American Patchwork and Quilting Radio

Marney Hertel writes at Made by Marney where she shares her darling paper pieced designs! ------------- Kathleen Berlew is a designer that writes at kbbcrafts and her work is showcased in many of the Quilts & More issues, like her heart pillow in the summer 2017 issue & the awesome ocean scene the Winter 2018 issue of the magazine. She works in felt and I’m excited to chat with her about how we can use felt! ---------- I love Kristin Esser’s book with her co-author Minki Kim called ‘Sew Illustrated’. You’ll also recognize her cover quilt from the Summer 2017 Quilts & more .. how many of you have pulled fabric to make it (I raise my hand!) Kristin has some great tips for getting that gradation of color from your stash. ------------- Lesley Chaisson of Berry Bird is an author, designer, regular contributor to American Patchwork & Quilting family of magazines and an all around maker of things! I love her fun sense of humor with her work, as you’ll recognize her fun pincushions like the Donuts & Hamburger. She

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Afton Warrick writes at Quilting Mod and I love the projects she shares. Being a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan, I right away started to follow her progress on her amazing Alice in Wonderland quilt, I knew we needed to be friends! Today we are going to chat a bit of Alice love, but also about documenting your quilting, and I am hoping she has a few tips on sewing with a new baby for you moms out there. =========== I love chatting with Roseann Kermes of Rosebud's cottage. She is so talented and has fantastic ideas. We talk a lot of holiday ideas & a bit of UFO busting. And did you know she has a fantastic book? =========== Leslie Rutland is the voice of the Seasoned Homemaker website. I’ve been wanted to chat with her for a long time and today is the day! She has a lot of sewing, diy, quilting and more.. it’s inspiring to visit her! ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

Kathy Tracy has a love of quilts and reproduction fabrics are her paint. She always adds in a bit of history to her quilt patterns and books, which is an awesome connection to the past. We are going to talk Small & Scrappy quilts, which is the title of her newest book ------------ You’ll recognize successful author and online teacher Nancy Scott of Masterpiece Quilting! Nancy’s unique twist on traditional work and her super friendly DIY approach make her patterns and classes fun to do! ------------ I’m in love with the gorgeous stitching in Janice Vaine’s book ‘Emrbroidery & Patchwork Revisited’. It’s amazing what thread can add to a design. Janice also makes it doable, and today we hear how her obsession with embroidery took hold. ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

The talented Jera Brandvig of Quilting in the rain is a fabric designer and author. She love quilt as you go and her new book is wonderful and full of tips! We are going to talk about color selections, blocks and get tips on quilting units ----------- Victoria Gertenbach is the voice behind the website The Silly BooDilly. I've been following her work for a long time and I love it! We are going to talk about mixing machine & hand quilting -------------- Melissa Mortenson is the creator behind the website Polka Dot Chair where her DIY projects are a mix of projects for your home, with lots of Quilting, sewing projects, Holiday crafts and family recipes. She is also an author & fabric designer. I am delighted to learn about her fabric lines with Riley Blake and get a few decorating tips for the holidays! ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

Cindy and Bret Cloward are the owners and amazing team to bring us Riley Blake Fabrics. Starting just about 10 years ago, they have a diverse selection of fabric style and share wonderful technique and process videos. Add to that their new Online class website and you have a recipe for fun! Cindy joins me today, its been awhile since we spoke, and this time we’ll have a nice long chat about how all things Riley Blake! ============= Kathy Flowers is the author of ‘Oh Glory’ which is a spectacular quilt of Americana projects. She has a beautiful story about the inspiration of her book. The proceeds of her book benefit R&R of Wauconda, IL. This is a veterans’s organization founded by Veterans who know what it’s like to come home after years of service and want to make the transition easier for other Veterans. =========== Q&A with Pat ========== visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

Marcia Harmening is the designer of Happy Stash Quilting, what a great name! She is an author, teacher and contributor to American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. You’ll recognize her quilts from the magazine pages, including the cover! We are going to chat about applique and how her years of living in Alaska formed her color sense. www.happystashquilts.com ------------------ With a website named Quilted Blooms I knew I’d love Paige Alexander’s quilts. She works in a modern style with a base in the blocks and shapes we all know and love. She loves a challenge and shares many of her processes to work on one, which will teach you a lot about how to think and design as you go. www.quiltedblooms.com ------------- Lindsay Conner is a super creative gal and fellow Baby lock ambassador. We had a chance to work together this year at the industry event Baby Lock holds for it’s ambassadors called ‘Common Threads’. She was helping me to learning embroidery machine techniques, we had a fun time! Today I’m excited to hear

Jona Giammalva is maker. She teaches, is an author, and a shop owner. Her fun path started with selling finished items online, to writing books & patterns, and her latest is having having an teaching studio. I am excited for you to get to know Jona and we’ll talk about teaching children to sew, she has some great pointers!  makesewingstudio.com/ ----------------- My love of folk art drew me to Rebekah Smith’s work. For quilters and stitchers, she works with wool and linen. She also is a painter and has a rich history of working in folk art. We are going to talk about about how she takes her style to wool and linen and she has lots of great information on both for us. https://www.rebekahlsmith.com/ ------------------ My good friend Linda Pumphrey has a new book out on Red and White quilts. When Linda writes a book she always brings history and meaning into it. And it’s always a project book as Linda is a quilt maker! Linda has a few great tips for red/white making today, as you know it’s my favorite! Proceeds

As I travel the country I’m always on the lookout for Barn quilts. When I saw Kristi Coupe’s barn quilts at Put a Quilt on it, I knew I had to have one! She is creating wonderful barn quilts for the quilters of today to use outside and inside their homes. I can wait for you to meet her and learn about her passion for barn quilts https://putaquiltonit.com/ ----------------- Sherri Noel of RebeccaMae Designs creates colorful quilts. She is known for her block of the month quilts and I love her style. She is going to give us tips on how she pulls fabric for her signature Scrap quilts. http://www.rebeccamaedesigns.com --------------------- Audrey Wright has been in the quilting industry for years, starting with a shop, and working for fabric companies and in the last several years has been a pattern and fabric designer with her website Legacy Pattern. Audrey is the designer of the ‘Potato Bag’ pattern that so many of you love! I’m excited total about quilting, how it’s evolved. http://www.makingalegacy.com/ -----

Sara Gallegos and I meet at Baby lock when filming a release for the new Destiny II machine. I’ve meet Sara before but that was the first we’d worked together and had such fun! She is an amazing teacher and versed in an incredible number of techniques. Also machine expert, and today we are going to get learn a little bit about how quilters can use their serger for.. quilts! Visit Sara sewpositivelysara.com/ ------------- I love meeting and getting to know people passionate about making quilts. I found that in Patricia Belyea of okanarts. Patricia opens her about page with this “Every quilt is a gift to the world. For the maker, it’s a creative meditation. For the receiver, it’s usually awe. In every way, quilting is a profound and positive activity.“ Patricia imports, creates, teaches about, and sells Japanese textiles. I’m excited to learn more about the these textiles and Patricia has a new book that will help you explore them! okanarts.com/ ---------------- Chat with Pat, I tell you about my museum exhib

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I’m delighted to have Amy Butler back on the show. I want to find out about her newest fabric line called Soulmate which is a gorgeous cotton poplin with incredible prints. I had a chance to see this line made into so many projects at the trade show, including a gorgeous dress Amy had on. She & her husband/business partner David also travel a lot to host events. I want to chat about how her travels make their way into her fabric lines, projects and maybe influence her life. ------------- Tiffany Hayes of Needle in a Hayes Stack creates fun and inspiring quilt projects. She is also a clever designer with her fabric placement and her clever Goddess Tool! Listen to find out what THAT is! ----------------- The talented Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosies is here to chat about the Cake Mix and other great things going on at Moda! I am now IN LOVE with Cake Mix papers.. Carries explains it all! ---------------- Monique Dillard of Open Gate quilts is a regular contributor to APQ magazine, a teacher, author, fabric designe

My friend designer Kristyne Czepuryk has a new section of her business, she is now a Moda fabric Designer! Kristyne does amazing projects, she did one for our Splendid Sampler book with gorgeous stitching. Her fabrics are super happy and we’ll learn how she designed them. Plus a great tip from her today! www.prettybyhand.com ------------- I’m excited today to have a chance to chat with Christopher Thompson about his quilting. He writes at The Tattooed Quilter and have super fun style, with lots of mini quilts. We had a chance to get to know each other being Baby lock ambassadors so that is very fun for me. Being modern in aesthetic and quilt making, Christopher also loves vintage and I want to find out a bit more about how he blends that. thetattooedquilter.com -------------------- I first meet Emily Breclaw of the Caffeinated Quilter when I showcased her quilt in the Official Downton Abbey Sews magazine. She has been designing for years now and her new book ‘Adventures in Hexagons’ is full of very unique a

Matt Reese is the new owner of the wonderful quilt show Road 2 California. I want you to meet Matt, some of you already know him from his years of working the show with his grandmother. And my curiosity was about bringing in all the show quilts to hang for the show. What is the process? How do they track it? Matt is going to tell us how they do it at R2C! www.road2ca.com ============= If you have not meet Evy Hawkins yet of ‘A Bit of Stitch’ you are going to love her! She is super creative and does a lot of different projects. Today we’ll talk quite a bit about the Sashiko machine by Babylock. Evy has been using it for very fun techniques, things you might not have thought of. www.abitofstitch.com ============== Jane Sassaman is an art quilter and fabric designer. Her exuberant quilts and fabric designs have attracted worldwide recognition. As an art quilter, Jane’s designs are always recognizable for their bold color and graphic style. In fact, her quilt ,“Willow”, was named as one of the one hundred best Am

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You know you are going to find fun and whimsy when you learn a designer started her business on April fools day! Sue Marsh of Whistle Creek Pig Production is just that! As a fabric designer, author and creator of darling designs, she knows how to put a smile on your face when making her projects! Whistlepig Creek Productions ------------------ Artist and author Deborah Fisher’s book ‘Quilt Giving’ caught my eye. Quilters love to make for others and one of our greatest joys is giving a quilt. Debroah designed 19 quilts that let us make projects that are not super time consuming and are wonderful to look at. Many are a more modern flair and you can use your scraps, prints, and solids to create warm and cozy presents. She is also the founder of the Bright Hopes Collaborative Quilt Project and I’m excited to learn about why she created it.   Fishmuseumandcircus.com Brighthopes.org ---------------- Annette Plog is the Author of True Blue Quilts and loves reproducing antique quilts. She is part of a group of friend

It’s always fun for me to be able to talk with future guest at a show where they have all their quilts for me to see.. well maybe not all but a group! I had seen Dora Cary of Orange Dot Quilts booth and knew I had to meet. I didn’t the first time, but after inviting her to the show, we had a chance to talk this past May at an event. I love all her work, it’s fresh, inspiring and something I’d like to make. She is from Romania, now a US Citizen, and had no knowledge of quilts, I think you will enjoy meeting her and her fun and different journey into making quilts! http://www.orangedotquilts.com/ ---------- Deb Grogan of the Quilt Factory is a very talented designer. With years of designing for other industries, she changed it up and moved into designing for quilter and we are lucky she did! I adore her whimsical style and very can do projects. Need a baby quilt? Deb has so many options you’ll be making her patterns for years to come! https://www.thequiltfactory.com/ --------------------------- UnFinished Obj

On this week’s American Patchwork & Quilting podcast, editors Jody Sanders, Lisa Schumacher, Lindsay Mayland, and designer Elizabeth Stumbo discuss quilting instrutry trends from Quilt Market. From the new neutral color to the motif that's everywhere, the editors share what popular items they think will hit your local quilt shops soon. Then Lisa and Elizabeth discuss Quilt Sampler magazine. They share tips for applying to be featured and behind-the-scenes secrets of making the magazine. To close the show, Jody shares tips for working with precuts, the magic of mini quilts, and what projects you can find in the August issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

The first time I saw Alex Anderson was in my living room on my television for her HGTV show "Simply Quilts". Alex tells us how she really got that job, and how she moved from there into the first internet tv show at The Quilt Show. This is recorded live and I don't do any touch ups, so you find out we lost the connection but got her back! http://alexandersonquilts.com/ =------------- Chat with Pat ... I want to start a list of the Quilt Museums! So please leave me a comment giving me your favorite, or ones you know of, or even ones you WANT to visit! -------------- Moda fabrics has a new partnership with the Victoria & Albert museum to reproduce the designs of fabrics in the collection for quilters. They are starting with a collection by the famous William Morris. I was delighted to spend time talking with curator Jenny Lister about why William Morris is important and seems perfect as the first collection. Victoria & Albert Museum ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequi

Erin Schlosser found her calling as a teacher early on, and mixed with design background.. we are the lucky winners of her talent! We talk about home sewing, fabric content, and that trying something you think is 'hard' might not really be hard at all! http://www.schlosserdesigns.com/ --------------- Have you wondered what the difference is between types of quilt shows? Local guilds, Regional or National shows? Linda and I tell you what goes on at all of these types of shows and why they are all great to experience! Plus you can meet Linda and take a workshop from her in Grand Rapids in August! http://lindathielfoldtthequiltedgoose.blogspot.com/ -------------------- My friend Kim Niedzwiecki from GoGoKim has been fussy cutting fabrics for projects for a long time. We take the 2nd half of the show to talk about that process, I tell you about my biggest Fail at it (oi!) and she explains how starch IS your friend. http://www.gogokim.com/ ---------- visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt