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Episode 6: What's Your Quilting Superpower? How to Find and Use Your Strengths as a Maker · Loose Threads & Stitches: A Quilting Podcast

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  Hey there.
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  Friend, I have a question for you.
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  If you could have any quilting
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  superpower, what would it be?
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  Would you be able to perfectly match seams every time?
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  Maybe you would choose to magically finish UFO's within the snap of your fingers.
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  Or maybe you could summon the exact fabric that you need
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  without even digging deep into your stash.
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  Let's be honest, that would be a life changing superpower
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  when it comes to quilting, right?
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  Welcome to Loose Threads and Stitches, the podcast
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  where we chat about all things quilting, creativity, and life.
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  I'm Christen with ISeeStarsQuilting, and today we're going to have some fun
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  because while we might not get to wear capes or like, work in secret
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  layer of quilters definitely have some amazing skills, right?
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  So let's talk about our ultimate quilting superpowers and what you would choose.
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  So in this fun little, train of thought that I had the other night when I couldn't
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  sleep, I.
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  I came up with some super powers that I would technically like to have myself.
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  And I'm curious if these resonate with you.
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  So, yeah, today's a little bit off topic and maybe a little bit silly,
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  but just roll with me on this because it's actually quite fun.
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  First up, let's talk about the holy grail of quilting skills.
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  Seams that magically line up this superpower.
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  Number one is called the Seam Whisperer.
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  No more unpicking, no more frustration,
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  no more pinning things 15 different ways just to have
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  them still be slightly off.
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  If I could have this superpower, my quilting life
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  would be smooth sailing from here on out.
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  But in reality, we do our best.
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  We use the tools that we have.
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  And sometimes we just call it, like a happy little accident.
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  Or we call it charming or,
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  you know, when things don't line up perfectly,
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  And if anybody asks, we completely meant it to be that way.
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  Superpower number two is what I'm going to call the time bender.
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  And tell me if this sounds familiar.
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  You sit down to.
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  So just for, like, 20 minutes or so, and suddenly three hours have disappeared.
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  What if we could actually control quilting time, like, speed things up
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  when we're piecing a million and a half squares and triangles,
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  but slow it down when we're in the middle of something
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  really like a relaxing quilting session, you know,
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  can you imagine the possibilities that that would entail?
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  Like, it'd be so wonderful.
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  Like, for example, like what if quilting minutes were, like, football minutes?
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  Okay.
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  I don't have to
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  be a huge football fan to understand that one football minute means, like,
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  ten minutes in, like, real life time, right?
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  In reality, we don't have time bending powers,
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  but we can be intentional about making time for our creativity.
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  And that's pretty powerful, too.
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  Or at least that's
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  what I'm telling myself when I look up and I realize it's almost 10:30 p.m.
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  and I still haven't eaten dinner because I have been so focused on quilting.
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  Okay, we're going to do and talk about, super power number three right now
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  and put this to the side.
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  By the way, I am totally a Wonder Woman fan when it comes to super powers.
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  I would love to use my Lasso of Truth
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  to be able to find that fat quarter that I know that I bought,
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  and it's somewhere in my stash, but I can't remember where I put it.
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  I would love to use my less of truth for that.
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  so quilting super power number three would be called the Fabric Summoner, right?
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  So imagine reaching into your stash and pulling out the exact fabric
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  that you need, almost like a Mary Poppins bag type of, power, right?
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  No more digging through bends, and we're trying to remember
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  where you put that one perfect print that you bought like years ago.
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  It just appears like magic, you know?
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  But since we don't have fabric summoning abilities, the next best thing
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  is a little bit of organization.
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  Or if that fails, embracing the, treasure hunt approach and telling ourselves
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  that searching for fabric is just part of the creative process,
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  because you never know what you're going to stumble upon
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  when you start digging through all of your fabrics right?
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  Okay, so fabric super power number four.
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  Let's think about this one for a minute.
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  So I tried to figure out, like, a, a clever superpower name for this one,
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  but what I ended up coming up with was the UFO eliminator.
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  Okay, so we we all have UFOs with we've talked about that several times
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  and in several of our podcast episodes
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  that sit in your closet and they wait for some day.
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  But what if we had a superpower
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  that let us just instantly finish every UFO without lifting a finger?
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  Or if they just
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  disappeared and worked on, worked on the project to do list anymore?
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  One snap and boom.
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  It's quilted, bound and ready to be snuggled under.
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  but since that isn't an
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  option, I still say that we embrace the UFO journey.
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  You know, some quilts save time, and that's okay.
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  Although if anyone does figure out
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  how to get this power of light UFOs eliminator,
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  please do let me know immediately, because I.
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  I can probably pay you in more fat quarters
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  and probably throw in some chocolate as a bonus for that power
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  and the knowledge of how to obtain that power.
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  Quilting super power number five
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  that I came up with would be an endless bobbin.
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  So let's talk about the real life villain of every quilters story.
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  The moment your bobbin runs out
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  usually is timed right with when you are in the groove.
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  Sewing and
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  everything is going smooth.
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  You know what? If that bobbin never ran out?
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  Imagine sewing for like hours, days
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  even without ever having to stop and wind your bobbin thread.
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  No more sudden mid seam stops.
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  No more playing.
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  Is this bobbin going to make it game?
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  You know the bobbin chicken game? Have you played that game?
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  I am well-versed in that game.
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  Sometimes I win, sometimes I don't,
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  but this bobbin in this bobbin
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  would just be like endless glorious sewing.
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  Just continually sewing and sewing and sewing.
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  So you can get bobbins that are pre wound
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  so you don't have to stop and wind the bobbin.
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  But since that's not a thing to have just endless bobbin powers.
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  Maybe the real lesson here
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  is that we should all check our bobbins before starting a long.
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  seam.
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  But you know, where's the fun in that, right?
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  Like, we we wouldn't get to play the bobbin chicken game, so,
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  you know, instead, we can just keep living life on the edge,
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  playing a bobbin roulette, bobbin chicken, whatever you want to call it,
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  and pretending to be surprised every time that we lose that game.
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  There are also,
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  ways that you can buy like the pre-ground bobbins.
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  I usually buy a lot of those, and you're just general neutral colors
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  like white or black or whatever that, I use what I'm piecing
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  because that's usually when I go through those bobbins is when I'm piecing.
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  And and that really does help to have the pre rounds already there.
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  So those were the creative, quilting superpowers that I came up with.
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  And now I want to hear from you.
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  If you could have any quilting superpower what would it be.
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  Would you never run out of bobbin thread?
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  Would you just magically sew a perfect quarter inch seam every single time?
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  Or, maybe have like a GPS built in for every lost
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  seam ripper and tool that you have so that you could find them again
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  when they go missing?
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  Tell me in the comments because I can't wait to hear your answers.
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  This was such a fun episode for me to sit and play around with this idea
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  and kind of
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  I know, just kind of break out of the normal quilting thought process.
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  So I hope it made you smile.
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  Quilting already feels like a bit of a superpower, doesn't it?
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  I mean, who can take tons and tons of fabric,
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  cut it up, and then create something like beautiful like this out of it?
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  You know, the fact that we can take fabric
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  and thread and turn it into just gorgeous,
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  gorgeous designs, that is something meaningful is really pretty amazing.
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  So if you enjoyed this episode, please make sure to subscribe
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  to my channel and follow so you don't miss our next chat.
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  And don't forget to drop a comment with your ultimate quilting superpower
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  down in the comment section.
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  I am excited to hear what you come up with.
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  I know that quilters are incredibly creative people, and I know that, like,
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  this is something that a lot of you are going to have fun with. So please
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  tell me what your desired superpower would be when it comes to quilting.
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  Until next time, keep stitching, keep dreaming.
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  And remember, you already have some pretty incredible
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  quilting superpowers in you right now.
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  So I'm Christen with ISeeStarsQuilting.
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  I will see you on the next episode.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I'll see you soon. Bye!
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  You.