work. Her work has won numerous awards at national and international shows. In 2019 Ana was honoured as Quilter of Distinction at Heritage Park 24th Annual Festival of Quilts. She has been featured in numero...

Susan Madu of MODERN BLENDED QUILTS has been quilting for over 35 years alongside her career as a certified professional accountant. Her quilting journey has evolved from always following other people’s patterns to designing her own. For close to a decade Susan has been teaching and speaking for guilds in person and on Zoom including 3 different workshops at QuiltCanada in 2023. Grab a cup of tea...

We’ve got the latest scoop on some BIG NEWS – if you haven’t heard - SOAK WASH INC. has acquired SEW FINE THREAD GLOSS and there is so much to talk about! It is such a great thing for both businesses and I can’t wait to unpack the story. Today I’ll have a chat with Jacqueline Sava of Soak Wash Inc. and Jenn McMillan, the creator of Sew Fine Thread Gloss. Find the Soak Wash website right here: http...

Happy New Year 2025! I hope you find the time as this new year rolls in to cozy up with a cup of tea and take 2 full hours to listen to this wonderful episode. I enjoyed every minute of this conversation! Annie Unrein is an absolute sweetheart and I've wanted to have her on the show for years. Annie is well known in the bag making world with over 150+ incredible patterns, high quality bag mak...

Get ready to be inspired by the founder of CraftyMonkies! From a successful TV career that suddenly came to a halt to a thriving retreat and online event business bringing crafters together, this educational event planner has found her niche. I am looking forward to this episode with Rachel Pierman of Crafty Monkies! Crafty Monkies features live interactive Zoom classes, a monthly VIP club, on-dem...

My guest today is Kate Colleran. She is a quilt pattern designer with Kate Colleran Designs and a fabric designer with Island Batiks, and she’s written 2 books! She first started Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs with Elizabeth Balderrama where she was the designer and Elizabeth did the pattern testing, consultations and was the shipping maven! Together they wrote their first book Smash Your Precut...

My guest today is a renowned quilter from the picturesque town of Torquay,  Australia. If you’ve taken a workshop with her, you’ve likely danced around the house for days. Her designs are instantly recognizable with a seamless blend of traditional and contemporary design and she has made significant contributions to the quilting world. She draws inspiration from her travel adventures and the natur...

Today’s episode of the Quilter on Fire podcast is totally different – it’s about a short independent film – and you are gonna love it! THE QUILTERS follows the daily lives of several men, spending most of its screen time inside the sewing room in a Level 5 maximum security prison in a small Missouri town. As we follow several quilts from design to completion, audiences will come to know these men,...

Today we'll chat QuiltnLearn with Bea Byrne! Between her career in tech/events and her love of textiles/quilting, Bea Byrne realized that organizing and hosting online conferences in the quilting world is her jam. Having planned knitting events in the UK, and toured around travellers to crafty spots when she lived in Japan, to her recent guild show committee work where she lives now in the US...

Join me for a super fun experience at the International Quilt Festival in Houston for 2024. In this recap episode you'll hear me interview quilters, teachers, vendors and exhibition artists in the Oliso Story Space. You can listen in to the podcast as usual or watch the video here on the Quilter on Fire YouTube Channel; WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Want to travel with Brandy? 2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS...

My guest today is known for their joyful quilting and crafting projects on the social media scene. With hundreds of thousands of followers, time and time again we are inspired by Mx Domestic to take action whether it is to stitch up some hexies, try fabric weaving, clean our sewing machine, or take a moment to reflect on how we can be more thoughtful and inclusive online. Whether they are baring t...

It’s Halloween 2024 and I could not think of anything more fitting than to bring back that quarky little character called Mr Bones. I have featured this tiny TikTok Sensation a few times now on the podcast and it's always super fun to chat with Kimberlee about Mr. Bones with fun Halloween tidbits sprinkled in. Today, I’ll welcome to the podcast – Kimberlee Peers Moore   Find the Mr. Bones Sew...

My guest today is Karen Kay Buckley! She is a multiple award-winning quilter whose work is instantly recognizable. And part of the reason for that is that she’s been featured on the covers of 18 magazines! And when I say multiple award-winning we are talking about a dozen Best of Show Awards! She is known for the strong visual impact of her medallion quilts and her brilliant use of colour. She’s h...

My guest today is Chris English. He makes heirloom quality quilts from a variety of fabrics using old clothes and giving fabric a new lease on life. I first saw his quilts at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham two years ago and I loved every stitch, the use of colour, and every title of his message driven quilts. He studied textile design at university and has become a quiltmaker with a passion....

My guest today is Radha Weaver. She has such a fun online presence focussed on sustainable, zero waste quilting tips, how to learn upcycling, and how to quilt your jeans! Her website is Sewing Through Fog and she has some great patterns and workshops on her website to get you moving towards a sustainable quilting practice. And you don’t have to ditch everything you are doing! You can start one ste...

At 14 years old Genesis Hall is already an award-winning quilter and sewist. She began sewing at 10 years old and has grown with her skillset in leaps and bounds. In just a few short years, Genesis has been invited to special events such as H+H Americas a trade show where she was showcased as the inaugural Nex Gen exhibitor and ALSO, this year one of her quilts at Quilt Con 2024 was purchased by t...

My guest today is Scott Murkin, M.D. He is a hospice physician from North Carolina. He designs original quilts for the bed and wall. Scott exhibits nationally and internationally, has his textile artworks in prestigious public and private collections and has had his quilts appear in numerous publications. Scott is an NACQJ Certified Quilt Judge who has judged throughout the USA, including AQS, NQA...

My guest today is Becca Shifflett! She is a quilter with a passion for technology. She FAN girls over boy bands an she LOVES teaching! You can find her sharing her JOY on YouTube with videos like project tutorials, tips and tips, quilt a longs, block of the months (or is it blocks of the month) and she even has a playlist called ICYMI which stands for INCASE YOU MISSED IT where she talks about the...

My guest today is Manon Hunt. She is a long arm quilter, pattern designer, and wonderful course creator. She has workshops from learning to quilt start to finish to free motion motif building you will love to check out. She is the past owner of a quilt shop and has decades of experience that comes along with that. Another great tidbit you'll learn is that she's my quilting bestie. We mee...

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 respons...

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 l...

My guest today is Robin Bogaert. I interviewed her way back in January and I'm so excited to get this episode onto the airwaves.  She is a long arm quilter, pattern designer, and blogger for BERNINA International. And she joined the ranks of BERNINA Ambassadors for Canada over a year ago. She is the past owner of a quilt shop and has decades of experience that comes along with that. Find Robi...

My guest today is Charisma Horton! She is a longarm quilter, pattern designer, fabric designer and she hosts all kinds of wonderful events including blocks of the month! I’ve been following her on Instagram for ages, loving every post (especially the sweet inspirations) and she’s also been doing some really fun adventures with Rob Appell who I’ve had on the podcast in the past for Episode #51. Cha...

 My guest today is Fuzzy Mall, He is known for capturing a moment in time with his portrait quilts portraying figures in a candid way like they have no idea they are being caught in that moment of action. These quilts are bold, colorful and command attention because they are stunning from a distance but draw you in with detail inviting you to stand there for a while. He has accomplished so much in...