A podcast for quilters about quilters. It's been said that every quilt has a story and it's so true. I wanted to hear about the people behind these wonderful ...
Threads & Ewe is the fulfillment of Shelly Martella’s lifelong dream to own a combination yarn and fabric store. Her goal is to provide a wide variety of exceptionally made fabrics and yarns, from around the globe, that will support the creative needs of sewing enthusiasts and fiber artists. Shelly is thrilled to finally be working in a career that lets her indulge her passion for beautiful fabrics and fibers. Shelly created the Threads & Ewe website not just as a yarn and fabric shop...but as a friendly online destination where quilters and knitters come to create!
Here is Shelly receiving the Best Customer Service award!
Just look at how wonderful Shelly's booth is!
And here is Shelly enjoying what she does.
Shelly at the International Quilt Festival
Contact Shelly
Website: Threads & Ewe
Facebook: Threads & Ewe
Instagram: threadsandewe
Pinterest: Threads & Ewe
X: https://twitter.com/ThreadsandEwe
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Kim Brownell
The work on Kim Brownell’s quilts gravitate towards animals, nature scenes, and bright colors. Her techniques include and blend: fabric collage, free form art quilts, raw-edge applique, as well as many others. Kim has a passion for entering quilt challenges which spark her imagination and inspire her. She says her dream is to also inspire you to have fun and to help you learn what you can create.
Here are a couple of Kim's quilts
Connect with Kim:
Website: The Wacky Doddle Quilter
Facebook: Kim Brownell
Instagram: the.wackydoodle.quilter
And Thanks to Mel Beach for sending Kim to A Quilter’s Life
Connect with Mel –
Website: Mel Beach Quilts
Facebook: Mel Beach Quilts
Instagram: melbeachquilts
Pinterest: Mel Beach
YouTube: Mel Beach Quilts Don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel
And Mel’s episode on A Quilter’s Life: Mel Beach
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Dana Jones
This remarkable interview with Dana Jones is a little longer than the average episode of A Quilter’s Life, but you know how it is when you get chatting with quilters. Dana loves teaching quilting from beginning classes to advanced techniques, from teaching her own designs to teaching quilts designed by others. And she shared with us many of her wonderful insights.
We talked about Dana's Peace Cranes Over Hiroshima
Here are her Warp Speed and Don't Call Me Girl quilts
Connect with Dana
Website: Dana Jones Quilts
Facebook: Dana Jones Quilts
And Thanks to Mel Beach for sending Dana to A Quilter's Life!
Mel's episode on A Quilter's Life: Mel Beach
Website: Mel Beach Quilts
Facebook: Mel Beach Quilts
Instagram: melbeachquilts
Pinterest: Mel Beach
YouTube: Mel Beach Quilts
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Christa Watson
Christa Watson is passionate about all things that have to do with domestic machine quilting. She is an award-winning quilter, pattern designer, author, and digital educator! After the interview I remembered I should have asked Christa about the sewing cabinet that she co-designed with Arrow. I’ve seen it demonstrated and it looks fabulous. Then a little later I received an email from her and she shared that her Colorful Chaos quilt that we talked about was juried into the quilt show in Paducah. I’m so happy for her! So if you’re able to get to that show make sure to look for it.
Here's Christa's Colorful Chaos quilt
I had the privilege to meet Christa in person at QuiltCon 2024
Connect with Christa
Website: Christa Quilts
Facebook: Christa Watson
Instagram: christaquilts
Pinterest: Christa Quilts
YouTube: Christa Quilts Don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel
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Bea Byrne
Bea Byrne is a quilter, artist and entrepreneur living in Oakland, California. She has a love of anything to do with textiles but her real passion is quilting. After a career in tech and events Bea realized that organizing and hosting an online conference would be the perfect way to merge the two worlds. She has created the Quilt n Learn events which include teachers from all over the world. And if you’ve been listening to A Quilter’s Life for a while you may even recognize some of the teachers at this event.
Here's Bea's quilt Self Portrait Triptych
To connect with Bea for the Quilt n Learn events
Website: Quilt n Learn
Facebook: Quilt n Learn
Instagram: quiltnlearn
YouTube: QuiltnLearn
To Connect with Bea about her teaching and lectures
Website: Bea Byrne
Facebook: Bea Byrne
Instagram: beabyrneartist
And Thanks to Mel Beach for sending Bea to A Quilter's Life
Connect with Mel –
Website: Mel Beach Quilts
Facebook: Mel Beach Quilts
Instagram: melbeachquilts
Pinterest: Mel Beach
YouTube: Mel Beach Quilts
And Mel's episode on A Quilter's Life: Mel Beach
A podcast for quilters about quilters. It's been said that every quilt has a story and it's so true. I wanted to hear about the people behind these wonderful quilts and thought you'd enjoy hearing about their lives, also. Enjoy meandering through the episodes to find out about the very interesting people behind the quilts!
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