The Quilter on Fire Podcast

Gudrun Erla is a pattern designer, writer, and is famous for creating her stripology rulers, but something that really caught my eye was the explosion in growth of her community over the pandemic by just giving the quilters what they need. When we all felt trapped at home with lockdowns, Gudrun created events that brought us together, doing what we love. Today, her business, GE Designs, has grown...

Monica Michelle has a passion for helping women share their brands with a wider audience. She is the CEO and co founder of Bloom TV, her first streaming TV network with floral focused content, and has now co founded with Joe, Made TV, that is specifically designed for artists and makers of all kinds. Jo Packham has been editor in chief for Where Women Create, Where Women Cook, Where Women Create W...

My guest today is Heidi Parkes. She is a quilter, textile artist, and yoga therapist. She is a sought after teacher and speaker on the quilting scene and has exhibited her work in art and textile museums across the US. I could hardly even write this little intro myself, because I loved every word in her bio on her website, so here's an excerpt from that;  "Often using specific textiles,...

My guest today is Zak Foster. He is a quilt maker who loves working with repurposed materials like old clothes, worn out linens, leftover shirting materials, and thrown out umbrellas even, and vintage tablecloths. He makes custom quilts and engages in some really cool ways with his quilting community online. He's doing all kinds of fun stuff with friends and mentors, and I can't wait to...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It's another great spooky themed episode with my guest Kimberly Peers-Moore. She is a quilt maker, a social media influencer, and the creator of Mr. Bones. He is a tiny skeleton who loves to sew, craft, and bake, and Kimberly has created a wonderful little world for us to follow along on his adventures. In her TikTok profile, she writes, creating your daily dose of skeletonin...

My guest today is Samantha Krebsbach. I first met Samantha at QuiltCon last year when I stopped her in her tracks to ask her about her quilted runners. They were purple patchwork with ombre laces and rainbow stitching and I wanted to take them home with me. When I started to chat with her, I realized that she is a pattern designer, she does professional edge to edge long arm services, and custom l...

My guest today is Joe Cunningham, also known as Joe the Quilter. He is known for his raw, edgy approach to quilting, tackling a topic that means a lot to him in his quilt making and speaking on topics that are top of mind in the quilting world. In fact, he's at the forefront of spurring on great conversations. He has accolades ranging from solo art shows to TV appearances and quilts in privat...

My guest  today is Sarah Ashford, founder and host of the Great British Quilter Podcast. She is known for shining the spotlight on British quilters of course! She has written two books, Jump into Patchwork & Quilting and Rotary Cutting Basics. And with a focus on beginner quilters, she loves to teach and travel. She just launched her wellness coaching business and has a passion for fitness. Sa...

Jenny Doan is a sewlebrity who has grown a YouTube presence with educational quilting goodness to over half a million subscribers. She is known for her pre cut friendly tutorials, making quilting accessible to everyone. And with her family by her side, they have built their business from the ground up from struggles to thriving success. Over the last decade and a half, Missouri Star has changed th...

Cindy Seitz Krug is known for her expertise in teaching domestic machine quilting. She's a multiple award winning quilter and an NACQJ Certified Quilt Judge. She already has a popular book under her belt called The Grid Design Workbook packed with loads of info on the basics of grid based quilting designs and in this episode we'll dive into her new book as well. She helps quilt makers to...

My guest today is Roderick Kiracofe. He is the author of The American Quilt and Cloth and Comfort. He co-founded the Quilt Digest and has been actively involved in the creation of some of America's most important private and corporate quilt collections. He has curated exhibitions in the United States and overseas. I met Roderick last summer at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, where he ha...

My guest today is Trixi Symonds, an author and softie designer who has been teaching sewing to children for over 30 years. She is the founder of Sew Your Own Softie on Etsy Australia, and the Global Kids Sewing Party every year in March to inspire adults around the world to sew with kids in their lives. She has three wonderful books under her belt, including one that she coauthored with one of my...

My guest today is Emma Brassfield of Studio 7t7, a maker based in Surrey, United Kingdom, who has made the transition from a unique creative career in costume design for movies to the world of sewing and patterns. She is known, not only for her creative design in bag making and sewing, but also for how she brings people together online with her memberships and more. She goes live to challenge hers...

My guest today is Scott Culley. He is a quilt artist, upcycled architect, husband, and father of two who has become known on the quilting scene for his foundation paper pieced portraits and masks. He has brought to the world the incredible pictorial quilts you will see below. This week on the podcast, we dive into a great conversation about the masks we use in our lives for many different reasons....

My guest today is Rebecca Bryan, Author, Teacher and Founder of the Make Modern Triangles Quilt Club. She is a self-proclaimed freezer paper piecing evangelist. Her name has become synonymous with modern triangles and she has 2 modern books out to back it up called Modern Triangle Quilts and Modern Rainbow – 14 Imaginative Quilts that play with colour. She won an award at QuiltCon for minimalist d...

Today is the day! Registration OPENS (August 15th at 10am EST) for QuiltCon 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and we are keeping it current with the perfect episode for the occasion. Today, I'll have a chat about all things QuiltCon with the Director of Events at the MQG, Elizabeth Dackson. She is one of only eight staff who run the ever-growing phenomenon known as QuiltCon. Today we're g...

Today's guest is an Aussie creator, wildly popular on Instagram with her beautiful creative feed where she is known as @stitchandyarn . She creates bold, distinctive, modern quilts, and is a lover of all things up-cycled. Today I'll have a chat with Tara Glastonbury.  She is known not only for her creative design in quilting, but also for how she brings people together from around the wo...

My guest today is contemporary fine artist, Susan Hensel. Her artwork is known and collected nationwide and represented in collecting libraries and museums. Her work has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions, including dozen of solo shows across a 50 year span with over 20 of those garnering awards. She's also been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies. Susan has curated over 100 exh...

 If you are obsessed with making stuff like most quilters are, and you love to take a step back in time for that vintage aesthetic, you are gonna love this podcast episode today. Maude MacDonald truly lives what she portrays in her business The Retro Quilter. In the last few years, she has gone from beginner quilter to pattern designer and she has nailed her retro niche, and now she has a great ne...

My guest today is Shannon Fraser. She is known for her popular modern quilt alongs with three under her belt and more on the way. And having stumbled into quilting, she loves to prove to the newbies that quilting is not just for your grandmother. Her style is fresh, colorful, and modern, and her quilty goodness will make you wanna sign up for her newsletter so you don't miss a thing. The doze...

My guest today is Jenni Grover. She is an Author, Quilter and Wellness Coach for Makers. She cares deeply about craft and health and how they intersect with each other. She is an Associate Certified Coach, has been a patient advocate and chronic illness coach and has designed a CREATIVE RESILIENCE wellness coaching approach that we are going to talk about in great detail today.  She is a sought af...

Interviewing Brody, Teancum and Zack from Sew Yeah Quilting last week was so fun. They have such a heartwarming story about how their quilting business started, how it has grown over the last 7 years and what they stand for. It's a purpose driven business that aims to educate and bring quilters together.  Sew Yeah Quilting Website Sew Yeah Quilting on YouTube Alaska Quilt Drive Support the sh...

Jacqueline Sava is the Founder and Director of Possibilities (I love that!) at Soak Wash Inc. She created Soak Wash in 2005 with better than necessary ingredients to bring something to market that was so good customers would try it once and never look back. Why not love your clothes, fabric and quilts as much as you love yourself? She strives to align her business practices with her environmental...

Today on the podcast I interview a quilter and scholar who is best known for her prolific and meaningful writing in the quilting world. She was recently a teacher and speaker at Quilt Con 2023. She has published five Quilt history textile books.  And we'll dive into the pages of her 2 brand new books as well. She has written for dozens of magazines and presented lectures all over the world. S...

Today on the podcast I talk to organizers, volunteers, vendors, heritage actors and more at the Festival of Quilts in Heritage Park - Calgary.  Now there are some really great reasons to consider attending this quilt show at heritage park next year. First your daily admission gets you everything except purchases in the stores. You can hop on the steam train, take a boat ride and visit the amusemen...