Just Wanna Quilt

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 a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Asbury University. Her most recent project was Under the Sheltering Palms: Vacation Culture and Dress in 1920s and 1930s Florida." https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/katie-francisco.

We visited with Jim Kohler, a volunteer at the International Quilt Museum, who quilts 1800s tops by hand to add them to the Education Collection. But the interview is about so much more. Jim talks about his grandmother (b. 1890), who taught him to quilt, his life in Alaska, his philosophy of "we", and so much more.

We're doing a special series at the International Quilt Museum for the next few weeks! Today, I chatted with Carolyn Ducey, the Ardis B. James Curator of Collections. She is amazing. But we already knew that. We intervieweed her in 2019 in a two-part podcast interviews: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18105882 and https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18849947. She is a co-editor on the American Quilts in the Industrial Age, a brilliant (and quite heavy) book, available at Amazon https://amzn.to/3IRZiRR (and yes, worth the price). She is pretty all-around awesome. We talk about the history of the IQM, about museums in general and many more things. A great introduction to the International Quilt Museum. Note: these are raw, in the field interviews and so no intro/outro music. Ironically, I think the sound quality is better than usual! Hope you enjoy it.

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!

Professor Eric Goldman from Santa Clara University is an expert all things trademark and all things Internet. He talks with us about current U.S. Supreme Court cases that may impact how we engage wtih the Internet. And he talks about slinkies too (he has a lot alot maybe all of the slinkies). For more on Eric, go to https://law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/goldman-eric/ and https://law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/goldman-eric/. And he has the best blog on the Internet and Technology Law, if you want to keep up (and not just because I have guest blogged for him). https://blog.ericgoldman.org/

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

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 Stitching in 21 Days, go to https://amzn.to/3lPVMic. Jenny is a fiber artist, author and teacher from northern California. She uses her domestic sewing machine to create quilts, art quilts and wearable art. She has sewn since age 6 and began to free motion quilt in 2000. Her work focuses on free motion quilting on whole cloth and her work has juried into the Paducah and Houston shows, Pacific International Quilt Festival, SAQA exhibits and several art galleries. She appeared on Quilting Arts TV as well as The Quilt Show (Feb, 2019). She authored a book published by C&T designed to encourage experienced beginners, Free Motion Quilting, Ordinary to Extraordinary. Jenny has been teaching and lecturing on the art of quilting since 2006 and travels to guilds, shops and major shows. She brings her passion and joy to the classroom and loves to inspire her students to free motion quilt their own quilts!.She lives near Sacramento, California with her Husband and their Australian Shepherd. Their boys have left the nest, giving Jenny more room for quilting.

Cheryl talks to us about the process of moving to Paducah and opening Mupping Quilt Emporium. We’ve talked with Cheryl many times, about the business of quilting. See Epsiodes in 2018: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14357737, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14198528, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13965326, and one episode in 2019: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/20463047. We catch up with her on her new marriage, her new shop, and her big move to Paducah. (Paducah is one of the key quilting cities in the country, in the world, with the National Quilt Museum and a town that supports artists and quilters). For more on the shop, go to the Facebook grou, Muppin’s Sewing Emporium, https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=229544981867030, and to her website, https://muppin.com/. She has a new book, Smock it to Me: The History and Technique of Canadian Smocking, available at https://amzn.to/3xAA7NG. Cheryl is a quilt and sewing entrepreneur, who focuses on texture, technology and textiles. She loves heirloom sewing techniques and fabric manipulation. She teaches and lectures across the country. She is also known for her iconic sewing skull branding. Here's a new story: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/quilting-sewing-corporation-muppin-inc-coming-to-downtown-paducah/article_6830f65e-17e3-11ed-b7ed-470e1a3ff16e.html. Want to visit? Here is the address! Muppin’s Sewing Emporium 117 N 4th street Paducah KY 42001

Thomas has a new, most magnificent book out, Quilt Out Loud: Activism, Language and the Art of Quilting (C&T Publishing, 2023), available at https://amzn.to/3KkTDVP.The last time we spoke to Thomas in 2019, he was discussing his previous book, Why We Quilt. Listen to that podcast at, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/19599876. He discusses the process of writing this book, his life during the Pandemic, and his thoughts on the beauty he makes with activism messaging. He also talks about the influence of punk on his thoughts and process, and even the look of the book! Thomas Knauer holds Masters of Fine Art from both Ohio University and the Cranbrook Academy of art. Before he started designing fabric and quilts he was a professor of art and design at Drake University and the State University of New York. He began sewing in 2010 after leaving academia due to health concerns, and soon thereafter sat down at a sewing machine for the first time to make his wee daughter a dress. Since then he has designed six fabric collections for Andover Fabrics, writes an ongoing column for Quilters Newsletter, has published quilts in numerous magazines, and is exhibiting in quilt shows and museums. But in the end he loves making things for his daughter and new son the best. For more about Thomas, go to https://www.thomasknauersews.com/.

Elizabeth Townsend Gard reads her book, Just Wanna Create: Copyright and Fair Use Strategies. In this episode, she reads, Chapter 4, Seven Key Concepts. This is kind of a summary of the big issues related to quilting and crafting, and copyright. It gets us started. 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 to https://payhip.com/b/N7fy.

Elizabeth Townsend Gard reads her book, Just Wanna Create: Copyright and Fair Use Strategies. In this episode, she reads, Chapter 3 Basics of Intellectual Property. This goes over the basic concepts of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, right of publicity and a little bit of copyright. 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 to https://payhip.com/b/N7fy.

Brendon 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 copyright lawyer and expert on the lawful use of archival materials. Brandon is currently the Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia Library. Previously, he was the Practitioner-in-Residence at the American University Washington College of Law’s Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property Clinic, where he taught courses on copyright and fair use, and supervised student attorneys in the representation of artists, filmmakers, publishers, authors, and entrepreneurs in a variety of intellectual property matters. Brandon was also the Director of Public Policy at the Association of Research Libraries, where he advocated for fair copyright and intellectual freedom on behalf of the nation’s most prominent academic and research libraries. Brandon graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and was an associate at Dow Lohnes LLP (later merged with Cooley LLP), in Washington, D.C. Brandon is the Law and Policy Advisor to the Software Preservation Network, and is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Copyright in Education and Libraries and is the author of a variety of journal articles and book chapters about copyright and fair use. In college, Brandon was the local music reporter for Athens, GA alt-weekly The Flagpole, and he took a semester off to tour the country as a substitute guitarist in his friends’ punk band.Brandon is admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C.

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 to https://payhip.com/b/N7fy.

Willow Olson joins us to talk about her adventures with Just Wanna Quilt and more. She runs the AccuQuilt and More Facebook group, (https://www.facebook.com/groups/accuquiltandmore/?ref=share) and has just started the YouTube Channel, Quilting with Willow (https://www.youtube.com/@QuiltingWithWillow). Willow has long been associated with Just Wanna Quilt, running our Inventory Quilt Project. Now, she and Elizabeth Townsend Gard are working on a new project, Just Wanna Reverse Engineer: Museums, Quilts, and Copyright. They talk about that, and other things too, including being "On Call" moms now that they are both empty nesters.

Andi Barney from the Sewing Doc Academy joins us to talk about life during COVID and the new pivot in her business. We've checked in with Andi through the years, and we are thrilled to chat with her again. For more on the Sewing Doc Academy, go to https://www.sewingdocacademy.com/workshops. For more on Andi, see our previou conversations at https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15593151.

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.

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.