Jennifer Keltner and Jodi Sanders are on the show to talk about about expanding your skill set and learning something new! Another segment is on round robins and one of scraps! They are FULL of great information and tips for you today
For the show today you are going to love meeting Janet Clare, learning about Antique spool cabinets (swoon worthy stuff!) and then spending time with me and Sue Garmen chatting the quilt life.
One of the true delights at the trade show is making new friends. Janet Clare and I vended next to each other and by the end of the show we were besties! She is so delightful, has a long rich history as a needlearts designer and just released her first fabric line with Moda called Hearty Good Wishes. In my interview she tells you how she came up with that name! I am head over heels for this line!
Barbara and John Quinby are antique dealers and one of their loves is old thread cabinets. Barbara is a quilter, which means we are lucky they part with some of their finds! I asked Barbara and John to tell me the history behind the cabinets and how they found some of the real treasures in this group.
They do not have an internet store, website or physical store. If you are interested in learning where they are vending and what they have in stock, email them!
Sue Garmen is one of my idols. I've followed her amazing work since almost the day I started quilt making. She is meticulous, prolific, and has a passion for quilts that is as wide as the big blue ocean. She is also fast.. like FAST FAST.. I had the chance to spend 30 minutes with Sue talking about how she works, how she thinks, you are going to love her!
For the show today I'm excited to have really creative topics. Christina Cameli shares about freemotion quilting, Kristin Rodriguez works with Burlap (even in quilts!), and Monica Lee is an amazing designer that is able to really help people with their Creativity roadblocks.
Christina Cameli is a quiltmaker and new author. Her book "First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting – 24 projects for Fearless Stitching" with C&T, is not just a beginners guide, it is much more. When I ask quilters what they want to learn more about, it's free motion quilting. And when I ask them why they don't do it more, they tell me they are afraid. Afraid of messing up. Christina has some great tips for us!
Pretty fabric at a show will stop me dead in my tracks, I bet you can relate! When at the Houston show I was going by the Fiber On a Whim booth, and not only did the hand dyes look amazing.. but they looked different. Upon taking a closer look I realized they were burlap! I've been seeing a lot of burlap on the internet but mostly tan. Nothing in these juicy colors. Kristin Rodriquez and her mom Jan Girod told me all about using burlap and I now Kristin is here with me today to share with you!
I discovered Monica Lee's Smart Creative Women website when she interviewed one of my quilt friends. I was hooked on her super friendly personality, her attention to detail in her videos and her artwork. Monica is an glorious artist with an amazing style. She has designed fabric lines, cards, and paper. She has illustrated books and a zillion other things.
What I love about Monica is her spot on creative input and feedback. She looks at art (and creativity) in a way that can see what we might be missing when we look at our own work. She runs workshops, and the lastet is Smart Creative Style, which I took last year with her. I asked Monica to join me to share about creativity, about what we can do as quilters to find our creative sweet spot... plus a lot more!
The start of a new year is EXCITING! I have an amazing interview with Astronaut Karen Nyberg, along with my new Monthly guest Nancy Mahoney, publisher Priscilla Knoble on Japanese quilt makers and then our own American Patchwork & Quilting editor Jennifer Kelter. It's a super big kick off show for 2014!
There are some quiltmakers that knock my socks off with everything they do. Yoko Saito is one of them. She is a master Japanese quilter and if you love Japanese quilts I am sure you have seen her work, all written in Japanese until now. I'm super excited to have publisher Priscilla Knoble with me to talk about the books she is printing, in English, with Yoko.
FYI - Nancy had high winds right at the radio show hour so she had no phone or internet! She will be on in Feb.. stay tuned! Nancy Mahoney is an amazing quilt designer, fabric designer, instructor and editor for Martingale books! She has been on the show before and you all LOVED her information packed segment. I asked Nancy to come back once a month this year so we can dig deep into topics to really do some detailed learning.
If you have a quilt question you'd like to know more about, leave me a comment below!
My love of space started as a little girl, and continues today. When I heard that Astronaut Karen Nyberg was quilting IN SPACE my heart skipped a beat! Could this be true? Well check out the video below and you will see it is! I contacted NASA and asked to interview Karen about quilting in space. This is one special interview!
Plus she issued a challenge to make a quilt block. Karen tells me about it, and I've linked to the info below.
American Patchwork & Quilting magazine always has an amazing plan for the year of issues, facebook posts and blog entries. Editor Jennifer Keltner is here to tell us what fun projects are we can find in 2014! Plus we'll chat trends a bit.
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