#201: Making Check Your Thread – with Zoe & Kat, Part 2
Are you ready for a second dose of behind the scenes podcast and sewing chat? Guest interviewer Kat Camfield and I continue our conversation. We get into the joys of Patreon and how it’s evolved for creators, what my own favourite podcasts to listen to are (none of which are about sewing!) and what my favourite sewing snack is (spoiler: it’s actually a liquid!). Plus! Kat has a surprise for me…
Kat Camfield is a sewing teacher and sewing retreat organiser living in Victoria, Canada. You can follow Kat on Instagram @cooperativekatsews.
Hear Kat on previous episodes of CYT:
Ep. #196: Eco Printing - Kat Camfield with Carly from Lorelei Textile Design
Ep. #200: Making Check Your Thread - with Zoe & Kat, Part 1
Author Mary Morton got in touch with her co-author Jeanna Wigger after hearing her on an episode of CYT. Together they wrote the amazing book ‘Stitch it, Don't Ditch it’.
Hear them talk to me about the experience here:
Ep. #191: Stitch It, Don’t Ditch It with Mary Morton and Jeanna Wigger
You can find Check Your Thread on Instagram, @checkyourthread. Please head over and say hi!
Podcasts I listen to regularly:
The Adam Buxton Podcast
Death, Sex & Money
Heavyweight
The Secrets Hotline
Savage Lovecast
The sewing machine I have is a Janome DKS30 (in orange):
The previous guests who kindly submitted a comment to celebrate the 200th episode milestone are:
Numba Pinkerton
Skye Pennant
Jeanna Wigger
Meg Grandstaff
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#200: Making CYT with Zoe & Kat, Part 1
This week’s episode is the 200th episode! To mark this podcasting milestone, I had the honour of being quizzed by previous-guest interviewer, Kat Camfield. This week’s and next week’s episodes are basically a full-on behind the scenes chat about how this podcast gets made and what it's taught me. Today you’ll hear about what I’ve deliberately changed about the podcast since I started it, what I would have been unable to predict four years ago, and what has surprised me about life as a podcaster.
Support the podcast over on Patreon!
Kat Camfield is a sewing teacher and sewing retreat organiser living in Victoria, Canada. You can follow Kat on Instagram @cooperativekatsews.
Kat did an incredible job interviewing eco printer Carly:
Ep. #196: Eco Printing - Kat Camfield with Carly from Lorelei Textile Design
Hear more about the underlying manifesto of this podcast:
Ep. #71: Making Personal Manifestos with Kim Witten
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#199: Wardrobe Curation and Care
We're talking about the curation of a successful, handmade wardrobe and how to select sewing projects with care so that you’re creating items that reflect who you are and that say what you want them to say. We’ll also consider how style trends factor into creating a more sustainable wardrobe, and how to make sure your garment projects will be suitable for the life you really lead. This episode has been taken for the talk I gave at the Fold Line’s Sewing Weekender earlier this year, and it aligns so well with the goal of this podcast that I wanted to give it an airing here too.
Support the podcast over on Patreon!
Image by Priscilla Du Preez via Unsplash
For more guidance on garment fitting, please listen to the following episodes:
Ep. #95: Refining Fit with Kate Roberts
Ep. #96: Pattern Fitting Q&A with Kate Roberts
Ep. #178: What you Should Know about Fitting with Kate Roberts
If you’ve somehow missed what the wardrobe challenge Me-Made-May is all about, here’s a super quick explainer:
Ep. #177: Me-Made-May Explained in Under 5 Minutes
You can access Love to Sew Podcast’s free Design Your Dream Wardrobe Worksheet when you sign up to their newsletter.
Hear about Judith Staley’s discoveries when she tracked her wardrobe for an entire year:
Ep. #179: The Five Fabrics Rule with Judith Staley
Clothing tracking apps include:
Whering
WearTracker (link to iOS)
Indyx
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#198: Shopping Strategically with Numba Pinkerton
You probably think that working with a stylist, particularly once you’ve had your colours analysed, would involve them then trying to convince you to buy, or in our case make, a load of new clothes. That’s what I’ve always assumed. But over the summer I got to catch up with previous guest, stylist Numba Pinkerton, in real life in her home in Scotland. Our conversation proved that my assumption, at least as far as she’s concerned, is wrong. We start our conversation back where we left off previously, talking about colour analysis. Numba offers something of a cheat sheet for working with your colours, including how and when to ignore them. We then move on to talking about shopping strategically, and all her advice translates so well to sewing strategically; it’s super useful stuff. Her ultimate message: it’s ok to pass!
Support the podcast over on Patreon!
Find out more about Numba’s work at her website, and you can follow her on Instagram (@stylemeflawless).
Learn more about Numba’s community, The Style Circle.
Hear Numba’s previous previous appearance on CYT:
Ep. #188: Stop Wearing Black! Colour Choice with Numba Pinkerton
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#197: Can I Dig It? Podcast – Glut Management Tactics
This episode is from Zoe’s other podcast: Can I Dig It? - Food Growing for Busy People. If you’ve grown, foraged, bought or received a large amount of fresh produce, here’s how to deal with it and not let it go to waste!
Check out the Can I Dig It Podcast's Patreon page!
Can I Dig It? is made by:
Pippa Chapman, @pippachapman_thoseplantpeople on Instagram, and Pippa Chapman Permaculture on YouTube.
Zoe Edwards, @sozoblog and @checkyourthread on Instagram, and visit the Check Your Thread website and find the podcast in your favourite app.
If you’re in the UK and have a TV licence, you can see Pippa’s appearance on Gardener’s World via iPlayer.
Pippa uses an Excalibur dehydrator, specifically the Excalibur 9-tray Dehydrator With Timer In Black
Fermentation expert, Sam Cooper, is @chef.sam.black on Instagram. His book, The Fermentation Kitchen, is on Zoe’s Christmas list.
‘Slow Bolt’ AKA ‘Long-Standing’ and ‘Santos’ are coriander varieties that are slower to go to seed.
‘Green Aroma’ is Pippa´s favourite variety of coriander
Great sources for fruit trees are:
Ashridge
Blackmoor
Or your local trusted garden centre may do bare root fruit orders.
- Do you love sewing, AND are passionate about fighting the climate and ecological crises?
- Are you wondering if your sewing could be made more sustainable?
- Do you want to enjoy your creative passion in a way that really reflects your values?
Join Zoe Edwards, a sewing nerd and creator of Me-Made-May, on her journey to explore how to sew (and live!) more sustainably.
In this podcast we discover ways to sew with sustainability in mind, by flexing our creativity and resourcefulness in new and exciting ways. Check Your Thread’s goal is to show that sewing more sustainably can be fun and fulfilling, (HOLD the side order of guilt, eco-snobbery and FOMO.)
Topics covered include:
-Mending and garment repair
-Upcycling and refashioning
-Natural fabric dyeing
-Fibre and fabric selection
-Slow stitching
-Zero Waste sewing patterns
-The social and political dimensions of sewing
-Craft as activism
Find out more...
checkyourthread.com
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