Craft to Career
by Elizabeth Chappell
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Should Creative Business Owners Use AI? My Honest Take
Should Creative Business Owners Use AI? My Honest Take
About this podcast
How do I turn my craft into a career? How do I create my dream job, working from home, and doing what I love? How do I grow my Instagram following? How do I earn money with my craft? And the biggest question of all: Can I be successful?
Episodes
The newest 20 of 219 episodes
- Should Creative Business Owners Use AI? My Honest Take · 28 minShould creative entrepreneurs use AI? In this episode of the Craft to Career Podcast, I'm sharing my personal thoughts on AI and how I'm thinking about it as a quilt pattern…
- From Hollywood Animation to Quilting: Kristy Kay's Colorful Career Change · 41 minKristy Kay of With Love by Kristy is a new fabric designer for Moda Fabrics, but she has been in the art world for a long time. For over a decade, she worked in animation and…
- Barbie Mills on Pantograph Design, Longarm Quilting, and Growing a Quilting Business · 49 minWhat if you could see how a pantograph will look on your quilt before you ever load it on the frame? Barbie Mills, longarm quilter and pantograph designer behind The Quilting…
- Why Your Email Promos Aren't Selling (Live Coaching Call with Allison Austin of The Kitschy Creative) · 50 minWhy Your Email Promos Aren't Selling (Live Coaching Call with Allison Austin of The Kitschy Creative) If you've ever sent a promotional email and gotten silence, or worse, a wave…
- The Little Green Bean: A Decade of Pivots, Mentors, and Growth · 1 h 7 minWhat happens when you build a business, then rebuild it, then rebuild it again? In this episode, we sit down with Missy Luukkonen of The Little Green Bean to talk about a decade…
- From Idea to Industry Staple: How SewTites Built a Product for Quilters · 45 minQuilting is centuries old, so how does a brand-new product become a must-have in an industry that's already full of tools and traditions? In this episode, we sit down with the…
- What Pattern Writers Should Know About Selling with QBPN, with Ruth Erdei · 38 minIf you sell digital quilt patterns, you've probably wondered whether a marketplace is worth it, and what actually goes on behind the scenes to make one work. Ruth Erdei joins the…
- Eli McCann on Writing "Stitched": Quilting, Comedy, and the Drama of a Sewing Circle · 30 minEli McCann on Writing "Stitched": Quilting, Comedy, and the Drama of a Sewing Circle What happens when a group of older women who quilt together also happen to be full of…
- Building a Self-Sustaining Quilting Business with Jamie Bright · 1 h 9 minThis week I'm joined by Jamie Bright of Craft a Dream, and what a treat this conversation is. Jamie is a sharp businesswoman with a real gift for marketing, and her path into…
- Joshua Dunn on Memory Quilts, Space, and a Quiltmaker Magazine Feature · 45 minAbout Joshua Joshua Dunn is the quilter and designer behind Lifting and Stitching. Based in North Carolina, he creates modern quilts inspired by the cosmos, where memory, color…
- How Mim Jenkinson Built a Million Dollar Sticker Business · 1 h 5 minMim Jenkinson sells stickers, and she has grown that into a business earning over $1 million a year. In this episode of Craft To Career, Mim opens up about what she sells, how…
- Niching Down and Standing Out: Helene of Scandi Quilts on Growing a Quilt Pattern Business · 48 minWhat does it look like to grow a quilt pattern business when you lean fully into your roots and design what you genuinely love? In this episode of the Craft To Career Podcast…
- From Blank Page to Bestseller: A Conversation with Katherine Center · 1 h 1 minWhat does it actually take to write a book, and keep writing them, year after year? In this episode, I sit down with NYT bestselling author Katherine Center for a warm…
- Turning Art History into Quilt Patterns: A Conversation with Eva Saunders · 55 minWhat if the funding to grow your quilting business was already sitting in your local community, waiting for someone like you to apply for it? In this episode of the Craft To…
- From Woodworking to Quilting: How Chris Hanson Built Modern American Vintage · 46 minChris of Modern American Vintage shares how he built a handmade maker business creating wood quilting notions, plus advice for craft entrepreneurs. Ever wondered what it takes to…
- Theresa Benson of The AI Quilter: AI, Ethics, Creativity, and the Future of Quilting · 1 h 11 minArtificial Intelligence is one of the biggest conversations happening in the creative world right now, and in this episode of The Craft to Career Podcast, I sat down with Theresa…
- Michael Eason of Quilchemy: How He Turned a Love of EPP Into a Thriving Quilting Business · 55 minWhat do felt squares, an old sewing machine, and a spark of creativity have in common? For Michael Eason, they were the beginning of a quilting journey that led him to found…
- How Muppins Emporium Became a "Must-Visit" Quilt Shop in Paducah · 1 h 11 minWhen I asked, "Which quilt shop owners do you want to hear from?" Cheryl Sleboda's name was at the top of the list—and after this conversation, you'll understand why. Cheryl is…
- How to Build a Sustainable Creative Business with Abby Glassenberg of Craft Industry Alliance · 1 h 3 minIn this episode of the Craft to Career Podcast, I'm joined by Abby Glassenberg, founder of the Craft Industry Alliance — an organization created to help makers, designers…
- Building a Creative Career That Pays: Inside Carina Gardner's University of Arts and Design · 51 minWhat if getting a degree in design didn't mean writing a thesis—but instead meant building a real, revenue-generating business? In this episode, I'm joined by Carina Gardner, who…
