American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast

Quilt retreats are a great way to connect with other quilters while making process on your projects! We share tips for planning a retreat everyone will love, including finding a location, questions to ask the host, choosing dates, and making time for food and fun. We also share ideas for using back-to-school items as storage in your sewing room, our opinion about pressing seams, and the two-color quilt trend we're seeing.

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T-shirt quilts are a popular gift to give and a great way to create a quilted keepsake. We share tips for sewing T-shirt quilts, including those for planning, stabilizing, cutting, ironing, and quilting. We also chat with Natalie Pratt of The Ginger Quilter about sewing mojo, making time to sew, and her quilty subscription boxes.

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We're spilling unpopular quilty opinions from both our staff and our listeners. Some will make you laugh out loud, some you'll relate to, and some will really make you think. We also share tips for quilting with metallic thread, stories of quilters making a difference in their community, and genius sewing hacks from our listeners

For more resources from today's show, visit the show notes here: https://www.allpeoplequilt.com/magazines-more/quilting-podcast/episode-561-unpopular-quilty-opinions-part-2

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Love scraps? We do, too! On this show, we share tips for making beautiful scrap quilts, including how to choose fabrics, finding a pattern to show off your scraps, how to grow your collection of scraps, and more. We also chat with designer, teacher, and scrap expert Diane Harris of Stash Bandit. She shares her best advice for making scrappy quilts and how to store scraps.

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Solid fabrics in quilts date back to the late 1800s, but also continue to be popular today. And there's now a large variety of colors to choose from. We share tips for working with solid fabrics, including shopping for them, pressing them, machine-quilting them, and more. We also share products we love, tips for visiting quilt shops while traveling, and a trend we're obsessed with.

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Strip-piecing is a huge time-saver! We share tips for sewing, pressing, and cutting strip sets, as well as the math for how to make this technique work for any pattern. We also chat with Tighe Flanagan, a quilt designer known for his precise and complex patchwork. Tighe shares how his travels and background in Middle Eastern studies influence his designs.

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We're halfway through the year! Back in January 2022, our staff made quilty goals for the year. We decided to do an update episode--both as a way to keep ourselves accountable, but also as a way to get back on track. So now 6 months later, we're all checking in to share our progress! We also share what a staff member is sewing now, how to tailor your time spent on UFOs to your personal schedule, and the benefits of handwork. Then we answer a listener question about when to adjust your stitch length while sewing.

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"Creative burnout" is the feeling that you've drained all of your creativity, and there is nothing left. You feel like you don't have the ability to create something for yourself or the world anymore. We share 7 signs that you may be experiencing creative burnout, and gives tips for how to overcome it. We also give opinions on whether or not to prewash fabrics, share top listener tips, give creative ideas for using toilet paper rolls in your sewing room, and tell stories of quilters making a difference in their communities.

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We're so lucky on this podcast to be able to chat with designers and quilt shop owners, and even to feature listener tips and questions! There are so, so many talented quilters in the world who inspire us, and we're honored to share their stories and knowledge on this show. But – we have too many people we love to fit into just a weekly podcast. So, we're going all out on this episode and each of our staff members is sharing a few quilters we admire.

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This time of year is a great time to wash and clean quilts in your home (especially since they've probably gotten a lot of use over the winter months) We share tips for spot-cleaning quilts, washing and drying quilts, and favorite products to prevent damage to your quilts during the cleaning process. We also chat with Heather Briggs from My Sew Quilty Life.

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