Katie Francisco, the Assistant Curator of Exhibitions sat down to chat with me on a Saturday. She was also the one who took me around the first day, and so it was especially lovely to be able to chat! Katie is "responsible for the production and installation of exhibitions based on the IQM collections, and for research and disseminating results of research through publications, exhibitions, lectures or other venues. She holds a Master of Arts in Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design with dual concentrations in Costume History and Fashion Design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and ..read more

Timna Tarr is a world-famous quilter, whose work has been featured on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV. She Is know for a specific type of portrait work, including animal portraits. She has published in countless magazines, and her book, Stitched Photo Mosaic Quilting teachings you her specific technique that we all so love. For more, see https://www.timnatarr.com/. It was such a pleasure and joy to chat with her. I hope you like the interview ..read more

Maddie Kertay of Badass Quilter's Society (https://badassquiltersshop.bigcartel.com/) talks to us about her life since 2019, the canceling of Bass Quilter's Society on Facebook with over 30,000 members and the new rebuilding of Badass now. As always, a joy of a guest. We have interviewed Maddie before. See Maddi's original interview on October 22, 2018, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15954096 ..read more

Jenny Lyons, who was a previous guest in 2019, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16858661, catches us up on her life since that interview, including her experiences during the early days of the Pandemic, and now, as she jets to different teaching gigs, and is living the dream. For more on Jenny, including her schedule and how to book her, go to https://quiltskipper.com. For more on her Creative Spark course, “Yes you CAN free motion quilt,” see https://creativespark.ctpub.com/courses/Lyon For more on her book, Free Motion Quilting from Ordinary to Extraordinary: 3 Steps to Joyful Machine Stitch ..read more

Brandon Butler is a rockstar in the copyright world, focusing on libraries and fair use. He has now opened a law firm that focuses on documentary films and fair use, among other subjects. He joins us for an hour. The law firm, Jaszi Butler, can be found at https://www.usefairuse.com/. We talk about the state of fair use, and in particular the current case at the U.S. Supreme Court about an Andy Warhol painting of Prince. We also discuss whether fair use applies to people taking pictures of patterns in quilt shops. (Towards the end of the interviews) Here is his bio: Brandon Butler is a copyr ..read more

Elizabeth Townsend Gard reads her book, Just Wanna Create: Copyright and Fair Use Strategies. In this episdoe, she reads, Chapter 2: Why We Create, which focuses on describing the quilting community from many angles, and starts to ask questions about the intersection of quilting and creativity. The book is based on research, including research from our interviews on Just Wanna Quilt. Many of our listeners contributed both their thoughts and their quilts to the making of this book. For more information about Just Wanna Quilt, go to http://www.justwannaquilt.com. To purchase a digital copy, go ..read more

Elizabeth Townsend Gard will be reading her book, Just Wanna Create: Copyright and Fair Use Strategies, which is a book about the relationship of quilting and copyright, and teaches the quilter and crafter all about the ins and outs of copyright. It is a story, it is law, and it is really looking at the cases and law behind copyright. Many of our listeners contributed both their thoughts and their quilts to the making of this book. For more information about Just Wanna Quilt, go to http://www.justwannaquilt.com. To purchase a digital copy, go to https://payhip.com/b/N7fy ..read more

Elizabeth Townsend Gard welcomes us to the new season of Just Wanna Quilt. She catches up, talks about the upcoming year, and apologizes for the lost years 2022 ..read more

Anna Maria Horner, fabric designer of FreeSpririt, and owner of Craft South in Nashville, NT https://www.craft-south.com/ joins us to talk about her life, owning a business during COVID-19, and a little bit of copyright too ..read more

Mary Elizabeth Kinch is a quilter and written. See https://www.maryelizabethkinch.com/. She also knew well Gwen Marston, who was a famous quilter, known for Liberated Quilting, and who passed away in April 2019 ..read more