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A podcast about crafting and the creative process.
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Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Before we get to today's guest, I wanted to let you know that I will be taking a hiatus from the podcast after this episode. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for your support. One hundred and forty episodes is a tremendous milestone and I am proud of the stories I have been able to share and hope it inspired you, the listener.
Living in Brazil, Sarah Watson is an illustrator, fabric designer for Cloud 9 Fabrics, author, mother and wife. She has a degree in textiles from the Savannah College of Art and Design and is passionate about repeat patterning. Well known for her floral and natural illustrations, Sarah supports human and environmental stewardship through volunteer work and donations. As a mother of two young children, she talks about her career evolution, why organic fabrics are important to her and changes she has made since moving to Brazil and becoming a mother. I hope you enjoy the episode.
For more information about this episode (including show notes), please check out my website craftyplanner.com.
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Today's podcast guest is Kim Eichler-Messmer. Living in Kansas City, Kim is a teacher, author of Modern Color: An Illustrated Guide to Dyeing Fabric for Modern Quilts, fabric designer for Marcus Fabrics, owner of the Kansas City Textile Studio, textile artist and wife. Growing up in a creative household, Kim learned to sew from her father. She received her bachelor's degree in print making and master's degree in fine art/textiles. She has been an artist in residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.
During our conversation, we talk about the common concerns people have in their first fabric dying class, designing her first fabric line, the sustainability of making, when she decides to say no and how she gets out of a creative funk. I hope you enjoy the episode.
For more information about this episode (including show notes), please check out my website craftyplanner.com.
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Today's guest is Ellen Baker of the Long Thread. Living in Atlanta, Georgia, Ellen is a fabric designer for Kokka Fabrics, maker, author of 1,2, 3 Sew and 1, 2, 3 Quilt, as well as being a wife and mother. During our discussion, we talk about changes in the quilting and making community over the last decade, how she integrates imperfection in her design process, crafting as a feminist act and how she shares her passion in her work. I hope you enjoy the episode.
For more information about this episode (including show notes), please check out my website craftyplanner.com.
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Today's guest is Tara Faughnan. Living in Oakland, California, Tara is a textile designer, quilter, teacher and wife. During our conversation, we talk about how she has developed her sense of color, her double wedding ring and Pine Burr quilts, the importance of valuing your work, and her upcoming role as a Quilt Con judge. I hope you enjoy this interview.
For more information about this episode (including show notes), please check out my website craftyplanner.com.
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Today's podcast guest is Amy Butler. Living in Ohio, Amy is an artist, fabric designer for Free Spirit Fabrics, teacher, author, and wife. Considered to be one of the leaders and community builders in the modern quilt movement, we delve into her work style, what motivates her, how she met her husband and best friend, her decision to start Blossom Magazine and more. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Jun 19, 2017
Monday Jun 19, 2017
The first in my three part series on surface design is Karen Lewis. Living in Leeds, England, Karen Lewis is a quilter, screen printer, teacher, fabric designer for Robert Kaufman Fabrics, wife and mother. During our conversation, we talk about how she designs her screen prints, the biggest unfounded fear about screen printing, the importance of handmade products and following her passion led to her fabric lines. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Monday Apr 17, 2017
Today's guest is Jennifer Moore of Monaluna. Living in Walnut Creek, California, Jennifer is a designer, textile artist, wife and mother. During our discussion, we talk about her design process, the importance of developing an organic fabric line, what she included in her Quilty Box and more. I hope you love our fun conversation.
For more information about this episode (including show notes), please check out my website craftyplanner.com.
Podcast music by Mekanism Sound.
Special thanks to Quilty Box for sponsoring this episode.
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Today's podcast guest is Jen Hewett. Living in San Francisco, Jen is a printmaker, surface designer, textile artist, teacher and mother to Gus, her adorable dog. During our discussion, we talk about her personal challenges such as Print, Pattern, Sew along with her 52 Weeks of Printmaking. We delve into the importance of self confidence while making, the sensitivity to nuance created when in between "worlds", how anxiety can shape creative work, and more. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Today's podcast will be different than past episodes in that there are two guests! As Alison Glass is the curator of the March Quilty Box and I interviewed her last year, we decided to interview Alison along with Chen O'Malley/Wu, known as mushyhed on Instagram. Chen works with Alison and is behind the hashtag chenisthebest and now a new one called sidekickchen. This is a fun conversation about stalkers who become friends, the reality of artistic inspiration, what Alison choose for this month's Quilty Box and more. I hope you enjoy this giggly conversation.
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Today's podcast guest is Melody Miller. Living in Atlanta, GA, Melody is the Creative Director and Founding Designer of Cotton and Steel, author of Ruby Star Wrapping, wife and mother. Since the debut of Cotton and Steel at the Spring 2014 Quilt Market, Melody has been at the forefront of a powerful commitment to the modern aesthetic. I wanted to hear how she created Cotton and Steel, her thoughts on fabric design and her personal and professional vision. While we talk about those questions and more are discussed in the podcast, I also came away with confirmation of the power of collaboration, the importance of pursuing your dreams and how friends can push you to be your vest best. I am grateful to the Modern Quilt Guild for providing a place to podcast at Quilt Con. It gave Melody and I an opportunity to record in person and Quilt con participants a behind the scenes glimpse at the recording process. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2017
Wednesday Feb 15, 2017
Today's podcast guest is Angela Pingel. Living in Indiana, Angela is a textile designer, author of A Quilter's Mixology about curved sewing, pattern designer, wife and mother. During our conversation, we talk about what she included in her Quilty Box, how quilting has become therapy, and her self proclaimed #nerdalert status. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Jan 30, 2017
Monday Jan 30, 2017
Thursday Dec 01, 2016
Thursday Dec 01, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Carolyn Friedlander. Living in Florida, Carolyn is an author, teacher, fabric and pattern designer. During our podcast, we talk about her design process, the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club challenge about project overwhelm and her advice on developing your own advice. I hope you love the episode!
Monday Nov 14, 2016
Monday Nov 14, 2016
For today's episode, my guest is Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis. With over twenty years of sewing experience, Tammy is a pattern and fabric designer, wife and mother. Tammy talks about her love for batik fabrics and her upcoming line with Island Batiks along with her tips for a successful sewing project and what she included in her Quilty Box. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Nov 07, 2016
Monday Nov 07, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Brenda Ratliff. Brenda is one of the most prolific producers in the industry between owning Pink Castle Fabrics, designing fabric for RJR Fabrics, hosting Glamp Stitchalot, co-organizing Sew Pro, and being a wife and a mother. We talk about how she balances her family and work, designing her fabric lines, and her advice for someone starting out in the industry. You wouldn't want to miss this episode.
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
As part of my continuing series with the designers of the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club, today's guest is Amanda Jean Nyberg. Also known as Crazy Mom Quilts, Amanda is hands down one of the queens of scraps. She is a pattern designer, has a fabric collection called Good Neighbors with Connecting Threads, co-wrote Sunday Morning Quilts and is a wife and mother. For this month, she is teaching color for her design challenge. During our podcast, we talk about her scrap collection, designing fabric and the importance of good friends. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Oct 24, 2016
Monday Oct 24, 2016
Today's guest is Patrick Lose. Living in Arizona, Patrick is a quilter, pattern designer, fabric designer and teacher. During our podcast, we talk about his twenty years of experience in the sewing industry, how traditional and modern quilting interact along with why he is starting his own fabric company. Patrick and I barely scratched the surface with this conversation and hope for a part two in 2017.
Thursday Sep 15, 2016
Thursday Sep 15, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Kaari Meng. Living in Los Angeles, California, Kaari is the owner of French General, author of six craft books, creative retreat organizer, wife and mother. During our podcast, we talk about her love for French design, her pursuit of things that make her happy and what she has included in her Quilty Box. I hope you enjoy this inspiring episode
Monday Sep 05, 2016
Monday Sep 05, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Annabel Wrigley. Living in rural Virginia, Annabel is the author of the "We Love to Sew" series, owner of the Little Pincushion Studio, fabric and pattern designer, teacher, mother and wife. During our podcast, we talk about how she became a children's sewing teacher, the best lesson she has learned from teaching and how she finds balance in her life. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Monday Aug 29, 2016
Monday Aug 29, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Kathy Hall. Living in New York, Kathy is a fabric designer, sewist, and Design Director for Andover Fabrics. During our podcast, we talk about her work as a fabric designer including the Little House on a Prairie fabric line, what she looks for in a new fabric designer, the process of creating a fabric line and her thoughts on modern and traditional quilting.
Monday Aug 22, 2016
Monday Aug 22, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Heather Jones. Living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Heather is a quilter, two time finalist for the Martha Stewart American Made Awards, author, teacher, fabric and pattern designer. During our podcast, we talk about why she declined her first book offer and waited to write Quilt Local, how she followed her heart and pursued art as a career and her thoughts about the idea of "derivative" work in modern quilting.
Monday Aug 15, 2016
Monday Aug 15, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Amy Barickman. Living in Kansas City, Amy owns Indygo Junction and designs both patterns and fabric. During our podcast, we talk about the role her mother has played in her career, her design process, what she included in her Quilty Box and the changes she has seen in the last twenty five years in the industry. I hope you love the episode!
Monday Jun 13, 2016
Monday Jun 13, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Heather Givans of Crimson Tate. Located in Indianapolis, Heather is a fabric and pattern designer, store owner, wife and dog momma. During our podcast, we talk about designing her fabric collections, what is in her Quilty Box, why you don't want to be "like Pauline" and so much more.
Monday Jun 06, 2016
Monday Jun 06, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Elizabeth (Libs) Elliott. Living in Toronto, Canada, Libs is a fabric and quilt designer, teacher, wife and mother. During the podcast, we talk about her work with textiles and the design world, her relationship to music, how she designs her quilts using a computer program and so much more.
Monday May 09, 2016
Monday May 09, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Sarah Watts of Wattsalot. Living in Atlanta, Georgia, Sarah is an illustrator, fabric designer, co-founder of Cotton + Steel, wife and mother to Pennie Pants. During our podcast, we talk about fabric hoarding, her path as an illustrator, the latest collaboration with Anna Bond and so much more. I hope you love the episode!
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Jeni Baker of In Color Order. Jeni is a pattern and fabric designer along with wife and mom to George, the bunny. During our podcast, we talk about her creative journey, why she is no longer designing fabric and her love of color.
Music by Mekanism Sound.
This episode is sponsored by QuiltyBox (quiltybox.com)
You can find the show notes on my website (craftyplanner.com)
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Monday Apr 04, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Alison Glass. Living in Virigina, Alison is a wife, mother, author, fabric and pattern designer. During our podcast, we talk about her motto to "live in the new", how she design fabric and why sewing is important to her. I hope you enjoy the episode.
This episode is sponsored by Lucky Spool Media, A Gathering of Stitches retreat and Fat Quarter Shop.
You can find the show notes here (craftyplanner.com/podcast).
Monday Mar 28, 2016
Monday Mar 28, 2016
*Please note that the previous version omitted ten minutes at the end of the interview. This is the latest version. Thank you!*
Monday Mar 21, 2016
Monday Mar 21, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Valori Wells. Living in Sisters, Oregon, Valori is a fabric and pattern designer along with the daughter of Jean Wells. During our podcast, Valori talks about the day to day life of a fabric designer, working with her mother, the challenges of living in the moment when you are self employed and how traveling has changed her perspective.
*This episode has been labeled explicit due to language.*
This episode is sponsored by Creativebug and Fat Quarter Shop.
You can find the show notes at craftyplanner.com/podcast.
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Monday Mar 07, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Violet Craft (violetcraft.com). Living in Portland, Oregon, Violet is a wife, mother, fabric and pattern designer. During our podcast, we talk about growing up with crafty grandparents, the inspiration behind her fabric and pattern collections and the importance of doing what you love.
Music by Mekanism Sound.
This episode is sponsored by Creativebug, Fat Quarter Shop and Sewtopia.
You can find the show notes at craftyplanner.com/podcast.
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Monday Feb 15, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Kelle Boyd of Ann Kelle Designs. Living in Nashville, Tennessee, she is a fabric and stationary designer. During our conversation, we explore how her childhood dreams of being a designer were revisited after a stressful work experience, how her parent's love for music influenced her Beatbox fabric line and the story behind her Girlfriends series.
This episode is sponsored by Creativebug (creativebug.com), Fat Quarter Shop (fatquartershop.com) and Sewtopia (gosewtopia.com).
Music by Mekanism Sound.
You can find the show notes (craftyplanner.com/podcast).
Monday Jan 18, 2016
Monday Jan 18, 2016
Today's podcast guest is Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession. Living in Australia, Kathy is a quilt store owner, fabric and quilt designer, teacher, wife and mother. Well known for her love of color and modern interpretations of traditional quilts, Kathy and I talk about the promise of joy with each new project, her fabric crusade for the love of brown, how she shares the permission to be "you" and so much more.
This episode is sponsored by Sewtopia (gosewtopia.com), Fat Quarter Shop (fatquartershop.com) and Free Spirit Fabric (freespiritfabric.com)
Music by Mekanism Sound.
You can find the show notes here (craftyplanner.com).
Monday Nov 23, 2015
Monday Nov 23, 2015
Today's podcast guest is Anna Maria Horner. During our conversation, we talk about how her childhood supported her career as an artist, the progress of her career starting out as a boutique fabric store owner to her new space at Craft South, the inner workings of the fabric industry, her advice about living your brand, why she loves recording Creative Bug classes and how she stays true to her brand and artistic vision.
This episode is sponsored by Sewtopia (gosewtopia.com) and Sew Modern (sewmodern.com). Music by Mekanism Sound. You can find the show notes here (craftyplanner.com/podcast).
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Monday Oct 26, 2015
For today's podcast, I chat with Tula Pink. She is a fabric and quilt designer, illustrator, author and overall fun person. We talk about growing up in Los Angeles, how her work embodies all of her skills, a message she has for her "Tula Troops" and her thoughts on out of print fabrics. I hope you enjoy the conversation!
For show notes, please check out this post. My introduction music is by the Beastie Boys.
Monday Sep 28, 2015
Monday Sep 28, 2015
Monday Sep 21, 2015
Monday Sep 21, 2015
Monday Sep 14, 2015
Monday Sep 14, 2015
Monday Sep 07, 2015
Monday Sep 07, 2015
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Monday Jul 27, 2015
Monday Jul 27, 2015
Today's podcast guest is Samarra Khaja. We talk about being the #quiltconartist, her creative inspiration from growing up around the world and being a crafty person without one niche.
For more information, please check out this post. Music by the Beastie Boys.
Sunday Mar 15, 2015
Sunday Mar 15, 2015
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Crafty Planner podcast. My guest is April Rhodes. We talk about the explosion of her Staple Dress on the garment sewing scene, the inspiration behind her two fabric lines and how our husbands play a role in our creative process. For more information and show notes, please check out this post.