This week we’re diving into the world of quilting more sustainably! Quilter and textile artist, Bridget O’Flaherty, makes Threads of Sustainability: a podcast with remarkably similar motivations to CYT. We discuss the many parallels between our perspective disciplines in relation to sustainability, and some of the areas where they diverge.
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Tips on how to build and maintain beneficial bee hotels by the Entomologist Lounge.
How to encourage bees and other pollinators:
Find out about the many facets of Bridget’s work, including her podcast, ‘Threads of Sustainability’, via her website. She can also be found on Instagram @thesustainablequilter.
Image source: Bridget O’Flaherty
Bridget frequently uses a technique called thread painting in her work:
Image source: Bridget O’Flaherty
You can hear the conversation we recorded for Bridget’s podcast via her website, wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s Episode #26!
The conversation that Bridget had with Eliu Hernandez that first alerted me to the Threads of Sustainability podcast is Episode #18.
Listen to my conversation with Eliu for this podcast:
Episode #26: Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez.
The Festival of Quilts that takes place in Birmingham, UK, recently introduced a Sustainability category.
Bridget wrote a series of articles for the Canadian Quilters’ Association. Read part one, part two and part three.
Bridget appeared on Episode #64 of the ‘Quilter on Fire’ podcast which kick started her desire to create her own podcast.
Bridget cites these quilters and textile artists as inspiration:
#135: How to Triage your Mends with Jeanna Wigger
#134: You Can Mend Clothes
#133: Mending in Public
#132: A season of mending with Jeanna Wigger
#131: Self-Drafting for Fitting Success with Elisalex Jewell
#130: Zoe & Kim go to The Stitch Festival
#129: How to Sew Clothes From Fabric Scraps
#128: Scrap Strategies, Part 2
#127: Scrap Strategies, Part 1
#126: Sew the Precious with Stephanie Canada
#125: Vintage Sewing Not Vintage Values with Stephanie Canada
#124: Fearless Sewing with Tony Rea
#123: Sewing When Your Wardrobe is Full
#122: Zero Waste Sewing for Kids with Liz Elliott
#121: Creative and Resourceful Sewing with Judy Williment-Ross
#120: How to care for your sewing machine with Bizz McKilligan
#119: Seasonal Stash Organisation
#118: Last Sewist Standing with Lise Bauer
#117: Fabric Goals for 2024
#116: Improv Scrap Play with Sherri Lynn Wood
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