Just Wanna Quilt

We are catching up from the Paducah trip! We have so much more planned. Oh....we need a nap....we so need a nap.

The IP Law and Entrepreneurship @ Tulane Law School course reflects on what they did throughout the semester. The class ends this week, but the project will keep going!! The students talk about their experiences.

Virginia Postrel is a famous author, who has taken up the question of technology and textiles. Her previous work, style and glamour.

Todd Purcell from Superior Thread sent us some thread -- we learn all kinds of things about thread! He was great.

Becky joins us to talk about her quilting life, and her thoughts on her grandmother, quilting in general, and improv quilting.

Laura Bickford, from Souls Grown Deep Foundation, talks to us about Gee's Bend quilts.

Chris Sprigman is a very famous intellectual property professor that himself has done creative projects, including topics that include the fashion industry and comedy. He talks to us about how to structure cultural projects like ours, where the goal is to understand the role of law in creativity.

The Quilting Army stopped at Bumbletees (www.bumbletees.com), a quilt shop in Germantown, TN, where they talked about their business, and in particular their applique kits that they make. So very cute! There is also a FB live video on our Just Wanna Quilt FB group page. Join our group!

Yvonne talks to us about her quilting life, including the role of community, scrap quilting, and her love of quilting with bold colors.

Ok! The quilting army is on the move. Judy Walker, Edith Gross, Mary Ellen Leingang, Gigi Baay, and Hilary Harrison. Tonight, we talked about their trip from New Orleans to Memphis, where they are staying the night with Hilary. Thanks, Hilary!

Jacquie Gering, famous quilter, stops by to talk with us about her quilting life, and in particular her story of how she became a modern quilter.

We recap activities this week, including two quilt shows!

Amy talks about Purple Pineapple Studio and her strategy for helping beginners with patterns, and also the relationship between her business and local quilt shops.

Joel is part of our Quilting Army, and she talks about her quilting life as a relatively new​ quilter (whose work is amazing).

Ruth Kitchin Tillman talks to us about her quiling life, a little bit about being a librarian, and accidentally commits to making a bibliography for us on quilting!​

Chawne Kimber, math professor and famous quilter, talks about her life and her quilts. Follow along by going to her website, https://cauchycomplete.wordpress.com/quilt-gallery/ as we talk about her quilts. Note: this episode does have a few curse words, as she quilts some words that are, as she says, "Not Suitable for Work" as she pushes concepts of quilting and censorship as one part of her quilting life. (We marked as explicit! We've never done that before!)

Julie talks to us about how her celebration quilts got started, and how she creates quilts out of all kinds of materials -- t-shirts, baseball hats, ties, everything.

Bonnie Browning, Executive Show Director, American Quilter's Society talks to us from Paducah, Ky., where she tells about all the things that happen during Spring Quilt Week in Paducah.

A quick recap and a visit with Julia Driscoll, part of our FB Quilting Army who is visiting from Chicago!

Ann talks to us about copyright, intellectual property and gender. She was the second law professor I discussed the project with during the Summer 2017. She's awesome.