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
Mary Harlow - Quilting Offers New Beginnings
Mary is a dear friend! She has so much wisdom, humor, and grace, and she brings all of that to her crafting endeavors. You'll hear how she was pulled into the art of quilting, why she …
Karen McTavish - Stories and MORE Stories
Karen is a matriarch of machine quilting - she began in 1997! She chats about finding your own trim, judged quilts, the quilting community in her brick and mortar store, and even muskie…
Tia Curtis - Keeping the Fun in Quilting
Tia chats about teachers who do the OPPOSITE of encouraging crafters, worldwide travels, her passion for Welsh quilting, and her marvelous feathers.
Tia is a gifted educator with a wealt…
Jen Frost - Expressing Faith through Fabric
Jen has an encouraging story to tell - she has explored some very beautiful ways to convey faith in her very original custom-printed fabrics, plus many patterns and group sewing project…
Elizabeth deCroos - Pojagi, and Learning in Unexpected Places
Elizabeth and her young family spent a period of time in Korea. She has great perspective on NEW - new crafts...new opportunities...new materials and skills....
website
pattern shop
course…
Jill Therriault - Slavery-era Quilts, and Quilts in Theater
Jill has SO many stories! She talks about designing a series of patterns based on her friend Jim's slavery-era family quilts, and having the chance to show them at QuiltCon. Then we ch…
Sam Alberts - Launching and Building Your Quilting Business
My guest, Sam, began her quilting journey at Mile 0 on the Alaska Highway. We chat about the twists and turns of building a quilting business, and how Sam has done that in a small Canad…
Krista Moser - 60 Degrees of Quilting Exploration
Krista and I chat about how dyslexia herded her into a lifelong love affair with sewing, some of the fun she's having with her 60* ruler and a bajillion innovative patterns, and just ge…
Rachelle Craig - From Antique Farm Tools to Graphic Quilt Inspiration
Rachelle and I chat about her background in engineering, and how that has served her well in writing quilt patterns and instructions. We talk about finding pattern ideas in unexpected p…
Mary Rutherford - Sisterly Reminiscing
Introductions are in order! In this very first episode, I'm chatting with my sister about our childhood (a wee bit unconventional), the influences of our crafting mother/grandmother/aun…