Big Quilt Shows - Exhibiting, Lecturing, and Teaching - with Daisy Aschehoug

March 18, 2026·55 min·5 clips

Daisy called out a show for building events on the backs of unpaid women's labor.

Sam brings Daisy back for a focused, familiar conversation. Sam notes that Daisy was last on episode 25, then moves them into the business of big quilt events. They talk plainly about what happens when someone applies to teach, lecture, or exhibit, especially once money enters the room. Prestige is nice. It does not pay invoices. Sam uses the rotary cutter example to show how each part of the business chain expects a profit. Plastic, blades, distributors, stores, convention centers, and union staff are treated as real costs before teachers even come up. Then teachers are asked to make do with what is left. Sam calls out the imbalance as an event economics problem, though teachers and lecturers keep getting asked to absorb it. Daisy comes at it carefully. She does not frame herself as a headliner or superstar, but she has been around long enough to notice the pattern and feel some responsibility around it. That modesty gives the conversation its shape. This is less about one person's rate card than about whether big shows can keep leaning on underpaid creative labor. Sam pushes the industry question: if this work is supposed to help people support themselves, the structure cannot assume everyone will build a whole side empire to make the math work. Daisy keeps the craft close to the center. She wants to make work, teach, lecture, and earn a little money when she can, without pretending the economics are tidy. The ending softens. Sam tells Daisy she thinks she is an artist, and the episode closes on that small crown passed between friends.

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A practical discussion of quilt-show labor, pay, and the economics of a sustainable craft business.

Daisy Askehaug and Sam Hunter focus on the practical side of quilt-show work: teaching, lecturing, exhibiting, and the different ways those jobs are paid.

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