Latest Madetocreate Podcast Episodes
SewExpo 2023 – A Gathering of Friends in the Pacific Northwest
Sew & So... - March 30, 2023 15:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis exclusive/all-access episode takes you through the 2023 version of SewExpo at the Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup, WA In it’s 39th year, the Sewing and Stitchery Expo was back in full force after a two year Covid 19 hiatus. Hear directly from Show Manager Janet McLoughlin and Edu...
QuiltCon Atlanta 2023 - In the Aisle and Behind the Scenes
Sew & So... - March 16, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis exclusive all-access episode takes you through the 2023 version of QuiltCon in Atlanta, Georgia. The definition of Modern Quilting varies from person to person. Hear the thoughts of Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) President Aleeda Crawley, Karen Cooper Executive Director of MQG, Christa Watson BE...
Sarah Joiner - Make What You Want!
Sew & So... - March 02, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings(2:00 – 6:35) She begins the conversation by explaining that she learned to sew with her grandmother’s basement sewing machine, using fabric from her grandma’s (who she never met) magical craft cupboard. This cupboard held all of her deceased grandmother’s scraps, thread, etc., and inspired her ...
Sarah Ramberg - Everything Old is New Again
Sew & So... - February 16, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSarah Ramberg worked for an environmental engineering and consulting firm for 15 years. After being laid off in 2017, she decided to turn her passion for sewing with flannel and upcycling into a full-time career. Sarah was bitten by the antiquing, thrifting, and garage sale bug when she was in J...
Brooks Ann Camper - A Wrinkled Dress
Sew & So... - February 02, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsA wrinkled dress changed the trajectory of Brooks Ann's career. It all began her senior year at Centenary College, where she was a theater major. She had been cast in a play and was behind the stage when the head of the department, “a brilliant, but grumpy old man,” noticed her dress was wrinkle...
Carina Gardner - The Art of Dreaming Big
Sew & So... - January 19, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsA lifetime learner and prolific entrepreneur, Carina Gardner learned to sew by sneaking downstairs and using her mom’s sewing machine to create Barbie clothes from fabric scraps. As time went on, she found herself in the scrapbooking world at a time when scrapbooking crossed over into fabric. Th...
Sue O'Very-Pruitt - Living the Dream
Sew & So... - January 05, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSue O’Very Pruitt’s love of sewing began very early and has taken her to places near and far. She went from designing dresses for her Barbie doll at six years old to creating customers at Busch Gardens when she graduated college. After leaving Busch Gardens, she created costumes on a cruise ship...
Carson Converse - Catch Your Breath
Sew & So... - December 22, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsCarson Converse is not a minimalist by nature, although she does value simplicity. She also loves doing intricate detail. She describes her process as reductive art because she often starts by throwing a lot of fabric and inspirational images on the wall and then expanding and contracting until ...
Sew Much Giving - Sewing and Quilting as Service for a Greater Good
Sew & So... - December 08, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIn this special episode, you’re going to meet seven special organizations…charities that use sewing or quilting to care for people who are struggling because of where they live, the health burdens they carry, or injuries they sustained in service to our country. Come with us as we meet the extra...
Houston Quilt Festival 2022 - Down the Aisles, In the Gallery, and Behind the Scenes
Sew & So... - November 24, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsExperience the Houston Quilt Festival through this episode chock full of personal and informative conversations. We meet BERNINA educators from the exhibit hall stage – Connie Fanders, Amanda Murphy, and Sylvain Bergeron. Show prize winners Angela Petrocelli (grand prize winner), Debbie Corbe...
Linnca Stevens & The Sewing Labs- Sewing for a Better Tomorrow
Sew & So... - November 10, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsLinnca Stevens is the co-founder of The Sewing Labs – a non-profit in Kansas City, MO whose mission is to create a community and teach sewing toward employment, entrepreneurship, and enrichment. Hear Linnca’s biographical journey toward where she is today and why she started the Sewing Labs. H...
Tula Pink - Being Tula Pink
Sew & So... - October 27, 2022 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTula Pink grew up in California, graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and worked briefly as an exhibit designer for museums in SoCal. She eventually joined the music industry as an Art Director designing album covers for numerous notable artists. After about 5 years, she ...
Leanne Pressly - Stitchcraft Marketing and The Colorado Mama
Sew & So... - October 13, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMaker, quilter, knitter, spinner, and painter, Leanne Pressly is the founder and CEO of Stitchcraft Marketing, which she launched in 2009. Leanne also hosts the podcast, Business of Craft. She is a certified consultant with a Colorado Small Business Development Center, where she consults with new...
Desi Dessu - The World of Cosplay
Sew & So... - September 29, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsCosplay, the art of combining costume and role play, grew out of the practice of costuming at science fiction conventions. Over the past couple of decades, it has really taken off and become its own subculture. Desi believes cosplay can be inspired by Japanese anime characters, a Western comic b...
Teresa Coates - The Things That Make Me Happy
Sew & So... - September 15, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAlthough Teresa comes from generations of makers, she was the first to pursue quilting as a career when she, as she puts it, “stumbled into the quilting industry.” It began in 2011 when she joined the crew at the Fabric Shop Network and then became editor of Websense magazine. Teresa started out...
Leah Kate Nicoll - Fashionable Yet Functional
Sew & So... - September 01, 2022 15:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhile at the University of Alabama, Leah Kate got a lot of experience with leotards, both as a dancer and as part of the costume department. What she found was that rarely did they properly fit all women’s body types. Knowing that one of the first rules of dancewear is that it should enhance mov...
HollyAnne Knight - Quilting Circle Gone Viral
Sew & So... - August 18, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhen HollyAnne was caring for her babies and in the throes of post-partum depression, quilting was what she did to “feed her soul,” and her online quilting community was her soft place to land. Once she discovered modern and modern-traditional quilting, she quickly fell down the rabbit hole, and...
BERNINA University 2022 - Your Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Experience
Sew & So... - August 04, 2022 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThis is your full access pass to the exclusive/annual BERNINA dealer conference – BERNINA University. Join us in Palm Springs, CA for this 53rd gathering of BERNINA dealers, BERNINA partners and BERNINA staff from both BERNINA of America and BERNINA International – Switzerland and beyond. Hear...
Kaffe Fassett & Brandon Mably - Color As a Life-Enhancing Force
Sew & So... - July 21, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMake time to settle in for the duration of this fascinating conversation with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably. Learn how Kaffe chose his name, about how a chance meeting on a train changed his life, and about the three women that had a profound effect on him and his career. Hear the story of K...
Michelle Morris - We See You!
Sew & So... - July 07, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsMichelle Morris began re-fashioning long before it became a trend. Growing up, her family didn’t have a lot of money, so she was always doing something to breathe new life into second-hand clothes, or her own clothes. A major influence for Michelle was her first Home Economics teacher who took h...
Mae Burrows - From Betsy Ross to Audrey Hepburn
Sew & So... - June 23, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAlthough not a common combination, Mae’s father was a career Marine and an avid sewist. A direct descendant of Betsy Ross, he was born into a family of sewists, including his mother and grandmother. Mae grew up watching her father create quilts on his BERNINA machine and it was his love of sewin...
Bill Schroeder III and AQS - All in the Family
Sew & So... - June 09, 2022 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBill Schroeder III has been around quilting since he was a young boy selling buttons at their AQS booth at the Quilt Show in his hometown of Paducah, KY. When his grandparents launched the AQS Quilt Contest in 1985, it was the first contest in the industry to award a $10,000 prize. When Meredit...
Visiting the National Quilt Museum During Quilt Week 2022
Sew & So... - May 26, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsThe conversation begins with Rachael Barr, Curator of the National Quilt Museum. She talks about the history of the museum, its mission and the behind-the-scenes activities involved in bringing an exhibition to life. One current exhibit is “New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Shakespeare 2022”. Th...
Inside Quilt Week 2022
Sew & So... - May 12, 2022 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBe sure to subscribe to, review and rate this podcast on your favorite platform…and visit our website sewandsopodcast.com for more information about today’s and all of our Guests.
Mimi G - Never Say Never
Sew & So... - April 28, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsWhat began as just a hobby in Mimi's Los Angeles home in 2012 blossomed into an international brand. She’s achieved a daily engagement of more than 3.2 million followers across all social media platforms, 22 million pageviews and 2.2 million unique visitors annually on her blog and courses on DI...
Sarah Caldwell - From Frogs to Frodo
Sew & So... - April 14, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSarah’s love of sewing began when she was a young girl growing up in New Zealand. Her first creation? A bean bag frog. As she grew older, her passion for sewing grew and Sarah eventually studied fashion, design, and garment construction. Her talent led her to BERNINA. She shares what it’s like ...
Jean Wright - From the Day I Looked at the Moon
Sew & So... - March 31, 2022 15:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAs a young girl, Jean would look at the moon at night and dream of working for NASA. That dream came true when she became one of 18 seamstresses that built (sewed), created, and repaired thermal protection, flight hardware, and parachutes. This dedicated team of women dubbed themselves the Sew S...
Christy Burcham & Aaronica Cole - Plus Size Sewing
Sew & So... - March 17, 2022 15:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsAs the conversation begins, we learn about the individual journeys of Christa and Aaronica, and how sewing has influenced each of their lives. Christy, a plus-size sewist herself and daughter of a tailor, grew up around sewing, and notes that the sewing industry has adapted over the years to be ...
Joe Vecchiarelli - Keeping America "Fit"! My Life in the TV Studios and in Peoples' Homes
Sew & So... - March 03, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsSHOW NOTES: (1:50) Joe takes us through his early work with his father and his easily found interest in the studios. He talks about entertainment and fashion and how these two industries merged for him. (3:13) Joe meets Mr. Spock on the set of Star Trek. It’s this meeting that led to Joe’s lif...
Justine Seymour - The Key Is Observing!
Sew & So... - February 17, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBorn in the United Kingdom, Justine began her first career as a model at 16. From created performance art costumes for artists, plays, and television commercials while earning her master’s degree in Design at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School. Seymour designed the wardrobe for t...
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