Episode 18 - Corey Yoder and Nancy Bavor

Welcome to Episode 18 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today’s guests include Corey Yoder, a fabric designer for Moda, pattern designer and stay-at-home mom. We’ll hear all about how she became a fabric designer, how she balances work and family and how every opportunity she has is just a fun new adventure.

We also have Nancy Bavor, the Curator of Collections & Exhibit Coordinator at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She is talking about a new exhibit that opens this Friday at the Museum. The exhibit is called “The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium” and it examines the beginning of the art quilt movement, including some of the first art quilts and more recent works.

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Corey Yoder, fabric designer with Moda

Corey Yoder is a fabric and pattern designer who has loved fabric longer than she has loved quilting. Her second fabric collection, Sundrops, with Moda is available in quilt shops now and she is starting to unveil projects for her third collection, LuLu Lane, which is due out in February.

In our interview we talk about how quilting really started with her love of fabrics, so it makes perfect sense that she is now a fabric designer, how she went from stay at home mom to fabric and pattern designer and how she balances it all.

To learn more about Corey, her patterns and her collections visit her website corianderquilts.com (http://corianderquilts.com/).

Nancy Bavor, Curator of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Nancy Bavor is the Curator of Collections & Exhibit Coordinator at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. We talk about a new exhibit at the museum that opens this weekend, “The California Art Quilt Revolution: From the Summer of Love to the New Millennium.”

The exhibit includes original works by art quilters from the beginning of the Studio Art Quilt movement in the 1960s and 1970s, a second wave of art quilt inspired by the pioneers and contemporary art quilts, which often look nothing like bed quilts. It really is an interesting exhibit and interview and you’ll learn a lot about the birth of art quilting and its evolution.

“The California Art Quilt Revolution” opens Friday, October 7, 2016, and continues through January 15, 2017, at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Visit sjquiltmuseum.org (http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/) to learn more about the exhibit, get a link to the museum website and plan your trip to see the art quilts in person.