My podcast guest this week is Sara Lawson, from Sew Sweetness Patterns!!!! Sara is a bag pattern designer and has two weekly live facebook and youtube video shows, AND
Welcome back to Part 2 of my conversation with owner and creator of 5 out of 4 Patterns, Jessica Pierce. There is a small outtake of our pre-recording
Happy New Year Everybody!!!
On the first segment of this episode, I chat about
It is the last episode of 2018! Do you find at the end of every year, you are marveling at how it went by so fast? Well, here we are again, nearing the end of another year.
On this mini-sode episode, I recap the previous Sugaridoo episode with some sources of craft shows with crochet, knitting, yarn and possible amigurumi for you to find in 2019. I also give a progress review on
Irene Staal of Sugaridoo is my guest today on Make and Decorate! I found the Sugaridoo YouTube channel earlier this year, and immediately subscribed. Irene’s YouTube channel is
This mini-sode is jam packed with tips, crafts, shopping and more! Check out the links below
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a super special episode with Podcaster, Stephanie Kendron from the Modern Sewciety Podcast. We have a great conversation about all things creative and inspiring from sewing machines, to fabrics to podcasts.
Another mini-sode this week - yay! Just a little chit chat, I have a new podcast email info@makeanddecorate.com in addition to my main email stephaniesochadesign@gmail.com
I review rotary cutters from Clover, Olfa, Fiskars, Gingher and Tula Pink.
I am adding some new episodes to the in-between weeks of my Make and Decorate podcast. I call them “Mini-sodes”. This week I have a lot to chat about, I did some fleece sewing with my niece, Ava, then had my beloved Bernina machine in the repair shop, only to learn
Ep 6. Kids learning to sew and craft with my 10 yr old niece, Ava
Have you ever taught a kid how to sew, quilt or craft? We often hear from adults on how to teach children how to sew and craft, but on this episode, we get a glimpse of what it is like to be a kid learning how to sew from my 10 year old niece, Ava. I started teaching Ava to sew when she was a wee 5 year old, and since then she has learned how to
My first podcast guests!!! On this episode, I enjoy a great conversation about multiple types of creative hobbies and crafts with fellow podcasters, Dori and Katie from Hobbies up to Here.
This episode covers a couple of niche machines in our sewing world, sergers and coverstitch machines. These machines are often feared and misunderstood due to the complex looper threading process on a lot of manual machines. Some people may even have a serger just sitting around collecting dust because they do not know how to use it or have the patience to try to thread it. Fear not...
Episode 3: My Sewing Machine Acquisitions, from naive to savvy purchases
In this episode of Make and Decorate, I share my journey through 2 decades of purchasing sewing machines, serger/coverstitch and embroidery machines. I have learned so much over the years as I have invested in the most important tool of not only my hobby, but now also my profession - sewing, serger and embroidery machines.
My Chronological List of machine acquisitions: