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Sylvia Schaefer -

Flying Parrot Quilts

City, State

 

Interviewed by Elizabeth Townsend Gard

November 30, 2017

 

Sylvia Schaefer is a designer and quilter, who is the current 2017 Quilt Designer Fellowship at Craftsy.com.  

 

She has a Ph.D. in Marine Science and she's been quilting/designing patterns since 2007.

 

She's been interviewed before.

Here is her interview at Me Being Crafty

Here are two podcasts at Fresh Quilting

Here is her story at Craftsy.com 

 

I saw her booth at Quilt Market and fell in love with her science bookcase quilt.   It was one of my few purchases at Houston.  Here it is at Craftsy.com.

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Topics of the Interview

Ph.D. work/Quilting work (and her style)

Your quilting life 

Building a career as a pattern designer

Exhibitions

Branding (and re-branding?) and role of social media

Quilt Market Experience

The Mechanics of Her Work: designing on Electric Quilt; Quilting on a Home Machine; other tools

IP Issues:  copyright, trademark, etc. (creation/protection/sharing)

The Industry: Her thoughts

The Experience of Craftsy

"Swapping" 

Paper piecing​​

Suggestions for Other Guests

Just Wanna Quilt: An Immersive Research Project of Copyright

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Podcast and Research Lab

Tulane University Law School

New Orleans, LA 70118

townsend@tulane.edu

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Quilting Army Krewe, LLC

New Orleans, LA 70125

quiltingarmy@gmail.com

(504) 339-3857

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