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Estimated from 6 chart positions in 6 markets.
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- 🇦🇺AU · Crafts#12300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · Crafts#9130K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Crafts#1065K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · Crafts#1635K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · Crafts#1865K to 30K
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178K to 610K🎙 Weekly cadence·26 episodes·Last published 7mo ago - Monthly Reach
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355K to 1.2M🇦🇺82%🇩🇪8%🇺🇸2%+3 more - Active Followers
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107K to 366K
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Technology and Quilting Community
Nov 21, 2025
30m 29s
Voices from QuiltCon
Apr 28, 2025
13m 22s
The Rotary Cutter
Feb 8, 2024
28m 47s
Electric Quilt
Jan 29, 2024
44m 35s
The Industrial Revolution
Jan 16, 2024
29m 14s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/21/25 | ![]() Technology and Quilting Community✨ | technology in quiltingquilt education+3 | HollyAnne Knight | String & StoryQuilt Alliance+1 | — | quiltingtechnology+5 | — | 30m 29s | |
| 4/28/25 | ![]() Voices from QuiltCon✨ | QuiltConoral history+3 | — | Quilt AllianceQuilters Save Our Stories | — | quiltQuiltCon+5 | — | 13m 22s | |
| 2/8/24 | ![]() The Rotary Cutter✨ | quiltmakingrotary cutter+4 | Kristin Barrus | rotary cutterUniversity of Leicester+1 | — | quiltmakingrotary cutter+5 | — | 28m 47s | |
| 1/29/24 | ![]() Electric Quilt✨ | technology in quiltmakingElectric Quilt software+3 | Penny McMorris | The Electric Quilt CompanyPBS+1 | — | Electric Quiltquilt design software+5 | A New Deal for Quilts | 44m 35s | |
| 1/16/24 | ![]() The Industrial Revolution✨ | Industrial Revolutionquiltmaking+4 | Dr. Rachel Maines | Cornell UniversityColumbia University+2 | — | quiltmakingIndustrial Revolution+5 | — | 29m 14s | |
| 8/19/23 | ![]() Quilts Below the Radar✨ | quiltscreativity+4 | Roderick KiracofeJanneken Smucker | Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar, 1950-2000 | — | quiltsRoderick Kiracofe+5 | — | 58m 56s | |
| 12/16/21 | ![]() Radical Quilt Histories✨ | quilt historyoral history+3 | Jess Bailey | Quilt AllianceCommon Threads Press+1 | — | quilt historyoral history+3 | — | 39m 27s | |
| 12/10/21 | ![]() Sewing with Purpose✨ | activismsocial justice+3 | Sara Trail | Social Justice Sewing AcademyRed Cross+2 | — | quiltingactivism+3 | — | 38m 50s | |
| 12/2/21 | ![]() Going Pro✨ | professional quiltingquiltmaking+3 | Zak Foster | Quilt AllianceMet Gala | — | quiltershobbyists+3 | — | 33m 03s | |
| 11/17/21 | ![]() Song Quilts✨ | quiltmakingfolk music+3 | Eliza Hardy Jones | Quilt Alliance | — | Song Quiltsquiltmaking+3 | — | 30m 17s | |
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| 11/10/21 | ![]() Learning to Quilt | Some people made sourdough, some people got pandemic pets. Sarah Steiner became the @pandemicquilter, learning how to quilt from youtube and Instagram, and making over 20 quilts since summer of 2020 after not previously knowing how to wind a bobbin. Sarah joins Running Stitch host, Janneken Smucker, to listen back to QSOS interview excerpts about how quilters learned their skills during earlier eras, sharing how the pandemic inspired her to quilt. | — | ||||||
| 10/26/21 | ![]() Season Three Trailer | Coming soon: season three of Running Stitch, a QSOS podcast. This season, we're focusing on younger quiltmakers -- quiltmakers who build on quilting traditions and contemporary influences to make something that's uniquely theirs. We'll listen back to interview clips with quilters from the past two decades, and talk with these quilters about the role of quilts in their lives and in society. Subscribe now and don't miss an episode of our third season of Running Stitch, a QSOS podcast! | — | ||||||
| 4/7/21 | ![]() Outlier Quilts | What do one-of-a-kind, unusual, or outlier quilts tell us about the quiltmaking tradition? In this episode, Joe Cunningham joins host Janneken Smucker to revisit their 2007 interview and discuss how American quilt history reveals a tradition of experimentation, problem-solving, and creativity that today's quilters can draw on. Joe further contemplates the relationship of art and quilts, recalling his own evolution and liberation as a quiltmaker. | — | ||||||
| 3/3/21 | ![]() Researching Quilt History | Have you ever wondered how quilt historians can unravel the story of a quilt with just a few threads? Do you want the inside scoop on how researchers look for "clues in the calico"? Our guest this week is celebrated quilt historian Barbara Brackman. Running Stitch host Janneken Smucker talked with Barbara about quilt history research and how it's evolved in the 21st century, how quilts can be used as a lens for women's history, and the new, expanded edition of her Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. This episode was recorded live, as part of the Textile Talks free weekly lecture series. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/21 | ![]() Quilts and Authenticity | What makes a quilt "sing"? Join us for this episode of Running Stitch, with our guest Denyse Schmidt, to explore that question and more. We'll talk about what it means—for an object OR its maker—to be 'authentic'. Denyse is a groundbreaking quiltmaker, and the designer of numerous patterns and fabrics, the author of Denyse Schmidt: Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration and Denyse Schmidt Quilts. We'll revisit her 2012 QSOS interview, explore the places and eras that inspire Denyse's work, and end our conversation discussing her upcoming fabric line, "Five and Ten". | — | ||||||
| 1/27/21 | ![]() Temperature Check on the Quilt Industry | For well over a century, quilts have meant business. A thriving quilt industry has existed since the 19th century, publishing patterns, selling fabrics and supplies, promoting quiltmaking, and offering celebrity endorsements. In today's age of social media and online retail, the business side of quilts has continued to thrive, while navigating all sorts of bumps in the road, including, most recently, a global pandemic. This week, we talk with Linda Pumphrey, Senior Account Executive for Mountain Mist. For decades, Linda has worked for quilt companies, criss-crossing the country managing her accounts. This year, she has stayed home, Zooming with her customers and colleagues. We'll talk with Linda about how quilt businesses have adapted, and the role of celebrity in the quilt industry, both today and in the past. | — | ||||||
| 12/16/20 | ![]() Great Quilts | Quilters S.O.S. – Save Our Stories oral history interviews often include the question, "What makes a great quilt?" Running Stitch host Janneken Smucker asks today's guest, quilt historian Merikay Waldvogel, to answer this most challenging question, while they also listen back to other interviewees' responses. What's the answer? Good planning? Lots of fabrics? First place ribbons? Immortality? Tune in to hear from one of the world's foremost quilt authorities, who has seen 10,000s of historic quilts, and finds something to like about each one. | — | ||||||
| 12/9/20 | ![]() On Creativity | Running Stitch is back for Season Two, again digging into the QSOS oral history archive to explore the meaning of quilts in American life. In this episode, host Janneken Smucker talks to quiltmaking legend Ricky Tims about the role of creativity in his life. As a quiltmaker, musician, composer, co-host of The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, and founder of Quilt Life magazine, Ricky embodies creativity. We'll revisit his first interview for the QSOS project, recorded two decades ago in 2000, and continue the conversation with a new interview exploring the intersection of music and quilting, his perspective on the creative spirit, and Ricky's new novel, Lizzy Albright and the Attic Window, co-written with Kat Bowser. | — | ||||||
| 12/1/20 | ![]() Season Two Trailer | Join us for a very special sneak preview of our second season of Running Stitch. We'll be sharing more amazing interviews from fascinating folks in the quilt world, including Ricky Tims, Merikay Waldvogel, and Carolyn Crump. From an exploration of the creative spirit to a conversation about America's quilt history, you won't want to miss these new episodes! | — | ||||||
| 7/30/20 | ![]() Quilts and Writing | This episode--our last episode of season 1 of Running Stitch--features a panel discussion about quilts and writing moderated by host Janneken Smucker. Our four panelists are quilt journalist Meg Cox, novelist Frances O'Roark Dowell, quilter and mathematics professor Chawne Kimber, and poet and educator Gwen Westerman. All four are writers and quiltmakers and you'll hear them discuss connections between quiltmaking and writing, their creative processes, and the intersection of quilts and words. The discussion was recorded live as part of the Textile Talks lecture series, featuring public programming from six quilt and fiber art organizations across the country. Video of this, and other Textile Talks, is available via YouTube. | — | ||||||
| 7/23/20 | ![]() Quiltmaking Amid Crisis | Quilt legend Jinny Beyer has seen it all in the quilt world over the last 50 years. In this episode, host Janneken Smucker revisits Jinny's 2013 interview when she shared the quilt she made following 9-11. Jinny joins Janneken to discuss quiltmaking amid crisis, including how independent quilt shops like Jinny Beyer Studio are weathering the current pandemic. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/20 | ![]() Quilts and Civil Rights | During the week after the killing of George Floyd, Running Stitch host Janneken Smucker spoke with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi about quilts, race, and the long struggle for civil rights. Dr. Mazloomi founded the Women of Color Quilters Network and has curated many landmark exhibits centered on race and civil rights, including "Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama." This episode features excerpts from several oral history interviews conducted for the Quilts for Obama QSOS sub-project. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/20 | ![]() Quilting and Difficult Times | Let's face it. It's 2020 and 2020 won't quit. We are living through difficult times. While the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are unevenly felt, we are all in the midst of it. QSOS oral history interviews often ask, "How have you used quilts to get through a difficult time?" Our guest for this episode, artist and maker Melanie Testa, first interviewed for the project in 2010, joins host Janneken Smucker to share how she has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by digging into her vast fabric stash and a network of generous friends to make masks to distribute to essential workers. | — | ||||||
| 7/2/20 | ![]() Quilts and Activism | Episode 2 of Running Stitch focuses on quilts and activism. Quilters have long used their work to make statements and advocate for change, tackling abolition, temperance, suffrage, and many other social justice issues. Join host Janneken Smucker for a conversation with quilter and author of Why We Quilt, Thomas Knauer, discussing why quilts are great objects for making statements, and how Thomas communicates politically through his own quilts. | — | ||||||
| 6/25/20 | ![]() First Quilts | Welcome to the very first episode of Running Stitch, the QSOS Podcast. For our very first episode, we're talking with New York City quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe. Victoria was first interviewed for the QSOS project in 2011. Our host, Janneken Smucker, talks with Victoria about that first interview, her first quilts, and how her career has evolved in the nine years since. Janneken and Victoria also talk about making a first quilt with their young daughters, what makes a great quilt, and just why we care so much about quilt labeling. Join us for an episode all about firsts! | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
6 placements across 6 markets.
Chart Positions
6 placements across 6 markets.

