The Rev Craft Biz Podcast

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In this episode, Karen Cooper of the MQG joins us. We talk about the evolution of the MQG, and how technology and social media have affected change.

We discussed how the MQG handles activist quilts, and the mail that comes with showing them. Pssst… you’re allowed to walk on by things you don’t care for!

We also dug into some ideas for changing process around better protecting the quilts while in transit, in the form of creating courier hubs, and getting better appraisals for insurance purposes should things go wrong. I hope you give it a listen, and pitch in with ideas on this if you have them!

Show Notes

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/karenrae72/

The Modern Quilt Guild - https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/home

Kim Kight - https://www.instagram.com/kmelkight/?hl=en

QuiltCon - https://www.quiltcon.com/home

Jo Westfoot - https://www.thecraftynomad.co.uk/

Jenny Haynes - https://pappersaxsten.com/

Juki - https://www.jukihome.com/

H & H - https://hh-americas.com/

Janome - https://www.janome.com/

Sashiko: The Untold Story - https://sashikostory.com/products/sashiko-the-untold-story

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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In this episode, Diana Fitzgerald of Banjo Flannel talks to us about figuring out how to do things her own way, and not really paying attention to what other people are up to. We also talk about her brand new book featuring patchwork and sashiko.

We talked about how having a scientific brain works well with pattern writing, and how it’s necessary to be interested in something to have a chance at being good at it.

Show Notes

Website - https://www.banjoflannel.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/banjoflannel

Tula Pink - https://www.tulapink.com/

Alison Glass - https://alisonglass.com/

Giucy Giuce - https://www.giucygiuce.com/fabric

Ruby Star Society - https://www.rubystarsociety.com/fabrics

Project Hail Mary - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)

Suzy Quilts - https://suzyquilts.com/

Christa Quilts - https://christaquilts.com/

Patchwork Sashiko book - https://www.banjoflannel.com/patchworksashikobook

Bernina - https://www.bernina.com/en-US/Home-United-States

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Where to find Sam Hunter:

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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In this episode, Mel Beach is back with us! Mel and I took on a convo about activism quilts, and how they appear out in the world – both throughout history, and in the current landscape of both artistic activism and politics. We talk all the facets of making this work, curating it, displaying it, and experiencing it as a viewer. And what to do when you come across work that isn’t your cup of tea.

Mel has also been making up a storm of fun stuff on her IG feed, using watercolor instead of fabric for the moment. We talk about how making the ugly stuff helps you make the good stuff!

Show Notes

https://melbeachquilts.com/

Instagram: @melbeachquilts https://www.instagram.com/melbeachquilts/

Bisa Butler - https://www.instagram.com/bisabutler/?hl=en

Timna Tarr - https://www.timnatarr.com/

Meg Cox - https://megcox.com/

SAQA - https://www.saqa.com/

Marianne Fons - https://www.mariannefons.com/

Social Justice Sewing Academy - https://www.sjsacademy.org/

Nancy Stovall - Just Quilting PDX - https://www.justquiltingpdx.com/

Heather Cox Richardson -

Jennifer Wilken Penick - https://www.instagram.com/jenniferwilkinpenick/?hl=en

Playing with a Full Deck - https://vmota.org/playing-with-a-full-deck/

Fiber Fix Fam - https://www.thequiltcourse.com/offers/tqwzKvQN/checkout

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Where to find Sam Hunter:

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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Episode 083

In this episode I’m chatting with Rachel Allen about copywriting and marketing. She talks about finding a way to be human in your marketing communications without being performative, and about understanding what your customer is looking for first before you attempt to sell them anything!

Show Notes

Website - https://www.boltfromthebluecopywriting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/boltfromthebluecopywriting

Ellie Trier - https://zuzushausofcats.com/

Bon Bon Viviant - https://www.instagram.com/bonbonvivant/?hl=en

Mary Williams - https://www.instagram.com/sensiblewoo/

Mad Priest Coffee - https://madpriestcoffee.com/

ReMarkable - https://remarkable.com/

*Indirect Work by Carol Sanford - https://amzn.to/4oaeZqN

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Where to find Sam Hunter:

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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Episode 082

In this episode I’m chatting with Jo Avery. We talk about her entrepreneurial journey from her early twenties, and how she has refined her businesses along the way to suit the stages of her life, including moving from in person teaching to online, and partnering with people who have other skill sets and compliment hers.

Jo is also a maker of temperature quilts - a style of quilting that has fascinated me. She talks about developing them using improv techniques (her favorite way to work) and using these, and 100 Days projects, as playgrounds for her next big idea.

Show Notes

Website -

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joaverystitch/

Bayeux Tapestry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

British Museum/Bayeux Tapestry - https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/bayeux-tapestry

Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn

Festival of Quilts - https://www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/

Daisy Aschehoug - https://warmfolk.com/

Svalbard Retreat - https://warmfolk.com/products/svalbard-retreat-2026-deposit

Thread House Academy - https://academy.thethreadhouse.co.uk/

Creative Spark - https://ctpub.com/

Cleopatra’s Needle Needlepoint - https://www.cleopatrasneedle.co.uk/

Jo’s Temperature quilt - https://joavery.co.uk/temperature-quilt-and-temperature-embroidery/

Temperature quilt archive - https://joavery.co.uk/category/temperature-quilt/

Karen Lewis - https://www.karenlewistextiles.com/

Nick Ball - https://www.instagram.com/quiltsfromtheattic/?hl=en

Kelly Lautenbach - https://www.instagram.com/itsjustsew/

Exhausted Octopus - https://exhaustedoctopus.com/

*Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards - https://amzn.to/4o7lpXU

Jo’s patterns - https://store.stitchgathering.co.uk/collections/pdf-patterns

Journey to the Centre of a Quilter Book - https://store.stitchgathering.co.uk/products/journey-to-the-centre-of-a-quilter-book

Handiquilter Moxie - https://handiquilter.com/product/hq-moxie-15-quilt-machine/?srsltid=AfmBOop_zOlmMc1xxxky0-rIJoSdGN0hf3sWoyDbktMoBw3AsJKmMN3s

Aurifil - https://www.aurifil.com/

Modern American Vintage - https://modernamericanvintage.com/

Poking tool - https://modernamericanvintage.com/collections/quilting-tools/products/pointturners

Scorer - https://modernamericanvintage.com/collections/quilting-tools/products/heramarkers

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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Episode 081

In Part 2 of my convo with book artist and fabric designer e bond, we delved into where you look for inspiration. e brought a lot of her book making and painting skills to her first fabric designs, and subsequent lines relate back to this in an on-going story.

We also talk about what can be inspiration, and it’s not necessarily other art. e is a huge reader, and many of the books she reads turn into art ideas. I loved the great sense of art being threaded through all aspects of her life, and honestly, find myself needing to do a bit more of that in mine!

Show Notes

Website - https://ebondwork.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft/

Creativebug classes - https://www.creativebug.com/instructors/e-bond

Enid Blyton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

*The Notebook, The History of Thinking on Paper, by Roland Allen - https://amzn.to/4wZP09t

Austin Kleon - https://austinkleon.com/

*Mick Herron Slough House - https://amzn.to/4u01MCd

*Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit - https://amzn.to/4ecMOUL

*The Art of Looking Sideways - Alan Fletcher - https://amzn.to/4vlRDB5

*Picturing and Poeting - https://amzn.to/3PQFnJu

*Robin Wall Kimmerer - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Robin-Wall-Kimmerer/author/B001KIHUZE?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=25143b97-e2d8-49ab-94ec-7cb6e815745f

*Braiding Sweetgrass- https://amzn.to/4wZMU9y

*Atomic Habits - https://amzn.to/4dF3jsH

*The Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes - https://amzn.to/4uFAXo7

14-Pattern Series - https://huntersdesignstudio.com/shop/?swoof=1&product_cat=quilt-patterns&product_tag=fourteen-fqs

The Slowdown Show - https://www.slowdownshow.org/

Tracy K. Smith - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tracy-k-smith

Tiger Melon, Tiger Moon blocks - https://www.creativebug.com/classseries/single/tiger-moon-and-tiger-melon-quilt-block

Singer sewing machines - https://www.singer.com/

*Bone Folder - https://amzn.to/4dGKhlD

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Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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Episode 080

Book artist and fabric designer e bond joined the pod and we had a really vibrant conversation about how to discover and work in one’s own creative process. We also talk about how to capture ideas and where they live until they can be brought to life.

I find creative process conversations so thrilling. We all do it differently, and yet, we’re all essentially reaching for the same thing: the place where we get to manifest an idea into something of substance.

Our conversation went long, and it was so satisfying that we’re making it a two-parter.

Show Notes

Website - https://ebondwork.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft/

QuiltCon - https://www.quiltcon.com/home

Sarah Bond - https://www.instagram.com/slbphilly/

Victoria Findlay Wolfe - https://vfwquilts.com/

Free Spirit Fabrics - https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/

Counter - https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/fabric-lines/in-shops-now/counter/

PUNC*T - https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/e-bond/

David Hockney - https://www.hockney.com/home

David Hockney’s iPad art - https://www.hockney.com/works/digital/ipad

Three daffodils - https://andipaeditions.com/viewing-room/558-print-guide-david-hockney-7th-april-2021-three-david-hockney-s-7th-april-2021-three-daffodils-in/

*The History of Art without Men by Katy Hessel - https://amzn.to/3PvXwMP

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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Episode 079

Kristin Barrus was just recently awarded her doctorate, and the focus of her studies were entrepreneurial quilt makers. I was honored to be one of her interview subjects a couple of years ago, and it was wonderful to talk to her about what came from all her research.

I can’t begin to summarize it, other than to say it’s fascinating. It’s both surprising and not surprising to hear that many entrepreneurs, while connected to the cloth and smart about making businesses in the industry, are equally interested in altruistically creating legacies that support other women. Definitely singing a song I love!

Show Notes

Website - https://www.kristinbarrus.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kristinbarrus/

Substack -

Quilt Alliance - https://quiltalliance.org/

Costco Bulgogi Beef Potstickers - https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/p/-/bibigo-beef-bulgogi-mandu-dumplings-3-lbs/100340255

QuiltCon - https://www.quiltcon.com/home

Edith Turner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Turner_(anthropologist)

Nancy Stovall - Just Quilting PDX - https://www.justquiltingpdx.com/

Pfaff - https://www.singer.com/collections/all-pfaff-machines?srsltid=AfmBOopM3eo619hb6HWfX8mi6XJjDwAWHxTaerPAy3JjEbw4EEZOH2Iu

This machine fought COVID-19 medallion - https://www.etsy.com/ProfDuckworths/listing/860652781/this-machine-fought-covid-19-medallion?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_source=MSMT&utm_term=so.smt&share_time=1617389374000

Jean Ray Laury books - https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jean-Ray-Laury/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJean%2BRay%2BLaury

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Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Fine Art: - www.samhunterart.com

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In this episode my Cheryl Brickey of MeadowMist Designs joins the podcast. When not designing quilts, and running a really fun and successful Curated Pattern Bundles project, Cheryl works writing patents for an industrial fabric design company.

We talk about the building blocks of pattern writing, design inspiration, and what, if anything, pattern designers can do to protect their intellectual property.

We talked a little about what got us into quilting, and Cheryl said something that really resonated with me: she wanted to make something that couldn’t be unmade. What a great way to look at the legacy behind a quilt.

Show Notes:

Website - https://www.meadowmistdesigns.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/meadowmistdesigns/

Mystery Quilt Alongs - https://meadowmistdesigns.blogspot.com/p/mystery-quilt.html

Yvonne - Quilting Jetgirl - https://quiltingjetgirl.com/

Advent calendar with pockets - https://huntersdesignstudio.com/product/countdown/

QuiltCon - https://www.quiltcon.com/home

Hoffman Fabrics - https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net/

Carolina Moore - https://www.carolinamoore.com/

Cheryl Brickey’s books:

*Modern Plus Sign Quilts - https://amzn.to/4tDGTwT

*Just One Charm Pack Quilts - https://amzn.to/4mnDBLW

*Just Two Charm Pack Quilts - https://amzn.to/4dGaKQO

Bernina 710 - https://www.bernina.com/en-US/Machines-US/Series-Overview/BERNINA-7-Series/BERNINA-710

*Launch - https://amzn.to/4efakkq

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Where to find Sam Hunter:

How to Own a Revolutionary Craft Biz - www.revcraftbiz.com

Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Art - www.samhunterart.com

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In this episode Marianne Fons joins to talk about teaching quilting on public TV with her Quilty partner Liz Porter, long before the internet and youtube! It was great to be able to ask her about what the business landscape looked like when direct mail was how you reached your customers.

Surprisingly, some aspects of business haven’t changed at all, and we talked about the importance of the right person doing the right job within a growing business, and that she and Liz were great opposites and compliments to each other.

Recently, she has shifted her interests to becoming a novelist, and has a book coming out next year. Our conversation covers some of the similarities in creating books and creating quilts, and lot about creative inspiration in general.

Show Notes

Website - https://www.mariannefons.com/

Substack -Fons and Porter - https://quiltershalloffame.net/fons-porter/

Mary Fons - https://www.maryfons.com/

Eleanor Burns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Burns

Montavilla Sewing Center - https://www.montavillasewing.com/

Tara Miller - https://quiltdistrict.com/

Six Know-it-Alls - https://www.youtube.com/@SixKnowItAlls

European Patchwork Meeting - https://patchwork-europe.eu/en/home/

Red and White quilt collection - https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/infinite-variety-three-centuries-of-red-and-white-quilts/

Iowa Quilt Muesum - https://www.iowaquiltmuseum.org/

Iowa Theater - https://www.the-iowa.com/

Quilt Talk - https://huntersdesignstudio.com/product/book-quilt-talk-autographed/

Page and Pixel - https://www.page-and-pixel.com/

C&T Publishing - https://ctpub.com/

Portland Art Museum - https://portlandartmuseum.org/

David Hockney - https://www.hockney.com/home

BERNINA - https://www.bernina.com/en-US/Home-United-States

Baby Lock - https://babylock.com/

Janome - https://www.janome.com/

*Theo of Golden - https://amzn.to/47rMiP9

Big Magic - https://amzn.to/4tbZuQv

Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/

*Dare to be a Great Writer - https://amzn.to/3PNPAGd

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Where to find Sam Hunter:

How to Own a Revolutionary Craft Biz - www.revcraftbiz.com

Hunter’s Design Studio - www.huntersdesignstudio.com

Embroidered Journey - www.embroideredjourney.com

Sam Hunter Art - www.samhunterart.com

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