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Katrine for Chronically sewn

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.

Shop the garment district

Mimi Jackson runs Shop the garment district on Instagram. She is inspired by all the fabrics and notions available in the fashion district and her blog has a speak easy map you can use when you visit NYC.  This is Mimi's first podcast and you'll hear more from Mimi again soon. Her sewing history is fascinating.

Seam ripper and friends

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.

Made by Silver Fox part 2

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.

Made by Silver Fox

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.

Whendy7

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 and solizziesews

@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.

Love a slug too

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.

Mad Sewing Scientist

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

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.