Episode 262: Quilting Magic with Suzy Williams (AKA Suzy Quilts!)

Love to Sew Podcast

Helen Wilkinson

Indiesewing, Crafting, Sewingclothes, Smallbusiness, Apparelsewing, Hobbies, Entrepreneur, Sew, Fabric, Sewing, Leisure, Arts, Sewingpatterns, Fashion & Beauty, Maker, Diy, Garmentsewing, Fashion, Handmadewardrobe, Business, Indiebusiness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We interview quilting icon Suzy Williams, a.k.a. Suzy Quilts! We chat with her about designing quilt patterns and fabric collections, hear the surprising story of how she learned to sew, and get some great advice about overcoming perfectionism. Plus, we chat about the meditative magic of the quilting process.

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0:00.0	We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and
0:05.3	quaquoquoque peoples, including Slalotooth, Squamish, Musquium, and Comox First Nations.
0:11.3	Da da da da da da da da da da da.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to Love to So I'm Caroline the owner of Blackbird Fabrics and B.
0:19.5	F. Patterns.
0:20.8	And I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quilt Co.
0:24.4	We're two sewing buds who love to sew and quilting is all Helen wants to talk about.
0:30.0	Hey, and Susie, come on.
0:32.0	Today we are interviewing quilting. Hey and Susie, come on.
0:37.0	Today we are interviewing quilting icon, Susie Williams, aka Susie Quilt.
0:39.0	We chat with her about her design process for quilt patterns,
0:42.0	her fabric collections, how she fell in love with
0:44.7	quilting, and her highest and lowest moments on her quilting journey.
0:48.7	We also pick her brain about running a business and overcoming creative blocks.
0:53.4	If you love to sew coming on the show today.
1:09.0	Well, thank you for having me. I'm very excited.
1:12.0	We're so stoked to chat with you. Can you please introduce
1:14.7	yourself to our listeners? Yes, my name is Susie Williams. I started a
1:20.8	business called Susie Quilts which is very confusing to most people because my name isn't actually Quilts, it's Williams.
1:28.0	And I guess I started this kind of unofficially, you know how things just kind of
1:33.0	naturally grow or maybe the better word is spiral.
1:36.0	Well, I started this, I guess in 2015,
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