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#160: What We Do Now
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#159: Small and Shared Space Sewing, Part 2
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#158: Small and Shared Space Sewing, Part 1
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#157: The challenges and joys of micro business with Bevan O’Daly
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#156: How to Run an Ethical Textiles Shop with Bevan O’Daly
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#155: Make it Your Own with Elisalex Jewell
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#154: Clothing Self-Sufficiency
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#153: The Provenance of Materials and Techniques – Shams with Allie Davis
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#152: Sewing for Stillness and Community with Mel Keane
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#151: Explaining Deadstock Fabric with The New Craft House
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#150: Momentum and Motivation with Meg Grandstaff
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#149: Replay – Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez
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#148: Replay – Mending Workshops with Carla & Meg / Community Glue
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#147: Replay – The Joy of Reclaimed Fabric with Sarah aka Sew Love NZ
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#146: Replay – Hand Stitching Clothing with Louisa Owen Sonstroem
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#145: 5 Simple Tactics to Save on Sewing
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#144: London Destash Fabric Swap 2024
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#143: No Small Business on a Dead Planet
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#142: Values Based Spending and Making with Shams el-Din Rogers
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#141: Resourcefulness, Resilience and Wealth with Laura Oldanie
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#140: Sew Organised Style Podcast – The Nest Community
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#139: Behind the Scenes of Podcast Making with Maria Theoharous
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#138: Making Sewing Podcasts with Maria Theoharous
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#137: 5 Ways to Update Unworn Me-Mades
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#136: Activism in Real Life with Beedy Parker
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#135: How to Triage your Mends with Jeanna Wigger
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#134: You Can Mend Clothes
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#133: Mending in Public
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#132: A season of mending with Jeanna Wigger
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#131: Self-Drafting for Fitting Success with Elisalex Jewell
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#130: Zoe & Kim go to The Stitch Festival
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#129: How to Sew Clothes From Fabric Scraps
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#128: Scrap Strategies, Part 2
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#127: Scrap Strategies, Part 1
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#126: Sew the Precious with Stephanie Canada
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#125: Vintage Sewing Not Vintage Values with Stephanie Canada
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#124: Fearless Sewing with Tony Rea
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#123: Sewing When Your Wardrobe is Full
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#122: Zero Waste Sewing for Kids with Liz Elliott
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#121: Creative and Resourceful Sewing with Judy Williment-Ross
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#120: How to care for your sewing machine with Bizz McKilligan
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#119: Seasonal Stash Organisation
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#118: Last Sewist Standing with Lise Bauer
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#117: Fabric Goals for 2024
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#116: Improv Scrap Play with Sherri Lynn Wood
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#115: Winter of Care and Repair with Jeanna Wigger
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#114: More Sustainable Haberdashery with Richard Mendham
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#113: More Sustainable Gifts to Make & Buy
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#112: Gardening More Sustainably with Pippa Chapman
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#111: Joyful, Mindful Sewing with Lena King
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#110: Knitting & Stitching Show 2023
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#109: More Sustainable Thread Options with Richard from James Tailoring
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#108: A More Sustainable Halloween
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#107: Sewing is Political
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#106: Reframing A Relationship with Clothing with Heidi Parkes
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#105: A Habit of Curiosity with Heidi Parkes
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#104: How to Successfully Shop for Second-Hand Sewing Machines
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#103: Swimming in A Sea of Scraps with Meg Grandstaff
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#102: Sustainability in Food Production with Helen Metcalfe
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#101: How to Prioritise Sewing with Jenny Drew
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#100: 100 Lessons from CYT
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#99: Sewing Confessions with Julia and Naomi
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#98: Zero Waste Patterns Book with Birgitta Helmersson
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#97: Introduction to Garment Fabrics
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#96: Pattern Fitting Q&A with Kate Roberts
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#95: Refining Fit with Kate Roberts
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#94: Garmology Podcast – Design for Repairability with Rosanna Watson
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#93: Sewing for Social Empowerment with Poornima at Kundakala
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#92: Self Coaching for Sewing Success with Kim Witten
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#91: Self Knowledge for Sewing Success with Kim Witten
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#90: Introduction to Pattern Hacking
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#89: Threads of Sustainability with Bridget O’Flaherty
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#88: Natural Dyeing Q&A with Amy Taylor
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#87: Sew Sustainable Fair 2023
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#86: Garment Alterations with Naomi Fata
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#85: Everyday Activism with Rachel AKA the Crap Activist
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#84: What is Me-Made-May?
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#83: The Role of Refashioning with Portia Lawrie
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#82: Fabric First with Rachel Kirby
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#81: Travel, Sustainability and Sewing with Shams el-Din Rogers
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#80: Rescuing Resources with Noah Hirsch
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#79: Cultivating a responsible sewing business with Sarai Mitnick
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#78: Slow Sewing and Seamwork with Sarai Mitnick
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#77: Stashes and Spaces with Shams el-Din Rogers
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#76: Sewing for Body Changes, Part 2
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#75: Go Recreate with Linnea Larsson
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#74: Recognition and Responsibility with Alexis Bailey
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#73: The Seeds of Slow Sewing with Alexis Bailey
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#72: Sewing for Body Changes
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#71: Making Personal Manifestos with Kim Witten
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#70: The Fold Line with Kate Underdown
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#69: Making Mindfully with Judy Williment-Ross
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#68: Visible Vs Invisible Mending
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#67: Zoe and Julia Sew with Reclaimed Denim
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#66: Conscious Yarn Choices with Saskia de Feijter
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#65: Sewing Sunflowers with Jess Redgrave
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#64: Sewing Trends More Sustainably
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#63: Sewing and Personal Power with Brandon Hayden
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#62: Made My Wardrobe with Lydia Higginson
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#61: Sewing to Keep Warm
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#60: Exploring Female Culture and Identity with Sophie Passmore
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#59: Tools for Life with Grace Whowell
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#58: Sewing on a Budget
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#57: Can Sewing Save You Money?
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#56: Sustainable(ish) with Jen Gale
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#55: The Challenges of Zero Waste Design with Birgitta Helmersson
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#54: A Journey to Zero Waste with Birgitta Helmersson
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#53: First Birthday / Ask Me Anything with Zoe, Julia and Naomi
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#52: Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear with Bella Gonshorovitz
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#51: Creating Connection with Barley Massey
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#50: The Future of Fabrics
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#49: Sewing as Art and Political Action with Shams el-Din Rogers
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#48: How to Knit More Sustainably with Saskia de Feijter
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#47: Introduction to Patching
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#46: DIY Drafting and Inclusive Sewing with Daisy Braid
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#45: The Art of Rescue with Noah Hirsch
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#44: Me-Made-May and Beyond
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#43: Communication & Conscious Choices with Kate Ng
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#42: Highest Possible Level of Use with Shelly Sommer
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#41: Using Sewing Patterns More Sustainably
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#40: Experimend with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
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#39: Modern Mending with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
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#38: Pledge and Participants #2 with Amy and Judith
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#37: Pledge and Participants #1 with Rebecca and Meg
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#36: What is Me-Made-May?
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#35: Mask Making with Sophie Passmore
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#34: Ethical Fabric Sourcing with Charlie Bradley Ross
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#33 Encouraging Kids to Sew
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#32: Textile Activism with Shams el-Din Rogers
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#31: Exploring Zero Waste Design with Liz Haywood
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#30: Tips and Takeaways from Made Do and Mend
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#29: Lessons From the 1940s
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#28: Make Do and Mend
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#27: Zoe & Julia go Rag Rugging
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#26: Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez
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#25: Handmade Period Pants with Yelena Buck
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#24: Conscious Making in Real Life with Rebecca Evans-Merritt
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#23: Sewing Goals for the New Year
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#22: Mending Workshops with Carla & Meg / Community Glue
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#21: The Joy of Reclaimed Fabric with Sarah aka Sew Love NZ
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#20: What thread should I buy?
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#19: Quilting and Considered Consuming with Shelly Sommer
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#18: Rag Rugging with Elspeth Jackson
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#17: What are zero waste sewing patterns?
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#16: Patternmaking in Public Places with Louisa Owen Sonstroem
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#15: Hand Stitching Clothes with Louisa Owen Sonstroem
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#14: Quick and Cheap Handmade Gift Projects
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#13: Natural Dyeing with Amy Taylor
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#12: Sew Over 50 with Judith Staley
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#11: Sewing Vs. Kids
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#10: Clothing Systems with Guy – the Light Touch
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#9: Overlockers & Coverstitch Machines with Julia Hincks
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#8: Is Sewing Sustainable?
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#7: Experimental Sewing with Riccardo Guido
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#6: Life, Sewing and Sustainability with Amy Dyce
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#5: Craft & Thrift with Amy Dyce
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#4: My 5 Favourite Scrap Projects
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#3: African Textiles Today with Jacqueline Shaw
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#2: How to Sew Sustainably with Wendy Ward
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#1: Introductions
Check Your Thread
Hello! Welcome to Check Your Thread, a podcast about sewing more sustainably. Each episode we enjoy nerding out about sewing, whilst picking up ideas and useful tips for how to reduce our impact on the environment. My aim is always to approach topics with a sense of curiosity and fun, and hope to leave our listeners feeling inspired by the end of each episode. Examples of topics that we cover include sourcing second hand textiles, zero waste sewing patterns, mending, upcycling, scrap-busting and alternative and surprising sources for fabric. If there are any topics you’d like CYT to cover, an...