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50 Podcasts Recommended For Quilters

50 Podcasts for Quilters

If you love to listen to podcasts while you sew, then have I got a treat for you! This list of 50 popular podcasts was compiled from the recommendations that you guys shared with me through the Fiber Artists: What Matters Most to You survey and via Instagram.

You guys have an awesome range of interests, from science to business, pop culture to social change, personal growth, comedy — and of course, crafts and quilting! 

I hope that this list will help you the next time you are in your sewing room and think to yourself, what should I listen to next??

Quilting & Crafting

  • While She Naps (which has now rebranded as Craft Industry Alliance)
  • Just Wanna Quilt
  • American Patchwork and Quilting
  • Crafty Planner
  • Modern Sewciety
  • Simple Handmade Everyday
  • Love to Sew
  • The Quilting Company Podcast
  • Liz and Alissa Make Stuff

Heath & Fitness

  • Happier
  • Happier in Hollywood

Comedy

  • TBTL (Too Beautiful To Live)
  • How Did This Get Made? (explicit)

Technology

  • Note to Self

Society and Culture

  • Code Switch
  • This American Life
  • Radio Lab
  • Nancy
  • Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
  • Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Ezra Klein Show
  • Showcase from Radiotopia
  • In The Dark
  • How to Own the Room
  • Soulful Conversations
  • The Dream
  • The Branch
  • A Way With Words
  • Death, Sex & Money

TV & Film

  • You Must Remember This

Sports

  • 30 for 30
  • The Highlight Reel

History

  • Stuff You Missed in History Class

Arts

  • 99% invisible
  • Art for your Ear: The Jealous Curator
  • TED talks daily
  • The Moth

Business

  • Start Up
  • Etsy Success
  • Dont Keep Your Day Job
  • How I Built This
  • Happier in Hollywood

News

  • Cape Up

Food

  • Milk Street Radio
  • The Bon Appetit Foodcast
  • The Sporkful

Parenting

  • Adult Conversation
  • The Longest Shortest Time
  • Spawned

And that’s the list! I hope you learned of a few new podcasts to give a listen to, I know I sure did! The hardest part will be deciding what to listen to first!

Feel free to leave additional favorites in the comments! Its kind of fun to think that we could all be listening to the same podcasts while we work on our quilts, and we could all just grab a cup of tea and chat fabric and podcasts like old friends!

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  • Audrey
    October 8, 2019 at 7:44 am

    Such a great list, thanks for sharing! Another good one is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. She’s a phenomenal interviewer. Happy quilting!

    • lelandavestudios@gmail.com
      October 12, 2019 at 11:09 am

      Thanks so much for another great suggestion!

  • Kristin Esser
    October 11, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    Thanks for including Simple Handmade Everyday on the list! 🙂

    • lelandavestudios@gmail.com
      October 12, 2019 at 11:09 am

      So happy to learn of another great podcast!

  • Ellyn
    October 23, 2019 at 10:11 am

    great list! I can’t wait to explore some new ones. Some other’s I’ve been enjoying are Creative Pep Talk (Andy J Pizza), Good life project (Jonathan Fields)

    • lelandavestudios@gmail.com
      October 23, 2019 at 2:09 pm

      I LOVE both of those podcasts! Yes, thanks for mentioning them here!