In this episode we: discuss sewing as a creative outlet, casting aside externally defined aesthetic parameters, explore some conscientious consumption best practices, and come to terms with thread being everywhere.

Show Notes:

0:54 - “Line in the sand”

1:37 - Instagram aesthetic concept

1:44 - Presets for [Adobe] Lightroom App

1:53 - Millennial[s]

2:29 - Toast

2:37 - Bread making

2:39 - Bread pictures

2:44 - Mass marketing

2:46 - Instagram

2:57 - Portland, Maine

3:03 - Picnic Portland VIntage and Craft Fair

3:29 - Maine

3:43 - Picnic Portland

4:04 - Typography

4:05 - No Aesthetic Quilt’s Logo

4:06 - Italic Cooper Black [font]

4:51 - Pattern testing

5:00 - Saturated

5:07 - Example of No Aesthetic Quilt’s use of dark coloured backgrounds and colours that pop on those backgrounds

5:42 - Wholecloth quilts

5:47 - JoAnn Fabrics

5:55 - “My outbursts at JoAnn Fabrics is not reflective of who I am” meme

6:13 - YouTube

7:00-7:02 - Hand and machine sewing

7:06 - No Aesthetic Quilt’s Janome [sewing] machines

8:14 - Fiddlehead ferns

8:22 - Mid Century Modern

8:24 - Clean lines

8:27 - Pinterest

8:31- Examples of graphic, vintage Japanese advertising posters

8:37 - Saturated

8:39 - Royal blue [colour]

9:00 - War posters

9:03 - Punk

9:08 - World War 1 propaganda posters

9:11 - Silkscreen outlines

9:12 - T-shirts

9:19 - Pandemic

9:46 - Tailor

9:49 - Naples, Italy

9:54 - New York [City]

10:00 - Yonkers

10:34 - Tailor dummy

10:47 - [Social media] ‘stalked’

11:13 - Google Doc

11:25 - Graphs

11:58 - Fundraising gala

12:00 - Dress

12:05 - Leggings

12:07 - Henley

12:11 - Everlane’s ‘choose what you pay’ sale

12:15 - Hat

12:17 - Hudson, New York

12:26 - Hannah dress pattern by By Hand London

12:29 - Ruby Star Society Rayon

12:36 - Hannah dress by No Aesthetic Quilts with Ruby Star Society’s rayon

12:53 - Free-Range Slacks pattern

12:55 - Houndstooths wool

12:56 - JoAnn [Fabrics]

13:09 - Willow Tank Pattern from Grainline Lane Studio

13:25 - Hannah dress pattern by By Hand London

13:31 - [Face] masks

13:35 - Lightweight gauzy material

13:55 - Wilder Gown Pattern by Friday Pattern Company

15:18 - Rifle Paper Co. fabric

15:46 - Kim of Feel Good Fibers, Quilt Buzz Episode 5

16:15 - Slippers

16:18 - Footwear

16:25 - Podcasts

16:30 - Behind the Bastards with Robert Evans

17:26 - Flying Geese blocks

17:31 - Blue colour

17:36 - Blue coloured fabric

17:38 - Coppery tan coloured fabric

17:44 - Ruby Star Society

17:47 - Bananas

17:52 - Cloud9 [Fabrics]

17:54 - Cloud9’s organic [cotton] line

17:57 - Art Gallery [Fabrics]

18:00 - Clothworks

18:02 - Washington State

18:13 - Blue solid [fabrics]

18:14 - Corners Quilt by Skyclad Quilts

18:20 - Tailor slide ruler

18:21 - Chalk pen

18:21 - Walking foot

18:30 - [Pressing seams] open

18:31 - Nesting seams

18:32 - HSTs [Half-Square Triangles]

18:40 - [Pressing seams] open

18:51 - Curve [piecing]

18:56 - Flying Geese [block]

18:57 - Curve [piecing]

19:16 - Tendonitis

19:21 - Hand quilting or sewing

19:38 - Binding

20:55 - Suzanne Yerks

21:03 - Gardening

21:11 - Longarmer

21:16 - Suzanne Yerks’s dragon quilts (photos courtesy of Suzanne Yerks)

21:19 - Show correction: Quilt Francesca of No Aesthetic Quilts was referring to a portrait of Suzanne Yerks, and not of Suzanne and her husband. Suzanne Yerks’s portrait of herself quilted (photo courtesy of Suzanne Yerks)