American Patchwork and Quilting Radio

I love trying new things with fabric and thread. Joanne Sharpe combines those so well inher Whimsical Stitching, she even wrote a book about it! She has a great way of looking at fabric to create and tells us a bit about being fearless http://joannezsharpe.blogspot.com/ --------- Many of you have seen Koala Studios at your favorite quilt shows. You may even have them in our sewing studio or you are dreaming of them. I’m very excited to talk to Ed Moore who is the founder of Koala Studios. He shared with me how this beautiful furniture is made and a little about the company. Can you guess why it's named Koala? http://mykoalastudio.com/ -------------- Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement.In Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Parron brings readers along as she, her husband Glen & their dog Gracie, follow the barn quilt trail through thirty states across thirteen th

Heather Givans of CrimsonTATE has a fun loving style! Her latest fabric line is called Literary and I’m really interested in how she developed her patterns to showcase the fabric. She is also a shop owner and I really want to visit her store!www.crimsontate.com --------- If you have been quilting for awhile, you will recognize the brand name Thimbleberries and the designer behind that is Lynette Jensen. She was one of the first pattern designers to partner with a fabric company to build a distinctive look. When I first started quilting it was one of the first names I got to know. Lynette shows us how to use our quilts as part of our lifestyle, to incorporate them into our homes in all sorts of ways. We are going to have fun learning what Lynette is up to now! http://thimbleberries.com/blog/ ----- Q&A + a Bit More this week 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

Many times I am introduced to a quilter’s work via a project they have shared that I run across. With Erin Davis of ‘Sew at home mummy’ that is the case. I love Mid Century Modern design and I ended up finding her articles about her love of that style, and finding out she quilts and does super great design! www.sewathomemummy.com -------------' The quilting industry is full of successful family businesses, and today we’ll meet one of the owners behind the adorable ‘Just Another Button Company’ Cecile McPeak who is the founder & creative director. She now run the company with her daughter Rachel Martin. They make buttons not only useful, but decorative & fun! www.JustAnotherButtonCompany.com -------------- I’m happy to chat podcasts today with Sandi Hazlewood, the creator of Crafty Planner sewing and quilting podcast! http://www.craftyplanner.com/ -------------- Roseann Kermes of Rosebud's cottage is back and we are talking about how to clean those most used tools. Have you ever thought about that? Me either!

Mary Covey is an author with the most recent books an array of super useful machine quilting design books. She has been longarm quilting for longer than I’ve been quilting, when hardly anyone knew what a longarm was. mary’s going to share with me how to think about adding the quilt designs and a big more! www.marycoveydesigns.com. -------- When I found Jennifer Rossotti's site, Ginger Peach Studio, I loved her style! she takes amazing photos, creates gorgeous projects I want to make. Her sense of color and scales creates beautiful projects. Plus she love upsizing projects, my favorite thing! Listen in to find out how she is using glue in some unique ways for her projects! http://gingerpeachstudio.com/ ------------- I’m delighted that Linda Thielfoldt is my quilt expert joining me in 2017. She is an award winning quilter, a teacher, designer, author and she quilts for hire too. With Linda’s deep technical knowledge of the quilt making process we are picking a topic each month and digging deep on it. This mon

Robin Vizzone primitive book http://www.briarrootprimitives.com/ ---------- Judy GAUTHIER C&T book author http://www.bungalowquilting.com/ ------------ Sharon Tucker http://grassrootsquiltstudio.com/ ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

Sharon Holland's fabric caught my eye. Then I was scrolling her website and instagram to look at all her beautiful photos. Sharon joins me to chat about fabric design and we’ll explore how one develops a style about their quilt patterns. https://www.sharonhollanddesigns.com/ --------------------- I love catching up with Terry Atkinson. She is always coming up with clever fun projects I want to make. Her newest book is ‘Simple, Fun & Quickly Done’. I love the citrus wedge mats.. adorable! I also want some tips for working with zippers, she has them for us! http://www.atkinsondesigns.com/ --------------- Author and Moda fabric designer Betsy Chutchian has been on to chat with me a few times. Today she and Carol Staehle are here to talk about their book ‘Treasury of Quilts’. 10 Stunning Patterns, 30 striking options. I love the concept of this book where we can use it to either follow the pattern or jumpstart to something else.These two have years of quilt making with groups and I hope to learn how Betsy deals w

Cindy Grisdela is a talented designer and focuses on Improvisational work, she is also a member of my local quilt guild! She has a book called Artful Improv and I am happy to be able to learn some insider tips from her today. https://cindygrisdela.com/ ----------------- Kelly Bowser of KelbySews shares all types of techniques and I love her tutorials with step outs that make is the projects fun and easy to do. She is active on Instagram so we are going to talk a bit about how to get involved there with group projects since sewing with others online is fun! And she has some tips for working with zippers, can’t wait! http://www.kelbysews.com/ ------------- It’s always fun to catchup with Darlene Zimmerman of Feedsack Lady. She is a prolific designer of quilts, fabric and tools. Plus she has a quilt in both the spring Quilts & More issue and the June issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. I hope to get a few tips on her Hummingbird Nine-Patch quilt! http://feedsacklady.com/ -------------------- Stephanie Ken

I love chatting with fabric and quilt designer Emily Herrick of Crazy old Ladies, she is creative and always has fun projects! When I saw her Picnic baskets for the June 2017 American Patchwork & Quilting issue I get hold of Emily to visit with me again! https://www.instagram.com/crazyoldladies/ ------------- Jackie White wrote me a great note telling me about the project Canadian Quilter’s Association is running in support of the Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada. They are making 1,000 quilt to be delivered in 2017 for the children in care that the homes. Each quilt will have a piece of the Canada 150th anniversary fabric in it. https://www.canadianquilter.com ------------------------------ It's Fun to have Blair Stocker of WiseCraft Handmade back today to talk about using special fabrics in projects. She teaches workshops with this focus and her newest book is Wise Craft quilts which is filled to the brim with tips on how to use those fabric and project ideas too! http://wisecrafthandmade.com -----------

When I learned about the ‘Love’ quilt that the Floyd Quilt Guild, of Floyd VA, created I had to know more. The VA tourism board has used ‘Love’ many ways over the years from VA is for lovers to the new “LOVE’ with a heart logo. Many of the rest stops have giant letters in front. Being that I live in VA this makes it even more special to see this amazing quilt and hear it's story. Sallie McCauley and Gwen Goepel were the organizers of having the quilt made, I love hearing the story! floydquiltguild.com --------------- I’m a big fan of Kitty Wilkin’s work. She writes at Night Quilter about her own patterns, but also about quilt making she encounters along the way. She shares tutorials and this year is doing a ‘Year of Stitches’.. which is hand embroidery. I really love the idea of a ‘year of’ something and can’t wait to learn more! https://nightquilter.com/ =============== It is always great to have Kimberly Einmo on my show! She is such a talented designer and is full of great ways to do thing. We are going to

I love when I get a note about a quilt project that is unique. Julie Brown Neu collaborated with her sister Karen H. Brown on a children’s book. Julie did the illustrations which are quilts! I love collaborations and the story behind them. Julie is also a talented quilt maker that brings her love of detail into her other work. We’ll hear how the book came about and she has some great tips for us on using Y Seams. http://julieneu.com/ ------------ We are so lucky in the quilting world when great designers do quilting fabric collections. Robin Pickens is a Moda designer, and you will find her art of many different products. I had so much fun chatting with her at the show and today she is going to give us a look at how she works with designs and colors. http://www.robinpickens.com ---------------- I’m delighted that Linda Thielfoldt is my quilt expert joining me every month in 2017. She is an award winning quilter, a teacher, designer, author and she quilts for hire too. With Linda’s deep technical knowledge of

Felicia Brenoe is a talented quiltmaker and designer. From teeny tiny log cabin blocks to appliqueing a garden she has designed it all. I really love her philosophy on honoring your personal style. We chat about her book, how living in Norway introduced her to textiles and a tip on how to handle tiny paper piecing! http://www.feliciasworld.com/ -------------- I truly love the internet. How else would I have found about about the quilt designed to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary by Kat Tucker of Next Step Quilt Designs? She designed 150 blocks and each is inspired by the story of an Canadian born woman who made a difference. nextstepquiltdesigns.blogspot.ca/, ------------------ Brenda Ratliff is the dynamic owner of Pink Castle Fabric, organizer of Camp StitchAlot & SewPro and a fabric designer with RJR. I am excited to be working with Brenda as part of the 2017 Aurifil Design team and today we talk about retreats. What they are, how to attend a retreat if you have never done that before, and what to do

I love discovering how clever and resourceful designers are. Sue Pfau of Sweet Jane Quilting has a book with 12 project sure to make you swoon over precuts! And Her story about how you landed on this is great! Anyone can be successful with a little formula in their pocket. https://www.instagram.com/sweetjanequilts/ ============== I’m so happy to chat with Jacquie Gering again! If I can point to one person that has influenced how I think about machine quilting in the last couple of years, it is Jacquie’s walking foot quilting. She has showed you in her craftsy classes and now she has a beautiful and information packed teaching book called ‘Walk’. We are going to get a peek at how she thinks about using the walking foot to quilt.. hint.. not in the ditch! www.jacquiegering.com/ =============== I know a LOT of you own a Twister ruler, today I have one of the company owners, Marilyn Foreman, here to talk to me about how she used the ruler then bought the business! Plus she has some tips for you on them. www.twis

I’m smitten with the delightful images that Tasha Noel creates. On fabric and in her embroidery, they are darling! We’ll get an insider peek to how Tasha designs and I can’t wait to hear more about how she loves to use decorative stitches as quilting stitches on her machine! www.instagram.com/tashanoel1/ ============== I’m delighted that Linda Thielfoldt is my quilt expert joining me every month in 2017. She is an award winning quilter, a teacher, designer, author and she quilts for hire too. But besides all that Linda has a very deep technical knowledge of the quilt making process. Each month we’ll have a chance to dig deep into a topic everyone wants to know about! To kick off the year, we’ll talk about teaching. And more importantly, teaching someone else to quilt so that they love it as much as we do. You are in for a real treat this year getting to know Linda! http://www.thequiltedgoose.com/ ================== For the second half of my show I will be talking with Gwen Marston. Her work spans folk art, to

I believe a lot of us first noticed Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill’s work with her ‘Buzzz’ quilt that won the 2015 Quilt Alliance animal quilt contest. I want to learn how Sheri has taken her graphics design background, love of math, and symmetry to her unique quilts. With this combo Sheri’s quilts pull a lot of design punch. We’ll hear today how she works through creating a new design http://wholecirclestudio.com/ ==================== As quiltmakers we usually do a few other things beside quilt. Maybe crochet, garden, bake… or read. Yep… quilters LOVE a story and put a quilter IN that story and we can really relate! We are so lucky that many novelist are also quilters and choose to make the star of the novel a quilt maker. I’m excited to have author Frances Dowell with me today to tell me about her book Birds in the Air. I want to learn how she spins our quilting into the book! http://quiltfiction.com/ ================== Vicki Ruebel is an extraordinary award longarm quilter. I was drawn to her work because she has

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Yvonne Fuchs designs, teaches and writes as ‘Quilting Jet Girl - sewing at the speed of sound’. … she is my kind of gal! She has a great design style plus shares many great tutorials at her website. One thing we have in common is building quilt communities. Yvonne does a lot of projects and I’m excited to get to know her today! http://quiltingjetgirl.com/ -------------------- If you have not had a chance to meet Paula Nadelstern yet, you are in for a treat today! She creates innovative and complex designs for her quilts that are inspired by the symmetry of kaleidoscopic images. Her award winning work has been exhibit at quilt shows & museums. Such as having the first one-person exhibition highlighting the work of a contemporary quilt artist (2009) at the American Folk Art Museum's in NYC. She is an author and a fabric designer with her super power being to create fabrics that are cut apart to design incredible images. We are going to hear how she designs and then get a peek at how working in series has broug

Guest links at http://blog.patsloan.com/radio-shows/ ------------------- Tina Curran is an award winning art quilter and designer of some pretty fun project patterns. I first noticed her work when someone share a photo of a quilt they did from her pattern. Tina is known for her use of color both in her art quilts and her patterns. --------------- Mary Kerr always comes up with pretty amazing projects, often incorporating vintage textiles and vintage quilts or quilt ‘parts’. You know .. those pieces you made but didn’t use? Quilters have done this for years and Mary takes those parts and uses them in her quilts. Her book ‘Twisted, Modern Quilts with a Vintage Twist’ is brilliant! She not only took quilt parts, made unique tops, but then asked well known quilter to quilt the pieces. She shares their process for taking that blank canvas to the next extraordinary level. I’m excited to hear about the project from Mary and get tips and how to do something like this myself… maybe we’ll even get an insider story out

For the end of the year show I decided to try out a new show format... and it was fun... like REALLY fun for me to do. I have 4 segments and 4 different topics, but it's just me chatting with you today. First give you my shows back story, how it all came about. Because seriously 6 1/2 years ago i never heard of internet radio. And now i'm ending year 6 and starting year 7 and I love it as much as I always have! I have a Q&A segment with questions you asked me at my facebook group, which by the way is super fun so if you have not joined me yet please do! My huge project this year is the Splendid Sampler, so I did a where it's at and what's going on about the project. Moda is one of the big sponsor for my talk show and I really want you to hear what goes on behind the scenes. Plus let you know what's coming up, There is more to the people at the company than a new line coming out. ================ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmaga

It’s fun to have Christa Watson back from ChristaQuilts to talk about her 2nd book on machine quilting. (we talked about her first book on Sept 14) plus she has some great tips for us to day and we get to hear about the projects she will do with American Patchwork & Quilting in 2017! https://christaquilts.com/ ==================== I love my Baby lock machine and I want you to learn more about what Baby lock has going on, and the best person to talk to is my friend Linda Rainwater, the National Training Manager. Linda overseas the education and know absolutely everything about the machine. http://babylock.com/ ============== Catching up with Author, fabric designer and master quilter Angela Walters today. She has been busy in the last year or so doing several books, opening a store front and maybe a few other things! I wanted to find out about writing a not one, but TWO collaboration books with different people. . quiltingismytherapy.com =================== Each month this year Mary Abreu of Confessions of a

Diane Bohn of From Blank Pages creates pretty amazing paper pieced quilts. The sparkle and have a life of their own as she encourages you to use fabrics that you love in her work. She also is an advocate of making quilts for charity and bringing people together to make them. Quilters want to help by giving a ‘real’ hug to people in need via our quilts. Quilters are the most generous of people this way. Diane has run a group to partner people up, she is an inspiration to me! fromblankpages.blogspot.com/ --------------- Amy Barickman of Indygo Junction was the first designer, business that I meet when I went to my first trade show. I had already been a huge fan of the Designs and team at Indyo Junction and Amy’s wonderfully warm welcome to the business side of quilting was so kind. We have worked together several times over the years and we keep up with each other on all things quilting and sewing! She is super clever and always has fun new ways for us to sew, from quilts to clothing to totes to her new Fabrif