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replays will be
available below until June 15th!
Tuesday, April 30th
The replay is broken, but Nan will be on the In KInship Podcast in May!
Nan Webb
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Cal Patch has been a maker since she was a Girl Scout in the seventies. She sews, crochets, spins, embroiders, knits, prints, makes patterns, dyes… hence the name of her clothing label: *hodge podge*.
Cal has been teaching the textile arts since 2000, at shops and retreats across North America, and now offers online workshops in Pattern Drafting, Sewing and Crochet via Creativebug.
After eighteen years of being a New York City dweller, Cal now resides in the Catskills where she is becoming a crafty farmer and growing her handmade wardrobe.
Her first book, Design-It-Yourself Clothes, Patternmaking Simplified, was published by Potter Craft.
You can see what she’s up to at…
**I’m sad to say the replay is broken, but I will have Nan on the In Kinship podcast in May so that those of you who missed it live can experience the sweet, funny human who is Nan Webb!
Nan Webb, Founder at Bolt and Spool
Nan began sewing at the young age of 8. Her love for pattern design, texture, and all things uncommonly beautiful inspired her to open her historic Murray Hill Road boutique in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood in 2010. The storefront is a space where sewists of all levels can feel welcomed and inspired. Nan is equally comfortable with needle and thread as she is with a golf club, trowel, or bike handle in hand. Merging her passions with a degree in journalism from Ohio University and an MBA from Case Western Reserve she has established a thriving business that nourishes the sewing and crafting community in Cleveland and around the world.
You can see what she’s up to at…
Sarah Laws is designer of My Handmade Wardrobe producing dressmaking patterns to help you design and make a wardrobe full of clothes you’ll love to make and wear every day.
Sarah is launching “Sew Your Own Style”, a free to join, self-guided programme designed to empower sewists to start to think like a designer, led by My Handmade Wardrobe pattern designer Sarah Laws. Learn to explore and embrace your own authentic style and dress to express yourself with confidence through a wardrobe audit, thinking prompts, practical tasks and evaluation and design resources. Following the programme will encourage and enable you to start thinking like a designer for your own wardrobe. At the end of the programme, you will have a clear picture of your own style and what garments you want to make and wear to express this!
You can see what she’s up to at…
Listeners can join the FREE “Sew Your Own Wardrobe” programme on her website now!
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J
enny (she/her) is a wife, mother, grandmother, CPA, and artist, living and working in western North Carolina. She sews too much, reads too little, and eats just the right amount except when there’s jalapeno popcorn in play.
You can see what she’s up to at…
- @johassler
- Insewmniacs Podcast at Spotify
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Brooks Ann Camper first learned to sew as an adult working in professional costume workshops. After an internship at Yale School of Drama, and an MFA in Costume Production from UNC, she moved to New York City where she worked as a Broadway milliner for productions such as Wicked and Mama Mia!, and sewing for celebrities from Boy George to Big Bird.
When she left New York and started her own business as a custom wedding dressmaker, she began blogging the process as each one-of-a-kind dress was designed and created. She realized that she was getting as much interest from “sewing people” as from “brides” and started teaching her unique methods of custom sewing.
She absolutely loves sharing her passion with kindred spirits!
You can see what she’s up to at…
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Taylor McVay (they/them) is an artist, clothing designer, pattern maker, and owner of Patchwork Community Craft, a sewing studio and reuse center focused on promoting sustainability and empowerment through sewing.
Taylor is a slow fashion enthusiast and a self professed fiber arts nerd.
They have over 13 years of experience teaching people of all ages, body types, genders and abilities to create their own clothing. Taylor is incredibly passionate about teaching and brings a diverse range of experience to each class, from collaborating with artists on fabric sculptures to creating patterns for major fashion brands.
Ann Tilley is a textile artist, clothing designer + garment-making instructor from Durham, NC, USA. After earning her BFA at Savannah College of Art and Design in Fashion and Fibers, she’s gone on to work in a variety of small-scale garment studios and factories, including two eponymous clothing lines, and now, sells her original garment patterns to home sewists all over the world.
She teaches local and national workshops centered around sewing your own clothes, and her teaching aesthetic blends disciplined production techniques with home-sewing freedom and playfulness. She also maintains an active studio art practice, working in color knitting. Tilley lives in a self-built, tiny house in Liberty, NC.
You can see what she’s up to at…
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I’m your host Tina with Kinship Handwork and In Kinship Podcast!
I sew clothes for so many reasons; loving the body I have, showing up in the world dressed to reflect the vibrant human I am on the inside, I love the puzzle of it and the creativity in designing my own patterns and hacking patterns I know and love.
But mostly I LOVE teaching folks to sew clothes for the “holy Hannah, I just DID this” factor and for the empowerment that comes from having new skills and maybe, just maybe, loving the body they have that much more.
I see so many of my students with a debilitating fear of “doing it wrong” and I want this series to take them to the next level and show them that they can make their sewing practice their own and shift that limiting mindset that they can’t experiment and make mistakes and…gasp…waste fabric!
And the Break the Rules of Sewing show was born!
Twice a year I have sewing retreats on Mackinac Island, where we go deep into our sewing practice, have poweful conversation at our morning circle and laugh and laugh and laugh!
I also teach sewing and, my favorite, pattern manipulation online!
You can see what she’s up to at…