(upbeat music) - Hey guys, I'm Kimberly
from the Fat Quarter Shop. Today's January 15th, 2020, and we have a special guest to Levine. - Hi. - Thanks for coming. So this is gonna be totally her show. I wanna start it off
with, we have a coupon, I'm gonna talk about it a couple of times throughout the live stream
for everyone who misses. The coupon is TULA20. That's gonna give you $10 off if you buy over $50 of Tula's fabric through the next week. Now it doesn't include notions because those have a map policy, so it can't apply to that. So if you buy over $50
worth of Tula fabric, just put that coupon till 20th
and you'll get a discount. - Yay deals. - Yay, but let's just start
off with her upcoming fabric. I'm gonna let her talk to you
a little bit about her fabric. There's links below where
you can see it on her site. So do you wanna start with that one? - Yeah, so my newest fabric collection, which is shipping in
March is called Homemade. Oh yeah, there's a lot of it. Every line that I do, I always start with something that I need. As a quilter, I make
like 50 quilts a year. So there's things I need. - 50? - Yes, I make a lot of quilts. - Oh! - Yeah, I make a lot of quilts. (Tula laughs) So it's like something I need. I've always wanted a sewing
themed fabric collection, but all the ones that are
out there they're super cute, but they don't reflect my sewing studio. It's a lot of like vintage black. - Yes black. - Yeah, like it's dark, there's a lot of vintage
sewing notions and supplies and it's like, well, I
don't use any of that stuff, like I use a modern machine
and a rotary cutter. And so what I tried to do
is I went through the steps of making a quilt and tried to
assign a fabric to each step. So the fabric line ends up telling the story of making a quilt. So we have, you start by gathering
all of your supplies. So there's all these little handprints. - Those were actually
her hands or her mom's. - Yeah, they're my
hands and my mom's hands 'cause we have the same everything, so they're our hands. And I made my mom sit in my
studio for like 12 hours going "Now hold it this way,
now hold it this way," while I drew. But she's my mom, so she does stuff like that for me. And so you start by
with an idea, a passion. I wanna make something for
someone, for something, a baby, a wedding, whatever. And then you have to gather your tools, so I have all your tools. - And those are actually
like her reflections of her rotary cutter and her scissors that she sells iridescent. - All my tool pink hardware. Yeah, for sure. And then you have to start cutting, so this is actually my
cutting mat and ruler design, but made into a fabric. And then you, so you get on your sewing machine and because I designed my
sewing machine for Bernina. I can actually coordinate these
things to launch together. So that's actually my Bernina
sewing machine that I drew, 'cause I had the prototype at the time. And then you based and
quilt and stitch and measure and all of that. So each piece sort of represents a step in the quilt making process. - And what I love about
this group is it's modern, but it's not modern, like I would totally use it. - Yeah. - I would like to know
from all of you out there, like how many of you have
a Tula Pink sewing machine? Because I bet it's over
like 50 of you guys. (Tula laughs) - I hope so. - Yeah, like that is like the thing, like it's-- - I'm not the one who bought them all. - [Lilly] Yeah, they're beautiful. - And also though? - Pretty much, yeah, but I think there's, I'm sure
there's still some out there, but they went quicker
than I thought they would, which is exciting. I bought a lot of them, so it might be mostly me I'm not sure. - And then we have this kit to go with it. And the backing said is
one of her 108 inch wide. So there's three, one eight coming this is the backing for it and then there's a green, that's a big measuring tape. - I thought it would be fun to have just something really big and sort of over the top for the backing. 'Cause I love a wild
backing on a quilt because, so my guestroom is right. I share a wall with my master bedroom, my guest room share a wall. And I always wait for that
moment when my guests get into bed and they pull the quote back and I can hear the, "Oh." You know, like I love that, like it's a whole new opportunity for somebody to have an
experience with the quilt. So I always put the best thing
on the back of the quilt. So this is the new one and it's the three color ways
are morning, noon and night, 'cause that's how we do. - Yeah, and again, March, 2020, you can pre-order it from
us at that corner shop. And then our sales rep came, I think on Monday, this week, I don't know, last couple of days and he showed up. - [Both] And this was like brand new. Like I got my color card for this the day before I came here, like brand brand new. So this will shoot ship in June and this is my new true colors. So if you know me at all, I've had the dots and stripes for awhile and that had
been my true colors. - And they're right here. - Yes, and they're right here. And these are just like the, I essentially consider anything without an animal in it
to be a basic. (laughs) So this is even though
there's a bird in there, but birds are barely animals, they're just everywhere. But so this is all designed
to go with all my lines. So this is basic, it's like my new sort of basics, if you will, this is about as basic as I get. But so it's 42 pieces, we've taken the fairy dust, which has been a really fun
sort of background piece-- - That's one of our
best sellers from 2019, I would buy 150 yards and it
would be gone and like 15 hours and then customer service would be like, "Where's that fabric? It just came." I'm like, "Oh," and then I would figure
out that I sold out and so I could never keep it in stock. And then we would get so many
complaints and it'd be like, "Oh, I thought 10 bolts was plenty." - Yeah, well I thought so too. So I was surprised by it
also cause typically for me, people buy more of the hero friends, the big elaborate one. And so usually my best seller, isn't sort of one of my support pieces, but this one just sometimes
you just hit it like accidentally without knowing. And so we blew that out into a bunch of like sort of citrusy, bright pastels and added
a really pale gray, which I've been really loving using. And then there's this
piece called mineral, which is just sort of a Malik height, sort of a stone type design. I just wanted something with bine lines that could act as just a texture and then this floral sort of silhouette. So these pieces are
gonna be mostly tunnels, these pieces are going to be
sort of contrasting colors. So they're add ins to
all of my other lines, 'cause I'm an illustrator by trade. So I tend to design big elaborate prints, but that doesn't make a quilt on its own. So these are going to
allow me to fill more of my main collections
with big elaborate prints because I don't have to take up space with some
of the supports pieces. - So these will be reordereble and you can also pre-order this one and then this one when Lily, can you zoom in, it looks like a polka dot
on the screen when I see it, but it is a hexagon and
it's just hard to see, but it is, those are hexagons here on
all of them instead of dots, even though it's reading as dots, that's the best I can do. - [Tula] Yeah, and FreeSpirit was like, Tula only you can take a basic and make it an 18 color print. So these down here it's the
same hexagon that's up here, but there's four that
actually rainbow ombre through the yardage. So the ombre runs from salvage to salvage. So even in a half yard
cut or a quarter yard cut, you're gonna get all those colors. - Yay, so let me know guys, like what questions
you have to start with. And I have some questions here, but like I know y'all are
all excited that she's here. Like I'm sure I can
already like in my head, know what you guys were saying. - Yeah, so we've got lots of
excitement in the comments. Lots of people who do have the
Tula Pink machines we'll see. Pan Bender has the 77 QE, Tula E Hubbard has a Tula Pink 770 and they thought it was funny that it was a Tula buying
a Tula Pink machine. And then Veronika Alexander
says she has the Tula 570 QE and the older Tula 350 SE. - Well done. Yeah, two. - She's got two that's so cool. Jennifer Daniel Johnson
says a friend of hers has the five series to a pink
machine and it's beautiful. - How many have you done? - These are, this is my third, yeah. - What happens its like two. - Well, there was the one early one and then the two new ones. So three machines, but in two goes, yeah. - [Lilly] That's funny. Someone was asking if I'm beside myself 'cause I've commented on
livestream before that. You're my favorite fabric designer, so yes I am over the moon. This is such a pleasure. Yes. And let's see Monica bought the B77. She loves her unicorn. - [Both] Yes. - [Lilly] That's great. And Julie Washburn said, "When did you say the new line "with the fairy dust comes out?" - [Both] June. - [Lilly] All right. And I have a question from Gabriel Fontus. He said, Lily, can you ask Tula, what is a secret indulgence that she has that no one knows about? - Oh, that's a good question. - That is a good one. A secret indulgence
that no one knows about. - Well, if they don't know
that it maybe she doesn't want them to know about it. - A secret indulgence that no one knows about is probably Battlestar Galactica. - What is that? - [Lilly] Yeah. - It's like one of my favorite TV shows that I never tell people about. So naturally this is the right place 'cause it's real nerdy. (Lilly chuckles) - It's a TV show? - It's a TV, it's like an older TV show, well, not older, but like
2000 early, two thousands, that I like desperately
love and rewatch often, but it's super nerdy, so I typically don't talk about it. - Jocelyn over there
watches it apparently. (all laughing) That's funny. I don't, yeah. I'm clueless now. - It's very sci-fi, it's like space and sort of there's a whole mythology, like I can't get into it otherwise, this is a totally
different live stream. - I would totally not even. I'd probably watch it and
not be able to follow it. 'Cause I'm a dork. Like I can't like some of that stuff. I'm just like not interested
in them I got whatever. I just give up. - People were asking
if you make the remake. - I make the remake, yes I did make, I have watched the original, but I mean the remake, - Do you know what she's talking about? (all laughing) - I've never seen that - This is really, really
splitting our audience now, like the ones you know and the ones who don't know
what I'm talking about. - Well, if you don't know, then you're with me, yay. - And if you do know, then you're a total nerd. Thank you. (Lilly laughs) - My favorite, we had some people sitting
in questions before, and my very favorite question 'cause they already know the answer was from Mary Stewart on Facebook and she asked being a
fellow tattooed Maven have you ever seen someone with a tattoo taken from your fabric? - I have, yes. - I have. - Yes, there's quite a few actually. So most tattoo artists
won't do someone else's work without permission from the artist. So I get a lot of requests and my only sort of caveat
to that is that you have to send me a photo when it's done. So I have like a binder that
I keep all the photos in. So there's been a couple hundred and shockingly they're
all really different. Like it's not like one
design that everyone gets, like everybody kind of feels a connection to something different. Sarah Lawson of Sew Sweetness
has her a whole sleeve of my fabric. - She does? - [Lilly] Oh, I didn't realize that. - It's all from different
fabric lines of mine, like all my Woodland creatures. - So she just like put it together. - Yeah, her tattoo artist, she brought him a whole bunch of fabric and you put it all together, it's a full color, like it's wild. - [Lilly] I never put it together, like the same tattoos. - I mean she had tattoos. - Yeah, she used to wear a
sleeve thing on her live streets but now yeah, it's usable, - But her whole sleeve is all my fabric, we're really, really super good friends and it's crazy flattering. And I don't have any of
my own work on my body. - I would like to know if y'all were gonna tattoo
something on your body of me, what would it be like? (all laughing) I'm not, there's nothing in my life. You could tattoo piggy. - 'Cause I would do piggy. - Piggy, someone,
Jacqueline Yvonne Woodard on Facebook asked if you could
release an older fabric line, which one would you have reprinted, and she would like to
see Akeisha reprinted. - Oh, Akeisha I don't
get that one as much. - I don't think you can remember that one, when I've sold every one
of her fabric collection. . - You have, you're one of the few-- - Yay, I'm the best. - You were one of the three people who bought my first collection. I would say I would like to, if I would reprint anything, which I kind of don't as a policy, just, it's not exciting for me. It would probably be filming
forest in the original colors that I designed it in. So the colors on that, it was really pastel. And so that got changed because it didn't, they didn't think it was marketable and quite frankly at the time
it probably wasn't right. - 'Cause she was modern
before modern was cool to be honest. - Like I was, it's funny because when I did
the all-stars where I did some of those owls again from filming forest the hours I did an all-stars were actually from the original
palette that I did. So the new ones were the way I
originally intended it to be. But at the time there just
wasn't a market for it. So it was absolutely the right decision for them to change it. Like I support it, but if I could go back and do it again, I'd love to see it the way I still have my
original presentation that I sent in saying, "Can I be a fabric designer please?" And it's got all those colors and it's like neon pinks
and super hot teals and like charcoal grays
and all these colors and when it came out, it was like lavender
and baby blue and aqua, it was the right choice for the time but I would love to go back and redo that the way I
originally envisioned it. - Yeah, and then people are
going to be waiting on that now. (Tula laughs) - [Lilly] Comment below which print of tools would be your favorite to see reprinted? - Like of your prints, like of like all time, like what animal print
is like your favorite, like the big, like not the birds, but like those big. - The big like focal pieces that original owl will always be, 'cause it's the first
thing I ever designed. So there's something about that, that's always like that's
what started all of this. And when I originally designed that I was just doing a Paisley, 'cause I thought a fabric line needs to have a Paisley in it. And it kind of started
to look like an owl, so I redrew it to be that and
when I turned it in Cheryl, the genius design
director at Moda was like, "You'll have to do this
for the rest of your life." - And you know, when I can remember, we were just talking about
my sales rep at the time, which was like, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago. He's no longer with the company, 'cause he retired but when he came to show the line, I can remember sitting
at that kitchen table, it was the kitchen table guys with Kevin and the sales rep when they come, they have a presentation. they don't just come, they have a whole story 'cause they want to sell you the fabric. And he was like, I was like, "Oh yeah, it's a fabric collection, "we're gonna buy it." And he was like, "Well, do you see the animals?" And I was like, "Nobody's talking about them." Like it was before, that was a thing and it was just a fabric collection, like somebody like me who, I don't know. Like I just didn't know Kevin was like, "What animal?" Like, I can remember that whole, like to let's get a story and she's going to have
animals in all collections and do you see the animals? And we were like, well. - Can we dispatch the fabric already? - But we just didn't know and we didn't get it because I don't know, like it was before, like she was before her time if that makes sense. Like it was before, it was a thing, like I don't know, - But it's true. - Like it was like she made it a thing, it wasn't a thing before she started it. - It bored her easily, so I like to make things
into other things. (all laughs) - On YouTube we have an
interesting X G Garbled said, "What is your quilty origin story?" She wants as many details. (Tula chuckles) - Already dementing. - She says she's a beginner and was wondering when
you were just starting, what took your skills to the next level and what do you do outside of work and what are your hobbies? - Oh gosh, this is a very
multilayered question. So quilting for me started. So I'm a first-generation quilter. I don't come from a long line of quilters. They all quilt now 'cause I made them cause I
wanted people to quilt with, but when I started, no one else did it. So my grandma gave me like
a cheap box sewing machine for my, for Christmas when I was 12, 'cause she just wanted to
see what I would do with it, that's it. Like I had, like, I was always making
things and she's like, "Well, she doesn't have this, "let's try this." And I started sewing kind of I think like every kid does clothes, you think that that's like
the natural thing to do. And so I started cutting
like taking a pair of shorts and laying it on like my mom's curtains and cutting out a short shaped
hole in my mom's stripes, super fun time for all of us. But, and then just take like I
had no idea what I was doing, no clue and no one in my family could help because they didn't know either. So my mom was like, "Okay, enough of cutting
up all of my stuff, "this is getting crazy." So she took me to a fabric
store and it just so happened to be a quilt shop. We didn't know there were
different kinds of fabric stores. And I walked in and it was like walking into a life sized box of Kranz and you got to pick all the, but it wasn't just a yellow cran, it was like a yellow
cran with a print on it. It was the most like
amazing thing I'd ever seen and I didn't know it existed. And so my mom signed me up for
a beginning quilting class, I was 12, I was the youngest person in
the class by about 40 years. And then they hand me a
needle with a motor on it and a pizza cutter and
for me to make something and I was like, "Oh my gosh." So an hour into the class, I had sold through a finger, I had cut my hand and the lady at the quilt shop as my mom refunded her the rest of the class and said, "Please don't bring her back," but I had just enough, like we had made our patches that day. So I knew how to make like
simple blocks at that point. Not well, but well enough, but I hadn't taken the class
on binding and quilting and all of that, that was later, but I got kicked out of
the class before that. So I would just make a bunch of four patches wrap it around my body and so it down the side and wear them until they fell apart as skirts. So my early quilts don't
survive to this day, they didn't make it, they're on the playground
somewhere in pieces. But I kept doing it for whatever reason it just, it hit me right and I just never let go of it. And like, I put it down for a while, like when I started college, but then I'd always go back to
it again and again and again, and it kinda took over
all other crafts for me. It was just my absolute
favorite thing to do. And I was a closet quilter after college. - Well-- - And waving of detail. - And it wasn't cool
when I was dating Kevin, like his friends, they were like, "She's weird. - She's weird, she quilts. - Yeah, she's weird. I'm like, "Oh, somebody now." (Tula laughs) Sorry, I'm just like one of
those people who are like, I've never like been
afraid to be who I am. And like I was a filter
when it was not cool that people were like. - There was a time I was with you. If we would've known each other, we would have been friends
equally not cool in our quilting. - And I'm okay with that. - Me too. But so, yeah, so I started, I was always quilting, I was sort of a closet quilter to a degree because I worked in the music industry and I didn't want like Snoop Dog to think. I wasn't cool. - Did you meet him. - Yeah. - [Lilly] It's Kimberly's dream. That's my dream right there. - Snoop Dog specifically. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, no, he's cool he loves blondes. - Oh wow. (Lilly laughs) Well I'm not interested that way, I just want him to see me a little rat, but I'm not interested that way, Kevin sorry. (all laughing) - But so like I was quilting and like all of my coworkers and the design department
at the record company, like didn't know about it because, I didn't want to lose my street credit, but then I started designing fabric, this is when I got good at it. So I was a loosey-goosey
quilter for a long time. Like I didn't really
care too much about it but when I designed my
first fabric collection, so originally when I
started designing fabric, I designed for Moda and then
I moved to FreeSpirit later. But when I first started designing fabric, I went to my very first quilt market, which is our big trade show where we launch all our new products and I walk up to the motor booth, my very first one and I'm
walking around the booth and I see, Oh my gosh, all these like laundry basket quilts. these incredible quilters
with these beautiful quilts and I get to the section
that says Tula Pink. And then there's like three
bolts sitting on a shelf. And I was like, "Where's my quilts? And they go, "Well, did you make one?" Was like, "What, I have
to make the quilts too?" And I was terrified because if I was gonna hang a quilt next to some of these people that
like I had to get real good, real fast. - And at the time stuff was more intricate and it was more like, it's not like it is now where
modern has been the thing and it doesn't have to be all crazy but at the time it was
like a lone star quilt, 45 degree angles, get it together and here it is. Yes, and that was what it was at the time. - And so I was like, I went home, I was kinda devastated because I was like, how am I gonna compete on this level? Like, how am I gonna sell fabric next to some of these things? And so I went home and I was like, okay, I can get, I can really focus, get really good at piecing
or really good at quilting, but not both. Like I don't have the time. So I went in search of a long-arm quilter and dedicated myself to
piecing and asked questions, every single quilter I met, how do you do this? How do you do this? How do you do this? How do you do that? - 'Cause YouTube wasn't a thing. - It wasn't a thing yet, with YouTube now there's so
much information out there, but really just from doing it's like you get used to how the
fabric moves under the needle, you get used to how things
work and how it goes together and what falls into what and nesting your seems like you pick up these little tricks here and there. - And it takes time to build that. - Yeah, it does. But you know, I was lucky enough to find Angela Walters. - Did you find her that far back? - Yeah, yeah, it was
right after a full moon for so my first line. - Wow, and she does
great intricate quilting. - Yeah, she was a total
godsend and an accident. - She was new at the time. - Yeah. - And that was even, that was like when longterm quilt team, like people started buying the machines, was like at the time. - And she was relatively
new to long quilting. Like she'd been doing it a little while, but she was starting to do it
professionally and I wanted, so I went to a long-term
convention in Kansas City. There's like a MQs or AQS
or whatever that show was. And there's like long Armour's alley where they show their quilting style and you can hire them. So it's like, yeah, it's like a little section where people sort of show off their skills and then they have
business cards and stuff. And I was looking for
something very specific. I wanted a lady who was at least 75, who was kind of mean who
could whip me into shape. You know what I mean? Like I wanted a mentor, like somebody who could
like make me better because I wanted someone
who was everything that I wasn't, I was naive. I was green, I was young, I wanted experience, I wanted somebody who had
just been like beaten down by quilting and just knew everything. And so I found this lady
who was all of those things. She was super mean to
me and I was so into it. So I was like, this is my lady. Like, she's a great quilter. She's not gonna let me
get away with anything. All this stuff have this
whole conversation with her, pick up the business card, go home, call the number. Well, unbeknownst to me, I had picked up the card
of the person sitting next to her who was Angela Walters. And so when I called the number, I was like, man, she sounds younger on the phone. Like good for her. - Oh my goodness. So side note, Angela tells the story really differently. So we have very competing
versions of how we met, but that's a story for another day. But so I called the number. I was like, "I've got these quilts, "I'm a fabric designer." We talked it, we talked at the show and she goes, "Oh yeah," I remember so red flag liar, because I didn't talk to her, but you know, good customer service skills, I suppose. So she's like meet me at the Starbucks on the corner of whatever 'cause we live about 40 minutes apart. And so I meet her with my quilt tops, ready to quilt and she gets out of the
car eight months pregnant, walks up to the car and she goes, "Hi, I'm Angela," and I was like, "No, you're not." - Oh. - And she's like, "Yeah, you called me." I was like, "No, I didn't,
you're not Angela." - Oh, my goodness. And I was like, well, I
have to have him quilted. So I guess do your best. And of course they were amazing and no one's ever quilted my quilt since. - That's like, if you think about like life and how I always think about like different decisions can change the effect of your life forever. Like think about if it
wasn't Angela Walters and like where Angela Walters
would be now and like-- - I will be now. - All of the things like
things happen for a reason and like all of that whole
situation could have gone. That's totally maybe in. Yes, like it totally could have. - It was fate and now we've been, best friends for almost 15 years and she quilts everything I do. And really my style can't
be separated from her. Like my quilting style is, I piece to give her a
certain amount of space to do what she doesn't and she quilts, like we've grown up in
our quilting together. So I really feel like you can't, you can't talk about either
of our quilting styles without while separating us. - [Lilly] All right,
I have a question here from Wendy Blodgett, she says, "Would you ever do
another house of Tula series? "I learned so much about
the design process, "can't stop myself from
making monkey noises "every time I cut a piece from Eden." (Tula laughs) - So if you've seen the series, so I did a little YouTube video series with my publisher a while back about the whole design process. And one part, one episode of that was
I had drawn an elephant and my mom thought it was a monkey. And we got in a huge argument over whether it was a of here on video. Well, we showed everything. Like there was no, like I was like, show it, whatever. It's what happens, we're a family business, we argue like, and I was so devastated that I had spent days
drawing this elephant. And because I had made
the ears really round, she thought it was a monkey. And so, yeah. So that was like a really
funny part of the series. They're like, "Do you
want us to cut it out?" I was like, "No, leave it it's. I mean, it's honest, you know?" So I read through the ears and it no longer looks like a monkey, i looks like an elephant, but people often look at it upside down and think it's a peacock. So who knows? - Oh, my goodness. But that's what happens
when you draw your things. - I don't think anybody
would ever want to argue, like see an argument with me 'cause I always win arguments and I will look like a total arse. - But do you ever argue with your mom? You can't win an argument
against your mom. - Oh, I can. - Oh, you can't. - I can wait an argument against anybody. I don't let, I don't back down, I'm a little crazy. - I have absolutely no
authority over my mom. - Oh no, my mom and I. No, no, no, no, no, no. I went all are letting all of my children, who we had an argument this
morning and that was like, you will get out of this car
and I will win the argument. (Tula laughs) - [Lilly] And Emily has
asked about tattoos, Wendy Blodgett said she would
get a Starbucks cup tattoo in honor of Kimberly. - Yes, I need somebody to
give me some free Starbucks 'cause I'm going broke. I've been going three days, three times a day like this crack. No, Kevin is really giving me a hard time. He's like, "This is ridiculous, "look at the credit card." He does not need to have all
these a hundred dollar charges. And I was like, "Well, you could kind
of talk to your daughter "about buying drinks for her friends too," that kinda go away. - [Lilly] And then Marsha
Baker says she has no tattoos, but she put your face
on her inner forearm. - Aww. - [Lilly] And M Tillman was asking, will there be embroidery designs release with the homemade line? - Embroidered designs for homemade, yes there will be like machine embroidery. - I'm assuming. - Yeah, there will be
homemade machine embroidery. They're actually working on that now. - [Lilly] And then Wendy also said that if-- - She wasn't busy - [Lilly] Wendy's busy-- - She's she's like one
of our biggest fans, she's like all over YouTube, all over Kimberly stitch squad, she's my thing. - [Lilly] You probably
getting calm stay Wendy. She said, "if I wasn't a chicken, "I'd have the Otter from spirit animal." - Oh, I haven't actually
seen that one yet. - [Lilly] That's a good one. - That is a good one. - [Lilly] And Laurie Fisher was asking, "Is there an animal
hidden in the homemade?" - Is there there's not any, there are no animals in homemade, but there are hidden notions. - [Both] Oh. So I'm always trying to
do something unexpected. Like when I sit down to design, I think what do people think is coming and then try to do something else because I want it to stay exciting I don't ever want it to
get boring for people. So I was like, well, what do people most
expect when I sat down to do homemade? And I was like, well, animals obviously. So what if I did align with no animals? So this one's no animals. - Yeah, love this line. I wanna do well, actually don't want to do a bag. I wanna like find somebody
who will make me like a big tote bag and just have the
like machine like centered. Because if that would be like, so hip, can you imagine me at Starbucks? People would be like, "Where did you get that bag?" And I'll be like, "I made it," but I didn't. 'Cause I don't know how to make a bag. - It was part of the naming that actual sentiment was part
of the naming of homemade. When we were thinking
about what to call it, when something's homemade, that's usually not compliments typically. It's like, that's not how it's seen. And so we're like, what if we, I want to design this
great line and then call like sort of reestablish the word. Because I think homemade
things are awesome. obviously that's why we're all here, but just sort of give that
word a sort of a new vibe. - Like if you think of the eighties, like growing up, like people would be like what? - Your grandma made your shoes. - There's some high water song. - [Lilly] That's me, and then crucially said that
she would tattoo your quilt that says you do you
cause it's her favorite. You always say. - Cursive font. Well, I just think that
like I've been talking about my kids so much about it. There's so, this days people are, so Emma is so worried about being cool. I'm like, who cares? Why do you care? What somebody
thinks live your life. She's like, I'm not like you mama. I actually care what people
think you don't care. And I'm like, I don't live your life. Be the best person. You can be a good person, but why do you care? What anybody thinks? Like, come on that, I don't know. It's like that whole
culture of social media. I'm like, "Why, why, "how did I have this
child who has no, like, she doesn't have that." - It's all kids right now. - I can't take it-- - She has a sister that's 13 and I just she like that. - Yeah. - They all it's just like,
Oh I can't, I cannot. - They are twin sisters, they're 13. - Twins. - Yeah, they're twins and
no, not even a little bit. I don't even think they'd be friends if they weren't related. - That's how my twins are. - But like one cares and one doesn't. And it's interesting how popular
the one who doesn't care. - 'Cause the way you
carry yourself as like, look at me. - There's like, there's a vibe to it. There's a vibe to it, for sure. But it's a social media thing. I think when everything's
quantified by a likes, it sort of trains you and so for those of us who
grew up pre social media, I don't have that, everything I do amounts to likes thing. And so I think it's just different. It's just really, it's a different
world right now for sure. That got deep. - It's true though. That's my whole thing
about you do you like, why live your life worried? Just like when I was dating Kevin, like I would cross stitch. I would like so pillows and people, they would, his friends
would look at me like, "Why aren't you gonna marry her? "She's weird." (Tula laughs) And I'm still that person, like, I'm just me and it's okay. I don't need everybody to like me. - [Lilly] Gabriel Quintas asking, "Have you gone back to visit
the cult shop where you first "took your first lesson?" - It's no longer there. I think it has been purchased
and changed a couple of times, but at the time that I was
going to the lady who owned, it was like already like in her seventies or eighties and this was many years ago. So it may have changed
hands and change names, but I don't think it's the same shop. It's just certainly not
in the same place anymore. - [Lilly] And then a
few people were asking if you would ever do an animal or pattern chart for cross-stitch. - An animal or pattern chart for cross it? - So draw it out, publish it. - We actually talked about
that at dinner last night. Yes, I would. I did some needlepoint kits
a while back with anchor, but I didn't have quite
enough control over it. They just wanted to take the fabric and put it on the canvas, which wasn't the way I wanted to do it. So I never totally loved it. It was great, but I didn't think it was as
good as it could have been. So I would love to go back and revisit that because I do counted cross stitch - That's we do. - And I really enjoy it a lot. - Well, we're gonna have
to get on that because. - I would do it. I'll do
one for fat quarter shop. - [Lilly] Ooh. - 'Cause people will be asking like, "well, where is it? "Where's the where's." I think it'd be, I'll totally stitch it. - [Lilly] And before we move
on to more of your questions, Kimberly, we do have a new YouTube member and Julia Hearkens welcome Julia. - Oh and I'm so excited we were like 300, well, when I was driving, I
wasn't supposed to be looking, but I was on comments this morning. - Cars drive themselves. I was like 300 away from 200,000, right? - [Lilly] Yup. - So please subscribe, because I want to see that 200,000 number. - - [Lilly] That'd be cool. - Congratulations. - I really want to see
the 1 million number, but I can live with two
thousands a day today. So let's see if she wanted to know what kind of hobbies you have. - What kind of hobbies I have? Oh my gosh, I have no hobbies. I live for sewing. - Really? - Yeah, like legit live forward, it's kind of all I do. I only take breaks to go to
my little sister's basketball and volleyball games and essentially I sew like 12 hours a day. - So I would love to ask about Cameron. He's like super cute and stupid, like sweet and like so nice. And I would just love to like talk, 'cause I know he does a lot
for you and I'm always very curious about him because
he's very, he doesn't talk at, everybody knows about too. So what does Cameron do? - Cameron is my brother and
basically my right hand. So he is my partner in everything. All decisions are made really
as a group between my mom, my brother and I we're all
sort of equals in this, but I credit Cameron with
a very significant amount of my success for sure. 'Cause he put me online. - Social media. - Social media, so he
started my Facebook page in secret without telling me
because I had zero interest. I wanted to be completely anonymous. - You did?. - Yes, I had no interest in being in front of my fabric ever. - Oh that would have worked out. I know I just to stay home
in my pajamas and draw stuff and make quilts I never wanted to be. - A celebrity. Yeah, whatever this is. I never wanted to be any of that. And so he he's like, you really got to get online.
He was in college at the time. He was like, you really gotta get online. And I was like, no interest. I have zero interest in that. - This is so interesting. - And so he started the Facebook group, the Facebook page and
waited until it got like over a thousand members
or friends or whatever, I still don't know anything. And then brought it to
me and was like, look. And I was like, Oh wow. And my sales started going up and all, I mean really I'd probably
still be like a garage designer if it wasn't for him. So he gets a lot of credit
and no he's wonderful. He's we went to business school ASU and when he graduated, I said, well, come work for me until you
figure out what you want to do. And that was like eight years ago. - And he's younger or-- - Younger, he's nine
years younger than me. - He is, I didn't know that. - And, and the only boy in a sea of girls. - How many girls? - So there's four girls and one Cameron. (Tula laughs) - For your mom, Oh no. - He's the best, he's totally the best. He's like he runs all my online content. All the social media manages
a lot of the marketing. - And shipping, does he do shipping? - Well we don't ship anything. - We don't sell anything. We're like a mythical business. (Tula laughs) - [Lilly] We're going to give
a confetti cannon to cam here. - Yay Cam. He's probably watching. (Lilly chuckles) - Literally, you cannot
mention my name anywhere online without him knowing about it. - Oh, I bet. That's awesome. - He knows everything
that's happening online. And I get sort of like a
filtered version of that. - Like you can't do what you
do and be online all the time. Like that's what I try
to say on the videos. Like if I was on social media all day, there's no product that you can produce. - And there's only two things
that can happen for me reading every single comment. One, I read a whole bunch
of nice stuff about myself and I become a total
monster because I think I, my ego explodes or I read
one bad thing about myself and I'm in bed for a week. So those are the two possible options of what can happen for
me reading everything. So all the responses are me, he says, this person asked this
question or this person, and they're all me. I just don't physically do it. But we work on all the content
together and everything, but yeah I mean I'd
probably have to retire. - Yeah. It's hard. Like we talked about that this morning because there was like
a comment yesterday. It wasn't, it was like negative, totally negative. But I think it's hilarious. I was like, that's funny. Like I just like take
the main stuff it's like, but it's again, it's just like, that's fine. Yeah. Like whenever. - We get some real weird stuff too. - I think that people just it's the whole, they can hide behind a computer. - Well we were talking last night. I got an email a couple of weeks ago and some of them are just so funny and a couple
of weeks ago that said I heard you were popular. So I went and looked at your fabric and I just wanted to tell you that there is not a single truck or airplane in any of your fabrics. So I will not be purchasing your fabric. I was like, cool. I don't know like what
my response to that like, was that supposed to like, make me want to design
a truck or an airplane? I'm not really sure. Like what the motivation. - Definitely no inspiration in that. Like, if you want something
you gotta ask nicely. But yeah. - Or nice ones then that
those are the rare ones, but we print them out and
we have like a little book of them 'cause they're just funny. It's like. - I could write a book. Like I always think I should be, instead of running my mouth, I should be writing all this stuff down. Let my kids do, like I would have the funniest book and then maybe I could retire. - That'd be fun. - [Lilly] Tula Pink call I'm assuming is Cameron says "Hi everyone." And then he put a little
emoji welcome to the chat and you're awake. - I'm never sure if
they're actually like going to work or not. - [Lilly] And Nelson had
said instead of celebrity, you're a so leverage. - There's that. - [Lilly] And Dot Doc
whose design was asking, "Do you have any four babies?" - Oh, well, so my brother has a dog that sleeps with me most of the time because I love her so much. And I said, no pets. So Cameron, I live on the
same property we bought together and like separately, but on the same property and
the dog can go between the, our houses. And so she hangs out with me. I think she likes me better, but you know, I'm sure Cameron, it's a golden retriever. She's an angel and perfect
and I was like very, very against having a
dog because of the fabric and all of that stuff. I was like, no animals. Kim's like, I'm going to get a dog. I'm like, no, you're not. And then my mom and came, like, we're going to go to the movies. And then they came back with a dog and my mom and it was little
like eight week old puppy. And I was like, I can't
believe you guys did. The OSI said no. And I was being all mean about it. And she hands me. She puts the little fluff
in my hands and it's like, we can take it back to
the pound if you want, so mean. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I love you. So now and now she sleeps in my bed and I never tell her no. So there's that? Oh yes. - I love dog. - I do too. - [Lilly] And we do have
another new YouTube member, Kathy Bell confetti. - [Both] Yay. I wish I had real life confetti. - [Lilly] We're working on that. - Just as I walked through the world, - I was like, like jelly roll strips. That like be so cool. Like, Oh my coffee is so good this morning confetti was for every, every little celebration. - [Lilly] I'm kidding we're not
gonna have confetti in here. - [Lilly] Back to your questions. - So when you're creating
your more complicated fabrics, do you have an image in your
mind before you draw or do you just create it as you draw? - Oh, that's a good one. I essentially know what I'm
drawing when I sit down to draw. So I spend the entire
time between fabric lines, sort of thinking through a lot of things. By the time I put pencil to paper, I have an idea of exactly
what I want it to look like. So I'm pretty much know where I'm headed, but it detours and I let
it do what it's gonna do, but I pretty much have assault. Like I make lists actually of everything that I want to accomplish in a line. And for every fabric line
I draw like maybe 20, 25 pieces and only about eight to 10, make it in the line. - So tell us about the
process of your drawing and how it gets to the manufacturer and
who filters that out. And so get final, say. - I Do get final that's
an earned privilege. I didn't in the beginning, but you know, as you work with a
company longer and longer, I've been with FreeSpirit for, I don't even know, like eight, nine years now. They trust me. So I determined my skew count, like how many pieces are gonna be in it? How many colors of each
piece, what the colors are. I really don't get any
pushback on that at this point, it's pretty much all up to
me, which is delightful, but also a lot of pressure sort of, I always heed what came before it. So if something did really
well the time before, I wanna figure out how to 'cause that clearly is an indicator that people liked that, so I try to move more in that direction, but really I'm just filling
the voids that I see in my own work when I'm making a quilt, like, "Oh, really wish I had a piece "that did something more like this." So I tried to put that in the next line. I think it's really
important to be a quilter to design quilting fabric. - Yes that's so I could tell
so many sales reps that, and they just look at
me and I'm like, yeah. When they show stuff, sometimes I'm like, "What are you, what quilts
are you gonna make with that?" And they just look at me
and they pull the card back. 'Cause I'm like, you have to be able to know
what you're going to do with it. - And so a lot of times it's okay, 'cause I probably design. I ask a lot of the
people who use my fabric, there's fussy cutting there's. I do ask a lot of people
who use my fabric, but when I do that I try to
show them how to do that. So I design all the quilts
that go with it or not, all of them, a lot of them FreeSpirit has
some designers that design their own as well. But I always try to figure out when I'm designing the fabric, how is this going to work? I'm working on a piece at home right now that is a vocal piece. And I have to figure out the spacing so that you can cut a 10
and a half inch square without cutting into the next one, but still make the fabric interesting 'cause that actually is an
exceptional amount of space. So how do you make that space interesting, but not so interesting that
people feel bad cutting into it. So there is a strategy to those big prints on how to do that. And I have to decide early on, am I gonna design quilts
where this is cut on point is I'm gonna design quilts that
are where this is cut street, because that makes a difference
about how I lay it out a big difference. So when I'm designing, I start, everything is paper and pencil. I learned how to design fabric
from books on William Morris that I checked out from the library because he was the only
designer in the textiles section of the library that
showed unfinished sketches that showed how things fit together. So I could see the
mechanics of the repeat. So I still go back to that space a lot and look at his sketches if I'm doing something really intricate, I go, how would William
Morris put this together? And so I design everything
pencil on paper, I don't take it to the computer
until the sketches exactly what it's gonna be. So I often designed to
scale in repeat on paper. So the computer doesn't
do any of the work, it's just a tool to get
my idea to the mill. So once the sketch is done, I'll take that. I scan it into my computer and then I retrace it
in Adobe Illustrator. And that's just so that
I have like a digital, because I don't want to paint
out every single color way because I'll go through 20, 30 color variations before I
land on one that I feel like is sitting right. So often I have like 20 color ways and then I just pick the three best ones and send those to the mill. - And then this is a good
one that talks about that, like how do you stay creative? Is there something in your life
that keeps you like creative and being able to keep designing
because sometimes designers like maybe not in this industry, sometimes people burn out or
they just have a roadblock or. - Well, burnout is my greatest fear. So I am terrified of burnout and I battled burnout by quilting. So if I'm like just
happened the other day, I'm in the middle of
designing my next collection for next year. So I work about a year
and a half, two years out. So I was in the middle of
the collection and I just, it just wasn't like happening, like sometimes it's just not happening and there's nothing you can do about it. So I just stopped and
sewed for like three, four hours and it kind
of cleared my pallet, cleared my mind. 'Cause there's especially
like simpler quilts. It's just, it's sort of repetitive, I love it, it's like a meditation. So I made this like really
easy sort of repetitive quilt and it really cleared my mind. And then I went back to it. So that's how I battled burnout
is really through sewing. I never am afraid of burnout and quilting. I don't know. I just, yeah, I don't feel
like that'll ever come, but with creativity, I feel I've never really
had creative block, I usually suffer from too many ideas, not enough. And I'm dealing with that right now. I have a list of about 20 prints that I want to make
and I want all of them, but I need to get rid
of about half of them. So I'm like, which ones are
more vital to the collection, which ones tell the story better. But I feel like I had this
really great experience in college was the teacher who
talked about creative block. And all it is really is fear. If you're being judged, fear of it, not being
good fear of whatever. - What someone is gonna say. - What someone's gonna think, whatever. And so I factor bad ideas into my process. So I give myself a week
where I'm only allowed to have bad ideas. Like I just instead of being afraid of it, I just incorporated it. Same thing like with sketchbooks, when I get a brand new sketchbook, I take a big marker and
scribble on the first page because everything in it will be better than that first page. - I can never do. - So it eliminates failure
or that fear of failure because everything will be
better than that first page, no matter what it is. So I actually factor the
fear into my process. - That's good. I don't think I could do that. (Tula laughs) Well, I'm not very, I'm definitely not like I'm not creative. I could never do a fabric line or anything like that but. - I don't know that
seems pretty clear to me. - [Lilly] We have a cool
comment here from Mary Tobiah. She says, "Love you too are
the David Bowie of the fabric." - I will take that. - [Lilly] And lots of people agreed with her in the comments as well. - And I want to remind everybody, we have a coupon it's TULA20
that gives you $10 off of $50 or more purchase of fabric in last a week, it does not apply to notions. That's pretty cool. - [Lilly] And then Gabriel
Flores was asking how advanced is the spool Colt behind you? - Oh, that's easy. - So easy. - So this is a really good
example of how I sort of think about the quilt while
I'm designing the fabric. I needed a block that
would fit the machine. That was something else, that I want the quilt to keep telling the story of the fabric. So doing all these little
spool threads was kind of a fun way to do that. and so the scissor from the
scissor print fits perfectly in there. The machine fits perfectly in it. You get a little bit of the top
branch and the bottom branch 'cause I needed like a large
rectangle and it's really, there's not a lot of blocks
that are based on a rectangle. They're mostly based on a square. So this is Berry very simple. It's, there's a 40 like a
fast 45 to draw the line. So on the line cut off the excess, that's like the hardest thing
you do in the whole quilt. It's super easy. - [Lilly] And then we also
have another YouTube member, Mary Tillman welcome Mary. - And if you guys haven't
subscribed to our channel, definitely subscribe we're
trying to get to 200,000 today. Yeah, let's do that. I was trying January 1st, but
now we're on January 15th, but goals, hey. - January is January. - Even if it's 2021. - [Lilly] And then I
know we have some quilts that we wanted to show, so we want to do that or. - Yeah. And then I'm going to let Tula, so Skylar, our big helper
that we forgot to give, thank you to you. Last week and he's going to hold the pulse and she's going to talk about them. - Thank you, Skylar. (speaks faintly) Yep. So your top is here. There we go. All right, so where do you want me? Oh, okay. So this is actually not my pattern, but it's probably my favorite
quilts that I've ever made because of the backstory. So this quilt, I was in Australia at
the Sydney quilt expo and I always carry this which is my place for everything bag with all my hand, sewing in it. And I was at the Sydney quilt expo. Your arms are going to get tired. I'm sorry, but you can take it. And this had all of my pieces 'cause it's like a 20 hour flight. And so this had all of my hand
sewing for the flight back and it was the last six blocks
of my Millie Fiori quilt that I had been working
on for like three years. So they were all based at
and everything in this, I was at a book signing
at the Sydney quilt expo and I put the bag down
and someone took it. So it just walked away. So that night I was super devastated, mostly because I had nothing to sew on the way home and 20 hours with idle hands is not fun for me. So I put on Instagram that night, I said, "I'm at the
Sydney quilt show expo, "somebody mistakenly
walked off with my bag, "like no blame, "turn it into lost and found," no questions asked, it had 45 threads, spools of thread in it. It had all my hardware in it. It had, I mean so much stuff. - Your life. - Yeah, my life, my whole hand sewing for
the next however many days. So I get to the show the next day. And apparently a lot of the people at the expo had seen my Instagram post and were devastated for me. They're like, "Oh my gosh, "we're so embarrassed as a
country that someone did this." I'm like, "don't worry it
was probably a foreigner. "I'm sure it wasn't an Australian." And as I was walking
through the show that day, the first booth I came to
was Jen Kingswell's booth. And she hands me the smitten pattern, which is by her daughter,
Lucy Carson Kingwell, and she had, and I had been in her booth
the day before talking about how much I love this pattern. And she goes, "Oh my gosh, "I'm so sorry someone took your bag "and all this stuff in it. "Here's the pieces and the
pattern for this quilt." As I walked through the so expo, every booth handed me something to help replace what was in my bag. So this quilt is made
100% out of the generosity of the quilt community. There's nothing in here that wasn't given to me on the floor of the so expo. And it's the only quilt I quilted myself. Because I felt like that was
a really important thing. So this quilt to me represents
the community at large. One of their own was
suffering in some small way and the entire community and a country that wasn't even mine, that I was at for the first
time made this quilt possible. So this to me is probably
my favorite quilt because it represents sort of how I feel about the community at large and how the community treats each other. - [Lilly] That's beautiful. - And this is my free-fall backing. - Do you want me to go hello? - Oh yeah, so this is, where are we? There he is. (laughs) So this is actually an unfinished
Tula Nova that I had made. And it's actually much bigger than this, but I ran out of time to
finish it before quilt market. So I just took as much as I had done and then sewed it onto this and made a big like Euro sham out of it. So I like to say when I teach, when I teach English paper piecing, which is my favorite thing to teach, I give you many exits off the highway of English paper piecing 'cause
not everyone can take it, 'cause these are not projects
you get done in a weekend. And so this is one exit off the highway, you get this far, you think you're going to
finish it, you get home and you go, "I'm not
going to finish this." So when on a pillow, this is why I have no
unfinished projects in my studio because if I'm over something, I just sew it onto something
smaller and call it done. Like I let myself stop at a certain point and call that good enough. - And people are going to flip over this. Look at this, gold. Oh my gosh! - I made this. - Its so cute. - So I made these little tags for myself that are on all the quilts and projects I make myself because I
figure like in 150 years when they're having the
antique roadshow on Mars, I wanna make sure that the evaluator knows that this is a quilt I made specifically. And I'm hoping that that will
have some impact on its value. - [Kimberly] I think it will. - So everything that I make, myself bags, pillows, everything has
this tag and it says, "I made this." - [Kimberly] So what
else we got over there? - A lot of stuff, sleeves at the top. Yep, you got it. - So this one is called Hex on the Beach. so this is another English
paper piece pattern that I designed. And this uses all of my solids and all of my dots in color order. So this quilt I designed based on like sort of a Missoni knit, which is an Italian knit fashion brand. And they make these great
like sort of Chevron knits. And I really wanted to make a quilt that sort of had that same vibe. So this was originally
designed for fabric line. I did called Saltwater, which is no longer available. And I remade it in the solids and dots. But when we made this quilt, originally, it came out
as a kit with Freespirit and I named it and wrote the
pattern and everything incented into them and they made it into a kit and we were on the quilt market floor, the trade show floor and the design director at
FreeSpirit comes running over to me and she goes, "Oh my gosh, I can't
believe this happened." I'm like, "what?" She goes, "A customer
just made us aware that, "do you realize that the name
Hex on the Beach has like "sexual undertone?" And I was like, "Yeah, I did know that." And she's like, "Oh no." So I'm no longer allowed to name any of my own kids at FreeSpirit. - [Lilly] That's hilarious. - [Kimberly] Do you know like sometimes-- - It was funny, generally speaking, if something's not funny, I'm not interested. So the backing of this quilt is a piece from Zuma, my Zuma fabric collection. And so from a distance
it's sort of embryoid, but as you get closer, it's a little hexagons and as you get even closer, there's little things inside the hexagons, like little anchors and
little different things inside the hexagons. But the actual pattern is the
tea is actually a tide chart for that day at Zuma beach
when I was designing this. So it's a visual tide chart and the piece is called high tide. - [Kimberly] And so is there
a pattern available still or was it only in the kit. - No it's available as a
standalone pattern now? (Tula coughs) Excuse me. It was winter when I left home and it's like practically summer here. So my body is freaky. - [Kimberly] I've gotten sick this year because it's like hot, cold, hot, cold. I'm like, just go spring. Like I'm done. I like Lily has been
sick for like two weeks because it's like, I told her like a week ago I was like, go to the doctor now it's
not going to go away. Because I'm an old lady-- - This one. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. I get excited about quilt. - Look at the kitty. - This one is actually not a pattern, but it's going to be coming soon. It's another English paper piece pattern. I love hand sewing. I spent half my life on airplanes, which why I have so many hand-sewn quilts, but this one is called, is gonna be called Mosaic. And the way I made this quilt
in particular is I just made it in rows. And I started with no pattern. I started with yellow and went through, just adjusting each color by row until I got back to yellow. - [Kimberly] So like hours, it gonna take you to
make a quilt like this. - This kind of a quilt, one this size takes me, like I probably worked on
this for like six months. I don't know, hours wise, but I hand sew every day just a little bit. Oh yeah. That's the backing. This is the new Pinker
bill 108 wide backing. But something like a Tula Nova, I can make an about seven, eight days. The Hex on the Beach quilt. I know I can, because I had to meet a deadline, make that in nine days. But that's like serious, like sitting down sewing, pretty extreme sewing for nine days. So nine days, probably six hours a day. So like 36 hours. Wait, does that work out? Did I just do math out loud? So yeah, something like this, this but one of my rules
about English paper piecing, unless I'm doing
something for quilt market or a specific event is I never give myself a deadline quilt hand
piecing on a deadline, takes all the joy out of everything. And I had no idea how big
this one was gonna end up being or anything like that. Oh, thank you. - Oh, sorry. - Yeah, no, that's perfect. Thank you. - [Lilly] A few comments
that have come in here. Mary Stewart said she loves Zuma. She made her ultimate
beginner quilts for Zuma. - Oh, cool. - [Lilly] That's amazing. I haven't seen that. You should share it to the Facebook group. And then Marsha Baker says, "Y'all be sure to hit the
like button on YouTube, "give us that thumbs up if
you're enjoying the show." - Definitely we love a thumbs up. So this is actually a quilt from my book, "Quilt with Tula and Angela." So our book, I guess more aptly our book, but this one I like to talk
about because I actually, I talked to a lot of people
have trouble choosing fabrics or it stresses them out, choosing fabrics and they don't know if they're making the right choice. So I like to bring this one to talk about. So for this quilt, I actually chose the binding first. I knew I wanted this stripe on the binding and it has a lot of
different colors in it. And then I chose all the
fabrics from the binding. So you don't always have to
start in the middle of a quilt to choose fabric, which it's like I have to
start with my main piece. And then I have to build out from that. And I have to add in a
certain number of things, but I often choose the binding
or the backing of a quilt and then match everything to
that and let that guide me. And so this is a piece from chipper, but the, in the book I talk
a lot about fabric selection and we go through the book. Each chapter is based on a color. And I talk about how I choose
fabrics based on that color. And orange is a color that
I really struggle with. Like everyone has sort of like
a color blind spot for me. It's orange. I just never occurs to me. I like the color I just never think of it. And so when I got to the orange chapter, I was really lost. Like, I didn't know where to start. And so I chose that. I was like, well, this binding has a lot of orange in it, so I'll start there. So I developed the quilt
from the binding in instead of the quilt out. - [Lilly] And then I have
a few questions here. Julia hearkens was asking, "Do you have a favorite color Tula?" - Do I have a favorite color? I wanna say no, because I feel like I'd say a
color and then instantly think of five more. What I'm more interested in than a certain color
is the way colors combine. So I love two colors together. And what those two colors do to each other more than a specific color. I would say the most useful color to me is like an aqua minty aqua color. That to me is a neutral cause
everything looks good on it. It's like a really great pair of jeans. You can dress it up with heels. You can wear sneakers. Like it's really versatile. And that's where Aqua is for me. So like a neutral thread color, like I own boxes of aura fell 28, 35, which is a minty Aqua color. It's definitely in one of these somewhere. Yeah, this color. So I own boxes and
boxes and boxes of this, of large spools of this color. And it's 28, 35. Look at me know the number. This is my neutral. So this is the threat
I saw with everything. - And then coming from
Mary blinds, she says, "I participated in Instagram's tool, "the Palooza challenge and may 12, "two laptops this year "and her granddaughter got
the pink wealth would quilt." And we've got another cool to show here. - So this quilt is actually not a pattern and probably won't be a pattern. So don't get too worked up about it. It's very large. So this is called the
United States of Tula Pink. And if I was a country, I wouldn't be able to decide on a flag. So this would be my flag. I'd have a flag for every day, but this is just my dots and stripes. And then where I didn't have a matching. to the Stripe, I just used an animal. 'Cause my flag for my country would definitely have animals in it. And this is like a lot
of different fabrics in the backgrounds and stuff. I just pulled from my stash, which is I have a commendable stash. - [Kimberly] Can you show the bottoms? - Oh yeah. If you could like scoot it up. - See, wanna grab this side. - There we go. - So this is the United
States of Tula Pink. So every year I go on a sewing
vacation because when I take a break from work, I just do the same things I do art work. I just don't sell them. And so it's a group of us that get together to sew for a week or so every year, sometimes twice a year, but we're all industry
professionals in one way or another. I'm a fabric designer. There's a shop owner. There's people who work in
this industry for a living. And so our only rule
for quilt retreat week is that you cannot monetize anything that you do in that week or else you can't come the next time. So it's how we get a
chance to sew for ourselves and keep our passion. Because no matter how
much you love quilting, if you only ever do it for work purposes, sometimes you need to explore without the result working out. But often at that retreat, we will find that if
something's getting really good and someone goes, "Oh my gosh, this would be a
great quilt for my next book." It slides off the table and
into a bag and goes away and they finish it at home
so that they don't get kicked out of quilt retreat next year. But so this was one of
my quote retreat quilt. - [Kimberly] Oh, that's so good. - And that's one of the few
quilts that wasn't quilted by Angela. I try not to bother her
with my fun side projects. So this one was quilted by
Kathleen Riggins in Canada. And she is also a genius. I think she used like 32
different thread colors on that or something. - [Lilly] And just to reiterate, 'cause I see a few questions about this. The thread, the tool that was talking
about is number 20,35. - Yes, thread 28, 35. I think I should buy stock in it. - [Kimberly] I'll be
ordering more of that 'cause. - That's my neutral. Like I don't use like a
beige or a cream or gray. I use 28, 35. That's like my machine thread. I probably have a hundred
bobbins pre wound with that. And so this next quilt is actually, I didn't make this. I actually partnered up with Angela Pingel to make this quilt. And this is called the
pattern's called Hidden Agenda. But what I love about
this quilt is it's a lot of traditional piecing, but put together in a more, in an unusual way, but it had a lot of big spaces for some of the bigger
prints little spaces for some of the coordinates. And then she put it together in this like really pretty rainbow ombre. So I didn't make that, but, and this is one of the new backings, the 108, and this is all of my 108 are printed on it's a hundred percent cotton, but it's a cotton sat team. So it's really soft and sort
of silky against the skin because when you think
about quilts, (Tula coughs) excuse me, one of the things that sort of a major tenant
of my quilting philosophy is that you should always
put your best fabric on the back because that's the
part that touches your skin. So the only way you can
ever upset me really is by telling me, you put an old bed sheet
on the back of your quilt, because really the back of
your quilt should be the best part of your quilt, the best fabric, not the afterthought fabric, because when you give a
quilt to somebody you love, you want the part that
touches them to feel the best. And so I put our backing
fabric that FreeSpirit makes for me is unmatched. It is the most beautiful cloth ever. And I take whatever's left of the 108 and I backed pillows with it or lined bags with it. So I use that extra bit, even if it's a quilt about this side. - [Lilly] And Kathleen
quilts is in the chat. She said, "Hey, that's me "and that's so much fun quilting this on," great job, Kathleen. - Move over, Just. - Did you ever get your backpack? - I never got my bag back. - [Lilly] No.
- Its so sad. - And it was actually at
the time that it happened, that that place where
everything back was still in that place for
everything baggage genius. It's a patterns by Annie, bag it's fantastic. In case anyone was wondering, I have like 11 of them and each one has a
different project in it. So I have them on a bookshelf like books and I just they're all like this. And then I just pull out
the one I want to work on. It's a thing. - I have like bags and
they're just like on the hook and the like, like on the door handle and they're a mess and my kids are always like, why are you buying out of the bag? There's a back there. Not at the back I want right now. - You need many bags, many bags. - And I gotta look cute, like if I'm at a dance convention, I have to like, look like I am normal. And then if I'm like, wherever I got to look like I don't care. I mean like there's roles, studios have rules on how
you dress when you go. That could be a whole reality show. I could have a reality
show on all of that. And it would be real. It would not be scripted. It doesn't have to be scripted. - [Lilly] So questions I came in, as we were showing those quilts, Kathy Gomez was asking, what mediums do you use when you draw? - Pencil, I draw all in pencil. I just use, like, I have a favorite brand
of mechanical pencils and erasers Tombow pencils and erasers are mostly what I use. And then I draw on design Belem. And so the design vellum that I drawn, it's kind of like a tracing paper almost, but it has a printed grid on it because I have to know when I've reached my repeat limit. - It's like big sheets? - Yeah, some of them are big. They're like this big because our repeat has to very
specifically fit on a screen. So a screen is either 25 is
typically like 25 inches wide. So my repeat has to be
evenly divisible into 25. So I have to draw to five
inches or 12 and a half inches or like it has to work out. Otherwise you have a
big jump in the fabric. - And I do think that's why
some people who designed fabric, they're artists or they make stationary. And then they, the quilts, the fabric comes in and you're like, this is not usable because
it wasn't thought through. And I think that you're
going to see, well, we see that like the people
who actually use their fabric, the most, their fabric sells the most. - I can tell a designer who doesn't. - It's easy. - It's actually it's pretty easy. I have purchased fabrics before
that I thought were great and were almost unusable. I had the hardest time using them. And then there's fabrics where they just, every time you cut it
comes out and you're like, and by come outright, like if I cut a five inch square or two inch square or a 10
inch square or whatever, the same amount of color is in each piece. So if I take a piece of fabric, obviously a focal piece, isn't gonna work that way. But like a piece like this, if I cut it into two inch
squares and some of those squares are just pink, some are just green, some are just blue, then it doesn't go back into the quilt. Looking like it all came
from the same fabric. So I can absolutely from a mile away, tell a fabric designer who does it. - And they always get
better because they use it. And then they're like,
"Oh, that didn't work." And then they're upset because it didn't work in their quilt. Well then they're like, Oh, I got to fix that for next time. - Do the, I still do that. Like, I'm probably a thousand in, at this point designed
over a thousand fabrics. And I still, as I'm sowing go, you know what, next time I'm going to do this this way. And sometimes that is like, one of the things I did on the new, true colors is that hexagon
piece with the ombre rainbow. Normally I would run
that across like parallel to the salvage because typically
that's how you run a print, but this one, I actually turned it and
made sure that it repeated at least twice for between salvages. So that when you cut a fat quarter, you get the all the colors
in each pack quarter. So there is a lot of sort
of engineering and thought, but I wouldn't have thought of that unless I had had a previous fabric that didn't do that
the way I wanted it to. So there's, I'm still sort of learning, making changes every
time I make the quilt. I think, the next time I do a print like that and I make myself a note like change the orientation, make sure that when you
cut a straight quarter, you have everything in that quarter that you don't need a whole yard to get everything you need. - [Lilly] We do have a
super chat from Todas Perez. So they is super Peggy. Oh, this is the place across the screen. - Oh my Gosh that's hilarious. - [Lilly] And it was a
super chat for $19 99 cents. And they just put a little pair. That's jumping up and down saying goal. I guess we just hit 200 K. - Oh yay. - That's exciting. Woo. Yay. All confetti. I need you to follow me around. - (laughs) That's great. Okay, we have another question that's not about quilting, but I thought it was a
very interesting question. Nicole Natal says a strange question, "Tula, what is your
favorite animated movie? "I grew up with, 'The Last Unicorn' "and it was a huge influence on my style." - "The last Unicorn" is good. I mean animated movie. Oh, gosh! - That's very different. I think I know what Kimberly's is. - [Lilly] Mine has nothing. I thought it was, "Frozen." - I mean, it's all right. (all laughs) I don't, movies are not my thing, I don't know any-- - I don't know my favorite animated movie. I'm like going through like
a vast catalog right now. I might have to come back to the animated. Was that I watched that. So like does like, - Isn't that like CGI? Like I feel like we need to put, see now I'm getting nerdy. I need parameters. - [Lilly] Is a computer graphics. The ones that are more 3D. - They look more 3D. I mean the "the Last
Unicorn" was really good. I mean like with "the Dark
Crystal" be considered animated. That's poppets. Isn't it? - I don't even know, I'm -- - Like not people. Like, I feel like I need parameters. This question is just too big. - [Lilly] That's funny. - Too big for me. - Huva asked her, if you would like to set those parameters. Feel free to comment. - Yes. And then, yeah. - 'Cause they were saying like
a movie was more stop motion, They just made it look like stop motion. Okay. Probably. - Like I've only seen like
two movies like that then. 'Cause I don't watch movies. And then Laura O. Gwen Parker was asking, "Are you a reader? "And if so, what type of
books or favorite author?" - I am a reader. I love to read, I love
story telling of any kind, whether that's someone telling me a story, reading a story, watching it on TV or a movie or whatever. I just love story telling in general. I read all kinds of things. I read total garbage. I love Harry Potter. Like more than life itself. I probably read it like
eight times the whole thing. All seven. I love classics. Probably the thing that I go back to a lot is like Sherlock
Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. I love stuff like that. "Pride and Prejudice." Just that one though. I love Mr. Darcy. I am a girl. I'm like everything. I will read anything and everything. - I haven't Jeffrey Epstein
book the Kevin Murray. - There you go. - You should read it. - But I love business books too. I read a lot of business books and yeah. Anything I'll read anything. I love all things. - [Lilly] We have a
lot of animated movies, suggestions in the comments. Let's see, we have "Fantasia." - Oh yeah. - "Never Ending Story." - Is that enemy. - I think it's integrating. - The thought of it "Never Ending Story." but I was like that's I don't
know that that's animated, but that's a great one, "Fantasia" that is a really good one. - Is that Disney? - [Tula and Lilly] Yeah. Like early Disney. Like when Mickey is like, well he's sourced from
multiple source for Mickey and he's like conducting no idea world. Yeah, it's fantastic. - [Lilly] I love him. (Tula laughs) - Someone else said "Secret of Nim." - Oh, yeah. Oh gosh. You guys have some really good ones. See, this is why it's hard
because every time you mentioned another one, I'm like, yes, that one. That's the one. - [Lilly] That's great. Oh, someone was saying "Outlander," but that that's a TV series, right? - Yeah, "Outlander's" a TV series. I love "Despicable Me 2," like that part where she gets
the unicorn and she goes, that's like my favorite line. - I have seen that. - That was great. Okay. Back to quilting questions. Pauly D Angela was asking if you starch. - Do I start? Oh yeah, you do big time. - Okay how do you do it. Well I best press, which is similar, but do you do it like
soak it and let it dry. I soak it before I cut. So I do all my best pressing before I cut. I douse the fabric, I let it dry. Okay. And then I press
it out and then it's, there's so much best press in
there that I never have to do it again. So what is your scent that you like? I like either the ocean breeze or the laundry clean linen something, I typically don't do the fruity ones. They just get, I used so much of it. It gets overwhelming in my studio. - So is your studio in your house? It is my house, it is my house. So I bought a building. So I live on the third floor. Cameron lives on the first
floor and the studio and offices are on the second floor. So he comes up to work. I come down to work. - So does his dog scratch? Like I need to go up-- - We leave all the doors open. She can go anywhere she wants, she rules everything. - I see. So it's, it's pretty cool. We're getting ready to build a new studio on the property though. 'Cause I feel like if I left my house, that would be better
for me psychologically. - Oh yeah. - Because I have to put on shoes. Like I feel like that would
do something for me, so yeah. - [Lilly] That's great. Wendy Bulge was asking, "Is
there an awful pack for homed?" - [Kimbery and Tula] Yes. There is. - It is not out yet, but yes. - It's coming. It's in a gold tin, it's a really cool to be on our coming. Same page. Yes. Yeah. And it's actually
printed on the tin. It's very cool. And you can use the 10 for
like a ton of stuff after. - I think I showed it in person with a video with Lily
while I was at market. - Oh yeah. - So I, there is somewhere
where I'm holding it. - So there is that it's I
should have brought one. - I don't even know where-- - [Lilly] It is on the
coming soon where I saw it yesterday. - But it's but the video, like
where you can like, see it, see it 'cause I was like, Oh, I was open. And that was like, it's it's
the most adorable one yet. I think it was looking at me
like, are you open to all that? - So it comes the cool thing
about it is there's 10 little spools that are like
really saturated colors that match the line and
then bore large spools that are more of your sort of neutral. So that 28, 35, there's a cream, a pale gray and a charcoal
gray that are your big spools, that sort of work across all things. And then your smaller spools
for things like top stitching and where the thread really shows. - [Lilly] Gabriel Quantas had been asking if you've seen the new "Star Wars," since you liked that. - You, the new star Wars. It's just like a really vast
universe I have a hard time. Like, I don't know where to begin. I've never seen one "Star Wars." So there's that one of my
sisters is really into it though. I don't, I bought her
like a real lightsaber. - [Lilly] That's so cool. - The gamer one. - That's right, her sister wants to be a gamer. - I have a gamer sister. - What does she play? - "Fortnite." - [Lilly] Fortnite.
- Oh, yeah. That's the thing right now. - I think like, I don't want to say too much
and embarrass her if she's moved on from that thing. - The kids play that very specific. My kids play NBA 2K. And they play it. It's a new thing that Santa
Claus brought and it's above my bedroom and I don't appreciate
it because jump up and down and I'm like, you're hit the
button, don't jump up and down. And then Kevin says, "Can you hear that?" I'm like, are you joking? Like I'm gonna move that thing. - Yeah. Jane has, - It's like the first
time they've gotten one. - Jane has a whole like system, like in part like a whole
part of the house that no one else goes in. That's all lit up. It looks like a rave in there. It's her gaming situation. My mom's house is this very
like beautiful tasteful, like really lovely, she has excellent taste. And then you go to this one
corner and it's all black and neon lights and like flashing things. It's like epilepsy and
like three dimensions. - And then it's like,
that's like when your kids rule the world pretty much. - [Lilly] And we have a
question here from Teresa. She says, "So many companies
moving to digital printing, "what are your thoughts
on designing for digital? "And do you see that
in your fabric future?" - Digital printing, I love
conventional printing. I really prefer it because
the digital printing is essentially screen printed. So the ink actually sinks into the fabrics and saturates the threads of the cloth where digital
printing really sits on top of the fabric. And I don't feel like it's
gotten to a place where it's good enough to replace conventional printing. - It doesn't feel as good. - It doesn't feel as good. There's also something in the
limitations of conventional printing that really forced
a designer to do more. 'Cause I have a certain number of colors that I have to use and
I can't go past that. And there's different things that we use. Like we'll use a pigment ink
in some places where I'm. So when two colors
overlap and change color, that's called trapping that
space in between where like if you printed a yellow and
a blue next to each other, where those two colors overlap, it'll turn green and
that's called trapping. And so I work with the
trapping in my fabric to create colors that I don't have room for. - Okay that makes sense. - So if I am out of color places, 'cause with conventional printing, there's only so many spaces for colors and you have to have room to let inks dry between like there's a
whole sort of system method and system to it that I think can create results that digital
printing can't create. And so sometimes when
I really want to put, like, we actually did it in a couple of these homemade prints were in one of the machine prints. I print like this bright
kind of pale peachy orange on top of aqua. And it's a really fine line and
the trapping would have made it mud. So we used a pigment ink, which is actually an opaque ink, so it rises up on the
fabric just a little bit, but it creates a dimensionality. So I play with those things. I think the sort of boundaries
of conventional printing make me have to work harder to
make things interesting, but it takes me to places I couldn't get to with digital printing. So there is something really tactile about that I will never truly let go of, but in my opinion, digital printing hasn't
gotten good enough yet for me to completely replace it. Although it has gotten. - When sales reps show it, like when they pull it out of their bag, you can instantly say
that's digital, right. That's digital and the
funny thing that to me, it costs a lot more and I'm like, but it doesn't look as good to me. there are some prints out there that do. - There are some that
couldn't be done conventional. - But a lot of them you're like, "why would I pay more?" And then I don't want the
customer to call and say, "Why did I pay $15 a yard?" And this feels bad. - Well, one of the things, I think if you're going
to digital printing, because it cannot be
achieved any other way, like when you're using
it genuinely as a tool to execute a concept, that's a totally different thing. The way I design digital printing, doesn't add anything to my process. So I don't really feel like
it's right for my work, but there are some things
like I bought a digital print recently that I was like, this is really cool and
different and could not have been achieved any other way. So in that case, I was like, cool with it. But for my fabrics, I don't know that it'll ever
be something that really works for my fabrics to make it better. - [Lilly] And then question
from Laura O'Quinn, "What business book would you recommend "for small business owners?" - Probably the book I go back to the most and this is
going to sound super nerdy. Oh my gosh. Everything I say sounds nerdy. I don't even need to preface that anymore. Is "The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People" is one that I actually like go back
to from time to time. It's just really good, solid information that I feel
like never goes out of date. 'Cause one of the things
that I've worked on, I started as a designer, but had to build a business around it. And that's a really different thing. And I want, one of my goals
always is to be a good manager. Like, and it's a hard thing to do. - Like not easy. - It's really difficult. Like how do you encourage somebody, but also give them room. - To the right way, give them room, not cut them off, but then if they're not
going the right way, be able to cut them off. - It is, it is. And I don't think I started
out really great at it, (Tula chuckles) especially working with family. So everybody who works for
me is a member of my family. And now my brother, I am nine years older than him. So I've been the boss of
him since he was born. So that was not hard. My mom on the other hand has been the boss of me since I was born. I can not tell her what to do, telling your mother what
to do is very difficult. And so I had to, I wanted her to work for me
or with me more appropriately because I trusted her. And so I had to just do that. And with my brother too we all got to a place like
working with family is hard and it didn't start out
all roses and daisies, but we got to a really nice
place because each person is 100% in charge of their domain. And so if, if I say, I really want to do
this with social media, but Cameron says, "I don't think we should do that. "We should do this." There's no contest. - That's exactly how Kevin and I are like, it's like, he does this, I do this. If I really want something, I will just be really, I'll walk in this office
and be really nice. Can you please work on this? And he usually is like, it's on the list. And then I leave. And like, we're very clear, like we have certain employees
and they don't cross. You can't do it. You can't, you have to do your own thing
and you have to be in charge of it and then it's easy
for me when somebody says, well, this I'm like, that's not my job. Go to Kevin. Like you don't, I don't know. You just that's the only way, it didn't start out good. We used to yell at each other, it was just us it was, and like two or three people
working in the warehouse working 120 hours a week, we were thinking, we're like young, we had all the energy in the
world and we'd just like yell at each other. Now we're like, Oh, whatever. - Yeah. I mean, it took like quilt market was
a big one for us because all three of us are alphas. We all think we know exactly
the best way to do something, to do the booth, to build the booth. That was such a struggle in the beginning. And finally I was like, okay, we need to put one
person in charge of this. Who is the one person of the three of us? The other two will listen. Absolutely mom. So mom is now in charge of
the booth and we can all have ideas on how to do it, but whatever she decides is the
best way to do it is the way it's done. You can ask questions. And she's really our hardest
worker, if I'm honest. So I put her in charge
of stuff it gets done. - [Lilly] A lot of people are
asking what the dog's name is. - Lily - Really? - Now this is just,
I'll never get it right. Is it L-I-L-L-Y or L-I-L-Y. - It's L-I-L-Y. - [Lilly] Mines too. - I know his real name is
Liliana with two double L's. Wait, nevermind. See, I'm not going to get it right? Yeah. So your dog is one L and, but Lily's two ELLs and
she's really one L I'm like, can you be one or the other? - One she's named after our grandmother who gave me my first sewing machine. - Oh my gosh. So she's Lily Mae. 'Cause that was our grandmother's
name is Lillian Mae. - That's beautiful. - [Lilly] I'm named after my mother. - I wanted to name her Dr.
Evil, but I was overwritten. - That's amazing. So I don't know that it's anybody, is it? From "Austin Powers." Yeah. Dr. Evil. Well, because my mom has a golden
retriever that was already named when she got it.
And his name is Megamind. So I thought Megamind did Dr. Evil. We can have like a super villain dog, golden retriever group,
but no one was on board. What's Megamind like another
cartoon villain. Yeah. - [Lilly] Michelle Allston was asking your favorite notion is. - Well right now, so again, categories, this is like the animated
movie all over again. My favorites, I have a favorite scissor, which is the micro cerated Ben Tremor is like my favorite thing ever, that's mine. But I don't want to be an ego monster. So I'll name something
that isn't mine also. And that is my favorite
new notion is the so tight. I don't know if you've seen
it. It's like a little magnet. - We don't have many of them so I'll have to reorder that. It is like, I get a lot of little notions
that people give me for things and they're all really useful, but it's rare that one gets
like very heavily incorporated into what I do. I have so tight snout everywhere. They're in every bag, everybody in my house. So I use them for two things. One for English paper
piecing clips to hold, well, it-- - Magnet - It magnets. So I use him for English paper piecing. I used to use wonder clips,
which are also great, but they have the plastic thing
that sticks up and my thread would always get wrapped around it. And so I. - The idea we're going with,
so we have another idea going, I was like, she's saying the same thing. (Tula laughs) - And so somebody, well, the girls who came
out with this so tight, they handed me one at
market. I was like, Oh cool. You know, and kind of forgot about it. Took it home and started using it just 'cause it was in my bag. And so it holds the two pieces together, but there's nothing sticking up. It's totally flat to the fabric. So my thread never wraps around it. It doesn't catch on
anything and on an airplane, I put it on my shirt and
it becomes a needle minder. So I don't drop my needle in
the seat for the next customer. - Now, are there a bunch
of sizes or one side? There are sizes. So there's like little purple ones. There's big aqua ones and then there's like
the little orange dots I use the little purple ones
I use all of them really. But the other thing I really
love it for is I make a lot, a lot of Bayani bags. And so whenever there's
vinyl, you can't pin those. So I can magnet them. And so when you use
wonder clips on those two, which are also really great, I'm not saying anything
bad about wonder clips. I love wonder clips, but they also stick out so you have to remove
them as you sew these, you can put the magnet on
the vinyl in the middle. And so right through it without
having to take them off, it's kind of one, it's sort of amazing. I never thought about that. They're really great.
I use them for a lot. - Okay. So I'm just warning you guys. We don't have very many of those in stock, so we will order those. Yeah. They're great. That's I didn't really
know what they were for. - I didn't eat, I don't
get it, but I get it now. - Yeah. I mean, for English paper piecing, they're a godsend for bag
making. I've started using them, especially when holding. 'cause they'll go through all
the layers of soft and stable and stuff. So when I'm making a bag and
I have a lot of pieces held together and I can't get
a pin through all of it without bending my pin, the magnet will hold all
those together as well. It's pretty genius. - When you go through the metal detector, does it go off at the airport? Because it's a magnet? - No, they're usually my bag. Okay. I don't think that would set it off. I dunno. I dunno what
sells those things off? I'm always, the person pulled out a blind
for the like extra sick. - I used to, I used to do the thing
where I would just be like, I'm not going to the machine. It's going to give me a cancer. I'm going to like whatever. And
then I just said, forget it. I'm going to try to do what Lily has. Lily has TSA pre-check
I just need to do it. Like I just did it. It's amazing. And so she's always like, don't check in. Let me check in. So we
can go through Peachtree. - Every single airline expedited, like I have global entry clear. I have pre-check I hate
waiting in a line for, I don't like taking my shoes off. - I've seen. Okay. It's disgusting too. There was a study and it is
out there and you can read it. And then they went through an airport, like a health place and the
dirtiest place is those feet. It's disgusting. I'm like,
and I don't even like, when we go like to like
say six flags, I'm like, don't touch the railing. You're going to get germs. - I don't do it to know. - And I don't touch door, handles nothing. It's disgusting. And so
I'm like, I don't know. One time I like wiped my
feet and I'm almost like, that's embarrassing. I
was like, I don't care. - Actually on the flight here
I saw. 'cause I think that I, so I have like a real hardcore
airport etiquette thing. 'cause I'm an airport so much, like, don't look at your phone
while you're walking down the aisle, you're going to run into people. Their suitcases like pay attention and-- - In real life. - But like always put your
suitcase over your seat. Don't put it over my seat
and then go 20 rows back. So I have a lot of airport, like finickiness because I'm
on airplanes so, so much. But on the way here, I sat down on the airplane and
the guy like across the aisle from me, I was like, what is he doing? 'cause he was real busy. He was taking wipes and
wiping down every surface of the seat and the tray
and the like everything before he sat down. I'm like, that guy knows what he's doing. He is not going to get
sick after this flight. - I just, Oh yeah well you know me, like I think my thing with
airports is I don't want to be around that many people ever. I don't want to go to a concert. I don't I want to go see Gabriel Glaces I refuse to go because he's
going to Frank Erwin center. I'm not going, I don't
want to go to a full book. I am so scared. I do not want to be
around that many people. If it gets it's like almost
like a full on panic attack. Like somebody could shoot me. There's all these people. They could touch me. There could there's germs. Like it just becomes, Oh my gosh. And Kevin's like, you're weird. I'm like, you knew it when you married me. Sorry. You're the one I heard the quilter. Yeah, but it's just very like no. - A lot of people in one place. - It's like, Oh. - Also you have to get off
the airplane row by row. Don't come back from row seven. If I'm in row five and try to
get off before I will throw an arm out. There's an etiquette to how we, if we all get on and off the
plane and the way we were supposed to, it will happen much faster. I have rules. - [Lilly] Theresa was
asking since Tula is here. Does that mean we can look
forward to two live videos on the channel soon? - [Both] Yes. That's why she's all right. And lots of people are asking
about the Bayani bags we have on set if we could show them real quick. - Oh sure. - Yeah. So this one is probably the one I've made the most. So this one is called
a place for everything. And after my last one got stolen, I made this one very menacing so that people wouldn't steal it. So there's this there's a snake
on it and it says keep out. So I thought that would help
deter people from stealing it and it hasn't been stolen
so clearly it's working. - Keep out down touch. - But this one, so this is all my threads I have in here. So I have all my threads in here, I have my pieces, my needles, more pieces. And the cool thing about this
bag is that if I am sewing and I don't know what thread color I need, but I don't want this whole thing out. Like planes are small. So I can just take this page
out with all my thread colors in it and put this in the overhead. So this is a really great like travel bag. 'Cause I can just take one page at a time and I can add pages to it. So I can put pages from
another book into this one. - What is it called again? - A place for everything. And she means that, man,
I love Annie's patterns. I am actually a terrible bag maker. My sewing skills do not
translate into three dimensions, but for whatever reason I can
make Annie's patterns and they work out right every time. Any other pattern, a mess. - I learned the most
from her when she came, because I was like, wait, you do what? Like I just, I mean, it's like, she can-- - She is a stone-cold genius. - Like she can translate it to like, like if you're not a bag maker, sometimes bag makers are like, it's like talking to a
sower and you're like, what does that term mean? Or what-- - Its a different language - it is and like her, you could like understand and you're like, Oh, I could do it. - The other part of this
bag around here somewhere. Oh the strap. - Yeah, the strap and the scissor case. I think it's over somewhere. - This one. - No. - No. - That's a different thing. That's just my computer cords. - As I open it. - Do you know what I'm
talking about? Jocelyn? No, it's the same fabric as this and it has all my hardware in it. Oh, is it the one over there? Yes, it is the one over there. So 'cause these all go together. So this is the strap for this. So there's a couple of things. So I worship at the alter of Annie, like deeply. I just think that she is probably the best pattern writer on earth. - And she's got, so she's got
all the colors that you need. - Everything, the zippers are great. Her pro soft and stable's great. Like the way she puts a pattern together, the only time anything ever
goes wrong when I'm making one of her patterns is when I
start to think I know better. And so I'll, I'll let go, Oh, I'm just going to do this really quick, ruined, follow the instructions exactly the way they written and they come out great every time. So this is actually, these bags are sort of a collection of, they all kind of go together. So this one and this one
are called, take a stand. And then this is a separate pattern, but sort of goes with it. And this is called running with scissors and this bag is sort of amazing. So the only two things I don't like to do or make straps or zipper poles, I don't know why. I just, it bores me. I can't do it. So I use ribbon for all my zipper poles. - That's Renaissance ribbon. So this is the homemade ribbon that goes with the fabric collection. So you have all the little
designs from homemade on ribbon. So I put, I just saw
the ribbon onto webbing and then I don't have to
make a strap 'cause boring, but this one, so this is a pattern that Annie
actually called me and said, "What do you need?" And I said, "A place to keep all my scissors." - Oh my God. - So this is so it holds
all of my scissors, all of my hardware and this
is actually for thread, but I put all my machine feed in it. And the cool thing about this
is that it's designed to sit. - That's right. I've seen that, okay. - Can you see that there? So it's designed to sit on that. So I keep this. Oh, except it has a pillow in
it and it's a little wobbly, but normally it stands up really good. But so I keep this next
to my sewing machine on like a lazy Susan. And I just spin around and
get what I need out of it. And then when I want to go somewhere else, just pack it up and it all fits in this and then this is the strap for this guy. - [Lilly] So Cool. - So this is, these two bags
are called, take a stand, these two sort of triangle
bags and the scissor bag is called running with scissors. And she just kind of thinks of everything, which I love. - It actually is like
a sower and a quilter. And like, I don't know what
I feel like her products are just made right, like they're high quality. Like you're paying not
that much for something that is really good and useful and it's no more expensive than what you would get
if it's not as useful or. - And what I love agreed and
what I really love about her patterns, this is becoming
an Annie commercial, which I'm totally okay with. Is that the way she makes bags? It's like she designs bag
making for quilters because you essentially just make a bunch
of little quilts and then bind them all together that I can do. There's typically no templates, there's no like weird big pieces of paper. You have to cut out,
which I'm sure are fine. But as a quilter, it's not the
kind of sewing I'm used to. So I don't do it very well. But this, like, this pocket, I made one square and sewed
it onto this bigger square with binding. Like, it's all makes
sense to a quilter's mind and they feel substantial, which is another thing they're not floppy. - Because they're soft and stable. - Yeah. And that's a pretty
genius product as well. - [Lilly] All right. So we have just a little bit of time for some last questions here. So I'm gonna do kind of just
a quick round of questions. They were asking if you
have a favorite designer that you buy fabric from. - Ooh. I have a couple of
designers that I really love mostly because they do things I can't do. Like Carolyn Friedlaender is one. I don't understand
minimalism as a concept. And so I'm always like
baffled by her fabric. And I have tried to make her
like baffled in a good way. I've tried to make her
patterns out of my fabric. It doesn't work. Like there's so much better in
her fabric and for a designer to have such a complete vision
is really impressive to me. Like she is her fabric. I love Alison Glass. I love Anna Maria Horner. I love Kate Facet. I mean, Kate Facet is the
first fabric I ever sew that made me realize
that people design fabric that it's not just all reproduction. So, I have to give him a lot of credit for getting me into this. - Yeah, 'cause he was like
the only like 24 years, it was like, if you were modern. I mean modern, wasn't a thing.
- It wasn't a thing. - It wasn't a thing but
like if you like that style, that's all there was. - It was the first fabric I
ever sew that I felt like, was designed for me. Like it was so original and so clearly made by a
single mind, like a vision. And then as Brandon Maybelline
became a designer under Cave, and Philip Jacobs, and
they formed that collective like such a complete vision. I tend to not be emotionally
connected to a quilt that's not at least 80% my own fabric. I've discovered that recently. I've made a quilt completely
out of Liberty of London, which I adore. And I have like no emotional, it's a beautiful quilt
and I totally love it, but it doesn't feel like mine
'cause it's not my fabric. And so I've realized that if
it's not mostly my fabric, I have like no emotional connection. But I collect all of
Alison Glass's batiks, which she is very aware of
because I harass her often. I collect all of Kate's large florals. I collect basically anything Anna Maria. Yeah, I have quite a
stash of fabric actually. - [Lilly] All right, and do
you wash your finished quilts? - I wash my finished quilts. I don't prewash my fabric. - [Lilly] And with all
your focal print fabric, would you ever do a panel? - A panel is a hard thing for
me to wrap my head around. Because like with a panel
you sort of leave it. - Yeah. - And I don't know how to
make a quilt with like, just like a thing you just leave, be. Like it's not using to me. I'm not against it. I don't know how I would design a panel. Like I've been asked that by
actually FreeSpirits asked me to do that several times and
I'm like, "Just don't get it." Like what I would do with it. Like I just leave it. - Yeah, and then it's like,
if she designed a panel and it would be hard for her to work with, then it wouldn't be like hers. It wouldn't be certainly a thing. - It's a weird thing. Like, because for me, the joy is making these images connect and a panel doesn't do that. Like it has edges. And what I love about
designing fabric is it's unlike any other sort of drawing or painting because there's no edges, it has to repeat infinitely forever. And that's what I love the most. So I dunno, maybe. I mean, I never say never,
but I haven't yet come up with a way to do it. - [Lilly] And are you planning
on doing another machine with Bernina? - Am I planning on doing
another machine with Bernina? I mean, I hope so someday. Maybe, I don't know. I mean, that's more up to
Bernina than me (laughs). - [Lilly] Oh, okay. And real quick, Kimberly. We are doing a giveaway after
this live stream is over, which will be in a few minutes. If you could read the
details of the giveaway. - So, on the giveaway,
if you leave a comment after Lily publishes it. So not right now, but after it
is its own standalone video, after the live stream, let us know what your favorite thing about Tula Pink's live stream today. Whether it be her, her project,
something she talked about. And we're gonna pick two winners, one from Facebook and one for
YouTube with a signed patch and enamel pin. And we're gonna announce it. You have until Sunday, January 19th. And then we don't work Sunday,
on Monday, we'll post the. - And these are all totally gone. These are from my personal
stash of pins and patches because they're long sold out. But.
- [Lilly] Very exclusive. - Very exclusive. - A fun comment from Marsha Baker. She says she's 69 and has had
her lightsaber for many years. - (laughs) Oh, that's amazing. - [Lilly] That is amazing. - And then a lot of people were wondering if you had any advice
for people who feel like, they buy a lot of fabric, but then they're afraid to cut it up. - Yes, I do have advice for
people buy a lot of fabric and are afraid to cut it up
because I too fall in that camp. So, one of the things that
I have that I'm terrified to cut up or used to be is
all my old Heather Ross. I've collected all the Heather Ross fabric for years and years. And so now I've actually, my workaround for that is I
buy two sets of everything, one to cut, one to keep. (laughs) But I took all that
Heather Ross that I had forever that I can't obviously go back and buy more of at this point. And I made one epic, like master quilt that
took me four years to make. And now I see that fabric every single day where I used to never see it at all. So, I've actually sort
of like turned on that. And it's like, if I really love a fabric, I make something epic to honor it. And as a quilter, I always believe you should sleep under your best work. So the quilt on my bed is always the one that I think is the best thing I've made. And so right now it's my Heather
Ross sort of tribute quilt that has a lot of my fabrics in it too, but it's work took all
my stash of Heather Ross and I fussy cut every single piece and made it really, really special. And now I get to see it all the time. - [Lilly] And we do have
another new YouTube member, Ayleen Jackson, welcome Aly. - Welcome. - [Lilly] (chuckles) All right. And then I have one more
question that I'm gonna ask here, Tim Finney's Quilted Life is asking, "Are your tattoos designed by you "or any of them related
to your fabric lines?" - All of my tattoos are actually, well, should we just do this, are all based off on, they're all inspired by my fabrics, but they're actually all William Morris. So, this is the owl from Foreman's Forest. This is my bird from Plume,
but it's not really my bird. It's like through the William Morris, all the foliage is William Morris. This is from Chipper, little chipmunk. This is my rabbit from a slow and steady. And this is as much clothing as I'm willing to take off on camera. But yeah, so there it's actually, each one represents a fabric line, but they're actually all based on William Morris illustrations. And all the botanicals are William Morris. - I would've never known that. - And they're all, there's no color. If that question's
coming, they're all black. - [Lilly] Does she has
the same person doing? - Yes, the same person does all of mine except for my knuckles, but all all of my illustration tattoos are all done by an artist's
named, Rachel Hauer. - [Lilly] Do you have
any questions, Kimberly? - Awesome, I just wanna
say thanks for watching. We're so excited to film some live videos and we'd love for you to subscribe. And just to reminder, I
won't have a live stream this Friday, so I will
see you guys next week and have a great weekend. - Thank you everyone. - [Lilly] Bye, everyone. (logo whooshing)
