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Last episode I did say Karen is an ongoing contributor to the podcast and Sewover50. Today Karen's second episode called Style is Ageless is number 9 on the Top 20 countdown.

This is a true reflection of not just Karen's contribution to our community but also how relevant this topic continues to be for us as sewists.

Karen provides some really simple ways to find your style because you can find all sorts of topics about style that won't cost a cent. Have fun with it.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Karen Dolen was kind enough to be on the podcast in 2020. Today's episode is the initial podcast about Karen and this is number 10 on the Top 20 Countdown.

Karen has an inspiring sense of style that is reflected in not just what she sews but how her work is photographed too. She does credit her daughter for some of her photos and if you go to the SewOver50 account, Karen was a guest editor sharing her photo skills.

When you look at her sewing progress photos they're just as stunning.

She started sewing 60 years ago and Karen visualises fabric as fashion.

Thank you Karen for your ongoing contribution to Sewover50 and the podcast I hope you had a cuppa at hand while you listen to Karen once more.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Susan Young has written many researched pieces for SewOver50 and this podcast is a reflection of one of those she wrote back in 2020. 

This episode is number 11 on the Top 20 Countdown!

Susan Young Sewing blog is still available and I encourage you to pop into it and read the full research she published.

If you're at London Frocktails this week, say hello to Susan.

Thank you again Susan for being on the podcast for SewOver50.

Sue Stoney has been on the podcast a few times and this was her first podcast where we met her on the podcast in 2020. This episode is number 12 in the Top 20 Countdown.

You heard Sue Stoney in the Magam Sewalong episode with Suzy and Helene. This episode is where we focussed on Sue only.

Sustainability and careful use of our resources are important to Sue. She's also one of her local 3 sewing friends with Meggipeg and sewblooms on Instagram and Sue has always been there for Sarah Pondevie. Sue's global collaboration skills are varse 

These days Sue's adorable clothes and toy making for Miss G are what I love pop up on my feed.

Lynda Maynard was on the podcast in September 2020 and her podcast is number 13 in the Top 20 countdown. Don't you think we've had a variety of community spirited guests in the Top 20 so far?

Back In 2020 I never thought an accomplished teacher like Lynda Maynard would agree to recording a podcast with me and for SewOver50. She was so obliging and there is a link on her website about page to this recording. As Jen Hogg said, Lynda is one of the many sewing heros we've seen in Threads magazine.

Lynda is an author and a teacher who is passionate about inspiring others. She is a master teacher, and has years of experience teaching couture sewing techniques, pattern drafting, clothing construction and fitting.

This episode with Lynda was a helpful discussion about how to fit clothes and what the most common fit issues are. Our bodies do change over time and Lynda shares her fitting experience with us. Having access to experienced educators makes our sewing experience more satisfying. 

Thank you Lynda for your support and helping sewists in the Sewover50 community.

Elizabeth is @earletted on Instagram and I first 'met' her through her blog.

When you finally meet an online friend and start chatting you find out how rich their background of experience is.

I hope you'll listen to Elizabeth and see she has held half a dozen amazing jobs that have been inspired by her motivation to be creative.

She has a music background, a theatre background in both design and wardrobe supervisor and the list goes on. I felt with her wardrobe supervisor experience, Elizabeth knows how to mend clothes for theatre. And can't life be full of drama sometimes too?

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Susan Young, the blog writer for SewOver50 was on the podcast in June 2020. She is number 14 in the Top 20 Countdown.

You’ll find Susan on Instagram under Susan Young Sewing. 

Most recently you may have noticed that Susan is an organiser of London Frocktails. When the first SewOver50 meet up in London happened before lockdown, you could already see how many of us in the sewing community wanted to be together.

We were able to rally together online through the SewOver50 community and today we can meet in person and celebrate at Frocktails events in our local communities.

The information Susan shares in this podcast is still worth listening to today. She’s a tutor at Backstitch shop and is a Pfaff UK ambassador Thank you Susan for being a great friend and giving your time to SewOver50 and Sew Organised Style podcast.

Jayne Wright was on the podcast in November 2020. She is number 15 in the Top 20 Countdown.

Since 2020 Jayne has moved to Margate and she does a mixture of things now.

Violin teaching, ceramic art, open water synchronised swimming and a bit of sewing for herself. She sewed her own wedding dress using a vintage Dior pattern.

If you live in the Thanet area, she runs a tile making workshop now with Thanet Visitor Information Centre. As you can tell, Jayne contributes to her local community.

Thank you Jayne for coming back to your Instagram account as well as your @jawceramics account.

Bobo_bun is Lisa's online name. Lisa was on the podcast in September 2020. She is number 16 in the Top 20 Countdown. 

At the time Lisa was developing her YouTube channel to bring her vintage sewing joy to everyone who shared a passion for all things vintage.

Lisa is a lifelong vintage inspired seamstress and dressmaking teacher.

She created Bobo_Bun’s sewing school in Norwich UK. As a child Lisa was always making something or could be found curled up with a book. Does this sound like you too?

Lisa first learnt to sew on her mum’s Vintage Singer Sewing machine. She’d been sewing non stop since then, learning everything she could while teaching as her full time career. These days, if Lisa is not teaching dressmaking classes, you’ll find her sewing, knitting or planning her next project

This is the third time I’m thanking Lisa for being on the podcast as last year, Lisa kindly gave me her permission to use part of her podcast for a video podcast assignment I had to complete for my Diploma in Screen and Media. If you’re interested, the Jukebox series in on the Sew Organised Style YouTube account. Be kind with your comments please.

Thank you Lisa for the vintage sewing teaching and inspiration you provide us online and in real life.

Saremy of SewSewLive and was on the podcast in November 2020. Saremy is number 17 in the Top 20 Countdown. 

While you can find Saremy on Instagram, you’ll always find Saremy teaching on YouTube. She’s industry trained and Saremy has a really full commitment to providing great teaching content in her sewing school.

On her Instagram account, she posts her weekly schedule.

Saremy provides an amazing community space for curios sewists of all abilities and it’s free to join her sewsewguild.com

On Wednesdays she funs a live stream sewing a project from cutting to finish. That’s a huge commitment but so valuable to improve your own sewing skills from an industry professional.

Saremy started her sewing channel in 2018 and she’s almost hit 2 million views, with over 730 videos. Let’s go back and hear how Saremy was building her ability to provide great sewing content to us in the sewing community.

Suzy, Sue and Hélène are the Make a garment a month or Magam sewalong team who's podcast was published in July 2020. Suzy and Sue and Hélène gave their time to tell us about how Magam sewalong began and what they do to keep this initiative running. Magam Sewalong is number 18 in the Top 20 Countdown.

You would have noticed that since 2020, they have had guests to run this challenge each month and with a theme. Love a good theme. They’ve had about 37 guests.

Here’s an interesting fact. They try not to count entries, but they’ve have had over 8,000 posts.

Sue said ‘People love the refashioning/sustainable themes, but also any theme that allows them to work it into their monthly sewing.’

Instagram is where SewOver50 account lives and started on 18 August 2018 by Judith Staley. She was shortly joined by Sandy Bach and together they built SewOver50 from 0 to 50,000 followers this month.

Their hard work to bring the face of older sewists to Instagram has delivered 1,821 posts; worked with 144 guest editors on a range of topics; created 18 engaging challenges and commissioned #So50Live.

In this podcast Judith and Sandy discuss their challenges with the many changes Instagram has thrown us all making it harder to find each other the way you would normally chat up with your real life friends.

SewOver50 showcases not just the face of older sewists but also the issues older sewists face on a daily basis. 

Seeing clickbait news about ageing is cheap journalism. One of the earliest articles about wearing florals was very narrowminded press that as a community, we've blown that thinking out of the park.

No matter your age or what your style is, everyone is welcomed to the SewOver50 community by simply using #SewOver50 and #SewOver50(monthyear) on their posts so we can add you to our stories and onto our grid.

In 2022 there is the podcast episode about older sewist research on their Instagram grids that Judith commissioned. Judith is committed to raising the visibility of older sewists. Sandy is leading the SewOver50 social media editorial team and developing challenges and ways to engage the community.

Their mandate is positive messages to bring people together. Make sure you follow SewOver50 and listen to all the SewOver50 podcasts available here.

JenLegg_TeesCreatives is number 19 in the Top 20 Countdown. 

Most recently you would know Jen @jenlegg_teescreatives  who with Sharlene @sosewdressmaking  run #SewRecreateTheLook In 2024 they’ve run Sew Recreate the Look for the fourth time.

Sew Recreate the look encourages us to make things we have seen on the high street, IG and designer brands feeding our ‘sewing souls’. Jen with Sharlene contribute to the sewing community by running this on a voluntary basis.

Jen is a Fibremood Insider. She’s sewn for Abakhan fabrics. Pattern tested for Friday Pattern Company and many others. She’s a great role model for sewists to be who they are and sew what makes them happy.

Jen shares what keeps her sewing and being creative in her podcast episode. Following Jen on Instagram is a great way to see how you can add colour and prints amongst the clothes you sew. Thank you Jen for being on the podcast.

At number 20 is Jen Hogg in the Top 20 Countdown.

Jen Hogg is number 20 in the Top 20 Countdown.

Jen was my first guest from the Great British Sewing Bee in November 2020 because Jen is a strong supporter of the SewOver50 community. In August 2021 Jen recorded a podcast about So50sustainable sewing.

Jen sent through a note about what she’s achieved since this podcast was published in November 2020. If you’re a Bridgerton fan, I’ll start her note with a Lady Whistledown vibe. The full version of Jen’s letter is on her podcast blog post.

Firstly, the Top 20 Countdown starts in August. Have you wondered what the top 20 episodes are after publishing over 440 episodes over 5 years on Sew Organised Style podcast? Grab a cuppa and relax while you hear a retrospective intro to all the people who continue to contribute to the sewing community.

Next up. You'll be seeing short tutorials for you to learn how to use your devices without asking others for help. You'll be your very own 'help desk'. As you learn more, you can pass these new skills on to others as well.

Send your tutorial suggestions to [email protected]

Lastly, make sure you follow SewOver50 on Instagram to celebrate their 6 year anniversary and achieving with 50,000 follower milestone.

All of these milestones have been achieved by the sewing people who connect both online and in real life. We're a community that connects, builds safe spaces to get together and are still happy to sew in their personal sewing spaces for both themselves and their families and friends.

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Have you been sewing since you've stopped work full time or are you still finding your way?

Maxine Dunn is Dunncorner on Instagram and she's a SewOver50 follower. Maxine tells her story and shares how she's using this time to increase her skills in sewing and not just for herself.

Living close to Papercut Patterns, she's had a first hand view of what it takes to be an independent sewing designer. In New Zealand Maxine also mentions Paper Theory and The Sewing Revival.

We recorded this podcast in May so you'll have to pop over to Maxine's Instagram account to find out what she's been up to, including her latest Frocktails makes.

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Julie is Hastings436 on Instagram and lives in Newcastle Australia.

She gives us a secret about the 2025 Newcastle Frocktail so if you're interested, have a listen to her podcast and start planning your efforts to attend it.

Even though Julie has lots of fabric, and she cares for her fabric is a very unique way, she is thoughtful in how she gives it to her local community to share her love of sewing.

Yes Julie is part of the sewing ladies who lunch that Karen mentioned last week. Everyone who wants to attend this monthly lunch is welcome.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Karen is sewingbyKaz on Instagram and she's on the Newcastle Frocktail committee in Australia.

Sewing means many things to different people. Karen Lennox tells us what sewing has meant in her life and vital it is to her right now.

Karen has learnt her sewing through her mother's sewing life as she grew up. Karen knew the basics before she went to school. Now she's helping her 6 year old granddaughter to sew. This important skill is bring passed through Karen's family tree.

Next week you'll hear from Karen's Frocktails committee member, Julie Hastings. Julie has some news about their next Frocktails event. Make sure you follow Sew Organised Style to hear what Newcastle Frocktails has in store for us.

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Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

You've heard my story now who would you like to hear from next on Sew Organised Style podcast?

The July podcasts are scheduled and after producing over 400 episodes there may be someone you'd like to have on the podcast.

Is there a topic you'd like an expert to discuss?

All suggestions are welcome!

Send me your ideas and suggestions either via direct message on the podcast Instagram account email me at [email protected]

Your ongoing support for 5 years of podcasting is much, much appreciated. This is as much your sewing podcast as it is mine.

I hope you hear from you soon!

Maria Theoharous

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Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

This Check Your Thread Podcast episode #54 is the first of two featuring a conversation with Swedish-Australian designer Birgitta Helmersson.

Known in the sewing community as a zero waste (ZW) pattern designer, Birgitta also produces a range of ZW clothing which she sells from her shop/studio in Malmö. Prior to this, Birgitta had a diverse and convoluted career in fashion design, costume, alterations, pattern cutting and garment manufacture, which makes for a fascinating tale that we’ll hear in this episode. We also learn what sparked her interest in ZW design, the route she took to adopting ZW practices in her own business, and why Birgitta transitioned into producing sewing patterns for her designs as well as physical garments.

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A behind the scenes chat with Zoe Edwards. Her sewing podcast Check Your Thread keeps her motivated. Actually her manifesto is what drives Zoe's podcast.

What drives your podcast?

Everyone wants to podcast about a topic that is close to their hearts. That's what both Zoe and I do every week and in this episode we chat on about the processes behind making a sewing podcast, or any podcast for that matter.

As always in this episode I've edited it so you hear Zoe's personal dedication to her podcast as it fulfills much of her manifesto. Any new podcast Zoe may develop in the future will also fulfill the aspects of her very personal manifesto. She's really interesting to listen to and learn from.

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Zoe Edwards has just finished a very successful Me Made May 2024. She's here to Feed swap from her podcast Check your thread. 

We're sharing one podcast episode next week from our own archives. This is really exciting to know 1 episode from Sew Organised Style will forever be available on Check your thread podcast.

However this week we're playing a variation on '20 questions'.

In today's episode, we delve into the feedswapping concept. I've never heard about feedswapping and I am thankful to Zoe for proposing this entertaining initiative, which is our focus today.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to both of our podcasts. We have each edited the same recording in our unique styles.

As a heads up, you'll realise that our version of '20 questions' will be included in the next podcast with Zoe 'BTS podcasting life'.

Many people want to podcast and our podcast experience will help you understand how the hard work behind the scenes using much of our sewing time and has its rewards.  

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Dell is an avid sewist, a SewOver50 follower and a very supportive listener of this sewing podcast.

She learned to sew from her grandmothers and Dell discusses the value of the sewing teaching by Mary Brooks Picken.

Dell saved lots of money sewing her dresses for vocal performances using Bemberg lining because it was more affordable than silk fabric was. She is a classically trained vocalist...like an opera singer.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Mitch Bridgewater describes himself as the worst of the best bunch of the Sewing Bee and in this sewing podcast, you'll realise why.

Mitch was in Series 8 of the Great British Sewing Bee in 2022.

During lockdown he learned how to sew and knit and after sewing for 3 months, he entered the Sewing Bee.

In series 8 there were over 8,000 applications for the Great British Sewing Bee so he was in the top 12. If you're interested in TV production or have entered for Series 11, listen to the inside world of producing The Great British Sewing Bee.

He's also a local of Cumbria and is a fan of Linton Tweed too.

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Make sure you register for the Making Zen Online Retreat  27 to 31 May 2024. This is a free 5 day textile art online event.

Betz White is one of the 20 textile artists you can enjoy her workshop at this retreat. 'Warm fuzzies', 'Sewing Green' and 'Present Perfect are her 3 published books too. Betz has so many great embroidery ideas, workshops and videos on her website.

This is your time to keep your creative mind fueled.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2024 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 27 to 31 May 2024. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Make sure you register for the Making Zen Online Retreat  27 to 31 May 2024. This is a free 5 day textile art online event.

Trixi brings her textile art and teaching skills for this retreat. She uses her Sew a Softie approach to teach hand stitching to both children and adults.

This is your time to keep your creative mind fueled.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2024 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 27 to 31 May 2024. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Make sure you register for the Making Zen Online Retreat  27 to 31 May 2024. This is a free 5 day textile art online event.

Youngmin Lee practices traditional Korean textile techniques - Bojagi and Jogakbo handstitching.

28 years ago, after Youngmin trained in clothing, textiles and fashion design in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to the United States and she has continued to use her training in traditional Korean techniques of Bojagi and Korean wrapping skills. The skills she learnt and used in the Korean textiles industry is what we are able to get a glimpse of in Youngmin’s workshop at the Making Zen Online Retreat May 2024.

This is your time to keep your creative mind fueled.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2024 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 27 to 31 May 2024. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

During May, Lolie and Yvonne are running the pledge Seated Makes Challenge.

Take a chair and sit on it.

Have a bit of fun during Me Made May and include seated photos. We did discuss making sure your feet are parallel to the floor, no matter what your height is. Seated photos show how to fabric drapes over your mid-section.

Done is better than perfect.

There are prizes in this challenge but Lolie and Yvonne simply want you to add seated makes on your posts.

Be your creative self as you post photos in a seated position from a few angles and help others see how patterns truly work when seated.  

Instagram no longer provides chronological order so if you can, use the hashtag #SewnShownSeated + the name of the pattern. Will you be posting seated makes on Instagram?

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Make sure you register for the Making Zen Online Retreat  27 to 31 May 2024. This is a free 5 day textile art online event.

Today Kate Ward of Zen Stitching discusses the amazing artists but wait for it... there are a few new features that might peak your interest this year.

You can still purchase the lifetime VIP access pass.

There is also a Creative Club on offer.

And to keep you creative, there's also an additional set of cards you can purchase to fuel your creative needs.

We kept this podcast short because there are 20 textile artists who you'll learn and watch at the coming Making Zen Online Retreat. 

This is your time to keep your creative mind fueled.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2024 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 27 to 31 May 2024. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Melanie is Sewmelwyk and she's been sewing and blogging for many years.

Melanie also a cofounder of the Stratford Garment Guild and has a great group of local sewists that meet monthly to share their makes.

You'll also find Melanie share her book reviews on her book IG account.

If her home ec teacher could see the sewing Melanie does now, she wouldn't believe it.

You can find Melanie's Following the Thread blog here

She uses Sewmelwyk on Instagram, Twitter and you can find Melanie on Pattern Review.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Matthew describes himself as a heel wearing stud muffin channelling his authentic otherness.

You'll find Matthew on Instagram and Tik Tok @hessewmatthew

Did I mention Matthew was a contestant on the Great British Sewing Bee Series 9? He is very easy to chat to and so supportive of the people around him. Matthew is a huge fan of Esme.

You'll hear his story and the type of sewing he is known for. Matthew breaks the rules and is always interested in showing a bit of skin with his designs. I love his plaid fabric works

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Today's podcast features Lisa in a discussion where she reveals the heartbreaking story behind her dedication to spreading awareness for missing persons on her Instagram account, intertwined with her love for sewing.

What you will hear is how the sewing community has embraced both her sewing love and commitment to posting missing person posters on her Instagram account.

Please be aware, the discussion includes topics that might be distressing.

Below are the links to the organisations Lisa mentions in her podcast.

Locate International

Missing People

Missing People podcast

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.  Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Kay, Sarah and Jo talk about how they're involved with The Nest Community and how their involvement means something to them too.

Kay and Sarah volunteer at The Nest Community. Jo is a teacher at Mitchelton High School and has brought groups of students to take part in The Exhange Project since 2021.

The Nest Community is a Brisbane charity that connects women purposefully through craft. The organisation has just undergone expansion and moved from a beautiful old house in Everton Part to a larger commercial space in Brendale.

Reselling fabric and notions through their 130 volunteers at the shop provides lots to see and buy by over 500 visitors per week. Unlike many thrift stores, The Nest Community manages to sell over 65% of their donations, in their bid to reduce landfill.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Louisa describes herself as the oldest person within the SewOver50 community. damselfly.ca 

She describes her body shape a diamond related. Louisa is a rarity and talented with her sewing, gardening and anything textile related.

Did you know she reads 200 books a year? This means her online friends at SewOver50 are who she hangs out with when she's not sewing or crafting.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sarah of Sarahcsewing makes her sewing posts fun.

She looks at life. She sees the humour in life. Then Sarah consults with her kids and her husband. The mirth from their conversations comes through in her posts.

Sarah is a long time SewOver50 follower and she happily discusses a few of the videos she's posted that show just how funny life can be.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

 In January we heard from Yvonne – The Wheelie Stitcher tell us about her experience in finding Mimiquins to create her seated dress form.

Today we’ll hear from Jaire and Mia, the team who created mimiquins. Mimiquins is based in the UK. While they’re based in the UK Jaire and Mia are making Mimiquins available to people who live outside of the UK.

Mia’s background is in biochemistry and she has always sewn her end of year ballgowns, during her university years.

Jaire describes her background as boring ‘business by accident’.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Roz Holt is the founder and CEO of The Nest Community in Brisbane, Queensland. She tells us about how her initial Craft Nest Project was the starting point for future collaborations and the eventual creation of The Nest Community.

The Nest Community is a Brisbane charity that connects women purposefully through craft. The organisation has just undergone expansion and moved from a beautiful old house in Everton Part to a larger commercial space in Brendale.

Reselling fabric and notions through their 130 volunteers at the shop provides lots to see and buy by over 500 visitors per week. Unlike many thrift stores, The Nest Community manages to sell over 65% of their donations, in their bid to reduce landfill.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Alethia of Sew Much Talent has created a community of sewists that share their sewing and design skills through their joy of being a community. "Sew, Create, Inspire, Teach"

Have you seen their facebook group yet?

Sew Much Talent has continued since the periscope days and with Alethia's various moderators, sewing challenges and stash busting are among the various activities this group thrives on.

Alethia talks about how she loves to keep the group humming along and from this group of 10,000 on Facebook, there are constant Live chats, celebrations within the group and more sewing skill development happening each week.

Make sure you also subscribe to their YouTube channel for their Sew Let's Talk series.

Previous Sew Much Talent followers have made a hugh contribution to this group and individually, they have taken their experience with Alethia to create their own online presence. 

'Sew Much Talent is a DIY and lifestyle network centered around all things sewing and handcraft related. The mission is to shine a light on the many talented sewists and crafters all around the world. By bringing together "sew" much talent ...in one community consisting of newbies to more skilled DIYers, some will teach, others will learn; yet we all will be inspired and share our makes and creations.'

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

In today's podcast Julie Eilber talks about sewing vintage styles and gives us some tips to sew fabric on the bias

In last week's episode you would have loved listening to Julie's knowledge of Claire McCardell and all the influences Claire had on American fashion in the early 1900s.

Julie is a fashion historian who re-creates 20th century designer looks.

Julie is very fascinating and has sewn since she was 8 years old. I first followed Julie on her blog Jet Set Sewing.

You can read some of Julie's background on her blog. You can keep up to date with Julie through her Instagram account.

She also discusses her book about Claire McCardell.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Julie Eilber talks about Claire McCardell and all the influences Claire had on American fashion in the early 1900s.

Julie is a fashion historian who re-creates 20th century designer looks.

Julie is very fascinating and has sewn since she was 8 years old. I first followed Julie on her blog Jet Set Sewing.

You can read some of Julie's background on her blog. You can keep up to date with Julie through her Instagram account.

She also discusses her book about Claire McCardell.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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 SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Yvonne shares her story of finding a seated dressform.

She was also an amazing guest editor for SewOver50 recently too. Yvonne's guest post has been liked by over 1,300 accounts on the SewOver50 Instagram account. There were over 120 really insightful comments as well.

Please consider using #SewnShownSeated on your social media posts to provide valuable visibility for people who make clothes for seated positions.

Mimiquins is the seated dressform Yvonne has bought.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Yvonne is an enthusiastic sewist and she's really keen to find makes that use #SewnShownSeated.

There are many people who also need to wear clothes that fit them well when they're seated so the need to sewn makes where you model them is a seated position is actually bigger than anyone realises.

In the next podcast, Yvonne is back to discuss some groundbreaking work she has been a part of.

I hope you enjoy Yvonne's sewing enthusiasm and help out by posting seated photos for your future makes.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Lisa Walters is the owner and creator of A Sewing Life Sewing kits and sewing patterns for stuffed animals (asewinglife.com)

Her sewing journey started at the tender age of 8 years old when she sewed soft toys and sew each toys clothes. You could say those early days are what we’re able to now enjoy through the toy patterns Lisa creates.

On today’s episode you’ll hear how her daughter Grace adds the story for each of the toy patterns and kits both Lisa and Grace create.

Lisa’s sewing life has gone through many stages including sewing her own clothes to sewing soft furnishings for her home.

Sewing is definitely in Lisa’s blood and storytelling through the toys is something Grace and Lisa creates that we can now enjoy.

As with all sewing projects, you will find that you can lose yourself in creating something of absolute joy out of a pile of fabric.

Listen to how Lisa shares her love of fabric, colour and texture on today’s podcast.

Once you’re hooked, head over to Lisa’s YouTube channel and start your sewing journey with toy and bag patterns.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Jenny Rushmore is Cashmerette patterns. She's a supporter of the SewOver50 community on Instagram.

Representation is definitely very important to Cashmerette patterns and as Jenny says, 'while we can always improve, I'm pleased that we are doing a fairly decent job.'

Earlier this year Jenny helped SewOver50 with their very first visibility research project.

In this podcast we hear how Jenny saw the need to develop sewing patterns that she wanted to wear and that catered for women needing full cup adjustments, like Jenny.

Jenny has a fulltime team of 3 people with lots of expertise that work for Cashmerette patterns.

Head over to Cashmerette Patterns and let Jenny know if you're a Boston local and would like to be a model for her pattern company.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Kathryn Hoang approached a few of us on Instagram to help her engineer a cutting tool to make the sewing process easier.

Did you comment on the 2 SewOver50 posts recently? Those 2 posts that many of you commented on, were designed to add a practical element to Kathryn's engineering project.

Kathryn's project scope was to design a product that aids in cutting fabric so that seniors may engage in their sewing hobby conveniently and with less strain compared to current tools on the market. 

Now be aware, her project scope was not a cure health issues like mobility and vision but work out a way to make the sewing process easier.

On the SewOver50 account, there were hundreds of suggestions and ideas that you provided about ways you make sewing easier for yourself. Hop over to the SewOver50 account on Instagram and get involved in helping each other find helpful sewing solutions so you can sew more easily everyday.

We discuss some of your ideas on today's podcast.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Sound with permission by bensound.com Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Today we hear how sewing vintage clothes takes time and is great to do no matter what your body shape is or what your age is.

Sewing and wearing vintage clothes is not age defined.

Make sure you go to Jo's Instagram account to marvel at the well constructed vintage clothes she keeps sewing and loves to wear.

Just try it.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Joanna found her style when she turned 50. Did you have the same experience when you turned 50? 

On the podcast, Jo talks about how her natural grey hair and vintage style preference makes her work as an 'extra' a fun part of her lifestyle.

Jo started working as an 'extra' at a time when she needed to closely care for her son.

Being an 'extra' can be confronting. Especially when you're on a production set getting your hair and makeup done in the era of your parents. Have you had the experience of when you've dressed like your mother when she was your age? Did it seem like they were looking straight back at you in the mirror? 

That's confronting.

Do you collect accessories to make your contemporary clothes look vintage? That's part of what makes Joanne look vintage amazing.

You can see the array of vintage looks Jo has sewn for special events and just because this is her signature style. Hop over to her Instagram account. You'll also find Jo on her Minerva page.

More from Jo on the podcast next week.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Christina not only sews her own activewear, she road tests them and will share those reviews on her Instagram account and on her YouTube account.

Here's how she reviews her work, "I started the day in a Rad CYOA slim and sweats (with an LBB and hellebore) and then changed for running into Sparks, Endurance, secret tank, pacific pullover. It started as 52F and overcast and poured rain when I was 3/4mi from home. Damp. The only thing you can see is the pullover so you'll just have to take my word for it.'

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Jody Halliday upcycles because there's really no need to create new clothes from fresh fabric.

The British Fashion Council tells us there are enough garments already on planet Earth to clothe the next six generations of humanity.

As Jody says, 'I invite you to join me in using upcycled, existing materials as you continue your sewing journey.'

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel. Sound with permission by bensound.com

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Thanks for being patient while I was on a break to catch up on my college assessments.

Cassie of Primrose Dawn Designs recently developed a sewing pattern to create a breast form using her pattern developed for her sister-in-law called the Val breastform

Cassie had previously worked with Tina Bricolagedk (@bricolagedk) • Instagram photos and videos who we know is an advocate for sewing patterns that meet the needs of people living with the affects of cancer treatments.

You'll find previous breast cancer series podcasts on the podcast website at Breast cancer series – Sew organised style podcast

There are so many great resources on Cassie's website at Home (primrosedawn.com)

All of her lingerie sewing patterns are accessible All Lingerie Sewing Patterns (primrosedawn.com)

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel. Sound with permission by bensound.com

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Arounna Khounnoraj is running her 'Dye, Stitch and Sew' workshop at the Making Zen Online Retreat.

You'll be using materials you can find in your home. No need to purchase new supplies when you attend Arounna's dye workshop.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 25 to 29 September 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Bianca Springer used the 2 times in her life when she was in recovery to develop embroidery designs to reflect her culture for all to share. Her story and stories are reflected in her book and you'll learn from her at the next Making Zen Online Retreat.

Good Hair Day!  is her workshop. You'll be adding 3D hair details and textures to your favorite people centred fabric.

Finished projects can be integrated into hooped art, on bags, as jewelry,  garments and fun accessories. www.biancaspringer.com

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 25 to 29 September 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

It's all about textiles and ceramics for Deborah and I know you'll find her workshop at the next Making Zen Online Retreat worth watching again and again.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 25 to 29 September 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Melissa Galbraith of MCreativeJ talks about how she went back to embroidery and as at last year, this is now her full time job. You'll hear how Melissa decided to make this shift in her life and career.

Melissa tells us how she values the use of therapy to manage the adjustment from being an employee to being a small business owner.

At the Making Zen Online Retreat on 25 to 29 September, Melissa's workshop is called 'Upcycle Your Clothing with Embroidered Flower Pockets.'

Melissa is one of 20 talented textile artists you'll learn from and enjoy at the Making Zen Online Retreat, organised by Kate Ward of Zen Stitching.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 25 to 29 September 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Who’s on the podcast for the upcoming Making Zen Online Retreat on 25 to 29 September 2023?

Kate Ward – founder of Making Zen Online Retreat and owner of Zen Stitching.

Arounna Khounnoraj, Deborah Fisher, Bianca Springer and Melissa Galbraith

You’ll hear from each textile artist in the lead up to the next Making Zen Online Retreat.

The Big SewOff is back again. Join Sew Over It and the sewing community on Monday 4th September 2023 for a 24-hour sewathon to raise money for charity!

Alma from the Sew Over It team discusses all of this year's sewathon hubs, charities and local events.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Janene - ooobop on Instagram - will be participating from her home sewing studio for this year's Big SewOff

Last year Janene was in awe of the sewing efforts by the Sew Over It team during their 24 hour sewing marathon to raise funds for Mind Charity.

This year Janene is road testing her patterns to see how many well-made garments she can sew for charity in a 24 hour period.

What are you doing to support this sewing charity event?

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Cathy of CathySewsStuff on Instagram gives us an insight into her sewing and local stitchers club SouthSea Sewn.

Recently Cathy culled her clothes (donated to a clothes swap) and is curating styles to make sure they meet her needs and allows her to sew to her heart's content.

She discusses the influence SewOver50 followers have on her clothing/pattern decision making.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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When you learn a new sewing technique, do you share it? Stephanie does. As she learns new techniques or figures out what that 'darn' tool is, she'll show you on her Instagram account.

You'll have to listen to Stephanie to find out what the Institute of Nerd Studies refers to. Then you'll learn how The Stitchuation Room came about.

Stephanie was recommended as a podcast guest by our previous podcast guests, Nancy of @Iusedtobeacurtain.

What is your holy grail of sewing?

Is it a pattern that works well with the fabric you've chosen or getting involved with sewing challenges or even projects that stretch your sewing skills?

SewMuchToDesign Lou Sheffer, has had a positive influence on Stephanie's future sewing goals.

All these questions and more are answered by Stephanie on her very first podcast. She's a true professional at discussing sewing. Aren't you?

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Louise @demuredesigns provides the full details of pattern matching so make sure you save both episodes in your podcast app.

Louise recently provided a reel for @SewOver50 followers on Instagram about pattern matching.

Enjoy your sewing and try a simple design to pattern match that loved print in your fabric stash this weekend.

This is the episode you should go back to when you're making that next project with print placement conundrums.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Did you see Louise @DemureDesigns pattern matching basics reel on @SewOver50 on Instagram?

In this episode you'll hear how Louise has been learning couture sewing techniques for many years. Not an easy task when she lives in Perth, Western Australia.

Try a simple design to pattern match that very loved print in your fabric stash this weekend.

Next week's episode Louise provides the full details of pattern matching so make sure you listen and save both episodes in your podcast app.

The tag for the week: #SewAnkaraFabric23 as we are supporting Ankara Appreciation Week hosted by Lena @ThatLenaKing & Juliet @JulietUzor_.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Pam is OneWildPixie on Instagram.

In her own story, you'll hear about her one screen and off screen persona.

She sews the clothes that suit her lifestyle.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Use #SewOver50July for July so we can find you faster this month.

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Make sure you listen to Sheila's first podcast about blankets made in Australia from last week. Sheilasewsherclothes on Instagram

In this episode, Sheila shares the international research on blankets she's keenly interested in through the SewOver50 network. That's view emails and messages to a few key people in the SewOver50 community that Sheila has been following as part of the SewOver50 community.

Then Sheila shares some of the tips she has used making her two jackets and one dress from much loved woollen blankets made in Australia.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Sheila of Sheilasewsherclothes takes us through her blanket coat research over 2 episodes. National Wool Museum was a source of her research.

Katie Makes a dress used blankets as coat fabric.

Mending Mayhem followers and Morrissews are great people to follow to learn various mending techniques.

Listen to Sheila's report about the information Alf Newby of Albany Mills in Western Australia wrote about the dyeing he did of the woolen yarns. He started working in the mill at the age of 14 and by 40 years old, he was the principal dyer.

More about blankets made outside of Australia next week.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Use #SewOver50June this month as well as #SewOver50 so we can find you faster on Instagram!

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel. Sound with permission by bensound.com

Instagram has now removed the “recent” # search. Perhaps you have noticed that the tags are no longer in chronological order. Our strength has been getting to know our community through checking the tag daily. Without being able to see your most recent sewing under #SewOver50 it is quite infuriating. @Instagram is not receptive to the outcry so we are instigating a NEW plan to find you. 🙌🙌🙌 For June, use #SewOver50June. 💥 We’ll find you fast and can like and comment on your posts everyday again as the volume will be lower and the hashtag will be running for only 30 days or so. Still use #SewOver50 because we want to keep our community growing. With 235,000 posts and over 47,000 followers it’s where our strength lies! 💪 #So50Visible #SewOverAgeism We’d also appreciate you sharing this to your stories to spread the message from SewOver50. And remember… #SewOver50June with #SewOver50. 🙌🙌🙌

Cris focusses on different body types, different ages and different skill levels in her tester group.

She also provides insight into her patterns. They will challenge you but Cris will always help you.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive. 

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel. Sound with permission by bensound.com

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Cris Wood was kind enough to give us her time to talk about what is involved in getting models who look like they are over 50 years old for a small patternline.

In the research conducted by SewOver50, statistics in 2022 showed there are few companies that represent sewists over 50 on their pattern company grids and on their pattern covers.

Cris has been in contact with Sandy of SewOver50 to source local models that could be 'over 50' models for Cris Wood Sews patterns.

Cris originally worked in a number of sewing jobs and in 2020 she was forced to stop working and had to come up with another way of earning an income.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Anna (@Sew.spanner) is building her new work wardrobe based on black trousers she recently made.

While we're all heading into the next season where we live, Anna talks about her wardrobe building to suit the new job she has taken. How do you build your capsule wardrobe? Do you base your sewing on one garment or on something else entirely?

Anna also buys her fabrics from her local Fabricabrac sale. Monies from sales of these events go to local hospice.

What type of dresses would you make for a trip overseas? Have a listen to what Anna has in mind.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Jill or Sewingsensation has sewn all her life but took sewing up again during covid lockdown.

Jill shares the new skills she learns through her Instagram account.

In the lead up to her daughter's wedding in December, Jill has decided to make her dress using silk fabric. The lessons she is currently learning is what she shares through her Instagram account.

Jill is making the robes for the bridal party and in doing so, she has discovered the highs and lows of using the ruffler foot. 

Most of what Jill has shared is what she has learnt from fellow sewists on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Mirjam is teaching layered running stitch as an aspect of organic embroidery at the Making Zen Online Retreat from 15 to 19 May.

Mirjam learnt all her crafts from the women in her family. At the age of 3, Mirjam had a needle in her hands to sew. Her textiles specialty is organic embroidery.

Last Making Zen, Mirjam ran a workshop about the honeycomb stitch - a variation on the blanket stitch.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Liz Kettle developed the 'stitch meditation process' through a personal need she had. She is running her workshop to learn how to paint fabric at the Making Zen Online Retreat from 15 to 19 May.

You'll hear from Liz how following the process fuels your creativity. We're human beings, not human doings. You'll hear what Liz means with this phrase.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Liz Haywood is running a workshop to create closures that are compostable and/or use resources you have where you live at the Making Zen Online Retreat from 15 to 19 May.

Liz is a local Australian who authored Zero Waste Sewing and The Dressmaker's Companion

Liz also talks about her latest A Year of Zero Waste Sewing ezines.

You can find Liz's website at The Craft of Clothes - a sewing and fashion blog (lizhaywood.com.au)

Her Instagram account is 

The Craft of Clothes - a sewing and fashion blog (lizhaywood.com.au)

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Judith and Sandy discuss the background of the research released today on the SewOver50 account as well as their SewOver50 journey and how friendships have been made while raising the visibility of older sewists.

Judith Staley with a team of 4 SewOver50 followers conducted research of pattern companies from 1 January to 31 December 2022 to identify the visibility of older sewists. This research helps to show if the SewOver50 account and the community has made a difference since 2018.

This episode is about the research chat. Episode 386 is just about the research that was conducted. 

On the SewOver50 account, there are 2 posts that cover the results of this research. Comments are available on the first post so all comments can be made on 1 post. You don't need to feel you have to duplicate your views about this research over 2 posts.

The team who participated in this study with Judith were Judy Henwood, Kris Doyle, Sarah Allen and Camilla Lindberg

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Judith and Sandy discuss the background of the research released today on the SewOver50 account.

Judith Staley with a team of 4 SewOver50 followers conducted research of pattern companies from 1 January to 31 December 2022 to identify the visibility of older sewists. This research helps to show if the SewOver50 account and the community has made a difference since 2018.

This episode is about the research that was conducted. The full version is episode 387.

On the SewOver50 account, there are 2 posts that cover the results of this research. Comments are available on the first post so all comments can be made on 1 post. You don't need to feel you have to duplicate your views about this research over 2 posts.

The team who participated in this study with Judith were Judy Henwood, Kris Doyle, Sarah Allen and Camilla Lindberg

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

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Jayne will be running a workshop that focuses on play with textiles at the Making Zen Online Retreat from 15 to 19 May.

Jayne completed a B tech in fashion design, then completed a multi media textiles degree and finally completed a Masters at Central St Martins. She also has an MA in Print.

Sustainability plays a big role in her textiles work as does the element of play in her workshops.

Jayne's workshop will help you 'be in the moment' and not think about the end product.

Members of the 'no rules textiles society' will know exactly what Jayne's work is all about.

You can find Jayne's website at www.jayneemerson.co.uk

Her Instagram account is 

https://www.instagram.com/jayneemersontextiles/

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 16 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Meredith is back to run another great workshop at Making Zen Online Retreat. In the previous retreat workshop participants learnt to use her freeform sewing machine technique for a way to use threads and water soluble fabric. This year, Meredith will share her preparation process with participants through drawing.

Meredith began her work during her Fine Arts degree in 2006 and participants will take away another skill to use on their own projects from the latest Making Zen Online Retreat.

Her focus on free hand embroidery on water soluble fabric is what motivates her creativity and is another skill you can explore to add from this latest retreat. She has a degree in Natural History Illustration that is reflected in the workshop she is running this year.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists. Link to Making Zen: https://www.zenstitching.ca/a/2147521766/9zkhZcmF

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Yasmeen of Sand and Stars is one for the talented textile artists at the next Making Zen Online Retreat hosted by Kate Ward of Zen Stitching.

Yasmeen is running a needle turn hand applique design development workshop at Making Zen Online Retreat 15 to 19 May 2023. Her aim is to help people find their confidence and creativity through needle turn hand applique.

After completing her art college textiles specialty, Yasmeen took a few years off before she went to the Royal School of Needlework. She did a foundation degree in hand embroidery and she really enjoyed using traditional skills to create beautiful projects. Yasmeen is indeed talented.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Kate Ward has created a new Making Zen online Retreat for 15 to 19 May 2023.

There is still the option to watch workshops from skilled textile artists for free each day and the simple option to purchase these workshops for $59.

This is one of the few online retreats that has always provided a free option to all subscribers and this year Kate has made sure this option remains available to everyone.

In the lead up to Making Zen, on the podcast you'll hear from Kate Ward, Yasmeen of Sand and Stars, Meredith Woolnough, Jayne Emerson, Mijam Gielen, Liz Kettle and our podcast regular and SewOver50 supporter, Liz Haywood.

Each textile artist is talented in their own area of textiles and want to provide a workshop to retreat students. The full list of textile artists is about to be released so stay listening.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2023 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 15 to 19 May 2023 and each day provides the day's workshops for free. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

'Sewing is an act of emotional repair' is a term Rosie Perl discusses towards the end of this podcast. This is a term quoted from Louise Bourgeois.

She's also now learning to adjust patterns to suit her body shape with her good friend Donna.

You can hear the joys that sewing brings Rosie in this podcast.

Her husband is now hooked on restoring pre-loved vintage sewing machines too.

Lots of great stories from a wonderful textile artist and Sydney local.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Today's episode features Diane of Style Falcon patterns with the investigation work she did on protecting yourself on Instagram.

In December there were a number of SewOver50 follower accounts that were cloned. This fuelled Diane to investigate why this happens and how you can ensure your accounts remain safe.

There's no rhyme or reason why it happened but Diane has a handful of ways you can both protect your online accounts and the accounts of your friends and families.

Many thanks for coming back and helping your SewOver50 follower friends Diane. This is the next in our Protect your accounts now podcast series. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

In this episode, Ronda discusses the good work SewOver50 has provided our community on Instagram. Ronda did a guest post for SewOver50 and she is awe of the amazing work Judith and Sandy to help keep our community together and safe.

Of course Ronda has many positive things to say about Stokx patterns owner Lindy and other indie pattern companies that raise the awareness of mature sewists.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Ronda Hazell mostly wears the clothes she sews and occasionally her quilt art projects.

Ronda is a SewOver50 follower based in country Victoria in Australia. When we recorded this podcast we realised there was so much more to her story than the usual 20 minutes so in this episode you'll hear about how sewing is an integral part of of her life and that of her family and friends. 

Next week we'll expand on the SewOver50 community, ageism and our admiration for Lindy of Stokx Patterns.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Duane tells us his background prior to sewing. He's always been a maker and he comes from a family of makers.

If you're interested in how the classes are run at The Tailoring Academy in the UK, Duane talks about how the classes are run and what the accommodation is like for the 6 international students.

He is still thinking about what he will do when he gets home after this amazing intensive tailoring experience. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Contact Judith and Sandy at SewOver50 to offer your support for this wonderful IG account. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you can, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Duane tells us the story about why he's currently at The Tailoring Academy in the UK right now. 

The Tailoring Academy course Duane is working through started in September 2022 and is 10 months in total. As he says, they started with only a few body measurements.

Many people who have been following Duane for years will remember his kilt sewing work. He called this fabulous tartan - Loud McLeod.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Contact Judith and Sandy at SewOver50 to offer your support for this wonderful IG account. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you can, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Ros relearned to sew in the last 2 years. She did learn at school and Ros now uses her sewing skills to help her local community.

Oh and did you see her exhibit at the Dundee V&A museum last year. Ros and her son entered a new designer contest and their refashion entry was included in this inaugural contest.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Mel is a SewOver50 follower and as her bio says, she loves to start making things, many things, collect stuff, but to people who know Mel, wearing vintage inspired clothes she has made is what makes her happy. You'll love how Mel developed her Instagram name puddingandpeas

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. 

Our focus is the sewing talent each person shares on social media and providing recognition of their willingness to share their skills whether a beginner or experienced sewist.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account or directly via paypal. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Sigrid sews and knits and you may have been following her blog for many years. In 2022 Sigrid's Instagram account was copied as a fake account by scammers. This has happened and keeps happening to many SewOver50 followers. 

Be aware that fake accounts are created and the criminals behind these accounts prey on the followers of these accounts. If you are approached by what seems to be a fake account, let the actual person (account owner) know and then report the fake account to Instagram and then block it, for your safety and for the safety of your sewing friends.

When reporting fake accounts on Instagram, if the fake account uses your name/handle/photos, this is a copyright infringement. Report the fake account for copyright infringement to Instagram as well as the fake account as a scam.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Tee Jay Lee is a regular client of Sewn Adaptive - Lynn and Alex - and he's given his time to talk about how the work that Lynn and Alex do keeps him wearing the clothes he loves. You can hear the Sewn Adaptive podcast we published last year.

As a sewist, we have the skills to tailor and tweak clothes for ourselves and our loved ones. The work Lynn and Alex have been doing on Instagram that shows how they adapt clothing for people who need their clothes adapted is really appreciated by their clients. Tee Jay is one of their regular clients and this is his story. He was born and raised in California and Tee Jay was in the dance scene and is now helping dancers with his OT skills. Being able to wear the fashion he wants to wear is made accessible for him through the tailoring Lynn and Alex do for him.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Adam Wheeler is The Seamsters Apprentice on Instagram. He decided to sew one day when the curtains in his study just happened to break.

Once Adam made the curtains in his home study 6 years ago, he became fascinated by sewing machines and sewing. Well, he tells a story about his first fascination with sewing machine as a 5 year old. The first garment Adam made was a 'simple' tshirt.

In the early sewing days, sewing was his shared hobby with his late sister Sarah when she founded Dragon Café The Dragon Cafe is the project flagship of the Mental Fight Club. Sewing keeps the memory of his sister with him as Adam sews his projects for himself, his family and his friends.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free and the archive is gradually being uploaded on to the podcast YouTube channel.

Andrew is SewAndrew and he has a history of learning skills and then teaching them to his local community.

He's a hairdresser by trade and was a dancer and with both of these talents, Andrew gives back to the community by teaching.

This includes his teaching sewing to the local Andrew's first real sewing project was a waistcoat that he sewed with a costume designer who guided his sewing. He's not looked back since that time.

Here's where you can find more about Eco Life Eastbourne where Andrew has been running in person sewing classes for the community.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free. 

Miriam has been helping Ruth Collins get the word out about top down center out method and it's easy to understand why when you hear Miriam's sewing story.

Miriam was encouraged to sew through 4H programs.

Miriam has a phD in English and she immediately realised Ruth is a scientist by how Ruth was communicating about Top Down Center Out method. She tells us about her experience of using a dress form to get good fitting clothes but this meant Miriam had to make the dress form fit her body shape.

You'll hear how Miriam describes Top Down Center Out method as 'body agnostic'.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

When you look a Marja-Liisa's Instagram feed, you'll not know she has only been sewing her own clothes or the last 2 and a half years.

In 2019 Marja-Lisa found The Avid Seamstress patterns at Liberty in London and that is when she began to think about sewing her own clothes. At the start of the first lockdown, and after watching a few episodes of the Great British Sewing Bee, she decided to try sewing clothes.

When Marja-Lisa first tried to sew her first dress, she used a very old bedsheet to learn the construction process involved before she cut into her Liberty of London fabric.

Since then she has become a pattern tester and helped out SewOver50 and managed a guest post on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram. If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Ruthie is well known for her sewing floral fabrics, hence her Instagram name sewmanyflowers

Florals are the basis of Ruthie's clothes and they make her happy. Ruthie gives some easy to follow advice about how to find your floral and use them to sew clothes that make you happy.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Margaret  who is Northinstitches and her daughter Kat is makingwithneedles share their sewing interests and also attended the SewOver50 frocktail event in Edinburgh in September.

This podcast was recorded with both Margaret and Kat in their home and they both thoroughly enjoy frocktails and meeting in real life all the people who you chat to on Instagram in the SewOver50 community.

Both Margaret and Kat attend sewing days as SewToon in Newcastle, Toon is a dialect version of Town because that’s how Geordies pronounce the word. Lynne and Linda who were sewing friends on the podcast who also attend SewToon. SewToon is organised by Lynne’s daughter Tamlyn.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Elke does have an actual thread bear, hence her Instagram name sewthreadbear. She tells us the how close to her heart this bear is to her.

While Elke can't remember who taught her to sew, she has always sewn and in a way was influenced by her 2 aunts on her father's side. Her aunts had a knitting machine and they created the most beautiful knitted garments.

What Elke did realise that using a knitting machine would mean she would need lots of storage space for all the wool yarns used, as she saw from her aunts.

Elke talks about how as a sewist, we get caught in the perfection of the pattern we're using. She has learnt that if the garment looks good from 3' away, you've done a great job.

She has sewn some amazing garments using Julia Allison Cost fabrics too.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Rebecca Ryan and Jodi Dynan are co founders of Love for Lismore HeART Space. Susan Goodwin of Measure Twice Cut Once and Rebecca talk about their experience with the floods in Lismore and the surrounding communities this year.

Rebecca and Susan provide listeners with ways people can help this huge community rebuilding their lives. The links for all of these ways people can help are on the podcast website.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Stacey Taylor known as The Crooked Hem on Instagram, has developed a series of free YouTube videos to help sewists use the Top Down Centre Out method, developed by Ruth Collins ithacamaven on Instagram.

Ruth Collins was on the podcast in August and discussed the 5 steps within the Top Down Centre Out pants fitting method.

Stacey has developed this series of videos in consultation with Ruth so these free resources are always available and up to date. Viewers get a well presented demonstration of the method and the principles behind the Top Down Centre Out pants fitting method.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Ruth Woods is craftschooloz on Instagram and she is running her workshop called Create Textile Baskets from Recycled Materials at the Making Zen Online Retreat.

With a background in textiles, working as a clothing designer for over 25 years, then being introduced to basketry fifteen years ago Ruth loves to combine different techniques and materials. She has been creating textile baskets made from recycled materials and loves that you can create beautiful things made from waste products and finds it a challenge to use as little newly bought resources as possible.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 24 to 28 October 2022. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Agatha Lee or Agy, is a textile artist from Singapore, who is providing a workshop called Translating Nature into Thread Art with Free Motion Embroidery at the Making Zen Online Retreat.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 24 to 28 October 2022. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Morag_cg is a SewOver50 follower and lives in Glasgow.

If you watched the posts and stories for SewOver50 Frocktails in September, you would have seen her have a splendid weekend in Edinburgh. Morag has been sewing since she can remember and has the knack for working with paper and then developing her sewing project. She is mindful of the fabric she uses and you'll hear about her cashmere remnant purchases from Nomad_slt. Nomad SLT rescues cashmere and wool fabrics for reselling.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Sarah Pedlow is one of the textile artists at the October 2022 Making Zen Online Retreat. You can find Sarah on Instagram at threadwritten and at sarahpedlowstudio.

Sarah's workshop demonstration is titled Cultural Embroidery Traditions and The Chain Stitch. Sarah Pedlow, the founder of ThreadWritten, is an artist working with embroidery and cultural preservation through workshops, textile travel retreats, and fine art.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen from 24 to 28 October 2022. This is a week of textile workshops led by a selection of international artists.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event to inspire creativity and find zen. It's on again from 24 to 28 October 2022. Twice in one year and Kate Ward is here to launch this array of 20 textile artists.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Anna or AnnaPikaDIY is a SewOver50 follower that has begunn sewing recently. She's a close online sewing friend of Gabriele KissnTuss. It was Garbiele who asked us to invite Anna onto the podcast.

Anna talks about a number of zero waste pattern designers she admires for their designs and commitment to reducing waste. This includes Liz Haywood, Milan_avjc and Zero Waster Design Collective.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram. This is how many guests come onto the podcast.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Get ready for October's #sewingcpd2022 challenge. Sarah Thomas updates her Curvy Pattern Database monthly and shares this with the sewing community to find size inclusive patterns. There are over 400 new patterns published each year that Sarah adds to her database each month.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram. 

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Mary Connolly-Gale is the Chief Operating Officer of Days for Girls Australia. Days for Girls is an international organisation who's mission is to shatter the stigma and limitations associated with menstruation for improved health, education and livelihoods.

This podcast was a suggestion by Monica, a patron of the podcast.

Days for Girls Australia is a not for profit organisation and is run by volunteers.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Have you enjoyed seeing Byrd and Molly run So50Live for the Sewover50 community during the northern hemisphere Summer months? That’s Byrd of Yogabyrdsews and Molly of Mike and Molly’s House on Instagram. Byrd and Molly are today’s SewOver50 podcast guests.

Both Molly and Byrd were wanting to do the work to have more discussions on SewOver50. They approached Judith and Sandy separately earlier this year and now they’ve created an engaging platform for SewOver50 on Instagram.

They had roles at the start and now they have a great rhythm working together and making their guests feel comfortable in their So50LIVE interviews on Instagram.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

It’s September and we’re getting closer to this year’s SewOver50 frocktails in Edinburgh on 21st In the lead up, let’s have a listen to part 2 of the podcast with Wis from Gent.

Wis talks about her love of sewing and many of you identify with her because you follow Wis. It you don’t already follow Wis, her Instagram account is @Wis_g As we know, Wis sews great clothes and her creations have a lot of love in them.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

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Our guest is Ruth Collins or Ithacamaven on Instagram. Ruth has developed the Top Down Center Out method for fitting pants. This pants fitting method is still being tweaked by Ruth and she’s the one who knows all the ins and outs of the Top Down Center Out method. 

You'll find the 5 steps of the Top Down Centre Out method on her instagram account and on the podcast website.

To learn more about Ruth’s Top Down Centre Out method of fitting pants, make sure you follow Ruth on her Instagram account -  @IthacaMaven. Ruth will answer questions and continue to provide up to date information about this pants fitting method she created and shares with her followers. Also check out Stacey @TheCrookedHem who is creating series of videos to demonstrate the method on YouTube account.

Marcia Lois Riddington was the first SewOver50 follower on the podcast in 2020. Life was very different for us then.

Marcia talks about her sewing, her new love of visible mending, how embroidery is easy to do and very creative and more recently the fabric dyeing Marcia is learning about.

It's the excitement each project brings that keeps Marcia creative and wearing the clothes she wants to wear and love.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Sewn Adaptive is an educational platform for tailors and existing/new sewists to learn alteration techniques to adapt fashion to make it more accessible to all parts of the community.

Lynn Brannelly Costume Designs of @lws_lynnwardrobesews and Alexander Andronescu Fashion designer of @AlexofArabia are the co-founders of Sewn Adaptive.

In this recording, you’ll hear what motivates them to use their industry experience to help adapt clothes for all parts of the community. They’re sharing their knowledge with us through their videos on their Instagram account Sewnadaptive.

Home sewists and new sewists can learn adaptation techniques they can do for themselves or for their loved ones with a few sewing notions. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

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Diane is the creator of Style Falcon.

How Diane found a suitable fit model and why she established the name Style Falcon are some of the topics Diane discusses in her first podcast for SewOver50.

She's a home sewer, writer, researcher, wife, daughter, sister, friend and poodle mama.

She lives in in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

As Diane's says, 'I'm the visionary and creative force behind Style Falcon, but I don't do it alone. I work with a skilled professional team - a patternmaker, a grader, an illustrator and a graphic artist - to bring Style Falcon patterns to you.

The patternmaker is Christine Groom, owner of ZigZag Designs, a pattern company and custom couturier in California. Christine has a degree in Fashion and Apparel Design. She really understands how to design for mature figures. Her expertise makes each Style Falcon pattern work.'

Camilla  or frkc.lindberg on Instagram did promise to tell us about the sewing community in Sweden in her 2 podcasts earlier this year. Please excuse us for digressing to talk about wombats. Camilla is obsessed with wombats, an Austalian native animal.

Camilla's first podcast was about sewing for the men in her life. Her second podcast was about her sewing passion.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Lindy of Stokx Patterns has been working on a measurement chart since she publised her blog post on The Missing Measurements chart.

Lindy takes the emotion out of measurements and sizing. Many thanks to Lindy for supporting the SewOver50 community on her third podcast!

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Carmen Bouchard won the first series of the French Sewing Bee in 2014 and in this podcast she discuses what she gained from this experience and how this has continued to influence her sewing life. She also coined the term 'fabric famous'.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Carmen Bouchard won the first series of the French Sewing Bee in 2014 and in this podcast she talks about how sewing has been a part of her life since the age of 5. She's supported SewOver50 since it began. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Many people listened to Lou talk about her recent experience where she almost lost her Instagram account Sewmuchtodesign. Lou gave us lots of good ways to keep our accounts safe in her first podcast. In this podcast you'll hear Lou's sewing story and how she's now been a guest editor for SewOver50.

Have you taken part in #mymakesforthemonth yet? This monthly sewing challenge was founded by Lou and it's almost 2 years old now.

You can find Lou on Instagram and on her blog. You'll be seeing more of Lou as she's recently retired. Congratulations Lou.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

#SewColourblocking and #SewColorblocking is the July Instagram challenge hosted by SewOver50 and managed by Judy Williment Ross with her judging panel - Sheila and Sue. This challenge is open to everybody. There are a few easy guidelines and you can enter previous colour blocking makes in a new post for July 2022. 

Remember to tag @sewover50 and you are encouraged to also tag #waiwot and #so50reworn and many other hastags with your posts for this challenge.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Luanne has recently returned to sewing and her heart is very much about the fabric. You can now find her at Luannesewcializes on Instagram and you'll hear how she created a public account and has experienced the best that the SewOver50 community gives us all.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free with ongoing loyal patron support.

Bernadette @littlemissdressco is new to reels but she's managed to create a reel to teach people how to cover buttons and with great online success too. Bernadette has sewn for many years and you'll be amazed at the breadth of her sewing experience.

One of her sewing jobs is to sew for Stuart Hillard, who was in the first Great British Sewing Bee series.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

You know Lou of Sewmuchtodesign because she's a SewOver50 follower and the organiser of hashtag MyMakesForTheMonth Challenge.

In this podcast Lou shares her recent experience where her Instagram account was hacked and the good news is, she was able to get her account back with help from SewOver50's Sandy and Judith. Lou also shares handy tips about keeping your account safe that she's learned through this upsetting experience. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able to, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Lindy of Stokx patterns is back to share the support she's recieved from the SewOver50 community. Has you started to follow #stokxinthewild yet? Hop over to her blog post about The Missing Measurement Chart.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

This is one of three special Sewing Weekender 2022 podcast, featuring 2 of the chatty video presenters - Michelle of Michelle.a.sews and Emily of Emilynetsai.

Following four sell-out annual events in Cambridge, The Fold Line and Charlotte Emma Patterns are bringing The Sewing Weekender online for a third year, on Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd May 2022

10% of proceeds will be donated to the following charities: Missing People and The British Red Cross Crisis Appeals (supporting work in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen).

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

This is one of three special Sewing Weekender 2022 podcast. Wis talks about her experience at both the in person event and at the online event. She loves both formats and says how great Rachel, Kate and Charlotte are to develop this event in such a flexible way to meet our sewing needs when we were all in some type of lockdown since 2020.

Following four sell-out annual events in Cambridge, The Fold Line and Charlotte Emma Patterns are bringing The Sewing Weekender online for a third year, on Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd May 2022

10% of proceeds will be donated to the following charities: Missing People and The British Red Cross Crisis Appeals (supporting work in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen).

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

This is one of three special Sewing Weekender 2022 podcast, featuring 3 tutors - Lisa from The Avid Seamstress patterns, Alison from School of Sewing UK and Harriet of Sew Me Sunshine.

Following four sell-out annual events in Cambridge, The Fold Line and Charlotte Emma Patterns are bringing The Sewing Weekender online for a third year, on Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd May 2022

10% of proceeds will be donated to the following charities: Missing People and The British Red Cross Crisis Appeals (supporting work in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen).

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

In April Elle and Suzan talked about Sewing Machine Magic. Today they tell us about Love Binti, which is where Sewing Machine Magic is a part of.

Fund raising for the programs run by Love Binti are needed to help run their local programs to help the local communities raise their living standards. They’re currently fund raising for sewing menstral pads.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Judy made the Epic dress and Hexi coat by upcyling fabrics from clothes she's bought from Op shops as well as fabrics from her stash. However, there are some very thoughtful rules Judy uses to ensure she is using fabric already in circulation but not removing garments that are limited.

Judy talked about making the Epic dress and Hexi coat for SewOver50 in April, on the podcast.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Camilla @frkc.lindberg from Sweden is back as today's Sewover50 guest. She's been blown away by the encouraging comments she's received from her podcast in March.  She is now working on her upcoming podcast about the sewing community in Sweden.

Frk is short for fröken - Miss in English so it’s Miss C Lindberg. I label my work with Frk C/ Miss C.  Fröken is also teacher in Swedish.

Camilla what she enjoys sewing in a really fun way. She doesn't follow rules as you'll hear in this podcast and in her earlier podcast. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

On Monday 15 May, Sew50Live launches on Instagram. This is an IG LIVE event hosted by the sewing minds of Byrd and Molly. They've both been recent SewOver50 podcast guests too. Their first guest is Zoe Edwards of #memademay and Check Your Thread podcast.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

The Big Sew Off is on 12 May 2022.

Sew along with many sewists on 12th May to raise money for Mind. The key sewing hub is the 24-hour non-stop the Big Sew Off hub in London along with lots of other sewing businesses and personalities. There will also be a hub at Guthrie and Ghani in Birmingham along with others around the UK and overseas. This sewathon will be broadcast list on Sew Over It You Tube channel throughout the whole 24-hours to keep you company. All monies raised will go to Mind.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

He had always wanted to sew and once Steven retired he discovered tailoring was a skill his grandfathers had.

All four of his grandparents migrated to the States as refugees from Russia and Poland.

Steven decided to make his own indie designed bowling shirts when the store he used to buy them ready made, closed down.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Sierra of Threaded Together talks about the programs run for the local community and developed from community needs.

Threaded together is about inspiring creativity and connection through textile arts programs that partner with participants to nurture inclusive communities, cultivate agency, and provide employment pathways for people who have faced institutional injustice. Threaded Together has a facebook page, a website and their Instagram account. Sierra manages their social media accounts.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Ellie Beck is an artist, a published author, a creative maker and an educator. Her creative making encompasses slow stitching, natural dye, mindful making and impro quilts. This is all part of her everyday life.

Ellie is also a web designer, mentor and writer. She runs online craft workshops and she's a mum of 3. You'll enjoy her workshop at the Making Zen Online Retreat and you can find her on her amazing website and instagram account.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event from 2 to 6 May to inspire creativity and help you find your zen.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Amanda Nadig is a textile artist who finds inspiration in keeping with and breaking away from traditions in quilting. Her hand quilted compositions explore colors and shapes sourced second hand from garments and home textiles. Inspired by life as a mother and high school teacher, Amanda incorporates embroidered drawings, an unexpected mix of synthetic and natural fibers, and monoprints into her work. You'll find Amanda at her website and on Instagram.

Making Zen Online Retreat 2022 is a five day event from 2 to 6 May to inspire creativity and help you find your zen.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Elle and Suzan with Sofie for Love Binti presented their programs at this year's Commission into the Status of Women 66 run virtually by the United Nations Women UK group in March 2022. Sewing Machine Magic is just one of their many community programs. The sewing machines used to get Sewing Machine Magic started were initially funded through donations from Zonta International in Taiwan.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Lindsie of Sew Busty Community is back and is now sharing her research on making 7 inch full bust adjustments on patterns. Her research is being shared on the Sew Busty Community and Lindsie wants anyone who has to do these adjustments to have a look at the blog posts she's sharing with the sewing community for free. Make sure you listen to Lindsie's earlier podcast from July 2021.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Michael and Molly met back in 2003 on match.com. They were early adopters to the online dating scene. Molly discusses how they became a family, got rid of their credit card debt and sew together. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Judy judywillimentross responded to covid lockdowns in New Zealand by firstly creating the epic dress and then the hexi coat. The hexi coat has 5,048 fabric scraps.

Judy discusses how she sourced her fabrics and the epic construction journey, with lots of milestones along the way.

Her next podcast will cover her guide to op shopping for fabric.

She has been a guest editor for SewOver50. You can too. SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Kate Ward has launched this year's Making Zen Online Retreat. There are over 20 textile artists including our very own Katrine of Mending Mayhem and Selina of Selinaam05.

Making Zen Online Retreat is on 2 to 6 May 2022. This year the day's presentations are available for 24 hours for free so log into their website today

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

BoysSewToo  was born out of the shared experience for the love and passion of sewing. Many boys and men are discouraged from sewing as ‘boys don’t sew.’ Clive discusses how the sudden loss of fellow male sewer Rob Dawson made him start developing #boyssewtoo in Rob's memory.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Lisa of gizagiza.gorogoro dusted off her sewing machine in March, 2020 to make masks.  Together with her children, they made and donated over 6000 masks through the Million Mask Challenge. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Lindy of Stokxpatterns is a big SewOver50 supporter. Gabriele of Kissntuss discovered Lindy when Lindy first started her business. What you'll hear is the support Gabriele and Julie of consistentlydifferentdesigns have provided Lindy to keep producing sewing patterns that are different to mainstream patterns. You'll hear both Gabriele and Julie talk about their first coat twinning experience in their podcasts.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Janine or @janineerm is a very busy sewist and has been a guest editor for SewOver50. Janine is one of those people who if you need help, she will volunteer her time to you.

In this podcast, she describes the steps she takes to be a guest editor. We discuss what guest editors need to provide and really, Janine has enjoyed being a guest editor for SewOver50 for a very long time.

You’ll hear how Janine did not know Instagram at all when she first began volunteering with SewOver50. 

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Byrd or Yogabyrdsews on instagram, watched her mother contribute to the community through the PTA, through school activities, in political activities and even until her passing, she would collect bread for nursing homes.

Byrd has worked in social services and now in retirement she uses her sewing to help her sorority assist a school and nursing homes by sewing customised bags for residents on as a birthday gift.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Camilla @frkc.lindberg is our Sewover50 guest from Sweden. 

Frk is short for fröken - Miss in English so it’s Miss C Lindberg. I label my work with Frk C/ Miss C.  Fröken is also teacher in Swedish.

Camilla trained to sew for both men and women and as a tailor, sewing is sewing. The techniques used to sew for all people are the same.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Steven or @arealheller been sewing for 3 years and he found SewOver50 through people he was following on Instagram. Steven tells us he is in Sewover60 and he should be in Sewover70 as well.

He had always wanted to sew and once Steven retired he discovered tailoring was a skill his grandfathers had.

All four of his grandparents migrated to the States as refugees from Russia and Poland.

Steven decided to make his own indie designed bowling shirts when the store he used to buy them ready made, closed down.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism. Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

While recording the Sewing Friends podcast with Helga and Nicole, we also discussed sewing bras.

This is an unplanned podcast that we felt might help listeners who want to try sewing bras with some ideas about how to go about planning their future bra sewing projects.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Alison Alibobs_sews says the SewOver50 Instagram tip posts are quite useful to her. She’s not over 50 and Alison is a great friend to many sewists online.

Alison had her personal embroidery story published in Threads Magazine issue 212. Alison wrote how doing embroidery on the sofa when Alison was diagnosed with breast cancer, as her mother also also done had breast cancer when Alison was 4 years old.

Alison created embroidered flowers in a vase and did blackwork embroidery to reflect a pixelated portrait.

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you list to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

Teresa @desewtropia created a list of Etsy digital craft sellers based in Ukraine after Anita of @daydreamofquilts put out a call to support craft sellers directly. Etsy has removed the sellers fees from these businesses as well.

Teresa has web development skills and she's created this listing and a website hosting this list. She will keep updating this list as people let her know about Ukraine craft businesses and the list will be available indefinitely.

A simple version is at www.teresahardy.com/ukraine.  That is one that you can easily copy and paste into a Facebook post or something. The version with photo previews are at https://ukraineetsysellers.my.canva.site/

We also learn about Teresa's sewing life. Her personal Instagram if anyone’s interested in life in the Andes at the equator is @unpaintedhuffheins (As Teresa says, 'Yeah, I don’t make my usernames easy do I?')

SewOver50 intersects with all communities. SewOver50 where we are so over ageism.

Make sure you listen to your SewOver50 friends in our SewOver50 podcast archive.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

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Forty thousand followers on SewOver50! 40k followers, 40,000 followers….it doesn’t matter which way you write it that’s a LOT of followers. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. SewOver50 on Instagram has gone from their humble beginnings in August 2018 when Judith (@JudithRosalind the founder) asked “is there a need for a group for older sewists? to now being the largest active sewing community on Instagram. In the words of Helen Reddy, we’re “in numbers too big to ignore!”  

So…..let’s celebrate with a fun weekend challenge. We have some lovely sponsors for our random prizes too!

1. ANYONE can enter (all ages). 
2. One entry only in the comments below Friday’s post (11 March 2022). 
3. Entries/comments close Sunday midnight GMT 🇬🇧. 

What you need to do:

Describe your “sewing style” in three descriptors.      

That’s it! 🙌

As a way of guiding you here are ours. Can you guess who is Judith and Sandy? 

Reflective, evolving, relaxed. 😊☮️✌️Colourful, distracted, learner. 🌈🤯👩‍🎓 

It’s as simple as that! Just tell us about your sewing style in comments below in three words. 

Why not share your sewing style descriptors in a post or story too and let everyone know that being SewOver50 does not mean invisible. 🙌💪👍 

ALSO: Join us for a LIVE on Friday at 7.30pm GMT 🇬🇧 where we dip our toes into live-streaming for the first time! Send good vibes….we’re going to need it. 😂

We’ve asked a few of our followers to send  us their descriptors to have a bit of fun and you can see who we have chosen! 🎉 🎤 Fingers crossed 🤞 and see you there. 

Special mentions to Gillian, Susan Young and Tree.

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Pam O'Connor is Sewnonthemap on Instagram. She's a SewOver50 follower who has sewn no matter which country she was living in at the time.

Pam has picked up a few treasured pieces of fabrics in her world travels that she has plans to make in upcoming projects. Each project is unique and has to have a story behind it. She's an active member of Sew Tampa Bay group.

Make sure you follow SewOver50 to encourage more images of mature sewists in sewing media. 

Sew Organised Style features people who freely support the sewing community. You're welcome to be a podcast guest by contacting us via DM on Instagram.

If you are able, consider supporting this podcast through our patreon account. Every podcast is free.

Did you get a chance to listen to the first part of this SewOver50 sewing friends podcast with Nicole and Helga in episode 305? Today’s podcast is part 2 of the chat we had about their sewing and sewing friendship.

Nicole or Septemberfaden on Instagram and Helga of Salixsews on Instagram discuss the sewing projects on their to-do lists.

They are one of many sewing friends within the SewOver50 community. Do you have a close sewing friend through SewOver50? If you do, DM us on the podcast Instagram account today

In this episode, Kate answers a few personal questions developed by Helene about Kate's style and fashion. In last week's episode she discussed #mendmarch and of course, mending features in her thinking and fashion choices.

Many thanks to Helene for the success of this discussion with Kate Sekules.

Anyone can mend.

Mend don't spend.

Nicole Septemberfaden and Helga Salixsews are today's SewOver50 sewing friend guests.

Would you believe in real life they only live 5km apart?

Their friendship started on Instagram through SewOver50 and you'll hear how they're now friends in real life.

You'll find out about their sewing plans in the next SewOver50 podcast on Sew Organised Style.

Robyn or fourpatchtextiles on Instagram is a maker of bespoke clothing, bags and occasionally quilts. She’s a big supporter of the visible mending including Mendingmayhem and the Sewover50 community.

Robyn discusses her use of textiles as part of #mendmarch.

In this podcast Kate answers questions from previous mending podcast guests Katrine, Selina, Wendy, Tricia and Uli.

You know Dawna as Spoolriversewing on Instagram. She has been featured on the grid of SewHouse7. Dawna tells her story about starting her blog in 2018 because she felt older sewists were not represented on the internet. She is thrilled that this idea of hers was reinforced by SewOver50 starting in the same year.

Her sewing start is really lovely and you can find her podcast blog post on the podcast website.

Make sure you have a listen to all the SewOver50 podcasts to hear from your friends in this inclusive sewing community.

Tracy Davis or Sewing4therapy on Instagram is a favourite SewOver50 sewist that inspires great fitting clothes making and fuels the sewing engine of her fellow sewists.

You'll hear how Tracy knows the value of a hobby/practice that balances the stressors of her profession.

Her children are learning that Mom knows, when it comes to fashion. Take her current love of making shackets.

Make sure you follow SewOver50 to images of mature sewists in sewing media.   

Tina Watts or Vintagetina is a favourite vintage sewist of Instagram of many people and today we get to find out more about her sewing life and how vintage patterns fuel her sewing projects.

Thanks for listening to Sew Organised Style's episode 300. It's lovely to share this episode with a well-loved Australia sewist who creates vintage looks for her everyday life. 

Everyone can be a SewOver50 follower on Instagram. SewOver50 intersects with all communities.

Yolanda Woodland also known on Instagram as so_sew_mardest is today's SewOver50 guest.

She has a lot of style and sewing projects that she does so 24 hours is not enough time in the day to get through them all. Yolanda talks about her pattern testing experience and encourages her fellow sewists to try it at least once.

Make sure you go back and listen to all the SewOver50 podcasts available for free.

Jeanette Hayes or netty.hayes.sews on Instagram is New Zealand sewist and she started sewing again 4 years ago. She's a SewOver50 follower and she's also recently made her Instagram account public. Jeanette is inspired by her fellow sewists and she felt comfortable making her account public.

She has collaborated with Chalk & Notch, Friday Pattern Company, True Bias, Minerva in the UK and Fabric Godmother. Jeanette uses The Fold Line for her sewing pattern research. Jeanette is SewOver50 sewist that pattern companies have loved including her in their social media.

You’ll find more sewists from New Zealand using #NZsews

Make sure you follow SewOver50 to images of mature sewists in sewing media. 

Nikki Sinclair or nikksinclair on Instagram is a favourite Sewover50 sewist that inspires great fitting clothes making and fuels the sewing engine of her fellow sewists.

Nikki is on the podcast with her biggest sewing fan, Clayton Sinclair.

Nikki tells her sewing story and it’s really clear to hear how supportive her husband is of her sewing projects. She gives some great advice to new sewists to enjoy sewing more.

Sarah of Pattern Union is a big supporter of the Sewover50 community. Today she’s here to talk about visible mending. Sarah lives in Western Australia.

Sarah has been focussing on using her existing resources to focus on visible mending. With her pattern developments, she amassed a lot of fabrics and resources that were no longer useful to her but when she went to take them to the local thrift store, the response from the store was a wake up call to her regarding textile waste.

Special mention to Sue Stoney for her skills in reusing textile resources.

On Instagram you can find SewOver50, Sue Stoney and Sarah Pondevie.

Angie gives us the inside scoop about being on Kirsty's Handmade Christmas in 2021. She also discusses how she wants to make dolls that look like their owners features and enthicity. We do discuss the doll patterns that are available on Uthando Project. 

Angie is currently working on a couture project. You'l have to listen in to find out.

Angie was on the podcast for SewOver50 last year in June and so much has changed for her. She leads by example and her energy is inspiring.

Did you know that Angie was on the telly in the lead up to Christmas in 2021? Amazing to hear how Angie's life has changed since she was on the podcast for SewOver50 last year.

Angie was on the podcast for SewOver50 last year in June and so much has changed for her. She leads by example and her energy is inspiring.

There is so much more that Sarah Thomas does behind the scenes to keep the Curvy Pattern Database current for everyone to use for free. She puts in her personal time into it, the website and the instagram account so everyone in the sewing community can also find sewing patterns in their sizing. Listeners can show they support her work by using #sewingcpd on patterns that should be on the database. A great piece of work supported by the SewOver50 community.

Sarah Thomas talks about how she started sewing and the Curvy Pattern Database. Sarah loves spreadsheets and she runs the Curvy Pattern Database for everyone to share. She puts in her personal time into it, the website and the instagram account so everyone in the sewing community can also find sewing patterns in their sizing. Listeners can show they support her work by using #sewingcpd on patterns that should be on the database. A great piece of work supported by the SewOver50 community.

Gabriele and Julie are back to talk about what they have planned for 2022 and beyond. This is part 2 of their SewOver50 sewing friends story.

In part 1 you heard about how they met via Instagram when Julie needed help with using Instagram functions to create stories they way Gabriele makes. 

In this podcast, their 2022 plans and their high regard for SewOver50 really shines through.

Sewing is the thread that brought them together. They're friendship has continued through their shared values and interests. Make sure you go back and listen to all the SewOver50 podcast. SewOver50 intersects with all communities.

Gabriele and Julie met via Instagram when Julie needed help with using Instagram functions to create stories they way Gabriele makes. 

You've heard from Gabriele and Julie on earlier podcasts. This is part 1 of their story as SewOver50 sewing friends.

Sewing is the thread that brought them together. They're friendship has continued through their shared values and interests.

There is more to Gabriele and Julie's story. Make sure you go back and listen to all the SewOver50 podcast. SewOver50 intersects with all communities.

Uthando Project is a small registered Australian Charity based in Perth, Western Australia. 

Since 2004 Uthando Project has built and maintained partnerships with 5 not for profit organisations in KwaZulu Natal, a province of South Africa.  These 5 organisations work with vulnerable children and communities and all promote the importance of play in early childhood development, education, social and emotional wellbeing.  Uthando Project supports the organisations by donating hand made dolls, puppets, balls and African animals for use in their work and for distribution to the children they work with.

Ann Vivers discusses the work that is being done by volunteers and how listeners can help, if they wish to. Have a look at their IG account by their growing Sydney Dollmaker group.

As Mimi talks about her sewing, you can hear the joy it creates for her. She shares this joy with everyone Mimi sews for. She is also grateful for the ideas her clients bring to her to then create with fabrics and notions.

Make sure you also listen to Mimi's first podcast about Shop the garment district. Mimi is now aware of the Sewover50 community and the depth of talent in this global community. Sewover50 intersects with all communities.

Katrine talks about how she lives with lupus, dyslexia and adhd while managing her energy levels to mend and craft in her everyday life.

Mending and always doing something with her hands helps her focus on everyday things like speaking to health services, teachers and even her neighbours. Katrine is a great supporter of sewover50, chronically sewn as she runs mending mayhem to encourage visible mending.

Katrine tells us about how her life changed with her final diagnosis and she has created her new normal. She's been living her life with chronic illness for over 20 years.

Seam ripper and friends is a collaborative Instagram account that was an idea of Sabina and her friend Murni supported her to start this very recent sewing account.

Seam ripper and friends has a team of volunteers that are experimenting with this account to engage a variety of people since they started this account this year. Murni stated that Sewover50 rocks and Sabine is also in awe of the work that Sewover50 does to engage people from all communities on Instagram. Their friendship and online team demonstrates that Sewover50 does intersect with all communities.

Part 2 of this conversation with Simon Turner builds on from his previous podcast talking about the men who sew in the sewing community and how SewOver50 represents the real people in the community. The work done by SewOver50 brings real people onto social media that counters the algorithms that skew our view of society.

Make sure you listen to the first part of this chat with Simon Turner or @madebysilverfox. You'll understand why he is excited to start working on the 10 metres of fabric he's just digitally printed for the sewing project that ignited his new sewing skills.

Simon Turner @madebysilverfox on Instagram is a new sewist. He counters the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’. He's a part of the SewOver50 community and one of the men who sew.

In this first episode his sewing skill story centres around a family market umbrella that he hand sewed to stop the fabric from deteriorating any further. Restoring this umbrella has led to Simon investing in his sewing skills.

He shares his sewing skills for sewing his own clothes as well as for his family and friends.

Simon has been sewing for 2 years. Sewing is his Covid skill.

Wendy or Whendy7 was nominated to be on the podcast recently because she does some very creative mending. 

Visible mending is a skill she is developing everyday. Her parents gave her the lifelong value to mend. Wendy tells a great story about how both her mother and father helped her save both her school skirt and her bike.

Mending Mayhem is such a fun group for Wendy and she thanks Tricia for introducing them to her. Katrine and Anette, who run it, exude enthusiasm and mending positivity. They celebrate all kinds of mending – even a snowmobile!

Wendy is inspired by the efficiency and cleverness of zero waste patterns. She particularly enjoys Liz Haywood’s patterns.

@librarianka Dorota and @solizziesews Lizzie are both local and online sewing friends.

Dorota and Lizzie are both makers and thankfully they were brought together through SewOver50 and their friendship now spans beyond sewing.

SewOver50 intersects all communities. This is very evident in the supportive experience both Dorota and Lizzie have had as part of the SewOver50 community. Having friends that share your creative interests is a great way to stay positive and focus on the good things in our lives.

Make sure you have a listen to the sewing friends podcasts developed from the SewOver50 community in our archive.

Emily is careful about online safety and keeps their password and identity safe, as well as their own mental self. The ongoing phishing that happens online doesn't stop Emily from sharing their sewing projects or on their views of life.

Emily has tapped into a rage of voices of women who are over 50 and fat who are silenced by many parts of the media, by makers and by influencers. Emily is current working in fat studies at university level. They discuss images and influencers to be thin through various generations and the pressure many people have lived through during their lives.

SewOver50 gives sewists a voice and promotes images of mature sewists to ensure we are seen. SewOver50 intersects with all communities. There are over 100 SewOver50 podcasts you can listen to for free in our podcast archive.

Jacqui Mendez-Johnson or @mad_sewing_scientist is a Sew Over It Inside and part of the Sewover50 community.

Recently Sew Over It recognised the SewOver50 community in their social media. Jacqui is one of their Sew Over It Insiders.

Jacqui discusses how she became a Sew Over It pattern insider and what that role entails. She loves it! She is a scientist by day👩‍🔬 and a sewing fiend by night since 2017!

There are over 280 free podcasts available. Feel free to support this podcast on our Patreon account so we can continue to feature the people in our sewing community.

Lynne and Linda became sewing friends one day when Lynne was seen at Costa's coffee by Linda wearing a dress she made for an Instagram sewing challenge called Swap, Share, Sew. The aim of this particular challenge was to make new friends.

They both mentioned Marilyn and the Sewing Angels of the North and many other ways their friendship has continued to grow in so many ways.

They are one of the many sewing friends built in the SewOver50 community on Instagram.

2021 has taken the creativity out of Katrine, the force behind Mending Mayhem. She's hoping that listeners who are feeling no energy to be creative can know they are in good company.

As we wind down to the end of 2021, if you're creative mind is feeling worn out, you can listen to how Katrine of Mending Mayhem also felt the same way for many months this year. She tells her story so that listeners who are also feeling deflated can know they are in good company to feel this way too.

This podcast covers some simple ways you can use strong passwords on all your apps and devices to protect both your accounts and your identity.

Unsolicited emails and messages and links are confidence tricks that allows scammers to steal from you. Recently the Sewover50 account received what looked like a copyright infringement notification from Instagram but it was a scam message that had a suspicious link that could have compromised all the hard work that the Judith and Sandy have done over the last 3 years. Thankfully no one clicked on the suspicious link and all is well for Sewover50.

This podcast gives you some simple ways to protect yourself online. Jenny chats about the levels of protection she uses on her all of her online devices. This way she feels much safer online shopping and using an avatar to be her online gaming self. 

Always feel free to directly contact the companies you think are sending your messages of demand for payments. You'll hear more about the simple ways you can protect yourself online.

The podcast blog post has a number of reputable organisation that can help you be more secure online. Always feel free to contact the organisation you think has contacted you to ensure you are really dealing with the company or department that you think has sent your a demand for payment. Be sure and know the organisations your have relationships with are there to protect you from scammers.

Janene Spencer or Ooobop is one of the pattern cover models for Sew Over It. Janene was chosen to represent the SewOver50 community.

SewOver50 has worked tirelessly to raise the profile of mature aged sewists for over 3 years now. Lisa Comfort of Sew Over It is the first sewing pattern company owner to dedicate a week of their social media time to recognise the SewOver50 community.

Janene talks about her experience as a model for Sew Over it. This is the first opportunity she has agreed to do after so many years of avoiding situations like this is the past.

Janene kindly gave us her time to record this podcast so we hope you'll enjoy hearing her story. There are now over 270 free podcasts featuring people from the sewing community to go back and listen to. Thank you for subscribing to Sew Organised Style podcast.

James is inspired more from recycled materials and off cuts to create projects. He has sewn for many years and he combines these skills with his crafting skills.

You'll see how much he enjoys Male Pattern Baldness day each year and he's allowed us to share some of his photos on our podcast website. Have a look at his IG account for lots more inspiration and seeing the people James has connected with in the past.

The online community such as Sewover50 has helped James stay connected with people in the sewing and crafting community. You'll find James at Craftspacecontinuum on Instagram.

Cara Lee is a Sewover50 follower that was featured in their Chronically sewn series.

Cara talks about how to make time in your limited hours of energy to be able to do the things you want to do amongst the tasks you have to do each day. There are some tools she uses to help her make better use of her sewing time.

With her limited time, Cara is still able to be pattern test for about 6 pattern designers. 

If it's good, then it's good enough. Cara talks about the challenges of having health issues people can't see.

The Sewover50 Instagram community continues to grow because it supports their growing community of nearly 40,000 followers through their positive community values. There are over 270 free podcasts here on Sew Organised Style to keep you company and motivated to sew.

As Denise Archer says, Breast cancer isn’t curable. 30% of all survivors will die from this disease because it will return—one, five or twenty years later. That’s 42 thousand BC deaths every year in the US alone. The cancer treatment causes lymphedema. A compression arm sleeve is a great reminder of our cancer survival as well as many other physical challenges breast cancer treatments affecting patients. Thank you Denise for your permission to replay your podcast.

Wendy Ward has written 4 sewing guides for beginners. If sewing masks and PPE was your first sewing experience, Wendy shares her sewing advice she gives her sewing students.

Wendy began teaching in 2012 and she shares her sewing advice that will help new sewists keep developing their sewing practice.

This is Wendy's third podcast and if you enjoy her work, go back and listen to her previous podcasts on sustainability and sewing for everybody.

Many thanks to Wendy for giving her knowledge and giving her time to these 3 podcasts developed for SewOver50 this year. SewOver50 intersects with all communities.

Sheila of Sheilasewsherclothes and Sue of Modelled_by_Madge are today's sewing friend guests from the Sewover50 community.

Sewing brought these two sewing friends together but they have more than sewing that keeps them together.

Yes they have different fit issues but they work together to create clothes they love to wear. Both Sheila and Sue provide great suggestions if you'd like to find a sewing friend online.

Sewover50 intersects with all communities so make sure you go back and listen to over 90 Sewover50 podcasts available for free.

Nikki Ansell or @itchycoopark23 lives with long covid and is one of the many SewOver50 followers who continue their sewing projects while living with chronic pain.

She shares how her life has changed since March 2020. Nikki tells us about her personal losses during covid and listeners who have also experience the loss of loved ones should be aware that we talk about this between 3 and 5 minutes.

This year Nikki talks about how she is living her best life and the roles sewing and crafts play in her life.

We've had over 240 guests on the podcast and while we've discussed accessibility Sue Stoney identified a few gaps that we needed to discuss further. 

Sue has used hundreds of patterns and this list of issues are ones that pattern designers can use to make the lives of their customers easier to follow their instructions. Using redundant queues, avoiding colour use, including sizes on pattern grade  lines, adding pattern layers, being aware of hearing loss, yellowing of the lens through age, sewn shown seated, designing for seated people, text to voice enabling to help read pdf patterns - these are some of the podcast gaps Sue Stoney identified that we needed to talk about.

Sue references WHO stats to state her case about how pattern designers can make their patterns more accessible to their customers who love their patterns.  

The SewOver50 Instagram community continues to grow because it supports their growing community of over 37,000 followers through their positive community values.  Make sure you go back and listen to Sue's earlier podcast and over 90 SewOver50 podcasts available for free.

Kate Ward of Zen Stitching has arranged this online retreat with 15 expert makers to share their skills with you close up. This is a free event.

Making Zen Online Retreat begins on 18 October 2021 for 5 days and the free presentations are available until Sunday 24th October. Keep up to date through the Instagram account.

This is Kate's sixth podcast and this time it's to encourage you to try a new technique with all the amazing speakers - Zac Foster, Meridith Woolnough, Sarah Woodyard, Sky Pennant, Liz Hayward, Maria Theoharous, Evelyn Bourne, Andrea Tsang Jackson, Raina McDonald,  Heidi Iverson, Emma Freeman, John MacPhail, Vaina Soucy, Amy Maricle, Kaila Givehand and Kate Ward.

Each day 3 videos from the makers will be published and there will be live discussions with them online.

Lisa Comfort the founder of Sew Over It decided she wanted to feature SewOver50 sewists, recognising their support by Sew Over It and ensuring representation of sewists over 50 in their social media and on their newly designed pattern covers. Sew Over It is the very first sewing company to embrace SewOver50 in their social media and also on the cover of their sewing patterns.

At Sew Over It they are all about stylish sewing patterns, gorgeous fabrics, easy-to-follow classes on Stitch School, a comprehensive online learning platform, and expert advice to help people learn to sew one make at a time. Their mission is simple. They want to inspire and teach as many people as possible to learn to sew and join our sewing community.

These values are aligned to the SewOver50 community to encourage people to inspire and encourage each other to sew.

This is an exciting milestone for the Sewover50 community. Please take the opportunity to visit @SewOverItLondon and see the sewists who represented SewOver50 on their grid: Nandita; Lena; Suzy; Ellen; Jen; and Allison. There’s also our very own SewOver50 model Janene @Ooobop on several pattern covers. Many more SewOver50 were featured in SOI stories. Sew Over It uses a diverse group on their grid and pattern covers. Sew Over It patterns produced since March 2020 are UK 6-30, and older popular patterns are being continually updated….perfect for the #SewingCPD @CurvyPatternDatabase challenge (sewing a size inclusive pattern).

Eleanor Thomson or @nelnanandnora established a facebook group for sewing flat and asymmetrical clothes. This is a safe group to share sewing knowledge as well as they surgical and cancer journeys. Eleanor set up this group while she was facing her own breast cancer journey and found that sewing helped her build her body confidence.

After speaking with Eleanor, there was certainly more to her story that includes sewing among many creative pursuits and running. She's continued to give back the community helping to raise money for cancer research and creating a space to sharing sewing as well. 

The Sewover50 Instagram community continues to grow because it supports their growing community of nearly 40,000 followers through their positive community values. There are over 260 free podcasts here on Sew Organised Style to keep you company and motivated to sew.

Justin first started in early 2020. He made masks for his sister and since then he has continued to sew for his own needs like his new 2022 back to work clothes.

Finding patterns and fabrics are a challenge and you'll find the patterns he's used are worth considering for any body.

Justin does reuse and recycle fabrics, materials and projects he's made but won't get any wear out of. As Justin says, the sewing community is more than just talking about sewing.

Make sure you go back and listen to all of the podcasts in this series. There are more to come so make sure you subscribe to Sew Organised Style.

Jeannie of Annie and Myra's is a bra sewing expert from regional Victoria.

Jennie answers a few bra sewing questions so we have more information about sewing bras that fit us using the correct underwires, fabrics and bra notions to suit all skin sensitivities.

She does emphasis her love of couture sewing as she discusses starting on good basic bra patterns and using basic kits you can buy from local online retailers.

Jennie tells us about Free the Girls and their donating bras program.

Tina or Bricolagedk is back for Sewover50 and she updates on some of the new useful patterns resources she has found to sew for a post mastectomy body. 

There are many new patterns and resources to create clothes that Tina has in her sewing queue. Tina also lives with chronic fatigue and she continues to give back to the sewing community with her pattern ideas and resources both on her Instagram account, as a guest post for Sewover50 and on this podcast for Sewover50.

The Sewover50 Instagram community continues to grow because it supports their growing community of over 37,000 followers through their positive community values. 

Joost is the creator of freesewing.org Makers, designers and developers contribute to this free resources so there are sewing patterns anyone can access for free, as the name free sewing suggests. These designs have been used by previous men who sew podcasts guests Wouter.vdub and Enno Swets.

FreeSewing is an open source software project with the aim of becoming the Wikipedia of sewing patterns. FreeSewing provides a core library for parametric pattern design, an ever-growing library of designs implemented in code, as well as a bunch of adjacent tools for building modern interfaces on top of our platform. FreeSewing is not interested in fashion, trends, or publishing the hot new pattern of the season. Instead, the contributors want to empower makers by distilling the knowledge of the sewing community into parametric designs + documentation, and make that information freely available.

Make sure you go back and listen to all of the podcasts in this series for Sewover50. There are more to come so make sure you subscribe to Sew Organised Style. 

Morgan and Matt of Thread Theory patterns have joined the support of Sewover50 by being part of this series about sewing for men podcast series.

Thread Theory patterns is well know for providing great patterns for men and more recently for all bodies.

Adrianna loves mens tailoring and has worked in the tailoring industry. This includes sewing with denim. She shares her sewing experience and provides us with her sewing advice that might surprise many listeners.

Her overall advice is to give sewing a go, especially if you want to further develop your sewing skills for yourself or for the people that you love.

There are many great podcasts about sewing for men and men who sew that are also available on Sew Organised Style podcast that you can go back and listen to for free. There are more to come in this series so subscribe to Sew Organised Style podcast.

Lolie B Yergeau or Lolieya on Instagram encouraged sewists and pattern companies to provide seated photos of their patterns and makes.

Lolie has adapted through her life to be independent and at times ask for help with her daily activities. She shares her favourite tools to help her sew when she has the energy to sew.

On her Instagram account you can download her #sewnshownseated guidelines to help provide more photos of patterns in seated photos. This will help people who are seated and want to wear clothes to reflect who they are. The best “seat” is a simple stool because it lets us see the garments from all angles without obstruction. 

Christopher is back for Sewover50's men who sew series. He is a new sewists and he's back to talk about how he's investing further into his sewing practice. In his day job he manufacturers DNA.

Christopher follows many online sewing communities so that he can hear the view points of many people and learn along the way.

He follows the Sewover50 community because he can see what people are making and learn from them as well.

Make sure you go back and listen to all of the podcasts in this series. There are more to come so make sure you subscribe to Sew Organised Style.

The Button Challenge is the August and September sewalong run by Sew Busty with Brittani of Untitled Thoughts.

This is a simple pattern and Brittani has written some great posts on Sew Busty website for new sewists to follow and get a better fitted bodice on this dress.

The Sew Busty Community is for anyone who is busty. Anyone who has ever had to do a full bust adjustment on a princess seam or for a full bust adjustment on a waist dart as just 2 of the most challenging examples.

Generally, Sew Busty Community content is focused on those with a 3″ or greater difference between their full and high bust measurements. At Sew Busty, they firmly believe all bodies are good bodies, and they aim to be inclusive of all busty sewists.

Catch up on the previous Sew Busty podcast featuring Lindsie Rank.

Andie or Sew Pretty in Pink, is an artist, sewist, writer and improv comedian. Andie also describes themselves as a disabled fat Endy Babe interested in sewing, fashion, Lingerie, Swimwear and EDS. Andie talks about their developing @Chronicallysewn and the current #slowprojectchallenge. Chronicallysewn is an inclusive space for chronically ill (mental/physical) sewists. Slow Project Challenge runs over 3 months and the emphasis is on rest. There's no need to finish a project or projects.

Andie has found that online events are more accessible than in person events. She had a wonderful experience at this year's Sewing Weekender and says why the organisation of the Sewing Weekender was so brilliant and was very accessible.

This is the first Sewover50 series featuring people in the #chronicallysewn community. Sewover50 intersects with all communities.

Zoe Edwards is a podcaster with her podcast Check your threads. Have you subscribed to check your thread podcast yet? This is a joy to listen to. I'm sure you're already familiar with her existing blog 'So Zo what do you know. She's always posted her makes, her free patterns and her concern for the environment as well as the highly successful Me Made May each year. Her instagram account also reflects her sewing point of view and makes. In this podcast Zoe says that she enjoys engaging with people about being sustainable with their sewing.

Make sure you go back and listen to our #so50SustainableSewing podcasts and Sewover50 podcast archive.

Thank you Zoe for being on the podcast again. It's an honour and joy to have you back for the sewing community and Sewover50.

Following our theme of sewing for men for Sewover50, Wendy Ward talks about the capsule wardrobe she's created for anyone to sew. The details are in her book 'Sewing Basics for every body'. Wendy has taught sewing locally for many years and her depth of teaching experience has led her to writing this book for people to create clothes they want to reflect who they are.

Make sure you go back and listen to Wendy's earlier podcast about sustainable sewing for Sewover50. There is one more Wendy Ward podcast to come.

There are many great podcasts about sewing for men and men who sew that are also available on Sew Organised Style podcast that you can go back and listen to for free. There are more to come in this series so subscribe to Sew Organised Style podcast.

Nancy Chen Bajraktari of @iusedtobeacurtin is back on the podcast with her friend Julia Cost of @juliaallissoncost, as we look at how online friendships develop. Nancy and Julia talk about some great insights that listeners will easily identify with.

Nancy is a sewist who lives on O’ahu for the last year and she enjoys print mixing and upcycling clothing. This feeds her obsession with vibrant prints and exploring all sewing possibilities. Julia Cost is a painter and textile designer born, raised, and based on Maui.

Within the online sewing community such as Sewover50, people become friends through their love of sewing. Sewing is our common interest and once you start chatting online, many people become friends for all sorts of reasons and in many countries. We’re hoping this podcast can be the start of an ongoing podcast series about online sewing friendships.

Do you have an online sewing friend that you've made on instagram? Contact us on IG and tell us your story. Make sure you go back and listen to our Sewover50 podcast archive. Every podcast is free.

Enno Swets was one of the men sewover50 featured this year to show there is diversity in the Sewover50 community.

Enno or outdressed.no is an outdoor gear sewing specialist. He has a passion for technical or functional sewing and you'll hear how his problem solving strength is used to sew all types of gear. The plans he develops before making these projects are all dependent on the function they will be used for. 

Sewing gives Enno the perfect ability to be creative and produce clothes and products to suit his outdoor pursuits.

Make sure you go back and listen to all the podcasts about men who sew. Every podcast is free and there are more in this series from the Sewover50 community. 

Brittani of Untitled Thoughts discusses a few easy steps to take to be sustainable. Her view is that sewing in itself is being sustainable for a few good reasons.

Brittani encourages sewists to take small steps in their sewing practice to be sustainable including buying locally to reduce your carbon footprint.

Make sure you listen to our previous #so50SustainableSewing podcasts to inspire you to make something for this challenge today.

PK is today's Sewover50 podcast guest living in New Zealand. She's written a few instagram posts to inspire sewists to take their time to create clothes they love to wear.

PK's posts for Sewover50 have covered adding monograms to clothes they sew. She also timestamps her clothes to record the details of each make on each piece.

PK is addicted to sewing pants, shirts and coats.

What she does advocate is to share sewing knowledge and to always feel free to ask questions. This is truly a Sewover50 value. Sewover50 intersects with all communities. 

Jen Hogg is both a Sewover50 guest post contributor and a sponsor for Sewover50's #So50SustainableSewing challenge. Jen has long valued being a sustainable sewist and she discusses the many examples of how you can adopt sustainable sewing actions as part of your entry for the Sewover50 #so50SustainableSewing challenge this month.

In the wealth of sustainable examples Jen covers, she talks about 3 local textile suppliers who she has sourced 'textile waste' and given them a second life.

There are more #so50SustainableSewing podcasts to come. Make sure you go back and listen to our Sewover50 podcast archive.

Thank you Jen for being on the podcast again. It's an honour and joy to have you back for the sewing community and Sewover50.

Wouter vdub as he's known on instagram is today's bloke for Sewover50. Since Susan Young first wrote her article about sewing for men, we've been featuring men who sew in the Sewover50 community.

Wouter is an IT professional who loves to climb mountains and sew and does a bit of knitting on the side. He's been sewing his own clothes for the last 8 years and sewing gives him the freedom to express his style.

He has some great advice for new sewists who are learning how to sew. 

Once you listen to this podcast, you'll realise what Wouter has learnt and how he is sharing his sewing and designs back to the sewing community.

Make sure you go back and listen to all the podcasts about men who sew. Every podcast is free and there are more in this series from the Sewover50 community. 

Wendy Ward's most recent publication focusses on Sustainable Sewing. Wendy has now written 5 books to help sewists learn their sewing skills using her easy to follow instructions and patterns.

Wendy discusses how sustainability has always been an interest of hers and she has helped her local communities build sustainable sewing skills.

She's also a sponsor for Sewover50's #So50SustainableSewing challenge and we're so thrilled she gave us her time to talk about her knowledge in fashion design. Wendy did churn out fast fashion designs in first role after her degree. Wendy continues to provide sewists with ways to sew sustainably, when they decide to take that first step.

There are more #so50SustainableSewing podcasts to come. Make sure you go back and listen to our Sewover50 podcast archive. 

Rhonda Buss or Sewbussted on instagram is today's Sewover50 guest. Rhonda starts chatting about how she saves dogs who go onto doing great things like being therapy dogs. She's a pilot and she uses this skill to help her local community save dogs in states that keep lost dogs for very long.

She has sewn since the age of 5 and was taught by her grandmother. You would have seen Rhonda create and continue her #1yearchallenge on instagram. This challenge was Rhonda's response to being in lockdown last year. 

Yes. Rhonda is a long time member of the Haute Couture Club of Chicago, which is now open to anyone who wants to pop into their monthly Zoom meetings.

Every podcast is free so have a listen to previous Sewover50 podcasts. Make sure you give us a 5 star rating and review and support this podcast through our Patreon account.

Judith Staley of Sewover50 updates us about #So50SustainableSewing challenge for August. This challenge is all about using 'waste' fabric to make a garments or accessories using fabric that is already in the system.... your remnants, charity shop or thrift fabric from estate sales, vintage fabrics, manufacturing waste. fabric picked up from fabric swap tables at meet ups or from your fellow sewist's destashes, discarded garments or tablecloths or bed linen.

Please avoid buying charity shop garments that you might think are worth remaking because they are a very large size. These garments should be left for people who are looking for these sizes for themselves to wear. This challenge is essentially to use what you or a friend/family member/ fellow sewist already have available.

Seeing how you give fabric or garments a second life will spark your creativity so follow and use both #So50SustainableSewing and #Sewover50 to tag your make.

Keep an ear out for the next 3 special sewover50 podcasts to inspire you to sew sustainably.

Meet Lucie Harrild and her soon to be launched Comhla business that will include teaching mending and sewing in pop up places around the UK later this year.

Comhla is about 'Making it easier to care about the world and get dressed'.

Lucie has been a sustainability consultant for large corporates and now she's using that knowledge and training to make a difference for local communities.

Hold on to your hat. James learnt to sew at 7 years of age. James Nacy or James_is_sew_happy is our next men in the Sewover50 community to share his advice about sewing mens clothes.

The pattern designers James mentions by James are a great start when you're learning how to sew mens clothes for beginners.

There is so much joy in James's retelling of how sewing has played a changing role in his lift. You'll see some of his fav makes that he chats about in this podcast on his podcast blog post.

Sewover50 intersects with all communities.

Make sure you subscribe to get the latest podcasts about men who sew. Don't forget to give us a 5 star rating and review on your podcast app. 

The Sew Busty Community is for anyone who is busty. Anyone who has ever had to do a full bust adjustment on a princess seam or for a full bust adjustment on a waist dart as just 2 of the most challenging examples.

Generally, Sew Busty Community content is focused on those with a 3″ or greater difference between their full and high bust measurements. At Sew Busty, they firmly believe all bodies are good bodies, and they aim to be inclusive of all busty sewists.

You'll hear the joy and confidence Lindsie has to continue to work with sewists who want information to adjust patterns so suit their chests. Make sure you contribute to the Busty Pattern Database on their website.

This podcast is to support a recent article Susan Young published in Love Sewing magazine about sewing for men. Susan is the official blog writer for Sewover50.

You may have noticed that she recently made her husband some new gear and in this podcast you'll hear why she's done just that. Susan wanted to sew but had no motivation to continue to sew for herself so while in lockdown, she decided to sew a sweatshirt or 2 for her husband. You'll hear about her experience and what developments she has begun to see in the online sewing world.

The pattern search terms and fabric names Susan mentions are a great start when you're learning how to sew mens clothes for beginners.

This podcast is the start of a new Sewover50 podcast series featuring the men in the Sewover50 community as well as menswear pattern designer.

Make sure you subscribe to get the latest podcasts about men who sew. Don't forget to give us a 5 star rating and review on your podcast app. 

Sue and Emma Folts’ vision of the Great Bra Sewing Bee is to bring together bra sewists from around the world to enhance their skills, connect with businesses, and celebrate this beautiful art form. Brabuilders.com owned by Emma Folts, has pulled together skilled teachers and lingerie businesses to make this goal a reality.

Sue began making custom bras to use her sewing skills to help women get the bra they couldn't find in retail stores. As Sue says, it's cheaper to make your own bras and having a 4 day event that covers a myriad of bra topics is a great way to finally get your bra sewing game on.

There is a team of over 25 presenters and over 70 learning options available from 4 - 8 August 2021.