Measure Twice, Cut Once
....and other life and business lessons learned from quilting. Makers have stories! And crafters have skills!
In these casual chats and interviews, I (often with a guest) talk honestly about creativity. The joy, and hope, and even healing it can bring, and the businesses we can build doing the things we love.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Jemima Flendt - Tied With a Ribbon
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Jemima is a crafter from way back, and joins us from her studio in Au…
Georgia Stull
Georgia is a machine quilter with vast experience, and the wisdom that comes with it. Her kindness and generosity toward novice quilters shines through our entire visit. She gives many …
Michele Crawford - Quilting over the Decades
Michele Crawford is a quilter with an impressive resume! She has designed MANY quilt patterns (you'll have to listen to find the exact number😁), and has worked with fabric designers and…
Julia Ward - Military Wife
Julia Ward is a military wife, mom to two precocious girls, and a brand new longarm quilting business. She loves to quilt graphic designs that add texture, and play a supporting role. L…
Laura Piland - Slice of Pi Quilts
Laura Piland is a quilter, pattern designer, and homeschooling mom of three boys. She's also an ex-math teacher - and with a last name like Piland - there's a strong love of pi in her h…
Janice Frisch - Folklore Curator
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Janice E. Frisch received her PhD in folklore from Indiana University, where she studied women’s textile arts, particu…
Alice Ikenberry - The English Paper Piecing Queen
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Alice Ikenberry is a fantastic quilt maker! Many of her projects are hand-sewn, using a method called English Paper Pi…
Victoria Newmeyer - the Midlife Quilter
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Victoria Newmyer tells us why she calls herself the Midlife Quilter, and why this hobby has come to mean so much to he…
Carolina Moore - Opportunity Knocks
Carolina Moore has never met a craft she doesn't love! She is currently a quilter, pattern designer, mom, video producer, sewing educator, and YouTube-er, with a good dash of humor thro…
Trudy Cowan - From Small Things Come Great Stories
Trudy's love for storytelling and her life-long passion for fabrics and all the needle arts led to the joy she finds in creating. She creates and teaches fiber arts and art quilting, h…
Barb Edwards - Seeing the Community at the End of the Lane
Barb is a local (to me) crafter who stepped up to fill a need for masks early on in the pandemic. Being rural, she simply put out a bin at the end of her long driveway offering them to…
Tori McElwain - On the Joy of Teaching
Tori is an international teacher, speaker, and patten designer. She's been quilting for 20 years and, in fact, has an MA in curriculum and instruction. Tori is also a Certified Teach fo…
Ursula McClintock - On the Cutting Edge
Ursula McClintock of LDH Scissors has a fascinating story of a family business spanning 2 generations and 2 continents. Not only do they produce high quality sharp tools for your crafti…
Brandy Maslowski - Quilter on Fire
Brandy Maslowski is a Quilter on Fire! From piecing and quilting techniques to fiber arts to organizing your studio to judging quilts to authoring a children's book and more....truly on…
Karen Schoepflin Hagen - Kascha Quilts
For about 20 summers, Karen Schoepflin Hagen hit the road and showed off her quilts in gymnasiums and cafeterias across the Western U.S. Now, the quilts she’s made over the past 45 year…
Timna Tarr - Asking WHAT IF?
Timna Tarr comes from a long line of quilters but did not begin quilting until after studying art history in college. She bought her first longarm in 2001 and began quilting clients' qu…
Kimberly Jolly of The Fat Quarter Shop
Kimberly Jolly is the genius behind the Fat Quarter shop - your online one-stop source for fabric, patterns & kits, tutorials, cross-stitch supplies...the list goes on and on.
Kimberly s…
Veruschka Zarate - FPP Portraits
Today's guest is Verushka Zarate. She creates portraits, from fabric, that have got to be seen to be believed!
In this episode we chat about Verushka's inspiration (remarkable people), …
Kim Soper - Intentional Creating
Kim Soper of Feel Good Fibers gives us some really good life lessons here! "It's about BETTER, not PERFECT".... and "if your space is small you have to have less stuff". Those are words…
Meri Witmer - Master Crafter
Meri and I have been sisters-in-law for over 30 years, so we share a lot of crafting history. She's not afraid to try things - from beekeeping to shearing sheep and carding wool to knit…