Christa Watson is award-winning quilt maker, pattern and fabric designer, teacher and speaker who has created a really great business and website with loads of educational content.
Christa will fill your toolbox with an abundance of great new quilting skills. She has an ask me anything approach, which really tackles current problems where quilters are stuck and helps her students and followers grow. Be sure to join her on Facebook, YouTube and check out her website at Christaquilts.com.
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Check out Christa's website here: https://christaquilts.com/
My special guest is Alex Anderson! Laughter is plentiful in this in-depth interview with the one and only Sweetheart of Quilting.
OK yes, there are many sweethearts in the quilting world, but Alex has risen to the top for decades with her caring, happy demeanour and this interview "simply" makes my heart sing. That's an old school pun on her first show.
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Visit Alex Anderson's website
Go to the Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson
Check out the Facebook LIVES by Alex here
This week's guest is Mary Fons, famous for learning to quilt from scratch on a public stage, bringing new quilters into their comfort zone, and pushing the boundaries of how quilting is taught with her engaging, delightful personality. Her quirky demeanour takes a front stage in her content again and again. She has been a TV host, a writer, magazine editor, a lecturer, and has a passion for quilt history research.
She creates original, raw engaging content across all media, which is astonishing because social media changes every single day and on the podcast I share the best bits of her story with you.
Link to the Prize Giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/lmmcql/qof-episode-66-giveaway
Link to Mary's website: https://www.maryfons.com/
Link to Quiltfold Magazine: https://www.quiltfolk.com/
Deborah Fisher is the docent and ringmaster of a crazy mixed up cabinet of curiosities, the circus juggler and the museum curator. And it's the perfect description of herself. Actually, her lines of fabric, quilt patterns and handcrafted items create the perfect menagerie of joy that just makes you want to collect it all.
Link to the Prize Giveaway: https://kingsumo.com/g/snp8y3/qof-episode-65-giveaway
Link to the Fish Museum and Circus website: https://fishmuseumandcircus.com/
Bridget O'Flaherty is an award-winning textile artist and all around creative inspiration who specializes in thread painting. Bridget has a Bachelor of Arts with an Environmental Studies Major and she just graduated with Honours.
This is such a valuable conversation to have, and she really has her toes in the water when it comes to the topic of sustainability and she carries that expertise into quilting. She brings the conversation forward, not to say that we should never buy fabric again, but with the notion that we can have a good conversation about how we can take little steps to start making a difference.
Enter the contest giveaway here: https://kingsumo.com/g/8iwpmi/qof-episode-64-giveaway
Visit Bridget's Website here: https://bridgetoflaherty.com/
