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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 38 - Teri Lucas Sep 14, 2021

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Welcome to Episode 38 of the Quilter on Fire podcast. Today I'll introduce you to award winning quilter Teri Lucas. She calls herself the Chief Creative Weirdo at www.terificreations.com which is right up y alley as I’m certainly the resident weirdo in my home. We’ll share her quilting story and talk about her latest book COLOR, THREAD and FREE MOTION QUILTING - Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon. And wait until you see the cover - it’s gorgeous. Teri has this incredible way of using multiple colour runs of threads in her quilting that is so eye catching. This is really a topic that might just stretch your skills. and I can’t wait to share her story with you.
LINK to the YouTube Trailer: https://youtu.be/WYTuxWcqVoY
Link to the prize draw: https://kingsumo.com/g/6tnvxf/qof-episode-38-giveaway
Link to Teri Lucas' website: https://terificreations.com/

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QOF Episode 37- Award-Winning Quilter Timna Tarr Sep 09, 2021

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Welcome to Episode 37 of the Quilter on Fire podcast with my guest Timna Tarr. The thing that drew me to Timna’s work is her incredible use of colour. And it’s not just the choices of colour it’s her use of value. If you scroll through the gallery on her website you will be blown away. It’s like eye candy or animal candy, well - either way it’s all good. . Today we’ll talk about her work and her process. She is an award winning quilter who’s been featured in exhibits, magazines, books as well as on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV. She is a fabric designer and popular teacher and I can’t wait to share her story, her travels, her favourite moments, what she’s up to now, and so much more.
Link to the WEEKLY GIVEAWAY - https://kingsumo.com/g/e2nxej/qof-episode-37-giveaway
Link to the PODCAST TRAILER - https://youtu.be/T2sEy_K0a-E
Link to Timna Tarr's WEBSITE - http://www.timnatarr.com/

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QOF Episode 36 - Modern Quilting with Denyse Schmidt Aug 31, 2021

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Denyse Schmidt is one of the most talented and renowned modern quilters of our time. If you are a quilter, especially a modern quilter, you have probably heard her name. She is famous for her appearance on Martha Stewart in 1999, but even more so for her role in the modern quilting movement from its inception to this day. She grew up in central Massachussets with highly educated and very creative parents and has been making things her whole life. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and is now a sought after teacher, speaker, author, and designer in the quilting world. I can’t wait to share her story with you!
Link to the podcast trailer: https://youtu.be/8ZBXUS57qBg
Link to the Podcast Giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/rsu9nk/qof-episode-36-giveaway
Link to Denyse Schmidt's website: http://dsquilts.com/

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QOF Episode 35 - Meerkat Shweshwe with Celeste Compion Aug 24, 2021

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My guest is Celeste Compion and I’ll share her story of growing up in south Africa, falling in love with the local textiles and why she decided to bring a specific type of heritage fabric called Three Cats Original Shwe Shwe into Canada to sell in her online store. Celeste has a wonderful social justice story about this unique fabric and I can’t wait to share some of that with you.
Link to Podcast Trailer:https://youtu.be/3sd_mxNBgGM
Link to contest Giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/7lnnbp/qof-episode-35-giveaway
Link to meerkat shweshwe website: https://meerkatshweshwe.com/home

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QOF Episode 34 - Sew Fine Thread Gloss with Jenn McMillan Aug 17, 2021

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Welcome to Episode 34 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Today’s interview is a quilt business story you are going to love. Jenn McMillan a graphic designer, quilter and fabric obsessed sewist living in rural Ottawa, Ontario Canada. She is also the maker behind Sew Fine Thread Gloss. She likes to call herself the thread whisperer. She has created a niche product in quilting that hand stitchers all over the world now know and love. It conditions your thread for hand stitching and makes the process smooth and simple. And she added the little twist of wonderful fragrance to each tiny pot of Sew Fine Thread Gloss. And on top of it all she is a very talented quilter. Today we’ll dive into how all of this came about and I can’t wait to share her story.
Link to Giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/8lppat/qof-episode-34-giveaway
Link to Podcast Trailer: https://youtu.be/qg7ua_S7GtI

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QOF Episode 33 - The Canuck Quilter - Joanne Kerton Aug 10, 2021

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Episode 33 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Joanne Kerton - the Canuck Quilter has been quilting for over 20 years and has published over 20 patterns along the way. She loves to play with shapes, colours and layouts and figuring out the math that goes along with it. She has had her patterns featured in quilting magazines and catalogs and now teaches and speaks about quilting as well. On her website she writes, “I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up: a quilter!” Joanne is a quiltmaker, pattern designer and proud Canadian who has created a really great business and website with loads of educational content and patterns to choose from. Joanne’s the kind of teacher that will fill your toolbox with all kinds of great new quilting skills.
LINK TO PODCAST TRAILER: https://youtu.be/P98byUaNP2I
LINK TO CONTENT GIVEAWAY: https://kingsumo.com/g/icj1y9/qof-episode-33-giveaway
LINK to Joanne's website: https://www.canuckquilterdesigns.com/

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QOF Episode 32 - A Quilt Journalist Tells All with Meg Cox Aug 03, 2021

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Welcome to Episode 32 of the Quilter on Fire podcast! Meg Cox is a nationally known thought leader on the topics of quilting and family traditions. She is a writer who has lectured and taught all over the US and authored five books. She was president of the National Non-Profit organization Quilt Alliance for 6 years and writes a very popular monthly newsletter called Quilt Journalist Tells All. The testimonials for her newsletter just jump off the page on her website. Quilters are raving about the great content, giveaways, top-notch interviews and reviews.
Podcast Giveaway LINK: https://kingsumo.com/g/gykpej/qof-episode-32-giveaway
Youtube Trailer LINK: https://youtu.be/08OeWec_1CU
Meg's website LINK: www.megcox.com

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QOF Episode 31 - Surface Design with Melanie Testa Jul 27, 2021

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Melanie Testa is an art quilter and textile designer who paints, prints and stitches on fabric. Melly’s creations are colourful, imaginative, inspiring and so innovative that they have been featured in Quilting Arts Magazine, the Studio Art Quilts Journal, on Quilting Arts TV and so much more. Melanie graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Textile/Surface Design and has authored three books. The more recent and perhaps most important part of Melanie’s story is the cancer advocacy journey of a breast cancer survivor. I can't wait to share her story with you…
LINK TO PODCAST TRAILER:https://youtu.be/fNFT35ss42g
LINK TO GIVEAWAY: https://kingsumo.com/g/wkvx7e/qof-episode-31-giveaway
LINK TO MELANIE'S WEBSITE: https://melanietesta.com/

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QOF Episode 30 - Yazzii Craft Bags with Yasmita Magan Jun 08, 2021

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Today's guest is Yasmita Magan, the founder and creator of Yazzi Bags. From a simple idea for a better way to travel with jewellery and a self-made prototype 20 years ago, Yasmita has built a thriving business in the craft industry that has helped crafters and quilters organize their bits and baubles and travel with their projects on the go or just keep them organized at home. The very first craft storage bag was born out of a meeting with an avid crafter in 2001 and her story blossomed into a world-wide business from there. She has designs for every possible need you can imagine in a beautiful array of colours and uses input from her customers as the basis for her designs.
Youtube Trailer: https://youtu.be/Uo7iIskFd6A
Prize giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/nqvqi4/qof-episode-30-giveaway
Visit www.Yazzii.com to make a purchase using the
COUPON CODE QOFYAZ1 before June 30th , 2021
Instagram: https://instagram.com/yazziicraft/
https://instagram.com/yazziitravel/
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/YazziiCraftBags/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/yazziicraftbags
Pinterest: https://in.pinterest.com/yazziicraftbags/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YazziiBags

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QOF Episode 29 - Karen Brown of Just Get It Done Quilts Jun 01, 2021

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On today’s show I interview Karen Brown of Just Get it Done Quilts. Just that name alone makes me want to drop everything and get in front of my machine. Karen has exploded with popularity on her Youtube Channel since 2018 and now has about 250K followers. Her videos are bursting with her happy demeanour and she’s not afraid to tell it like it is. She loves to take on viewer questions, examine quilting problems, break it down and provide quality tips and tricks that will help quilters decipher all of those quilting rules into bite sized pieces. She helps quilters find their calm and destress with their hobby to recharge and empower them to be the best they can be.
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST TRAILER: https://youtu.be/4UCECr0CImA
LINK TO PODCAST GIVEAWAY: https://kingsumo.com/g/outbnk/qof-episode-29-giveaway
3 Fat Quarters from the Northcott Kyoto Garden Collection designed by Deborah Edwards.
LINK TO Karen Brown on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQt_y4kqMQlG1id0n975DVg
LINK TO Karen Brown's website: https://www.justgetitdonequilts.com/

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