The Quilter on Fire Podcast

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By: Brandy

Quilting is the best hobby on earth! It includes everything from quilts and fibre art to wearables and bags. It brings you immense joy and it's a great stress reliever, but there is so much to learn. Join Brandy Maslowski, the Quilter on Fire, as she tackles the latest quilting topics and interviews guests from all over the world. If you want to hear the latest quilting tips and tricks, listen to the experts and become a better quilter, then this show's for you. 

QOF Episode 214 - Pat Pauly
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Pat Pauly is a visionary in the world of fiber art, known for her bold, graphic compositions and rich, hand-printed fabrics. That might sound like a bold statement, but she plans out her quilts with imagination, innovation and wisdom. With a background in art and design, she seamlessly blends construction, painting, printmaking and stitching to create work that is both striking and deeply rooted in abstraction. Her pieces have been featured in major exhibitions worldwide, beginning with Quilt National ’83, and her work is held in both private and public collections. Pat travels extensively to teach, delivering dynamic workshops and le...


QOF Episode 213 - Mary Engelbreit
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06/24/2025

My guest today is Mary Engelbreit. She has had an incredible art career spanning over 4 decades and she is an icon in the licensed artwork industry. Her work started with greeting cards and went on to be licensed on nearly 6500 products over the years with more than 1 billion dollars in lifetime sales. She was also editor-in-chief of the award-winning creative lifestyle magazine, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion for more than a decade. She is one of a select few artists with three New York Times children's best sellers. Her current line of products including blank cards, boxed cards, coloring books...


QOF Episode 212 - Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show with Dawn Boyd
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06/17/2025

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) has grown from a modest display of a dozen quilts in 1975 to the world's largest outdoor quilt show, featuring over 1,300 quilts from artists around the globe. 

My guest today is Dawn Boyd, the Executive Director of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Oregon held  annually on the second Saturday in July. The event attracts more than 10,000 visitors to the charming town of Sisters, Oregon, transforming its streets into a vibrant landscape of color and creativity with quilts. The show's mission—to celebrate the art, skill, and heri...


QOF Episode 211 - Sharon Holland
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06/10/2025

My guest today is Sharon Holland. A mother of 3 with a B.A. in Art & Design. Sharon’s story goes from handcrafting dolls and seasonal crafts to a stint in magazine publishing and fabric design first for Paintbrush Studios and then now Art Gallery Fabrics. Starting as a library-book-taught quilter when rotary cutters were revolutionary new tools, she's evolved into a sought-after designer with a signature "modern-traditional" style. Her journey proves that formal training combined with hands-on passion creates something extraordinary—fabric designs and quilts that bridge heritage techniques with contemporary aesthetics, the perfect mix. She is a quilt patt...


QOF Episode 210 - Sew Powerful
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06/03/2025

Sew Powerful a volunteer driven organization founded by Jason & Cinnamon Miles. They are a learning organization, driven by their faith, frugal in their practices, and they are focussed on combatting extreme poverty. They provide training and tools to create jobs which produce purposeful products including purses, school uniforms, reusable hygiene pads, soap and farm fresh food. What’s their mission? To promote and enable the academic success of children throughout Zambia, while providing the dignity of work for adults. And today we will find out how you can participate by making a purse for a child in need.

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QOF Episode 209 - Valori Wells
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05/27/2025

My guest today is Valori Wells - From darkroom photography at age 13 to earning a BFA in fine art, her journey has always followed inspiration. For the past 27 years, she has designed commercial fabric collections, authored quilting books, and led artist retreats in Bali and Morocco, where she teaches photography, block printing, and textile arts. As the second-generation owner of The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters Oregon, she’s carried forward a 50-year legacy of art, education, and community. Her work—whether painted, printed, sewn, or taught—is rooted in storytelling, nature, and emotional expression.

Valori has 2 great websites...


QOF Episode 208 - Amanda Oros
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05/20/2025

My guest today is Amanda Oros the founder and host of Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show – A conversational, slightly chaotic podcast about quilting with lots of amazing guests! We did a podcast swap and had a really great conversation both times. You can find her interview with me right here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVY7Kt_Kzk

The tables were turned, I was in the hot seat, and it was a lot of fun. Amanda has dropped over 140 episodes so be sure to listen in for all kinds of quilty fun. 

You can al...


QOF Episode 207 - HollyAnne Knight
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05/13/2025

My guest today is HollyAnne Knight – from making t-shirts quilts by order to an online quilting Academy and her new bricks and mortar quilt shop, Holly Anne Knight has come a long way. In person at the shop String and Story on Main, she offers beginner to intermediate quilting, bag-making, and garment sewing classes as well as supplies for a variety of projects. And online she guides you to quilt and stitch with confidence in her rockstar community where you can make friends and finish your own quilts!

HollyAnne Knight Website - https://www.stringandstory.com/

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QOF Episode 206 - Amber Elliot
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05/06/2025

My guest today is Amber Elliot! Founder of Alderwood Studio, Amber is a Software Engineer turned fulltime Quilt Entrepreneur. She released her first book in 2022 and we’ll do a deep dive into her 2nd book today on the podcast! Amber is a modern quilter, pattern designer, educator and a fabric designer for Riley Blake which was a big tick off her bucket list and she is the founder of the Modern Makes membership. Her big ticket item – the thing she’s most known for – is her Pattern Writing Academy – a 7 week course to get you designing, producing and selling yo...


QOF Episode 205 - Jane Sassaman
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04/29/2025

My guest today is Jane Sassaman. She is a world-renowned artist known for her expressive art quilts and fabric designs. Her bold, colourful, abstracted from nature quilts are instantly recognizable and her quilts have been shown in many national and international exhibits. She is the author of The Quilted Garden which featured 20 years of her work and Patchwork Sassaman Style which beautifully illustrates her fabric in action.  And she also brings that joy to quilters and sewists worldwide with her fanciful fabric design with Free Spirit Fabrics.

Go to Jane's website right here: https://www.j...


QOF Episode 204 - Kimberly Einmo
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04/22/2025

My guest today is Kimberly Einmo! 

She is an award-winning quilter, fabric designer, international instructor, quilt judge for over 20 years, and the National Spokesperson for Janome-America. She has written six best-selling books published by the American Quilter’s Society, created a signature line of precision quilting rulers, and she wrote a column called Stray Threads, in every issue of American Quilter Magazine for close to a decade. Kimberly is proud to be a featured artist for the Electric Quilt Company where she developed three EQ companion software products. Her basics fabric collection, Solid-ish, has been a best-seller for...


QOF Episode 203 - Judy Gauthier
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04/16/2025

My guest today is Judy Gauthier – a long time quilt shop owner doing all kinds of fun things! Step into her vibrant scrappy world in Wisconsin! Author, fabric designer, and owner of Bungalow Quilting, she transforms scraps into spectacular creations. With six books, national teaching tours, and TV appearances alongside quilting legends, Judy's creative magic continues to unfold through her AccuQuilt designs and upcoming projects!" 

Go to Judy's's website right here: https://www.bungalowquilting.com/

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2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS Birmingham!!! This 14-day tour of Wales and England takes in...


QOF Episode 202 - Sue Penn
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04/08/2025

My guest today is Sue Penn. She loves to sew and she’s been passionate about art and creativity since childhood. Encouraged by her grandmother, who generously supported her artistic development, she studied drawing and painting for years. In her early twenties, she discovered a deep love for sewing, quilting, and textile arts, which ultimately led to a career in fabric design spanning nearly 28 years. She’s known for her use of color designing Free Spirit Fabrics, beginning with bold and bright acrylic-painted backgrounds that she enhances with stencils, stamps, embossing, and hand-printed papers. These fabrics are gorgeous! You can...


QOF Episode 201 - Becky Campbell
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04/01/2025

My guest today is Becky Campbell of SewForever Quilting. She is known for creating Innovative Appliqué and English Paper Piecing Made Easy. Her quilting and sewing products make complicated, time-consuming techniques doable for the modern sewist. I took her EPP sticky papers on one of my England tours for my guests to play with on the coach as we travelled across the countryside of Wales and they loved the reusable self-stick templates. It was really fun and easy. On the podcast today we’ll talk about those repositionable shapes as well as her Innovative Appliqué, a few books she’s writ...


QOF Episode 200 - Este Macleod
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03/26/2025

Today is like the color confidential episode of the Quilter on Fire podcast except its not confidential – we are going to spill the beans on color. My guest today uses colour as a principal element in her work, applied in layers, and created with the intention to surprise, evoke calming emotions and a sense of joy. Today I’ll have a chat with professional artist and designer Estè MaCleod. She is a professional artist and designer with a background in textile and surface design. Her art has hung in galleries in the UK and internationally and she often turns her w...


QOF Episode 199 - Kaye England
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03/18/2025

My guest today is Kaye England who hits the road from her farm life to share her love of patchwork piecing techniques and her delightful philosophy of life! She has owned 3 quilt shops, two gift shops, and two tea rooms in her retail career and now resides on an 8 acre farm where she plays Mama to llamas and goats. She designs 2 collections of fabric per year, she’s written 15 books, and designed patterns and blocks of the month and more. She even has embroidery collections on many of her fabric lines. She has taught in all 50 states and many ot...


QOF Episode 198 - Julia McLeod
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03/11/2025

My guest today is Julia McLeod – an international award-winning quilter. She specializes in making silk quilts, sourcing her fabrics from neckties, clothing and furnishing fabrics. She has been featured on the quiltshow.com in episode 2902 and she has an on-demand workshop called How to Use Silks in Your Quiltmaking. Julia’s new book, and first book actually, with C&T Publishing is Patchwork LUXE: Quilts from Neckties, Kimonos, and Sari Silks  - I love that title – Patchwork LUXE sounds so luxurious! 

You won't believe the blooper in this one! I couldn't remember...


QOF Episode 197 - Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
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03/04/2025

My guest today is Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry! She is internationally known for her award-winning fine-art quilts, which are easily recognized by their luminous colours and illusions of light, depth, and motion. Her attention to detail has earned her a reputation for fine craftsmanship and stunning designs. Her quilt, Corona 2: Solar Eclipse was voted one of the hundred best quilts of the 20th Century.  Caryl's work has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions and publications throughout the world, and can be found in museum, corporate, public, and private collections in almost every US state and in eight other countries. For 30 years, C...


QOF Episode 196 - Helen & Jenny of Sew Kind of Wonderful
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02/26/2025

Helen Robinson & Jenny Pedigo are sisters and co-owners of Sew Kind of Wonderful - a contemporary quilt pattern & specialty notions design company. THEY ARE KNOWN FOR, The Quick Curve Ruler which was the cornerstone of their "Urban Series" quilts, and they’ve designed a few more specialty rulers since then. They’ve published 8 books starting off with Contemporary Curved Quilts and we chat about them all in this episode. And they bring fresh and inspiring fabric designs to the world each year with Free Spirit Fabrics. 

Find Sew Kind of Wonderful:

Instagram: https://www.i...


QOF Episode 195 - Dee Bushrod the Pixel Quilter
02/18/2025

Devida Bushrod is a quiltmaker and entrepreneur known for her love of pixel quilts. At PixelQuilts.com she offers ready made quilt patterns, teaches pixel quilting, and provides a brand new program where you can upload your photo and create your own custom pixel quilt. With hundreds of hours and thousands of pieces invested in each pixel quilt, Dee quilts with a purpose. Choosing people and subjects that truly inspire her, Dee has even made a quilt fit for the Queen.  

Find Dee Bushrod:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixelquilt/

Website: https://pixelquilts.c...


QOF Episode 194 - Tara Faughnan
02/11/2025

It's the PRE QUILTCON Featured Speaker Episode with Tara Faughnan! 

I've got my QuiltCon socks on and I can't wait to share this interview with you. Tara is professional textile designer and quilter living and working in Oakland, CA. She is a quilter, teacher and pattern designer who loves to stretch her own skills and take her students right along with her.  She is known for her simple bold geometry and gorgeous bright colours in her quilts and for pushing the boundaries of what works. Are you ready to start designing your own quilts? Tara has built a...


QOF Episode 193 - Vicki Conley
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02/04/2025

Vicki Conley is an art quilter and surface pattern designer. She works in both abstract and representational and shares her love of the outdoors through her art. She is a juried artist member of SAQA and has shown her work in shows that have travelled the world. She has been featured on QATV and on thequiltshow.com. She is well known for her national park quilts but her creative journey didn’t start there. Today you’ll hear the story of an artist who’s had the best career possible from pottery to art quilting, following her heart.

Find...


QOF Episode 192 - Lori Miller
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01/28/2025

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 shares tutorials and patterns of her designs on the Accuquilt blog as well. Today's podcast is a great conversation about how she combines these two products for the perfect...


QOF Episode 191 - Ana Buzzalino
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01/21/2025

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 numerous magazines, TV Shows like thequiltshow.com, - too many to mention! But most notably - her work has graced the cover of 4 issues of Quilting Arts Magazine, and she has appeared in 5 seasons...


QOF Episode 190 - Susan Madu
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01/14/2025

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 with me and enjoy her story!

Find Susan on Instagram: @modernblendedquilts
Facebook: Modern Blended Quilts
Join her Facebook Group: Modern Blended Quilts Virtual Show & Tell

Want to travel wi...


QOF Episode 189 - Soak Wash & Sew Fine
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01/07/2025

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: https://soakwash.ca/
Shop Sew Fine Thread Gloss right here: https://soakwash.ca/collections/sew-fine-thread-gloss

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QOF Episode 188 - Annie Unrein of byAnnie
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12/31/2024

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 making supplies and a few innovative product creations along the way. She has travelled the world to teach and speak and she...


QOF Episode 187 - Rachel Pierman of Crafty Monkies
12/24/2024

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-demand videos and in-person retreats in the UK and the USA. Rachel connects teachers from around the world with eager learners. She also launched her podcast "Breaking the Blocks" in February 2024, sharing stories...


QOF Episode 186 - Kate Colleran
12/19/2024

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 Stash with C&T Publishing. Today we’ll talk about how the business changed when her partner retired, how Kate got into fabric design, and the latest development with C&T – her brand new bo...


QOF Episode 185 - Jen Kingwell
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12/10/2024

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 natural beauty of her surroundings in her homeland.

Jen is known for creating quilts with intricate patterns, vibrant colors, and playful designs. Hand stitching is her passion and sharing the knowledge and techniques of th...


QOF Episode 184 - Jenifer McShane - THE QUILTERS Filmmaker
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12/03/2024

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, witnessing their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride as they create something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space, deep within the prison walls. Through this process and the relation...


QOF Episode 183 - QuiltnLearn with Bea Byrne
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11/19/2024

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 USA, Bea has a passion for “if you build it they will come” with her online events.

There were so many great takeaways from this episode about an event planner brin...


QOF Episode 182 - IQF Houston 2024
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11/14/2024

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 Birmingham!!! This 14-day tour of Wales and England takes in the rich textile history and breathtaking cultural landmarks. Tour England & Wales ending at the Festival...


QOF Episode 181 - Mx Domestic
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11/05/2024

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 their soul with a struggle or delighting us with a new idea, Mathew Boudreaux is putting it out there for all to see to create an inclusive supportive...


QOF Episode 180 - Kimberlee & Mr. Bones
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10/29/2024

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 Sews on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mr.bones_sews

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2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS Birmingham!!! This 14-day tour of Wale...


QOF Episode 179 - Karen Kay Buckley
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10/23/2024

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 had prestigious acquisitions of her quilts by the National Quilt Museum in Paducah and even by a Senator’s wife in the US Capitol!

I was so...


QOF Episode 178 - Chris English
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10/15/2024

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.

Find Chris English on Instagram @afullenglish

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2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS Birmingham!!! This 14-day tour...


QOF Episode 177 - Radha Weaver
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10/08/2024

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 step at a time...

Find Radha on Instagram @sewingthroughfog

Want to travel with Brandy?

2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS Birmingham!!! This 14-day to...


QOF Episode 176 - Genesis Hall
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10/01/2024

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 the International Quilt Museum.  When Genesis isn’t quilting, she enjoys playing the banjo, piano and golf.

Find Genesis on Instagram @gennyfromthequiltblock


QOF Episode 175 - Scott Murkin
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09/17/2024

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, QuiltCon and the International QuiltAssociation.

Find Scott on Instagram @quiltdoc16

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