In this episode of Running Stitch, host Janneken Smucker talks with quilt educator and entrepreneur HollyAnne Knight about how technology is transforming the way quilters learn, connect, and create. Drawing on a 2022 Textile Talks interview, they explore Holly Anne's path from new mom making her first T-shirt quilt to founder of String & Story, a thriving online hub for free-motion and longarm quilting instruction. Alongside excerpts from the QSOS archive, they dig into long-standing tensions between hand and machine quilting, the importance of community—whether around a frame or on Zoom—and how quiltmakers navigate tradition, innovation, and the joy that keeps them stitching.

Learn more about Running Stitch at www.quiltalliance.org/runningstitch

Visit HollyAnne online at www.stringandstory.com/

Running Stitch is back! We're bringing you a special bonus episode: Voices from QuiltCon, featuring mini-interviews from quilters just like you, collected at the Quilt Alliance's booth at QuiltCon 2024. We invited show attendees to stop by and randomly select a question chosen from our Quilters Save Our Stories oral history project.

Enjoy this mini-episode, and we'll be back in a week or two with three new episodes to close out our fourth season, focusing on the intersection of quilts and technology. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss these exciting episodes!

Other than the sewing machine, what tool has been the biggest innovation in quiltmaking? Yes, that's right: in this episode of Running Stitch, we're talking all about the rotary cutter.

Our guest is Kristin Barrus, a PhD candidate at University of Leicester and a quiltmaker. Kristin's work explores 21st century quiltmaking through the lenses of women's studies, fan studies, and anthropology. We'll talk with Kristin about the origins of the Modern Quilt movement, and she also shares with us the fascinating history of how quilters came to use--and love--the rotary cutter.

Learn more about Running Stitch at www.quiltalliance.org/runningstitch

Visit Kristin online at www.kristinbarrus.com