Bonus Episode: How to Beat Perfectionism and Make a Quilt
3/5/202635 min
Our Culcitology (QUILTS) episode taught you why quilts are agents of rebellion, community, and chill vibes all in one. This bonus episode will tell you how to start and how to dive into anything creative without freaking out first, featuring advice from Joe Cunningham and Kule Haynes, plus dozens of friendly Ologies listeners/quilters. Cut up some scraps, pick up a needle, and make something. You never know where it might lead you, and who it could help in the future. Including you, kiddo.
Luke Haynes Ologies quilt pattern
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First 90 secondsAlie Ward· Host0:00
Oh, hey, it's still the guy whose outfit you wanna compliment, but it would be awkward. Alie Ward, and as promised, here's a follow-up bonus episode from this week's Quilrology episode all about quilts. And this one, little bonus, just a little bonus drop it in your feed. It's just chock-a-block with advice and encouragement and a call to action to make some cool stuff out of scraps in an effort to calm your nerves and buy less stuff and make more art. Now, QuiltCon 2026 happened just a few weeks ago in Raleigh, North Carolina. I've been tagged in so many posts from that since last episode. The scathing political quilts there, just brutally wonderful. Beautiful. Leave it to crafters to change the world. Highly recommend checking out some QuiltCon 2026 [laughs] quilts. Uh, last week we went deep into the context and the history of quiltmaking with museum curator Olivia Joseph, author and quilter Joe Cunningham, and fiber fine artist Lou Caines, who made me a quilt that is up on our Instagram that's amazing. He also made a small quilt pattern for all Ologite quilters, novice and expert alike, to try. That's linked in our show notes. Also in the show notes, links to Smologies, our short form and kid-safe episodes that live in their own podcast feed wherever you get podcasts. Uh, ologiesmerch.com, which has new designs with protest art with 100% of the proceeds going to the National Immigration Law Center. Also linked is our Patreon at patreon.com/ologies, where you can support the show and submit questions before we record. And that's like a dollar a month to get in.