🧵🌸 LET'S TALK ABOUT Quilting in the Sub-Artic with Erin Suliak - Karen's Quilt Circle

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  • Опубліковано 27 сер 2024

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  • @JustGetitDoneQuilts
    @JustGetitDoneQuilts  2 роки тому +18

    I have enjoyed Erin's Instagram feed for years. It's full of colour, texture and the spirit of the North. So it was good to get to know the quilter behind the photos. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. So grab your sewing and a cup of tea and enjoy.

    • @alisonuhrbach9457
      @alisonuhrbach9457 2 роки тому +1

      I really enjoyed the interview. I do cringe though when Yellowknife is described as if it’s almost at the NorthPole? For those in the Far North, Yellowknife is a good sized city, with many Cultural and recreational resources.

  • @martaa.masotti473
    @martaa.masotti473 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much Karen, I love listening to your interviews. Erin is a beautiful person. I really relate with her definition of "mindful meditation" ... so true! Patchwork is therapy for so many things! ♡

  • @connieprince9718
    @connieprince9718 2 роки тому +6

    Thank you for expanding our quilting circle of friends!

  • @lindaherrington6291
    @lindaherrington6291 2 роки тому +3

    What an interesting and thought provoking interview. To hear about Erin's family history through quilting was fascinating, and I'm sure the love she incorporates into her quilts will be appreciated by future generations of her family too.

  • @calliecordoba532
    @calliecordoba532 2 роки тому +2

    Karen you are an amazing interviewer! Another FABULOUS quilt circle video. Erin is so vivacious and a wonderful story teller. It was incredible to hear her history, education, career and life in the north. That quilt Erin had on display is beautiful. Thank you so much for bring amazing quilters to the forefront and allowing us to hear their stories.

  • @eleanorwinters5200
    @eleanorwinters5200 2 роки тому +2

    I love all the interesting people you interview.

  • @katehenry2718
    @katehenry2718 2 роки тому +3

    YOu are SO right!!!!
    Clothes have fabric. )))) Lots and lots of it. Used clothes have preshrunk fabric. ))) Used clothes from resale shops or garage sales or estate sales or even the dumpster...... can be FREEEE cloth. Gather a bin of a color and make a quilt with it. Gather 14 bins of 14 colors. Just play. NOt enough of an exact match? Make enough squares of close enough to be the middle. Make more of very different color combinations. Borders!!! more borders !!!! You have complete freedom from "64 identical blocks" (bored bored bored) and have exciting fabulous quilts. You don't have to do them with the mosssstttt efficient assembly. Enjoy the colors. Enjoy the making. Don't want to spend a year quilting it? Layer the top with a blanket and just tie it. Maybe quilt it later. Maybe not. Crumb quilt of multitudes of just one color. )))))))

  • @marilynlott3189
    @marilynlott3189 2 роки тому +5

    Karen... enjoyed this interview so much! When you mentioned what was fulfilling for the maker... I thought of a quote I have written in the front of my quilt journal. It was taken from a "Pioneer Woman's Diary"... and the journey westward has always fascinated me. It says,
    "I made my quilts as fast as I could to keep my family warm
    And as pretty as I could to keep my heart from breaking"
    Those words just stirred and caught at something deep inside me.

  • @jillvalko675
    @jillvalko675 2 роки тому +1

    Fascinating interview! Thank you, Karen!!

  • @loraineleuschke4186
    @loraineleuschke4186 2 роки тому +1

    Great interview. Smart lady. Love her ideas about color and time.

  • @cheriwilliams7001
    @cheriwilliams7001 2 роки тому +2

    This was a really great interview. Erin Suliak was extremely interesting. I learned a lot about fabric, I love the fact that she sees the possibility in so many different kinds of fabrics. The next time I’m about to get rid of a piece of clothing I will see the possibility of it be part of a quilt. I also enjoyed her energy, knowledge and her story telling. A really great interview!

  • @socalgingerjohnson
    @socalgingerjohnson 2 роки тому +7

    First time I got my notice while sewing!!! Lucky me❤️ I appreciate having something to listen to while doing what I love.

  • @bfama2578
    @bfama2578 2 роки тому +1

    What a wonderful artist!!

  • @sandyp2485
    @sandyp2485 2 роки тому +1

    A most delightful interview. I can appreciate her view on fabric acquisition. I also adore her approach to quilting and designs. She really inspires me to try my own hand at designing a quilt of my own with special fabrics I've acquired over time. I also like that she embroiders her label; I might do that as well since a printed and attached tag can be lost but if it's stitched right to the piece it's hard to lose.

  • @cumberlandquiltchic1
    @cumberlandquiltchic1 2 роки тому +4

    The cut outs, or T-shaped, while might have been partially to save fabric, as she says....
    Was for the posts on beds, during that time periods, to get rid of bulk on corners and fit cleaner and better drop.

  • @katywuste9054
    @katywuste9054 2 роки тому +4

    What a great interview with this intelligent articulate lady. It was so interesting and I love her sense of humour

  • @danettecollins7305
    @danettecollins7305 2 роки тому +2

    A wonderful interview! Enjoyed this very much!

  • @margaretkent5907
    @margaretkent5907 2 роки тому +4

    Karen,i just loved the interview with Erin. I have visited family in Nunavut and they are so talented in many Arts and Crafts and its just amazing .enjoyed hearing about her quilts and family..especially the double knit quilts ,brought back memories…love ,love, your interviews.

  • @andreawalker2535
    @andreawalker2535 2 роки тому +1

    This one of your most interesting and entertaining interview.

  • @ginamercado8129
    @ginamercado8129 2 роки тому +2

    Another fantastic quilter!! Great information and a completely different way to look at quilts and their history. Thank you so much!!

  • @snickerbuckle
    @snickerbuckle 2 роки тому +10

    The old double knit patchwork quilts are the original weighted blanket.

    • @marjoriedevine9051
      @marjoriedevine9051 2 роки тому +2

      When I first started quilting it was difficult for me to get a consistently straight line. (Rotary cutters and clear rules weren't invented yet.) I made quilts with varying weights of corduroy. I would make long cuts down the valley of the channel, and then smaller cuts across these strips. These quilts were very heavy, and smaller quilts were used as floor quilts for babies tummy time. I could never sleep under the biggest which was queen size. I used an old blanket to fill and flannel sheet backing. These were the heaviest quilts I've ever encountered.
      We all were so grateful when the rotary cutter came out. Now, most days I can cut straight. And I used traditional quilting fabrics.
      Lately I use my extra special Japanese and vintage fabrics.

  • @melanienicholson2834
    @melanienicholson2834 2 роки тому +4

    I loved the interview and her passion shined through.

  • @katehenry2718
    @katehenry2718 2 роки тому +7

    Missing corners on qaults and coverlets is to make room for the four-poster posts wood. Then you don't have to smash the corners around the mattress.

  • @MsSassyGrace
    @MsSassyGrace 2 роки тому +3

    Yes! Quilting is meditation!!

  • @louisenewall3426
    @louisenewall3426 2 роки тому +3

    I love this interview, what an interesting woman, an inspiration .

  • @annerankin1191
    @annerankin1191 2 роки тому +1

    I think this has been one of my favs! I just finished a quilt for my friend from when I was zero years old, who lives in Yellowknife!

  • @bethotoole6569
    @bethotoole6569 2 роки тому +17

    Karen,
    What a fascinating woman! I don’t often think of what quilters/seamstresses are doing in other parts of the world and how different it is from what I work on.
    Your interviews always seem to open my eyes to something or someone new. How wonderful!
    You are indeed a treasure. Thank you for all the work you put into doing this it has added so much to my life!
    Love from Ohio
    ps/ now that the borders are opening again I may get to take my long overdue trip to Toronto!

  • @gaillouviere8471
    @gaillouviere8471 2 роки тому +2

    Loved this interview. I love quilts with weight. The smaller the piecing, the more fabric to add weight. Her descriltion of quilts with double knit piecing and applique really brought to mind quilting from the 70s and 80s in our area. We even made patchwork vests and jackets.

  • @loopywren
    @loopywren 2 роки тому +6

    Thank you so much, from an older quilter in England, always sewn in so many ways but a self taught relatively new quilter. I have watched a lot of your videos to help me but this is the first interview I have watched. I also never thought of how others make there quilts in different part of the world. My mother patched a quilt with clothes we could no longer wear, and old sheet would go on the back but no wadding/batting not quilting, how I wish I had them now. This lady is amazing, thank you to you both.

  • @Right-sides-together
    @Right-sides-together 2 роки тому +2

    This was fantastic! Thank you for bringing this to us all.

  • @penkast1605
    @penkast1605 2 роки тому +11

    What a delightful interview! Enjoyed every minute of it!

  • @glynisreynolds446
    @glynisreynolds446 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent interview Karen. 👍 Thank you 😊

  • @deannabosch1434
    @deannabosch1434 2 роки тому +4

    My grandmother used flannel sheets (called sheet blankets by her) quite often as batting.

  • @blairseibert1778
    @blairseibert1778 2 роки тому +7

    I love this interview. Interesting to hear about her family's generations of quilters. I love that she's a fabric thrifter too. There have been times when I've seen amazing fabric in a thrift store garment but it's a blend and I've passed on it. No more!

  • @quiltgram3056
    @quiltgram3056 2 роки тому +6

    Had to comment! When we visited my maternal Grandma Knowles I have sooo many great memories. They were dairy farmers so lived in a big farmhouse in Connecticut. At bedtime, my brother and I would race upstairs to dive under the covers. No heat upstairs at all

  • @earthmotherwithin
    @earthmotherwithin 10 місяців тому +1

    She is great! I loved this

  • @Sylvia907
    @Sylvia907 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you Karen I enjoy the interviews

  • @marianrobinson4082
    @marianrobinson4082 2 роки тому +5

    My older quilts are cuddly whereas the newer ones today are densely quilted, but not as warm. I used a sheet blanket before I knew what batting was.I also tied my quilts. Very old school

  • @conniebennett3378
    @conniebennett3378 2 роки тому +1

    Enjoying the history of family quilts.

  • @mary-annz.reynolds7778
    @mary-annz.reynolds7778 2 роки тому +2

    Loved the interview! It's so cold there, I'd stay inside and probably get more quilts completed. I sometimes use fabric from nice clothes that don't fit anymore. I guess you could say I thrift some of my fabric. Thank you Erin and Karen. 💕

  • @debbieburchell1573
    @debbieburchell1573 2 роки тому +6

    Very interesting interview! She has a fabulous job as well as her fabric arts!

  • @GailK.
    @GailK. 2 роки тому +7

    A really great book is “No Time on My Hands” about Grace Snyder. She was a homesteader on the prairie from the time she was seven and ended up being an amazing well-known quilter. She made a pieced quilt of 1” pieces inspired by the design of her Salem China dishes. A lot of long snowy winters in a sod house she quilted often alone. Fantastic read. Her quilts are still on display. Gail K. USA)

    • @marjoriedevine9051
      @marjoriedevine9051 2 роки тому +1

      "No Time on My Hands" is a great read.

    • @susansalo9710
      @susansalo9710 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for the recommendation. I've ordered it from the library!

  • @barleyandmohandmade
    @barleyandmohandmade 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much for these fantastic interviews. So inspiring! This interview has absolutely made my day! We are moving into summer here in Australia... so much light! It makes me think about how there is a seasonal flow to my crafting. I haven’t picked up my crochet in weeks! Thank you for all you do!

  • @SoulsJourney
    @SoulsJourney 2 роки тому +6

    This was wonderful. What an interesting woman, and talented quilter. I love that she thrifts her fabric, something I would like to start doing as well. 👍👍

  • @LauraMcHugh
    @LauraMcHugh 2 роки тому +3

    My great grandfather was a trapper in the Northwest Territories. Robert Burton Wagar. Probably in the late 1800s up to 1930s? My grandmother (Eula Wagar, his daughter) was born in 1904 in Saskatchewan. Erin's description of trappers was fascinating. I often wonder about my great grandfather's life. My grandmother was the one who taught me to sew.

    • @JustGetitDoneQuilts
      @JustGetitDoneQuilts  2 роки тому +4

      Search the archives for his name. My friend did that last week and found a photo of her mom

    • @judydunstall8506
      @judydunstall8506 2 роки тому +1

      Very interesting interview as usual Karen. She made me visit the connection between an archivist and a quilter which I had not realised. Wrongly thought the two were worlds apart in our brain! 😁

  • @tinazimba7049
    @tinazimba7049 2 роки тому +2

    I love that you don’t like patterns!
    I thought I was odd that I like to figure the quilt out in my own mind and at the sewing machine.

  • @arvettadelashmit9337
    @arvettadelashmit9337 2 роки тому +3

    This was nice. I learned that I am not alone in my upcycling of fabrics from lightly used garments. I also love to sew, and cut, without useing patterns. I call it my mindless sewing. No two blocks are ever the same, when I work this way. Work may not be the correcct word for it (it is more like play). Thank you for this video.

    • @JustGetitDoneQuilts
      @JustGetitDoneQuilts  2 роки тому +1

      Just because you enjoy doing it doesn’t mean it’s effortless

  • @distaff2935
    @distaff2935 2 роки тому +1

    Lovely interview! Thanks. :)

  • @omisfavorites1054
    @omisfavorites1054 2 роки тому +3

    This interview has to be the best yet! But I say that after every one of your wonderful, inspiring, fascinating interviews. I’ve loved them all. I’ve run out of superlatives! Thank you for finding all these very special people and for your interviewing skills.

  • @deborahhall4540
    @deborahhall4540 2 роки тому +2

    I would have liked to see more of her work and that of her family.

  • @deenamoody8162
    @deenamoody8162 2 роки тому +3

    Again another awesome interview. I've been to Yellowknife when my brother worked up there in a diamond mine. Brutal harsh life! I admire anyone who can tolerate those winters. Deena in Seattle

  • @mssixty3426
    @mssixty3426 2 роки тому +3

    Wow! Fantastic interview!
    My first thought on reading the caption was that it could be interesting, but I had a vague notion of how it could be interesting . . . She brings such a greatly different perspective to how varied quilts are created/used/appreciated. Not only in recent decades, but historically.
    Thank you so very much for your hard work in bringing us these videos . . . You never fail to disappoint with your insightful questions, choice of interviewees, and incisive editing.
    Excellent, excellent👏
    Thank you.

    • @KarinRingland
      @KarinRingland 2 роки тому

      Thank you so much Erin and Karen. Inspiring! For your information , that parrot is an Australian, a Major Mitchell, so I’m sure he’s very glad to be repurposed. Karen, as a relatively new quilter I never miss your show. It has an amazing breadth of information and creativity that you take the time to share, and you make connections in the community of quilters throughout all parts of our world

  • @carmenbailey1560
    @carmenbailey1560 2 роки тому +2

    I have to say, best interview to hear Erin’s story and her views of quilting. Maybe it’s because she hasn’t got the ease of instant fabrics and love hearing her desire to design her own patterns. I will probably rewatch this video again, to see if I miss any little tidbits. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊

  • @ccpperrett7522
    @ccpperrett7522 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you Karen for interviewing Erin for us. An aside, I make my labels and incorporate them into to backing or even the top. I made a scrappy quilt for my granddaughter and some of the fabric was printed labels with included some to be filled in; I put the information, name, date and message in those label sections. It became an eye spy moment.

  • @virginiakristiansen3428
    @virginiakristiansen3428 2 роки тому +3

    Love this interview. My mom grew up in Manitoba. My dad was from Norway and they met in Little Norway during WW11. So that's how I came about. Living in Anchorage, Alaska I could see some similarities. I like that she gets her fabric from scraps which I can't resist. You've encourage me to get my act together and organize them into 2 1/2 and 5". Now to put them altogether!

  • @kathykaplan497
    @kathykaplan497 2 роки тому +2

    That was delightful!

  • @gillianwinzinger9558
    @gillianwinzinger9558 2 роки тому +9

    I think this is the most interesting interview you've done yet (although Kassia St. Clair is right up there too.) I love the concept of an inherited appreciation of color. My family is from Newfoundland, and when I go back and see all the colorful houses there, I have such a strong feeling of "well that explains that." I see people who do beautiful things with neutrals, but I can't do it. Must have saturation.

  • @zinadawson821
    @zinadawson821 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for sharing

  • @margm4
    @margm4 2 роки тому +2

    Such an interesting woman…thanks for introducing her. 🇦🇺

  • @roxywood5278
    @roxywood5278 2 роки тому +2

    Karen, amazing interview as ALWAYS .... Hugs and thank you :)

  • @pamkahmann3833
    @pamkahmann3833 2 роки тому +1

    Very enjoyable video.

  • @adriannewatrobka1807
    @adriannewatrobka1807 2 роки тому +1

    You have the BEST interviews! I love when it is some quilter that I know but today this is one I never knew but now I can't wait to follower her too! THANK YOU THANK YOU!

  • @jackiemobley8529
    @jackiemobley8529 2 роки тому +2

    Great video, Karen! Erin is delightful!

  • @margaretbaker623
    @margaretbaker623 2 роки тому

    Wow! Thank you for this interview 🌟

  • @susanshaffer3855
    @susanshaffer3855 2 роки тому +3

    I so enjoyed this interview. Thanks for sharing. Now to look her up on Instagram.

  • @carolbrumlow4395
    @carolbrumlow4395 2 роки тому +5

    Loved this interview. Erin is so interesting. I never thought about how different quilting in the north from south central Kentucky. LOL I thought it was bad when we return back to standard time from daylight savings time. LOL Her quilts are amazing and when she said she didn't like to follow a pattern but preferred to just do her own thing and using recycled fabrics inspired me to get out of my comfort zone. Thanks Karen. You always have such interesting and inspirational videos. Love them! Keep up the great work. :)

  • @maria3rls
    @maria3rls 2 роки тому +5

    Hi Karen, great interview! I love that you have been on your label quest and that you ask all guests if they label. I have only made baby quilts as gifts THUS have always labeled them. I'm currently working on my first bed quilt that I will keep, probably will label it with the year and my initials.

    • @mary-annz.reynolds7778
      @mary-annz.reynolds7778 2 роки тому

      Labels are amazing. I like to add a personal note to the person I've made the quilt for.

  • @joane8651
    @joane8651 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks, Karen, for such a joyful interview, had to check out her Instagram page right away.

  • @bethjones8998
    @bethjones8998 2 роки тому +1

    Enjoyed the sub-Arctic Circle view. I am especially interested in this now that my Georgia boy is living in Fairbanks. Thank you !!

    • @JustGetitDoneQuilts
      @JustGetitDoneQuilts  2 роки тому +1

      That is quite the change of scenery...but full of possibilities

  • @juliemorrison4348
    @juliemorrison4348 2 роки тому +2

    Very interesting interview with Erin. Her grandmothers used what they had on hand in such a remote area to make quilts for the family as they needed for warmth. Have to check out her feed.❤🇦🇺

  • @rosedwight804
    @rosedwight804 2 роки тому +1

    Great interview. I am in Ohio &. Never dreamed of quilters in Yellow Knife. How or why in the world would people settle so far North? Somehow women can find a way to make a go of life no matter where they r planted.

  • @marilynbook4211
    @marilynbook4211 2 роки тому +2

    Great interview thank you.

  • @conniewhitten8660
    @conniewhitten8660 2 роки тому +2

    Enjoyed the interview immensely. You always seem to find the most interesting (very lame word in comparison) guests

  • @kimberleygirl7533
    @kimberleygirl7533 2 роки тому +2

    We call quilts like she is describing “Waggas “. From the fact they originated in Wagga Wagga In NSW Australia. Same type of improvised use of fabrics, made from recycled wool blankets, old clothing, whatever they had.

  • @debrawitte8391
    @debrawitte8391 2 роки тому +2

    thank you !

  • @kimzsewing3917
    @kimzsewing3917 2 роки тому +1

    What a very interesting interview loved this video and will follow Erin for sure.

  • @midcatmn6877
    @midcatmn6877 2 роки тому +4

    Another really great interview! What an interesting woman. I'm going straight to her Instagram. 😊

  • @kimg5784
    @kimg5784 2 роки тому +3

    I loved this! Thank you. I dont use patterns either- I make a bunch of HST or different blocks and put them together. I am going to work on a whold cloth quilt with a full wool blanket as binding. Would love to learn more about whole cloth quilts which I understand were the first quilts done in NA?

    • @kimg5784
      @kimg5784 2 роки тому +1

      as batting not binding....

  • @com2375
    @com2375 2 роки тому +1

    Canada is beautiful

  • @christianesouter2080
    @christianesouter2080 2 роки тому +2

    Hello from Texas

  • @elsafischer3247
    @elsafischer3247 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much, very interesting

  • @johannaduck7264
    @johannaduck7264 2 роки тому +3

    Hello from Brazil 🇧🇷🌎🐞

  • @nildamager1649
    @nildamager1649 2 роки тому +1

    Great interview !!

  • @debcoberly522
    @debcoberly522 2 роки тому

    Wow. The great grandmother's quilt has same colors as my great grandmother's guilt made for me in 1960. So cool. How can I gently repair the edges? Add new binding? Am a beginning level. First year. Thanks for all the tips.

  • @debninis4578
    @debninis4578 2 роки тому +2

    So interesting... kindred heart for sure! I am interested in what she called a "t" quilt, do you have any pictures ... I looked on google but since I don't know the correct name so it was not fruitful!

  • @katehenry2718
    @katehenry2718 2 роки тому +1

    You talked about wanting to see the whole quilt as well as when it is on the bed.... but you did not show the black and orange quilt behind your head in the video. Yeah its sort of like the red one, but its not the same.

  • @polyesterbebe
    @polyesterbebe 2 роки тому +1

    for the algorithm