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The Quilter on Fire Podcast

Quilter on Fire is the quilting podcast for makers ready to move from technically capable to creatively confident. Award-winning host Brandy Maslowski sits down with quilters, designers, textile artists, and industry voices from around the world for honest conversations about craft, creativity, and building a life around what you love to make. Brandy is an NACQJ-certified quilt judge, teacher, speaker, textile artist, author, and quilt travel tour host who traded a firefighting career for a life in

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QOF Episode 201 - Becky Campbell

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2025/04/01

My guest today is Becky Campbell of SewForever Quilting. She is known for creating Innovative Appliqué and English Paper Piecing Made Easy. Her quilting and sewing products make complicated, time-consuming techniques doable for the modern sewist. I took her EPP sticky papers on one of my England tours for my guests to play with on the coach as we travelled across the countryside of Wales and they loved the reusable self-stick templates. It was really fun and easy. On the podcast today we’ll t...

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QOF Episode 200 - Este Macleod

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2025/03/26

Today is like the color confidential episode of the Quilter on Fire podcast except its not confidential – we are going to spill the beans on color. My guest today uses colour as a principal element in her work, applied in layers, and created with the intention to surprise, evoke calming emotions and a sense of joy. Today I’ll have a chat with professional artist and designer Estè MaCleod. She is a professional artist and designer with a background in textile and surface design. Her art has hu...

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QOF Episode 199 - Kaye England

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2025/03/18

My guest today is Kaye England who hits the road from her farm life to share her love of patchwork piecing techniques and her delightful philosophy of life! She has owned 3 quilt shops, two gift shops, and two tea rooms in her retail career and now resides on an 8 acre farm where she plays Mama to llamas and goats. She designs 2 collections of fabric per year, she’s written 15 books, and designed patterns and blocks of the month and more. She even has embroidery collections on many of her fab...

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QOF Episode 198 - Julia McLeod

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2025/03/11

My guest today is Julia McLeod – an international award-winning quilter. She specializes in making silk quilts, sourcing her fabrics from neckties, clothing and furnishing fabrics. She has been featured on the quiltshow.com in episode 2902 and she has an on-demand workshop called How to Use Silks in Your Quiltmaking. Julia’s new book, and first book actually, with C&T Publishing is Patchwork LUXE: Quilts from Neckties, Kimonos, and Sari Silks - I love that title – Patchwork LUXE sou...

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QOF Episode 197 - Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry

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2025/03/04

My guest today is Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry! She is internationally known for her award-winning fine-art quilts, which are easily recognized by their luminous colours and illusions of light, depth, and motion. Her attention to detail has earned her a reputation for fine craftsmanship and stunning designs. Her quilt, Corona 2: Solar Eclipse was voted one of the hundred best quilts of the 20th Century. Caryl's work has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions and publications throughout the w...

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QOF Episode 196 - Helen & Jenny of Sew Kind of Wonderful

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2025/02/26

Helen Robinson & Jenny Pedigo are sisters and co-owners of Sew Kind of Wonderful - a contemporary quilt pattern & specialty notions design company. THEY ARE KNOWN FOR, The Quick Curve Ruler which was the cornerstone of their "Urban Series" quilts, and they’ve designed a few more specialty rulers since then. They’ve published 8 books starting off with Contemporary Curved Quilts and we chat about them all in this episode. And they bring fresh and inspiring fabric designs to the world ea...

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QOF Episode 195 Dee Bushrod the Pixel Quilter

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2025/02/18

Devida Bushrod is a quiltmaker and entrepreneur known for her love of pixel quilts. At PixelQuilts.com she offers ready made quilt patterns, teaches pixel quilting, and provides a brand new program where you can upload your photo and create your own custom pixel quilt. With hundreds of hours and thousands of pieces invested in each pixel quilt, Dee quilts with a purpose. Choosing people and subjects that truly inspire her, Dee has even made a quilt fit for the Queen. Find Dee Bushrod: ...

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QOF Episode 194 - Tara Faughnan

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2025/02/11

It's the PRE QUILTCON Featured Speaker Episode with Tara Faughnan! I've got my QuiltCon socks on and I can't wait to share this interview with you. Tara is professional textile designer and quilter living and working in Oakland, CA. She is a quilter, teacher and pattern designer who loves to stretch her own skills and take her students right along with her. She is known for her simple bold geometry and gorgeous bright colours in her quilts and for pushing the boundaries of what wo...

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QOF Episode 193 - Vicki Conley

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2025/02/04

Vicki Conley is an art quilter and surface pattern designer. She works in both abstract and representational and shares her love of the outdoors through her art. She is a juried artist member of SAQA and has shown her work in shows that have travelled the world. She has been featured on QATV and on thequiltshow.com. She is well known for her national park quilts but her creative journey didn’t start there. Today you’ll hear the story of an artist who’s had the best career possible from potter...

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QOF Episode 192 - Lori Miller

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2025/01/28

My guest today is Lori Miller! She is a quilter, pattern designer, and national quilt educator from Oxford, Michigan. With a career in IT software for 25 years you can imagine why she enjoys the design process and why one of her favourite tools is EQ8 Quilt Design software. She teaches EQ8 classes around the country and writes Lessons With Lori for the EQ blog. As an Accuquilt GO! Getter, she shares tutorials and patterns of her designs on the Accuquilt blog as well. Today's podcast is a grea...

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QOF Episode 191 - Ana Buzzalino

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2025/01/21

My guest today is Ana Buzzalino. Ana Buzzalino is a creator, maker, fibre and mixed media artist, surface designer, teacher and lecturer. Her love of layers and texture combine in her original work. Her work has won numerous awards at national and international shows. In 2019 Ana was honoured as Quilter of Distinction at Heritage Park 24th Annual Festival of Quilts. She has been featured in numerous magazines, TV Shows like thequiltshow.com, - too many to mention! But most notably - her work ...

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QOF Episode 190 - Susan Madu

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2025/01/14

Susan Madu of MODERN BLENDED QUILTS has been quilting for over 35 years alongside her career as a certified professional accountant. Her quilting journey has evolved from always following other people’s patterns to designing her own. For close to a decade Susan has been teaching and speaking for guilds in person and on Zoom including 3 different workshops at QuiltCanada in 2023. Grab a cup of tea with me and enjoy her story! Find Susan on Instagram: @modernblendedquiltsFacebook: Modern Blende...

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QOF Episode 189 - Soak Wash & Sew Fine

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2025/01/07

We’ve got the latest scoop on some BIG NEWS – if you haven’t heard - SOAK WASH INC. has acquired SEW FINE THREAD GLOSS and there is so much to talk about! It is such a great thing for both businesses and I can’t wait to unpack the story. Today I’ll have a chat with Jacqueline Sava of Soak Wash Inc. and Jenn McMillan, the creator of Sew Fine Thread Gloss.Find the Soak Wash website right here: https://soakwash.ca/Shop Sew Fine Thread Gloss right here: https://soakwash.ca/collections/sew-fine-th...

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QOF Episode 188 Annie Unrein of byAnnie

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2024/12/31

Happy New Year 2025!I hope you find the time as this new year rolls in to cozy up with a cup of tea and take 2 full hours to listen to this wonderful episode. I enjoyed every minute of this conversation! Annie Unrein is an absolute sweetheart and I've wanted to have her on the show for years. Annie is well known in the bag making world with over 150+ incredible patterns, high quality bag making supplies and a few innovative product creations along the way. She has travelled the world to teach...

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QOF Episode 187 Rachel Pierman of Crafty Monkies

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2024/12/24

Get ready to be inspired by the founder of CraftyMonkies! From a successful TV career that suddenly came to a halt to a thriving retreat and online event business bringing crafters together, this educational event planner has found her niche. I am looking forward to this episode with Rachel Pierman of Crafty Monkies! Crafty Monkies features live interactive Zoom classes, a monthly VIP club, on-demand videos and in-person retreats in the UK and the USA. Rachel connects teachers from around the...

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QOF Episode 186 - Kate Colleran

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2024/12/19

My guest today is Kate Colleran. She is a quilt pattern designer with Kate Colleran Designs and a fabric designer with Island Batiks, and she’s written 2 books! She first started Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs with Elizabeth Balderrama where she was the designer and Elizabeth did the pattern testing, consultations and was the shipping maven! Together they wrote their first book Smash Your Precut Stash with C&T Publishing. Today we’ll talk about how the business changed when her partner ...

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QOF Episode 185 Jen Kingwell

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2024/12/10

My guest today is a renowned quilter from the picturesque town of Torquay, Australia. If you’ve taken a workshop with her, you’ve likely danced around the house for days. Her designs are instantly recognizable with a seamless blend of traditional and contemporary design and she has made significant contributions to the quilting world. She draws inspiration from her travel adventures and the natural beauty of her surroundings in her homeland.Jen is known for creating quilts with intricat...

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QOF Episode 184 - Jenifer McShane - THE QUILTERS...

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2024/12/03

Today’s episode of the Quilter on Fire podcast is totally different – it’s about a short independent film – and you are gonna love it! THE QUILTERS follows the daily lives of several men, spending most of its screen time inside the sewing room in a Level 5 maximum security prison in a small Missouri town. As we follow several quilts from design to completion, audiences will come to know these men, witnessing their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride as they create something beautiful in t...

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EP 183 QuiltnLearn with Bea Byrne

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2024/11/19

Today we'll chat QuiltnLearn with Bea Byrne! Between her career in tech/events and her love of textiles/quilting, Bea Byrne realized that organizing and hosting online conferences in the quilting world is her jam. Having planned knitting events in the UK, and toured around travellers to crafty spots when she lived in Japan, to her recent guild show committee work where she lives now in the USA, Bea has a passion for “if you build it they will come” with her online events.There ...

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QOF Episode 182 - IQF Houston 2024

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2024/11/14

Join me for a super fun experience at the International Quilt Festival in Houston for 2024. In this recap episode you'll hear me interview quilters, teachers, vendors and exhibition artists in the Oliso Story Space. You can listen in to the podcast as usual or watch the video here on the Quilter on Fire YouTube Channel;WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Want to travel with Brandy?2025 FESTIVAL OF QUILTS Birmingham!!! This 14-day tour of Wales and England takes in the rich textile history and breathtaking c...

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