The Whipstitch Podcast is your listening destination for thinking about sewing. It’s a place to talk ABOUT sewing even when we aren’t sewing. The most recent episode is all about why…
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The Whipstitch Podcast is back! Season Two launches TODAY and a new episode will arrive every other Friday from now until June 2022, ten episodes in total this spring. I have…
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Three years ago, I started thinking about a podcast. Like a lot of other projects over the past three years, this one went on the back burner–partly because I wanted to…
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The word “dressmaker” seems to speak differently to me than the word “seamstress.” Almost as if I think a dressmaker is someone who sews for herself but a seamstress sews for…
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I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. The earliest school memories I have celebrated the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March from Selma, and the Civil Rights movement in a very personal and…
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I’ve written about thread before, including my obsession with this microscopic analysis of thread fibers. I love the idea that at the tiniest scale, thread ISN’T the same, and that the…
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What is this giant ball of garbage under my sewing? That would be a tension issue. But it’s probably not your tension settings, like you might think. Most likely, your thread…
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When I was finished writing the book and sitting down to add the little extras, I thought long and hard to search my gut and create a dedication that was fitting…