If you love scrappy goodness, and lots of tiny pieces… you’re going to love this episode. My guest today is Leanne Parsons – the Devoted Quilter. She’s a Canadian pattern designer with over 40 patterns in her shop, a quilt teacher, and free-motion quilting lover, who has been quilting since the late ’90s, blogging for over a decade, and designing quilt patterns that blend contemporary style with a love for traditional blocks. She has a scrappy membership you’ll love to help you turn those treasured scraps into quilts! And she was featured as the first designer in the all new Quilt The North boxes. If you are Canadian and you haven’t heard about this box – you ‘re gonna love it. We’ll give you more details later in this podcast, but right now - let’s explore the story of Leanne Parsons.

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My guest today is Mike O’Dell of Legit Kits! With a full time job as a nurse anesthetist, Mike had the luxury of trying out a side hustle that didn’t need to put food on the table. He’s been sewing for decades so his newfound joy with the FPP project in 2020 was the perfect fit to give it a try. Legit kits now has a team of full-time employes, and brings in freelance designers to boost its offerings with fresh new designs that cater to quilters of all levels from beginner to advanced and everything in between. 

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Sara Larson Buscaglia is a self-taught organic farmer, natural dyer, quiltmaker and founder of Farm & Folk. She has amassed 100K followers on social media attracting an audience that is joyfully invested in hand-stitched quilting, natural dyed materials, and the art of creating lasting heirlooms. Her first book launched in 2023 and it is called Farm & Folk - Quilt Alchemy – A high country guide to natural dyeing and making heirloom quilts from scratch.  

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Hillary Goodwin has been a modern quilter from the early days of the establishment of the Modern Quilter Guild and has had at least one and often several quilts juried into every Quiltcon since 2015 (minus Quiltcon away when she was busy ER doctoring during the pandemic and didn’t submit any). Before there were restrictions on the numbers of quilts juried into Quiltcon per person, she has had the most on record-8 of her own and 1 in a group quilt in 2017.  She has a Best of Show Quilt from Quiltcon 2022 and she was also part of a group quilt that won Best of Show in 2019.  She designed and made the Quiltcon Raffle quilt in collaboration with Rachael Dorr in 2020. Her work has been featured in the books “Why We Quilt”, “Quilt Out Loud” and “Country Cottages” and in multiple magazines including the cover of Quiltcon Magazine 2025. She was the featured artist at Quilt SanFrancisco in 2024 had a solo show at “Hello Stitch Studio” in 2019 and has had her work displayed in multiple group shows throughout the world. Lastly, her quilt “Nude is Not a Color”, a community project was acquired and is part of the permanent collection of The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan.

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Kim Jamieson-Hirst is the founder of Chatterbox Quilts — a quilter, teacher, pattern-designer, vintage-machine lover, and — let’s face it — delightful human being. She’s the voice behind hundreds of YouTube videos, thoughtful blog posts, (she did a Q&A blog post with me back 2015) That’s a decade ago! She hosts online courses designed to help quilters get past fear, perfectionism, and “the quilt police.” 

Kim believes quilting is more than perfect seams and matchy-matchy blocks. It’s about joy, experimentation, and community. She’s built an online membership — The Quilter's Way — where quilters from around the world learn, stitch, laugh, share mistakes, and grow together. 

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Today, I’ll have a chat with special guest Jo Avery. From intricate handwork and appliqué in cotton and wool threads to bold improv quilts inspired by the woods around her Scottish home, my guest today shows us that quilting is more than technique—it’s expression, exploration, and pure joy. On this episode of Quilter on Fire, we dive into her journey from childhood sewing to leading one of the most creative online quilting communities in the world. My business/website info

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PODCAST SWAP! This time we recorded together and it was so much fun!  — Tori McElwain and Andi Stanfield — the co-hosts of the Quilting on the Side podcast joined me for a candid conversation about all kinds of quilty topics including the Pantone colour of the year, a talk about ai and so much more. Tori of HeyTori and Andi, from True Blue Quilts, bring the perfect mix of real talk, business smarts, and deep quilting passion. They share what it actually takes to grow a quilting business while juggling life, family, and creativity — because most of us are wearing about 17 hats at once. On Quilting on the Side, they dig into everything from digital marketing tips and mindset shifts to time-saving strategies and branding truths, all through honest, no-fluff conversations about building successful side hustles from quilting dreams. Tori and Andi are supportive, smart, and relatable voices every quilter needs in their corner.

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Lynne Goldsworthy has been making quilts for over 2 decades, and she’s the mastermind behind the idea of Thread House Academy with her good friends Jo Avery and Karen Lewis. She has designed for numerous companies, magazines, and for television and her books include, Quick and Easy Quilts, and 500 Quilt Blocks. Today I’ll have a chat with UK Quilter – Lynne Goldsworthy. 

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Sue Sherman is a national and international award-winning quilt artist who transforms white cotton into breathtaking wildlife portraits. Through precise painting with dyes and thread, Sue gives voice to the animal kingdom, creating lifelike images inspired by her travels. Her work has earned recognition at prestigious events including Houston's International Quilt Festival, the Canadian National Juried Show, AQS Paducah in the USA and Festival of Quilts Birmingham in the UK. As a Juried Artist Member of SAQA, Sue combines artistry with activism, hoping her stunning textile creations will inspire urgency around protecting Earth's creatures and their habitats.

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Katie Pasquini was inducted into the Quilter's Hall of Fame in 2024. She is a trailblazer, an artist, author, teacher and speaker who has spent over forty years turning fabric into breathtaking works of art. Katie began as a painter, but somewhere along the line she discovered that fabric and thread could carry the same depth, emotion, and movement as paint. Katie is a world-renowned teacher and lecturer, traveling from her studio in California to classrooms around the world — Europe, the Far East, Australia, New Zealand — sharing her contemporary quilting theories, her fearless approach to color and design, and her love for quilting as true art. She is dedicated to her craft, and is truly inspiring to quilters around the world.

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My guest today is Dr. Karen Nyberg!  She is an Astronaut, Earth Ambassador, and Artist. Have you ever spoken to a person who has literally left this earth and been to outer space? I haven’t…until now! My guest on the podcast today stitched a 9” square star-themed quilt block in space and encouraged others to create their own star-themed quilt blocks on earth. No one realized how quickly the project would grow. NASA received over 2400 quilt squares from around the world for the Astronomical Quilt Block Challenge. Tune in today as I have a chat with Dr. Karen Nyberg. Happy Holidays everyone! 

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