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Here are my picks for top 3 items in several catagories, quilty and non-quilty (but those things inspire me towards quilty-ness).

On my iPod/iRiver:
1. Falling in Between, Toto
2. Nashville Tribute to Joseph Smith – Jason Deere, Dan Truman, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band & more

3. Beatles – LOVE from Cirque du Soleil

Movies:
1. Cars
2. New York Doll

3. Stranger than Fiction

Books:
1. Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space, Lois Hallock

2. Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morgenstern

3. Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! McClun and Nownes

Favorite Websites:
1. Google
2. YouTube.com
3. Amazon

Favorite Quilt-related websites:
1. Sue.Nickels.com
2. Heather Bailey
3. CrabApple Hill studio

Favorite Blogs:
1. Quilter’s Buzz
2. SewCatherine
3. Quilt Mavericks blog ring

Favorite podcasts:
1. Jay and Jack’s LOST
2. Len and Nora’s Jawbone Radio
3. Knitcast

Quilting Stash’s most downloaded shows:
1. #54 – Storytime in a 3rd Grade Classroom
2. #56 – Commercial Break – Quilter’s Home Magazine article
3. #55 – California Road Trip

Most memorable Quilting Stash Interviews:
1. Joe the Quilter
2. Prints Charming gals
3. Betty Alofs

Quilting notions:
1. Olfa QB Frosted Advantage Rulers
2. Prescensia thread
3. Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Circles – mylar circles for applique

Office supply “junkie” tools that I use for quilting-related things:
1. Ticonderoga tri-write three sided pencils — great eraser that doesn’t smudge anything
2. Fine-line Sharpies, box of 12
3. Post-it notes

Quilt Pattern designers:
1. Barbara Jones, Quilt Soup
2. Lydia Quigley, Rabbit Factory
3. Elizabeth Scott, Late Bloomer quilts

Quilt Shops visited on-the-road:
1. Nancy’s, Las Vegas, stay tuned for an article on them in Quilter’s Home
2. Quiltique, Las Vegas
3. Sew Simple, Redding

Hot quilty things:
1. Embellishing quilts with rick rack, lace, buttons, etc.
2. Hand-dyed buttons, HillCreek Designs
3. Quilt Chipper Registry, a must for competition quilts

Fabric Lines:
1. Moda – for changing the industry, leading Home Dec using quilt fabrics, designers, embellishments
2. Alexander Henry – their funky fabrics are perfect for pj pants, men’s camp shirts, clothing, pillowcases and purses
3. Free Spirit Fabrics – Prints Charming fabrics, Heather Bailey and lovely big prints for skirts

Quilting events:
1. Gee’s Bend Quilt Exhibit
2. an Empty Spools seminar at Asilomar – any one, any time – my favorite place to quilt
3. Stitch-n-Pitch

Restaurants on-the-road:
1. Biaggi’s – Salt Lake City, UT
2. Fenton’s Old-fashioned creamery and grill – Piedmont district of Oakland, CA
3. Watson’s Drug Store – home of a scene in one of my favorite all-time movies, “That Thing You Do!”, Orange, CA

Favorite places to “park” my family so I can shop:
1. ATV’ing in Southern Utah, ATV Adventures, St. George
2. any full-service Gaming facility that has miniature golf, batting cages, go-karts, bumper boats and air-hockey tables
3. an enclosed air-conditioned mall so Guy can take a nap and Robin can roam

Quilting Magazines:
1. Quilter’s Home
2. Better Homes and Gardens, Quilt Sampler magazine (even better now that they have two issues per year!
3. Better Home and Gardens, American Patchwork and Quilting

Magazine Editors:
1. Mark Lipinski
2. Mark Lipinski
3. Mark Lipinski

Things I use my digital camera for:
1. Quilts I’m working on
2. Items to go with Podcast episodes
3. Students’, and retreat attendees’, and their quilts

Things to work on in front of the T.V. = mindless, both shows and work:
1. Cutting pieces for a project wither fabric or fusible shapes for applique
2. Hand applique
3. Hand quilting

Favorite T. V. programs that I can’t work on projects in front of because I have to pay attention:
1. Gilmore Girls – Kirsten’s and my guilty pleasure
2. Lost
3. The Office

What I love to do while quilting:
1. listen to music for inspiration
2. listen to podcasts
3. listen to audiobooks

Things to do to relax from quilting:
1. go through old magazines, I can’t let that one inspiration slip away
2. cross-stitch
3. Knit

Most tedious parts of quilting:
1. cutting – that endless cutting that keeps you from stitching
2. picking up after a project, assimilating all of that leftover fabric back into “the stash”
3. the elusive hunt for fabric that you just have-to have

The best parts of Quilting:
1. Playing with fabrics
2. finally getting to sew
3. spending any amount of time with wonderful quilters

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I had a rare opportunity to spend some time interviewing Joe Cunningham. Joe has been quilting since 1979 and has many books and quilts to his credit.

I hope you will enjoy this interview with Joe, which is the most delightfully fun interview I have done to date. We began at his studio and ended up at his house. The pictures below correspond with the quilts we talk about at his studio.

If you ever have a chance to hear Joe speak (and sing), don’t miss the chance to do so. He also does some great workshops. Joe is a great advocate of hand-quilting, which is how he began, and has done a DVD about hand-quiltling and building your own quilt frame.

Joe Cunningham with his beautiful quilt from the “Joe the Quilter” collection.

Joe’s “My Own Fault” quilt, one of a series of quilts about San Francisco. This quilt has the infamous blue indigo fabric that had to be washed almost 50 times before it stopped bleeding badly. The little white sticks embellishing the quilt are done using bias tape.

Joe’s Eucalyptus quilt on the left, and the red and blue Amish wool quilt. Just beautiful, aren’t they?!

Joe and me in Joe’s back yard, taken by my son Robin, who accompanied me on the trip to interview Joe. Robin had a great time meeting Joe and being able to talk music “trash” with him. What a fabulous day it was!

Joe’s website can be found at Joe The Quilter. I noticed when visitng his website that he doesn’t have his CD’s or DVD available for purchase, but if you’re interested, contact Joe via his website.

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Been down so long it looks like up to me… coming up for air.

Quilter’s Home magazine December is in the stores. Check out page 56 for my very first article! Click here for information on this month’s issue.

Quilting_Stash_Podcast is now a forum on Yahoo. Visit YahooGroups to register and join in the discussions on quilty subjects.

Resurgence of hand quilting and sewing clothing. Time magazine had an article about sewing here to read the article “Circling Back to Sewing”.

I went a fun Christmas party and cookie exchange at my friend, Lesa’s house and met some new quilting friends. I made Sierra Nuggets for the cookie exchange, a cookie that I have made every Christmas for 26 years. For the recipe, visit Guittard chocolate’s website.

December 15 & 16th – I’ll be at Whiffle Tree Quilts in Cupertino for a Trunk show. For more info, visit their website.

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What a FABULOUS day and opportunity to spend the day with these two super-talented fabric designers! I heard about them from Gina’s Market reports and she mentioned that they were coming up to San Francisco to see the “Quilts of Gee’s Bend” exhibit. I thought, “…well… hmmm, if they’re from Australia, they probably don’t know their way around the City… I wonder if they would like a tour guide?” So I called Kirsten (pronounced kerr-stin, the English pronunciation) and they thought it was a great idea.
I picked Kirsten, Cath and Cath’s mum, Margaret, at their hotel and our first stop was straight-away to

the Pork Store Cafe for:

fluffy Banana Pecan pancakes (oh, my word!!!! They were GOOD) in

the heart of Haight-Ashbury. They have fun and funky stores in the Haight and two fabric stores that we enjoyed shopping at Discount fabrics and Mendel’s Far-out Fabrics, a San Francisco staple.

A memorable moment for Kirsten and Cath, under the infamous legs.

Kirsten and Cath had a lucky find in Mendels — Bark cloth, which they’ve been looking for for ages. The price per yard was a real deal, as fabrics are wicked-expensive in Australia.
The highlight of the day was definitely the Gee’s Bend exhibit.

Check out Kirsten’s vest and scarf, and Cath’s scarf and handbag. It just shows how you can use quilting fabrics for more than quilts. Although lighter weight than traditional garment fabrics, quilting cottons make beautiful clothing. We’re going to see more clothes from these clever gals, too! Actually, Kirsten and Cath made all of the clothes that they wore at Market, and I think their fabric line is great for skirts, capris and fun tops as well as quilts. I’m definitely going to be making some cool additions to my wardrobe with their fabrics too.

The Gee’ Bend exhibit has been extended, due to popular demand, until December 31st. Do not miss this show! We were all so inspired by the stories of these incredible ladies that we were moved to tears. Their quilts were simple, yet told a powerful story of the fortitude of these ladies who lived in poverty but are rich with the best things. I will never forget the lessons learned while enjoying the beatiful Gee’s Bend quilts. I ran across a quote in a publication while I was there and I had to buy it so I could get the quote right — it just tickled me:

“I really don’t like to sit down and do all that measuring. It just takes the heart out of things.” !!

How often do we labor over our shapes and measure, measure, measure to find that we have once again cut the piece wrong and now nothing fits? When I read that quote, I laughed outloud in the museum! I have to remember to take myself just a little less seriously.

The back lawn area of the DeYoung has these delightful apple sculptures, and what a beautiful autumn day it was in the City that day.
At the end of our trip to the deYoung, we stopped on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights to have tea and catch the interview for this program.

I just loved getting to know Kirsten, Cath and Margaret. It was a perfect day spent with lovely ladies who shared quilting. I can’t wait to be able to buy their new fabrics and make a beautiful quilt to wrap myself in, and remember the day spent with my new friends.

Keep an eye out for Prints Charming, coming soon to your local quilt shop!

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This episode was really intended to be done during the last day at Quilt Market, but with the busyness of Market and life in general, Gina and I didn’t hook up until last week. I have wanted to interview Gina about her interests and her businesses, Quilter’s Buzz Blog and Threaded Pear Studio and help you know lots more about her. So here is the interview that I’ve wanted to do, with a tidbit more about Market that we didn’t hear in the first two shows.

I hope you enjoy the quilty information that Gina has to share and that you’ve enjoyed hearing about the inner-sanctum of Quilt Market. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall there? Here’s the scoop: if you have a quilt shop affiliation, or if you teach classes, you CAN go to Quilt Market! What a fun way to learn what is going to be popular in the local quilt shops for the next three months.

Here are the links that Gina shared with us in her interviews.

Gina’s Blog, chock full of trendy info!

Threaded Pear StudioGina and Stephanie’s Long Arm Quilting business in Brea, CA. Website in progess…

Gina’s favorite quilters from Market:

Amy Butler‘s website. Tres chic fabrics that are my daughter Kirsten’s favorite threads to play with.

Denyse Schmidt‘s website.

Heather Bailey‘s website HELLOmynameisheather. She is an incredible designer and has a brand new fabric line that is just beautiful. Heather is very crafty and is married to a talented photographer with two darling children. Coincidentally, her mother-in-law is none other than elinor peace bailey. Lucky girl!

The clothing designer for Heather, Sandi from PortabelloPixie — oooh lala — Sandi’s clothing line is just precious, exactly what I would have dressed my kids in when they were little. Sandi also has Christmas stockings and other holiday embellishments on eBay.

Anna Maria Horner‘s website. Anna Maria’s style is exquisite and I can’t wait to see her new fabric line. Both Anna Maria and Heather are Free Spriit fabric contemporaries — and stay-at-home moms. More power to them!

Gina took a picture of my quilt at the Hillcreek Designs booth at Market for me. “Simple Hearts and Flowers” is embellished with Theresa’s gorgeous hand-dyed buttons, which I think was the perfect finishing touch for the quilt.
Here’s a full picture of the quilt, which is a new pattern – available on the website soon!

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Well, Gina Halladay from QuiltersBuzz is back again with more to report from Quilt Market. Listen in as she gushes about her wonderful experiences – I am sooo jealous!

Happy Quilting!

Annie

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Today’s podcast features a conversation with Gina Halladay of QuiltersBuzz.com. Gina is at Quilt Market in Houston, Texas and is checking-in by phone telling me about her experiences at this huge event that is not open to the general public. There is lots of news to hear about – too much to put in my notes – so get some paper and a pencil to take good notes!

Happy Quilting!

Annie

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How the week started

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Working on patterns for PIQF

Hi Everyone! Apologies for not getting you a fresh Quilting Stash show this week. I’m feverishly finishing my patterns to get them ready for PIQF here in Santa Clara, CA. I’m also finishing a new quilt that will be on display at the show.

I promise to have a new show posted by the weekend.

In the meantime, please take a look down the righthand side of the page. I’ve placed links to interviews with some special friends of mine I’ve interviewed in past shows. If you are new to Quilting Stash, give them a listen! The quality of the shows vary (I was a greenie podcaster then) – but they are worth hearing.

Also, there is a new poll listed on this page. Click Here to see it.

Happy Quilting!

Annie