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**The Quilter on Fire Podcast**

**Quilter on Fire is the quilting podcast for makers ready to move from technically capable to creatively confident.** Award-winning host Brandy Maslowski sits down with quilters, designers, textile artists, and industry voices from around the world for honest conversations about craft, creativity, and building a life around what you love to make. Brandy is an NACQJ-certified quilt judge, teacher, speaker, textile artist, author, and quilt travel tour host who traded a firefighting career for a life in quilting.

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QOF Episode 128 - Rebecca Bryan Aug 22, 2023

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My guest today is Rebecca Bryan, Author, Teacher and Founder of the Make Modern Triangles Quilt Club. She is a self-proclaimed freezer paper piecing evangelist. Her name has become synonymous with modern triangles and she has 2 modern books out to back it up called Modern Triangle Quilts and Modern Rainbow – 14 Imaginative Quilts that play with colour. She won an award at QuiltCon for minimalist design and with her students and her community she loves to take the time to celebrate all the quilty moments from start to finish.

Rebecca's Website - BryanHouseQuilts
TODAY'S SHOW SPONSORS:
Sew Yeah Quilting
The Crafty Nomad
Join me here for a textile inspired trip to Japan May 15-26, 2024

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QOF Episode 127 - QuiltCon 2024 Aug 15, 2023

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Today is the day! Registration OPENS (August 15th at 10am EST) for QuiltCon 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and we are keeping it current with the perfect episode for the occasion. Today, I'll have a chat about all things QuiltCon with the Director of Events at the MQG, Elizabeth Dackson. She is one of only eight staff who run the ever-growing phenomenon known as QuiltCon.
Today we're going to take a deep dive into this annual event. So grab a pen and paper if QuiltCon is on your bucket list, and hang on for the ride. I am so excited to do this episode because QuiltCon is one of my favourite quilting events.
The QuiltCon Event website.
TODAY'S SHOW SPONSORS:
Sew Yeah Quilting
The Crafty Nomad with her Geometree BOM

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QOF Episode 126 - Tara Glastonbury Aug 08, 2023

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Today's guest is an Aussie creator, wildly popular on Instagram with her beautiful creative feed where she is known as @stitchandyarn. She creates bold, distinctive, modern quilts, and is a lover of all things up-cycled. Today I'll have a chat with Tara Glastonbury.

She is known not only for her creative design in quilting, but also for how she brings people together from around the world for exhibitions to foster connection and challenge them in new design directions. She also leans forward in conversations about sustainability and continuous learning. I'm excited about this conversation and I hope you are too.
Check out and support the IN CONVERSATION Exhibit
Stitch and Yarn WEBSITE
Stitch and Yarn on Etsy - PATTERNS
TODAY'S SHOW SPONSORS:
Sew Yeah Quilting
Brown Bird Designs

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QOF Episode 125 - Susan Hensel - Fine Artist Aug 01, 2023

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My guest today is contemporary fine artist, Susan Hensel. Her artwork is known and collected nationwide and represented in collecting libraries and museums. Her work has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions, including dozen of solo shows across a 50 year span with over 20 of those garnering awards.
She's also been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies. Susan has curated over 100 exhibitions and supporting events of emerging and mid-career artists from all over the United States and Canada.
Susan Hensel Projects
Susan Hensel Gallery

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QOF Episode 124 - Maude The Retro Quilter Jul 25, 2023

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If you are obsessed with making stuff like most quilters are, and you love to take a step back in time for that vintage aesthetic, you are gonna love this podcast episode today. Maude MacDonald truly lives what she portrays in her business The Retro Quilter. In the last few years, she has gone from beginner quilter to pattern designer and she has nailed her retro niche, and now she has a great new podcast called Thread and Therapy.
I first found her on Instagram, and I was so thrilled to meet this Canadian creator at Quilt Con for the first time. Who'd have thought two Canadians would have to go to the States to meet each other, but she is a darling.
Since we met we've decided to do a podcast swap so you can hear her interview me and now I've interviewed her. It' so fun you'll want to listen to both!
The Retro Quilter website
The Thread & Therapy Podcast

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QOF Episode 123 - Shannon Fraser Jul 18, 2023

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My guest today is Shannon Fraser. She is known for her popular modern quilt alongs with three under her belt and more on the way. And having stumbled into quilting, she loves to prove to the newbies that quilting is not just for your grandmother.
Her style is fresh, colorful, and modern, and her quilty goodness will make you wanna sign up for her newsletter so you don't miss a thing.
The dozens of free tutorials on her website alone. We'll have you listening in this week to hear all about the story of a Montreal based color and textile lover. She has modern quilt patterns and clothing designs, quilt alongs, and more.
Shannon's WEBSITE
30 days of IMROV Quilt Along
Shannon Fraser Designs on INSTAGRAM

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QOF Episode 122 - Jenni Grover - Wellness Coach for Makers Jul 11, 2023

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My guest today is Jenni Grover. She is an Author, Quilter and Wellness Coach for Makers. She cares deeply about craft and health and how they intersect with each other. She is an Associate Certified Coach, has been a patient advocate and chronic illness coach and has designed a CREATIVE RESILIENCE wellness coaching approach that we are going to talk about in great detail today. She is a sought after keynote speaker on the topic of living a healthy creative life with testimonials like “She’s a rock solid speaker and one of my fabourite people!” But most importantly, she has taken her own personal struggles and turned them into a passion to serve others.
Jenni Grover's Website: COACHJENNIGROVER

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QOF Episode 121 - Sew Yeah Quilting Jun 27, 2023

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Interviewing Brody, Teancum and Zack from Sew Yeah Quilting last week was so fun. They have such a heartwarming story about how their quilting business started, how it has grown over the last 7 years and what they stand for. It's a purpose driven business that aims to educate and bring quilters together.
Sew Yeah Quilting Website
Sew Yeah Quilting on YouTube
Alaska Quilt Drive

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QOF Episode 120 - Soak Wash with Jacqueline Sava Jun 13, 2023

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Jacqueline Sava is the Founder and Director of Possibilities (I love that!) at Soak Wash Inc. She created Soak Wash in 2005 with better than necessary ingredients to bring something to market that was so good customers would try it once and never look back. Why not love your clothes, fabric and quilts as much as you love yourself? She strives to align her business practices with her environmental policies and serve her customers with a safe, eco-friendly product that makes your stuff look great and last longer. There are so many bits of this story that we explore on the podcast.
BONUS 20% OFF CODE for listeners of this podcast! - Shop now at www.soakwash.com with the discount code FIRE.
Disclaimer: There is one (or two) F-bombs in this episode but it's quite funny.
Join Brandy for a tour of England & Wales ending with 2 full days at the Festival of Quilts Birmingham starting July 25th. Call Judy at Opulent Quilt Journeys 1 - 8 7 7 - 2 3 5 - 3 7 6 7

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QOF Episode 119 - Teresa Duryea Wong Jun 06, 2023

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Today on the podcast I interview a quilter and scholar who is best known for her prolific and meaningful writing in the quilting world.
She was recently a teacher and speaker at Quilt Con 2023. She has published five Quilt history textile books. And we'll dive into the pages of her 2 brand new books as well. She has written for dozens of magazines and presented lectures all over the world. She has the honour of serving as board member of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Scholar in Residence at the Visions Art Museum in San Diego, and Bybee Scholar at the Texas Quilt Museum and Bybee Foundation.
In her fifth book, she co-authored Stitching Stolen Lives, the Social Justice Sewing Academy of Remembrance Project with Sarah Trail.

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