I just love Susan’s outlook. I have not made a quilt yet but I buy tons of fabric. I love, love fabric. I am making a Dresden as my first quilt because I love the look. Fingers crossed!
My favorite summer memories are the summers spent at my grandparents home. My grandmother liked to sew, crochet, macrame, all kinds of crafts. What fun we had together, such precious times I’ll never forget.
What a great video! Sitting on the stoop with my grandmother eating ice cream cones from the corner store in the city. Such unconditional love…and now I can give it to my grandchildren I have been a nanny-nana to for the last 13 years. And you know they already have many quilts. LOL.
When I was a kid, we would go up to the Lake of Three Fires with my grandma, aunts, uncles and cousins for a picnic followed by swimming. Then, we would go back to Stanberry (another local town) for their carnival with lots of rides and fun things to do. We would follow that up with fireworks at either my grandma's house or my aunt's house. I absolutely love those memories and wish my kids and granddaughter could experience that at least once. Thank you for a wonderful show today. Susan is amazing. I love her personality and how her mind works.
My favorite summer memory was when I was 8 years old and there was a small craft store in my home town. She held classes all summer and I learned to sew, knit and cross stitch. I still do all three at 63! Now I’m sharing those skill sets with my grandchildren.
Susan what a wonderful personality and energy. Thanks Kimberly for this interview and bringing her books to your publishing company as we know the quality will be spot on. Susan I remember seeing your color wall of stash displayed in a magazine, it was art. My favorite summer memories go back to a wooden swing that was in my grandparents back yard. It was 2 wooden seats across from each other with a wooden slat “floor”. The memories of sitting with my parents, my cousins, my grandma, my grandpa and the stories we shared and were told. Grandma would teach me embroidery as we slowly swung back and forth. Smelled flowers from her flower beds, freshly mowed grass as we cooled off from mowing their huge yard with a push mower, or cooled off from picking bushels of cucumbers for delivery to the pickle factory for sale. I was truly blessed and am so thankful for the simple times.
My favorite summer memories revolve around my Grandmother and vacations to Cape Cod! She loved sharing this beautiful place with me and even sent me to summer camp in Chatham! I was on the Cape with her when Princess Diana got married and remember getting up early to watch and not miss a thing! Miss her every single day!!
My favorite summer memory was an Independence Day celebration on the lawn of the community college in my parents' hometown in Pennsylvannia. We were there with three generations of my family. Local families were on quilts/blankets with their picnics, kids were playing all over the grassy knolls, and there was a live band playing patriotic music. The band played tributes to each military branch by playing each them song. It was all followed by fireworks overlooking the lake! Awesome day! Susan's "Summer Memories" quilts would be perfect for those kind of days!
Best summer memory is when the family stayed at the shore where we stayed On the bay but could walk to the beach. We got to enjoy fishing, kayaking, crabbing and then get lunch and go swimming at the beach and build sand castles.
My best summer memory - was sitting on the front porch steps of my grandparents house eating watermelon with my grandpa. A pregnant lady was walking down the sidewalk and my grandpa said to me, “don’t swallow a watermelon seed or that’s what will happen to your belly!” For years, I was in a panic when I ate watermelon that I would swallow a seed!!!. Lol I love this memory with my grandpa!
This was so much fun! Susan Ache and Kimberly were great together and I learned about the smaller needle for cross stitch, seam ripper, and Lissa Alexander and Susan Ache. Kimberly is a great interviewer! Thank you for pulling this together.
every summer my mum & dad took us kids camping in a tent at the lake for one month in the summer, a real family summer at the lake, it was the greatest summer tradition, every summer to spend family time together. Precious Memories.
My favorite summer memory was when my Grandmother would teach me to sew while she was making clothes for my Barbie doll. So tedious! But she made them with a smile and gave me her love of sewing and quilting.
I grew up living 3 miles from the pier in Huntington Beach, CA. My favorite summer memory is going to the beach almost daily, either taking the public bus or riding my bike with just a towel in hand. The beach is my happy place. ❤️
This interview is so FUN! Your two personalities mesh and your comments together were both fascinating, informative, and HILARIOUS. I wish you could do a monthly or bi-annual show: "Jolly and Ache" -- where together you share your likes and dislikes about quilting and cross stitch and discuss all things related to your products and the quilting/cross stitch worlds in general. LOVED this interview! Thank you for it.
My best summer memory was staying at my grandmother's house in the summer. I loved strapping on my roller skates and skating on the sidewalks near her house. I got to go to the county fair with my cousin. We would spend all day there. My grandmother used to tell me family stories when we sat outside on the patio near her flower garden. I got to watch my grandfather oil paint and also got to watch him build furniture in his garage. I found out recently that I was the only one allowed to do that. I love the new book and am excited to make the Lazy Afternoon quilt. It is my favorite. I'm using fabric I already have. Thanks for a lovely presentation today!
My best summer memory is sitting around the campfire with my family and close friends---20-30 people usually, singing and roasting marshmallows for S'mores. We'd sing and tell scary stories and look up at the stars and wrap ourselves in warm quilts at the night got chilly.
Best summer memory: The best ever summer was when my "Heart Light" took me to see the icecap! OMG! I got to touch it, stand next to it and the air was so pure, that I became intoxicated by the time we left. I have chronic airway disease (life long) from birth so the air was so pure and clean. I have never been able to experience that till then. It was truly amazing! I have photos of us standing inside a small cave that was part of the icecap. Nature is truly amazing!
Susan is delightful! My favorite summer memories were at my grandparents house. They had a huge apple tree that my cousins and I loved to climb. During one summer party, Grandpa joined my sister, cousins and I up in the apple tree. We were all sitting on one long branch with Grandpa in the middle. We kids got a huge kick out of him being in the tree with us! Thank goodness my aunt got a picture, it's one of my most treasured ones!
My favorite summer memory is spending the whole day at the swim club with my family. We would pack a picnic and meet up with many families to swim and play and then have lunch and dinner there. And always wait an hour to go back in the pool! 😁
My best summer memory was taking my toddler son to the same lake I went to as a child and buying him a soft serve ice cream that slowly melted and covered his sweet face and hands. A quick dunk in the lake cleaned him up, just as my mom did with me when I was little! Wonderful interview. I learned so much and will purchase the book tonight. Thank you! ❤
My best summer memory was to go crabbing with my grandparents while visiting Virginia Beach. My grandmother saved chicken necks all year long (frozen) and when we would come for our annual summer visit, we would head out for the shallows and attach the necks to a string. But then the crabs became very interested in nibbling our toes. What joy to remember a childhood memory! Thoroughly enjoyed your video!
I enjoyed Susan's energy and enthusiasm for playing with fabric! My favorite summer memory is playing with my cousins outside after dark with the fireflies on the lawn and the June bugs on the porch. We had a blast!
When we were kids, my family had friends lived in the country about 40 minutes from our house. We loved going there, playing in the silo, riding the horse, pumping water (they were very primitive at that time). They were actually neighbors to my great grandparents. After I was married, my husband helped them on the farm. This was 2 sisters and a brother that lived together snd never married. So many fond memories of Richard and ‘the girls’.
I enjoyed Kimberly and Susan Ache so much! This was one of the best Fridays ever!I can't think of just one summer memory, but I would have to say when my youngest son got married and all my kids and grandkids spent a week at Folly beach and just played in the sand and spent time at the beach all day long and in the evening would walk to wherever we were going to eat. There was nothing like it being all together.
I have shook my head, answered you both and laughed with you both. I enjoyed this flosstube sew sew much!!! Would love to be sitting in a room with both you girls! Sew much fun!!! My best summer memory is the first summer we got to go camping at Claytor Lake State Park. I was maybe 7 years old. Daddy bought a truck camper that sit on the back of a pickup truck way back when. We took 2 of our neighbor friends with us. We had so much fun that summer with our first camper. We have camped at Claytor Lake every summer since. I am now 63 years old and yes I will be going back this summer with my cross stitch projects ❤️❤️❤️
Best summer memory is when my granddaughter was 9 and had her quilt entered at the Vermont Quilt Show. She was so happy when people stopped by to congratulate her. We both had a quilt entered.
My favorite Summer memory is roller skating outside with my friends. This was when I had the old metal roller skates that fit over my shoes. Somehow I only ended up with scraped hands and knees and no broken bones! I loved meeting Susan Ache - she seems like a fun lady!
My favorite summer memory is grabbing all the quilts with my kids and making tents on the clothes line outside. Then they would play with dolls and trains in the quilt tents. Such great fun❣️
My favorite summer memory is being with my grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins around July 4th with fireworks, food and fun. Sitting on quilts and seeing all the colors.
Thanks, ladies! Today's discussion was fascinating. Love your quilts, Susan! My best summer memory.....when my Aunt let my friend and I come spend a week with her at her beach house in Newport Beach, CA. The house was built in the 30s or 40s, and was right NEXT to the beach....there was only a sidewalk between the patio and the sand! I think we were about age 12 at the time; this was in the late 1960's. My Aunt was pretty chill so she let us have a lot of unsupervised time to play in the ocean and walk the beaches and piers in the area. The guest bedroom was upstairs, facing the ocean, so we kept the window open so we could hear the waves and feel the salt breeze all night long. Not a care in the world. That week was heaven on earth!
My favorite summer memory was taking swimming lessons. We would load up on a school bus, go to a town close by and be with friends. For 2 weeks we would be away from home in the mornings, shivering cold but loving every minute. I think it cost around $5 per kid and 3 of my siblings attended as well. The ‘60’s was a really great time.
Best Summer Memory was when I was about 10. I lived in Seabrook TX and all of my friends in our neighborhood in Seabrook rode unicycles, about 8 of us had all learned how over the previous few years. There was a huge 4th of July parade scheduled and we all decided to ride our unicycles in the parade! It was fun but the stopping and starting in certain parts made most of them give up. My dad had put an American flag on a broomstick for me so I could lean on it or have a way to restart pedaling with out holding on to something. I was the only one that made it all the way through the Parade day! Great times on the Bay for sure! Happy Summer Memories to you both Kimberly and Susan! What a great show today! Thank you so much!
How in the world does one choose “the best” summer memory when there are so many? One of my best is tying a rock onto a string, adding a sliver of bacon, and dangling it in front of a crawdad hole while family camping in Arkansas…back when life was simpler. Such good times❤!
I always loved summer, my best friend lived 2 blocks down the street from me. When it was time for us to go home in the evening, we would walk each other half way between our homes, say goodbye, and turn and run as fast as we could to our houses. We both didn't like the dark.
This was such an amazing interview. Thanks Susan and Kimberly for a great show. My favorite Summer Memories are of spending the summers at my grandparents…helping my grandfather in the garden and watching wrestling with him, helping my grandmother in the kitchen, and watching soap operas with her in the afternoon. Playing croquet in the front yard. Making homemade ice cream. There are so many more memories. My phone battery would die before I named them all.
My best summer memory is the last summer vacation before my son passed. He loved the beach. I don't have many pictures of him and I together because mom is always holding the camera but one of my favorites is of him and me on the beach. Memories is all I have and I cherish them. Quilting is my therapy.
Six summers ago we took our 3 children camping across country. We spent six weeks and visited 16 states, and everyday was a memory that we still talk about.
My best summer memory is when my mom and dad took us to the beach for a week. We had kids there,too. We were able to do this several times over the years. These weeks were also my kids favorite memories so we are beginning this tradition for our grand kiddos, too!
What an wonderful idea! I could sit with you two all day. Now I have to go throw out my seam ripper and break open the new one I’ve never opened!🤣 My best summer memories are being at my grandmother’s in Mobile…we would have so many fun times. Making her Adirondack chairs into a fort, riding the trolley car to the the dime store downtown and eating lunch at the counter, learning to crochet and do embroidery. Treasures I love to remember.🥰. Thank you for such a delightful and informative morning! And I will say, FQS is the BEST at writing patterns…no one else can compare!
My best summer memory is neighborhood popsicle truck as a child and running through sprinkler. Thanks, Susan, for being live today and sharing your quilting seam riper tip.
My most loved summer memories are beautiful days spent at my dear friend’s home on a tranquil lake in Minnesota. Mornings began in a warm robe with a hot cup of coffee waiting for the call of the loons, then a walk through the woods followed by a slow pontoon ride around on the lake often joined by bald eagles. The sunsets are varied each one being even more spectacular! It’s so lovely to end the day with a glass of wine listening to favorites my friend nightly at her piano. That is my heaven on earth! Thanks for asking as I have enjoyed actually writing about this special time in my life!
Hiking with my grandpa!! He taught us how to look for landmarks and look for arrowheads. It was just so fun to talk and walk with him. We would go to a café, he'd have his coffee, and we kids would get hot cocoa with refills of whipcream on top.
Best Summer memory is our whole family would camp all Summer long to be closer to my dad's work. It was Tamsin Park in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. By the name one can tell it was Native American focused. My two brothers and I had the whole run of the park from sun up to sun down. Camp fires every night, swimming everyday and doing morning hikes permitted us to commune with nature. One or two weeks out of the Summer, the owner would bring a tribe from a different community to share their skills, beliefs and crafts. The sun up to sundown sand painting was amazing! My goal is to develop a quilt that reflects those memories. Thanks for the memories! Karen
Vicki Young here. A fun summer memory was visiting my grandma in the summer on their farm and one year she taught me how to make a home made crust for our apple pie. The best. Susan was great to listen to.
My best summer memory was spending everyday riding my horse with all my friends. We each had our own horse and would sneak into the tomato fields near our houses and have tomato fights 😂. The farmers could never catch us. We would eat what we bagged to take with us everyday. One of us would always have salt for our feasting! What a great summer.
Wow! That was so much fun. Fired up to start a new quilt. If I only had a new book..... My favorite summer memory is going to my grandparents beach house, getting burnt, crabbing, finding dead fish on the shore, burying my brother in the sand and on and on. So much fun!
My best summer memory: was when I was 14. I was dating my would-be husband. I spent that first summer in Pearland, Tx with my great-aunt and uncle. They had a daughter that was the same age as me. We spent that summer riding horses, picking fresh fruit, and my boyfriend and I would write novels to each other (seriously, our letters were between 15 and 31 sheets long. We used both sides!) every other day. It was the only year that I can remember where I was just a kid doing fun things instead of working. I was in heaven!
Great show today! Love the basket quilt although I will not be able to sew along. I will watch from afar and maybe someday. Favorite summer memory: A summer day vacation with my young family at a New Jersey beach, Avalon. I am a fussy summer person, as I suffer from heat and too much sun. This was a PERFECT day. Not too hot, sunny or wild in the water. The jelly fish were non existent and the waves were gentle. No sign of Jaws or that annoying seaweed that often tangles around your legs and tries to take you under! Spent the whole day (almost) playing in the waves with my children and husband and I will be grateful for that day for the rest of my life. Everything was PERFECT and the only day at the beach I ever experienced like that!
My best summer memory is when my cousin and I stayed with my great grandma. We roller skated to the record store and 7-11 for slurpees. We would sit in the back yard and giggle.
My best summer memory, oh this question brought a flood of memories with my mom, dad too, but my mom has passed, and I think of her often. We were in a trailer club growing up, and every summer, we would go up to the redwoods for the month of July. The men/dads would get the trailers all set up and leave Sunday evening to work and return on Fridays to spend the weekends with the families. The evening before we set out, my sisters and I would get in our jammies, and mom would set us up in the camper that was already hooked up to the trailer. She would sit with us and have lovely conversation until we fell asleep only to wake up the next morning 3 hours on our journey to the redwoods. I loved that time in July with my mom.
I loved spending the summer with my grandparents on their farm. My favorite was my grandpa and his helpers out bailing alfalfa and the sweet smell in the air. My grandmother would make the the most delicious lunch for everyone. I loved hearing my grandfather call each cow by name in the evening in to be milked. These are my favorite memories of days past.❤
Oh my goodness, Kimberly... definitely bring Susan back someday on a live stream! She is such a delight & so inspirational. I cannot wait to see what you have planned with her & Lissa Alexander. My favorite summer memory is with my Nana & Pap.. they had a super big car & literally all 7 grandchildren would pile in. They were far from wealthy, but back in the 80s you could go to an amusement park without an admission fee & just buy tickets per ride. My Nana & Pap were just the best... Love your livestreams so much 🩷
This was so fun! My best summer memory -- In approximately 1978, my husband and I travelled to Tahoe in a beautiful little blue Porsche on 4th of July weekend. With no reservations we had a very hard time finding a hotel or motel that was not full. We actually discussed if we would able to sleep in the car! We finaly did find a room so it turned out well. That was the best summer trip ever.
This was a great interview. Susan is fun and a great designer. Kimberly is a wonderful teacher and now a great interviewer. Susan is right it’s like the today show of Quilting.
By best summer memory is when we went on vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida. It was the summer after my 8th grade year. My brother and I had so much fun swimming and meeting people. The people were so nice, the water was beautiful, and the seafood was fabulous. We were having so much fun that my Mom and Dad decided to stay a couple of extra day. An outstanding memory!
My favorite summer memory is going camping with my late parents,sleeping in the old brown station wagon.mother and daddy had thrown a mattress in the station wagon back,and I slept in front seat. We always cooked breakfast on a campfire.
My favorite summer memories go back a long way. We would always camp at Beaver’s Bend every summer. We would camp with dear friends and made new friends early on that would camp the same weeks we did . So, we could all play together year after year. When we had children we took them camping at the same place we camped as kids. It was so fun to see them enjoying what I did as a child. This year we will start the tradition with our sweet grandsons! My parents stayed in a cabin there for their honeymoon. So, this summer will start the fourth generation of camping memories there💕
Susan is delightful! One of my best summer memories is renting a cottage for a heavenly week near Point Reyes National Seashore for a solo artist's retreat - went on a hike each day and filled the rest of the day with quilting (also pin-basted a queen-sized quilt sandwich on the floor), crochet, design, reading, writing, bird watching in the garden and more - no internet or screens.
I "met" Susan through the article in American Patchwork magazine and have loved everything I have seen of her work ever since. What a delight to get to know her better today. Best summer memory, staying at my grandparents farm. Every afternoon in the heat of the day she would give us Popsicles, that she made, in little tiny Dixie Cups. We'd sit under the shade of a giant maple tree to eat them while we chatted with each other.
My favorite summer memory was when my mom brought me and my 3 siblings to a beach to sleep overnight. We had no tent or anything to sleep in. I slept on the top of the car and my brother on top of a picnic table. My sisters to had to find a place to lie down too. I just don’t remember where. I Looked at the stars all night and listened to the waves. We had so much fun. We also had each a friend with us.
I enjoyed this immensely!! Please have Susan Ache back. Favourite summer memory would be taking my girls when they were younger out to Vancouver Island for summer vacation. We went back several times!
My best summer memory is of being a child and being able wander around by neighborhood with my siblings and friends and not having to worry about anything.
I mostly grew up in Va, so around 1964 my brother & I got to visit my Grandparents in Florida (leaving all the other brothers & sisters at home). It was magical!! It was truly the best summer ever. I had wonderful grandparents!! The next year, my mother wanted to move there also - Loved this show & interview - I am looking forward to sewing along on the basket journey!!
My best summer memory is seeing all my grandkids make their own favorite summer memories at the same beach area I love and spent every summer growing up❤
My best summer memory is driving to the dry farms that were in the hills beyond my grandparents house. All the family that was large, would all drive there. We would have a great meal and play games. We would wait for dark, so we could roast marshmallows, and sing campfire songs. Great memories. I can’t see a fire, without singing Cool, Clear Water. Lol
My favorite summer memory was when my family would go to the lake and we would have a picnic. Mom would take Fried Chicken. We would spread blankets on the ground. My mother and grandmother did not quilt but I do now and love it.
That was amazing! You have to have Susan Ache on again. She is fabulous and what a sense of humor! I am going to check all my seam rippers later today for dullness…it’s not anything I ever gave a second thought to. My favorite summer memories are of being a kid and going to Big Sandy resort every summer, renting the same cabin each year, and all the fun we had as a family, seeing my parents in a new light, relaxed, and having fun themselves. Blessings and take care.
My best summer memory was having "cocktails" with my grandmother on the patio outside her swimming pool. We had Shirley Temples with umbrellas and cherries in them while playing cards.
You have to keep it 100% with yourself and do what you love. I am glad that you two both still love quilting and have not let the business part of quilting ruin it.🙌🏾
My best summer memories are car trips to places around the country like Williamsburg, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Also when I rode the bus by myself into Los Angeles, took the city bus to my Dad's office, go to dinner and then to Dodger Stadium for a game. Best game was September 9, 1965 for Sandy Koufax's perfect game. I am really looking forward to this book. Thank you Fat Quarter Shop for having Susan on today.
Best summer memory ... on hot nights I would fall asleep on the front porch swing .. swinging my self to sleep to and waking up in the early mornings to the chirping sound of birds ...
My best summer memory is when I was a child was sitting in my grandmother's yard by her peony bushes in the sunlight and being in awe of the beautiful colors. That is when I knew I wanted to be maker and create beautiful things!
My best summer memories are swimming and living next door to my grandparents and helping them clean vegetables they grew in their garden. And eating watermelon on their picnic table in the back yard.
Wonderful livestream with Susan Ache. Obviously, there was not enough time for all the topics to be addressed. So, I know she will need to return! Thanks for the tips, comments, stories, etc. Can't get enough of this type of content. Favorite summer memories - camping with family. Keep up the great work!
Best memory is the summers of being told to play outside or stay in and doing chores. All the kids in the neighborhood would get together in our backyards and play. We had a fort built in a little patch trees at the back of our property. My dad saw it and built us a super sweet playhouse, but we would be in the fort most of the time. Summer seemed to last forever back then.
