New Audio Story: "The Uncommon Quilts of Joe Cunningham"

Dear Friends,

This week’s dispatch features the latest addition to our growing podcast collection. If you’re new to our community, the Craftsmanship podcast includes audio versions of some of your favorite stories, as well as interviews with artisans, subject experts, and other special guests. In addition to the more recent releases on YouTube, you can find them all on our website, and on popular streaming services like Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

However you choose to listen, we hope you’ll enjoy: “The Uncommon Quilts of Joe Cunningham,” written and narrated by our contributing editor Jeff Greenwald, and produced by Pauline Bartolone. (If you’d like to read the original story, it’s linked below.—and also free of charge.)

While we are happy to offer this new audio story to everyone for free, we’ll include a gentle reminder here that paid subscriptions help us continue to produce thoughtful, original stories of mastery and tradition, and pay our contributors fair market rates. So if you haven’t done so already, please consider supporting our work.

We always welcome your thoughts and suggestions, which you can offer in a comment, as a Substack Note, or via email. Thank you for reading and sharing our stories, for supporting our work with a paid subscription if you can, and for being such a loyal part of the Craftsmanship community.

Sincerely,

Todd Oppenheimer
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Craftsmanship Magazine

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October 3, 2025

The insistent whir of an HQ Stitch sewing machine is a sound like no other. It fills Joe Cunningham’s San Francisco quilting workshop—a smallish room, stacked with fabrics, behind his sunlit gallery—and he raises his voice to be heard...

Craftsmanship Magazine focuses on master artisans and innovators whose work informs our quest: to create a world built to last. In addition to our Substack offerings, you’ll find a rich archive of stories, podcasts, photo essays, and documentary shorts on our free website—along with community resources like our Artisans’ Directory, our guide to U.S.-based craft & folk schools, and much more.