Sit & Sew Radio

We at Quilt Addicts Anonymous are proud to announce the return of the Sit & Sew Radio podcast! Plus we have a special 25 percent off coupon code that you can use on products we sell over at shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com) by all of our previous guests!

It’s been awhile since we last spoke to you, April 21 to be exact. So much has happened since then, and we’ll tell you all about it in Episode 32! At the end of the episode, we'll give you the coupon code as a gift to all of our fans that missed the show while we were gone!

The sale covers more than 350 items including products from Kaffe Fasset, Alison Glass, Aurifil thread, batiks and much much more! But you’ll have to listen to Episode 32 to get the coupon code, which will be good for through 11:59 p.m. PST Saturday, September 23, 2017. Click here to browse all the great goodies that are included in the sale. (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product-category/sit-and-sew-radio/)

Quilt Addicts Anonymous husband Adam Soebbing returns as guest in Episode 32 to chat with me, QAA creator/designer/owner Stephanie Soebbing, about all that we’ve been up to since the last episode. Hint: Lots and lots (and lots) of sewing!

Things got so crazy there for awhile after opening up our shop that we had to put the podcast on the backburner for a bit. But going forward, we are committing to giving you a new episode every other week with the same awesome new guests and great interviews that you came to expect from the Sit & Sew Radio podcast.

Welcome to Episode 31 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today's episode features Amanda Murphy, Bernina spokesperson, author and fabric designer, and Rebecca Bryan, author, teacher and fourth generation quilter.

Both interviews were recorded at QuiltCon and it was kind of fun to listen to them a couple months after they were initially recorded. At one point Rebecca Bryan and I were talking about the brick and mortar version of Quilt Addicts Anonymous, which at the time I was still considering an open studio. Now it is definitely a full blown quilt shop, complete with staff, a large class space and fabulous modern fabrics. That just shows you how much can change in a couple months.

And speaking of the shop, the Spring Clearance Sale is happening right now. There are nearly 100 fabrics, bundles, thread packs and patterns that are on sale. Right now they are 25% off, but the price will continue to drop over the next two weeks as we move some of the items that have been around for a bit to make room for the new fabrics arriving in May. so click here to check it out and get a great deal.

Bernina, Amanda Murphy Designs, Benartex, Amanda Murphy, Nordic Holiday,

Amanda Murphy, fabric designer, author

Bernina, Amanda Murphy Designs, Benartex, Amanda Murphy, Nordic Holiday, Amanda Murphy started her career in the quilting industry as a fabric designer for Benartex. With a background in graphic design, creating beautiful prints for fabrics was a natural starting point.

From there she began authoring books on quilting, signed on as a spokesperson for Bernina and now travels the country teaching people to improve their quilting and let go of mistakes.

In our interview Amanda shares some great tips on how to improve your free motion quilting (hint: it includes listening to podcasts like this one) and which comes first for her, the fabric design or the quilt she wants to make with the fabric.

Amanda's new fabric line Nordic Holiday with Benartex is shipping to quilt shops this month. You can learn more about Amanda by visiting her website, amandamurphydesign.com.

Rebecca Bryan, Modern Triangle Quilts, Bryan House Quilts

Rebecca Bryan, author, teacher

Rebecca Bryan, Modern Triangle Quilts, Bryan House QuiltsRebecca Bryan is a fourth generation quilter who became obsessed with quilting after discovering modern colors and fabrics.

She started pursuing quilting as a career after her first book idea came to her in a dream. She took it as a sign that quilting was supposed to be more than a hobby and today she has published two books, is working on a series of online classes and is working on her first fabric line.

In our interview we talk about how she developed a career for herself, developing her own sense of color and design from her traditional roots and how she balances career and being a mom to four kids.

To learn more about Rebecca, visit her website bryanhousequilts.com.

Welcome to Episode 31 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today's episode features Amanda Murphy, Bernina spokesperson, author and fabric designer, and Rebecca Bryan, author, teacher and fourth generation quilter.

Both interviews were recorded at QuiltCon and it was kind of fun to listen to them a couple months after they were initially recorded. At one point Rebecca Bryan and I were talking about the brick and mortar version of Quilt Addicts Anonymous, which at the time I was still considering an open studio. Now it is definitely a full blown quilt shop, complete with staff, a large class space and fabulous modern fabrics. That just shows you how much can change in a couple months.

And speaking of the shop, the Spring Clearance Sale is happening right now. There are nearly 100 fabrics, bundles, thread packs and patterns that are on sale. Right now they are 25% off, but the price will continue to drop over the next two weeks as we move some of the items that have been around for a bit to make room for the new fabrics arriving in May. so click here to check it out and get a great deal.

Bernina, Amanda Murphy Designs, Benartex, Amanda Murphy, Nordic Holiday,

Amanda Murphy, fabric designer, author

Bernina, Amanda Murphy Designs, Benartex, Amanda Murphy, Nordic Holiday, Amanda Murphy started her career in the quilting industry as a fabric designer for Benartex. With a background in graphic design, creating beautiful prints for fabrics was a natural starting point.

From there she began authoring books on quilting, signed on as a spokesperson for Bernina and now travels the country teaching people to improve their quilting and let go of mistakes.

In our interview Amanda shares some great tips on how to improve your free motion quilting (hint: it includes listening to podcasts like this one) and which comes first for her, the fabric design or the quilt she wants to make with the fabric.

Amanda's new fabric line Nordic Holiday with Benartex is shipping to quilt shops this month. You can learn more about Amanda by visiting her website, amandamurphydesign.com.

Rebecca Bryan, Modern Triangle Quilts, Bryan House Quilts

Rebecca Bryan, author, teacher

Rebecca Bryan, Modern Triangle Quilts, Bryan House QuiltsRebecca Bryan is a fourth generation quilter who became obsessed with quilting after discovering modern colors and fabrics.

She started pursuing quilting as a career after her first book idea came to her in a dream. She took it as a sign that quilting was supposed to be more than a hobby and today she has published two books, is working on a series of online classes and is working on her first fabric line.

In our interview we talk about how she developed a career for herself, developing her own sense of color and design from her traditional roots and how she balances career and being a mom to four kids.

To learn more about Rebecca, visit her website bryanhousequilts.com.

Welcome to Episode 30 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today we have the Mary's on! Mary Hogan, author of "String Quilt Style" and Mary W. Kerr, quilt historian, author and the creative force behind the Quilt As Desired project. I think you're going to love both ladies and get lots of fabulous ideas on what to do for your next quilting project.

Real quick before we get to the interviews, make sure you head over to shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com because there are hundreds of new bolts of fabric being added over the next week or so. That's because right after I moved into the brick and mortar location, the space next door became available. So my husband and I went for it, leased the space and are tripling our inventory to fill it. It is very exciting and there is new stuff going up daily as we get everything ready.

String Quilt Style, Mary Hogan, string quilts, Landauer Publishing

Mary Hogan, author

Mary Hogan has a stash and knows how to use it. The author of "String Quilt Style: Easy techniques and inspiring designs form strips, scraps and stash," Mary's book is half string quilt how-to and half patterns and projects to get you started.

Before seeing Mary's books I thought of string quilts as bland quilts made up of whatever strip came out of the scrap bag next. But Mary teaches you how to plan your strip layout and color choices to modernize this very traditional piecing method creating quilts that have dimension, depth and beauty.

You can read more about Mary Hogan on her website marymhogan.com. You can get a copy of "String Quilt Style" from her Landauer Publishing at landauerpub.com.

Quilt as Desired, Mary W. Kerr, antique quilts

Mary W Kerr, quilt historian, not a fan of the "Quilt Police"

Mary W. Kerr is an author, quilt historian and rule breaker. That is, rules set by the Quilt Police. She cherishes quilt history and in an effort to keep the unfinished quilt tops from the Greatest Generation from being sold for $25 at a yard sale, began the Quilt As Desired project.

She took cast off tops with no provenance, no significance and that were nowhere near museum quality, the kind of top you might find in grandma's attic, and sent them to some of the best machine quilters in the industry with one line of instruction, "Quilt as Desired."

The result is a traveling exhibit of 40 quilts that gives the world permission to machine quilt an antique top, and hopefully makes a few quilters smile down knowing that someone finished their quilt for them.

You can read more about Mary and find out where the quilts are going next on her website www.marywkerr.com.

Welcome to Episode 28 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast. I have spent the last 36 hours interviewing a dozen fabulous people at QuiltCon in Savanah, Georgia. It was awesome, exhausting and so much fun.

Me (left) with Stephanie ...

Welcome to Episode 27 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today we are talking quilts and politics. Don't worry, we're not going to talk about immigration, the EPA or cabinet appointments. We're going to take a look at how women h...

Welcome to Episode 26 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Leah Day is in the house today! Leah is pretty famous in the free motion quilting world, she built her business hosting the Free Motion Quilting Project, which released 365 free motion quilting video tutorials. We are working on a fun mini quilt collaboration that we talk about in the interview and you can get the pattern and tutorials for on Wednesday, January 25, 2017.

Wendy Paskus is also on the episode. Wendy hand dyed fabrics for her company Stipples Ect. I found Wendy when I was at a quilt show after Leah asked me to do the mini collaboration and the second I saw the vibrant solid fabrics Wendy has created I knew I had to use them in this project.

There's so much going on over at Quilt Addicts Anonymous. You can join Round 2 of the Kaleidoscope Block of the Month subscription program. You pay a $25 sign up fee and then $24.99 a month after that and I send you all the fabric you need to create your block each month. Sign ups close on January 31, 2017 and the first block shipment goes out in February. Click here to sign up (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/kaleidoscope-block-of-the-month/).

You can also check out my new pattern and kit refraction. This pattern uses a jelly roll and some yardage to create a six pointed star medallion quilt. It uses strip piecing and a 60-degree ruler to make this quilt fast and with no Y-seams. Click here to get the pattern (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/refraction/). Click here to get the kit (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/refraction-quilt-kit/). Click here to watch the tutorial (http://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/2017/01/refraction-video-tutorial-and-pattern/).

You also can sign up for the Starburst Galaxy Block of the Month which started last week. This king-sized quilt features 12 star variations. There is a pattern book available or you can order the kit and get the book for free. Click here to get the pattern book (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/starburst-galaxy-pattern-book/). Click here to get the kit (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/starburst-galaxy-quilt-kit/).

And if you haven't already, make sure to sign up for email updates so you'll be the first to know when the pattern, kit and video tutorials are released for the Strippin' Mini collaboration with Leah Day.

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Leah Day, Professional quilter, author, teacher

(http://sitandsewradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Leah-Day-e1485201758243-238x300.jpg)Leah Day is an online quilt teacher, free motion quilter and savvy businesswoman. She began her quilting career with the Free Motion Quilting Project, which featured hundreds of quilting designs, each with its own video tutorial.

But that is just the beginning. Leah has authored several books on machine quilting, hosts a block of the month where she teaches you how to piece the block and quilt it, hosts her own podcast, Hello My Quilting Friends.

I'm on Episode 11, totally geeking out about how I use Google Analytics to track where revenue comes from in my online store so I know where to invest to grow my business. You can

Welcome to Episode 24 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

I figured we've been together for about six months now and it was time for you all to get to know me a little better, so I talked my husband into interviewing me for today's episode. It is a really personal story where I share how I got into quilting and how I turned it into a business after I had my first daughter and realized I didn't want to work at a traditional nine-to-five job anymore so I could see my daughter more than for dinner and bath time after work.

There also are some fun things going on over at Quilt Addicts Anonymous. The assembly instructions are available now for the Stars in the Night 2017 Block of the Month quilt. So you can get all your blocks together. Just click here (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/assembly-instructions-2016-block-of-the-month/) to download your instructions.

This weekend I am moving Quilt Addicts Anonymous out of my living room and into a shop! I am super excited about having a studio and getting my house back, but not too excited about moving everything. So I am having a buy one get one free sale on all Batik Bundles. The sale lasts until New Year's Eve or until the bundles are sold out. Click here (http://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product-category/batik-bundles/) to check it out.

 

Stephanie Soebbing, pattern designer

Stephanie Soebbing is a quilt pattern designer, blogger, and, of course, hosts this lovely podcast. Her husband, Adam Soebbing, takes the microphone over this week to interview Stephanie.

He covers how Stephanie got into quilting, turned it from a hobby into a business, how she comes up with new patterns and some fun new projects she has planned for 2017.

Click here to check out Stephanie's website at QuiltAddictsAnonymous.com (http://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/).

Welcome to Episode 23 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast. We are back after taking a little hiatus and I’ve got a really awesome episode for you today. We’ve got two quilt pattern designers on today, and one of the...

Welcome to Episode 22 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast.

Today I am coming to you from Indianapolis, Indiana. My family and I needed a vacation so we packed up and headed out. As we checked out poten...