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Famous Quilter Marianne Fons talks to us about her kids, her quilting life and her novel Dec 05, 2018

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Marianne Fons (of Fons and Porter) talks to us about all kinds of things -- her three kids, her quilting life, her writing life and her thoughts on quilting. She mentions the Iowa Quilt Museum (http://iowaquiltmuseum.org), her daughter Hannah's TedX Talk, "Not He, Nor She but Me," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fbb7WaAQFQ), and her blog, Marianne Fons Blog, where you can sign up for updates. (http://www.mariannefons.com).

Xenia Cord, antique quilt broker and quilter (in the Quilters Hall of Fame) Dec 03, 2018

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Xenia talks to us about her quilting life, including being an Antique Quilts Broker, an instructor and a quilt maker. She was also inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 2018.

Annabelle Hammer talks to us about Project Linus Nov 19, 2018

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Annabelle talks to us about her chapter of Project Linus. For more on Project Linus, go to https://www.projectlinus.org

Misty-Anne Marold talks about being a scientist and a quilter Nov 19, 2018

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Misty-Anne talks to us about her life as a scientist and its intersection with quilting. We talk about inspiration and merging patterns too.

Famous Quilter Sue Bleiweiss talks about her new book Modern Art Quilts Nov 04, 2018

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Sue talks to us about her new book and I read to her the copyright notice in her book.

Eileen Keane of the Appliqué Society talks to us about all things Appliqué Oct 26, 2018

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Eileen talks to us about the Applique Society and all things applique. She will talk you into trying applique, no question. For more on the Applique Society: https://www.theappliquesociety.org. She also talks about being a long arm business too, www.designingquilts.com, which includes t-shirt quilts and long-arming.

Scott Fortunoff, President of Jaftex, joins us to talk about Houston Quilt Market Oct 25, 2018

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Scott was on his way from the airport to Missouri Star's 10th Anniversary celebration. He talked to us about Houston Quilt Market, the big business-to-business convention. Jaftex is the company that recently bought Free Spirit. For more on Scott, see our previous interview: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14198489

Maddie Kertay of BadAss Quilter's Society talks with us quilting and very tiny kittens Oct 22, 2018

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Maddie is all things awesome. She is the genius behind BadAss Quilters, as well as working with in the industry in various capacities. She also cares for tiny kittens, and is renovating her own house--like doing all of the work herself.

Famous writer and podcaster Frances O'Roark Dowell joins us Oct 17, 2018

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Frances hosts the Off Kilter Quilt, as well as QuiltFiction podcasts. She also is an award winning children's author, and also write quilts fiction. She, of course, also quilts. We talk about her process, being a quilter, and being a writer.

Karla Overland of Cherrywood Fabrics and Cherrywood Challenges talks to us Oct 16, 2018

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Karla talks to us about the hand dye fabric business, Cherrywood Fabrics, and also her Cherrywood Challenges, which now on their fourth one, this year was Prince. For more, see http://cherrywoodfabrics.bigcartel.com.

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