Stitcher's Brew Podcast

We love Vesna – all you need to do is take a glance at her instagram page to see this lady has serious style and a wonderful warm wit! Her impeccable taste and palette shines through her beautiful dressmaking and we have been inspired by her makes for years! When we heard she was in London for a bit we had to get her on the show! We talk and laugh about sewing in Serbia, Burda patterns, where her brand name; Kelerabeus, comes from and her amazing job as an archaeologist and of course fabrics! Oh and our first ridiculous email addresses!! There is so much to learn from how Vesna started sewing and how fearless she was from the start (her first project was a COAT!) and we hope you enjoy hearing our chat as much as we loved our time with Vesna! ******** This episode was bought to you by Spoonflower who provide amazing fabrics that you design. You can be your own artist or go for one of their many incredible marketplace prints and make your fabric dreams come true! Go visit their gorgeous range at www.spoonflower.com! We are so happy to be working with Spoonflower and they have generously given all our listeners 15% by signing up here: https://try.spoonflower.com/stitchersbrew/ ******** http://www.stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/stitchersbrewpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/stitchersbrewpodcast https://twitter.com/stitchersbrew We'd love to hear from you: hello@stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk +++ Theme song created by Stephen Ellis +++ Podcast edited by Gabby Young and Stephen Ellis

This week's guests are Fiona Parker (Diary Of A Chainstitcher) And Alex Bruce (Sew Happy) ! When we started building a wish list of guests we wanted on the show we both squealed at the thought of Fiona and Alex joining us together to talk about the wonderful world of costume design!  Both of them are well known in the sewing community as long standing brilliant sewing blogger Fiona, Diary Of A Chainstitcher and dressmaking vlogger and face of Tilly and the Buttons new book 'Stretch' Alex from Sew Happy and we hear all about that but mostly we want to hear about their day jobs - as they both work in costume - and have so much knowledge to pass on. We hear all about how they both started sewing, got into the wonderful world of costume design and an amazing thing called the  costume bible! From The Lion King to fabric sourcing for the Great British Sewing Bee - we had a wonderful chat over tea and leftover birthday cake with these lovely ladies and learnt so much! So grab a brew, get comfy and join us while we gasp and giggle over unpicking the costume business! ******** This episode was bought to you by Sew Me Sunshine who sell amazing fabrics, haberdashery items and indie patterns. They stock all your favourite fabric manufacturers from Atelier Brunette to Cotton and Steel and even have Lisa Comfort's new fabrics! Go visit their amazing range at www.sewmesunshine.co.uk! We are so happy to be working with Sew Me Sunshine and they have generously given all our listeners 15% by using this code: BREW15 ******** http://www.stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/stitchersbrewpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/stitchersbrewpodcast https://twitter.com/stitchersbrew We'd love to hear from you: hello@stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk +++ Theme song created by Stephen Ellis +++ Podcast edited by Gabby Young and Stephen Ellis

This week's guests are Elisalex de Castro Peake (from By Hand London) And Zeena Shah! What a way to start the show with our first two guests being these amazing, successful women who have made their craft into their career! We hear all about where their love of crafting started, how they got into the business, the ups and downs of career in crafting and ice skating! There is so much good stuff in this episode we don't know where to start so best to just listen for yourselves and get ready to learn from, laugh with and love these wonderful woman. ******** This episode was bought to you by Spoonflower who provide amazing fabrics that you design. You can be your own artist or go for one of their many incredible marketplace prints and make your fabric dreams come true! Go visit their gorgeous range at www.spoonflower.com! We are so happy to be working with Spoonflower and they have generously given all our listeners 15% by signing up here: https://try.spoonflower.com/stitchersbrew/ ******** http://www.stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/stitchersbrewpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/stitchersbrewpodcast https://twitter.com/stitchersbrew We'd love to hear from you: hello@stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk +++ Theme song created by Stephen Ellis +++ Podcast edited by Gabby Young and Stephen Ellis

Gabby and Megan met a couple of years ago at a sewing meetup after only a few makes under their belts. Now with wardrobes bursting with memades and fabric stashes to make hoarders blush these two are the ones laughing their heads off and getting everyone involved at every sewing event! They have sewing days together nearly once a week which they film videos of for Gabberdashery’s vlog and they LOVE most things… especially anything to do with sewing, knitting, crafting, binge watching netflix and TEA. There has to always be tea. After 2 years of their videos together, Megan got Gabby into listening to crafty podcasts and now when they are both sewing at home, that’s most likely what will be in the background. When Gabby started listening to Love To Sew Podcast she sent a text to Megan saying ‘WE HAVE TO DO A PODCAST!’ The answer ‘YESSSSS!’ came back in seconds and so, Stitcher’s Brew was born…. ******** This episode is sponsored by Pfaff  who make amazing sewing machines for all styles. There are overlockers, coverstitch machines and embroidery machines for beginners to keen sewers. We both love Pfaff machines and couldn't recommend them enough - they sew through any fabric like it's quilting cotton, that’ll be down to the IDT, the integrated walking-foot. Go visit their amazing range at www.pfaff.com ******** http://www.stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/stitchersbrewpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/stitchersbrewpodcast https://twitter.com/stitchersbrew We'd love to hear from you: hello@stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk +++ Theme song created by Stephen Ellis +++ Podcast edited by Gabby Young and Stephen Ellis

Stitcher's Brew Podcast is coming... This podcast will be about all things crafty – there will be a LOT of chatter about mainly sewing but we want to include our other loves and things we are interested in and hope you will be too – there will be talk about knitting, crotchet, cross-stitch, quilting, embroidery and general chit chat about life, what we’re watching/listening to and of course what tea we are drinking. The guests will be many and we will be having panel discussions with amazingly inspiring creatives who have made their hobby into their businesses, blogs and vlogs. Gabby and Megan are very joyful people, this podcast is going to spread that joy far and wide and we hope you will be a part of that.