Episode Twenty-One : The Business of Books and Sewing Magazines with Karen Ball and Amy Thomas

Summary: This week’s guests are Amy Thomas and Karen Ball.<br> <br> Both OG (you find out what this means in the episode!) Sewing bloggers now work in the literary world – Amy is the editor of the popular Love Sewing magazine and Karen has her own publishing consultancy Speckled Pen.<br> <br> We love chatting to them both about the sewing community, fabrics, and how their blogs have opened up so many opportunities that they have grabbed with open arms! <br> <br> This is a wonderfully inspiring and open discussion that we have been so excited for you all to hear! It is especially timely as today (Friday 27th July) is Amy’s wedding day and we both send her all the love in the world for the best day ever. Also we here a sewing book might be on the horizon for Karen which makes us super excited and we wish her all the love and luck for that!<br> <br> Grab a cup of tea or a ice cream (if like us you are in a heat wave!) and join us for a good natter with these lovely ladies!<br> <br> **********<br> <br> This episode was bought to you by Sew Sew Sew – an amazing online fabric shop based in North Yorkshire<br> <br> They specialise in gorgeous dressmaking fabrics from Viscose, Crepe and Cottons to Scuba and Jersey – also they have a lovely range of super soft children’s jerseys for the little ones in your life!<br> <br> A little birdie has told us that a whole load of new fabrics are going up online later today so it’s great time to give you our exclusive discount code ‘STITCHERSBREW15’ For 15% off all fabrics (apart from any on sale) until the 17th August. NB, It cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers.<br> <br> So if you are looking for fantastic fabrics with then go pay a visit to www.sewsewsew.co.uk and sew sew sew yourself up something beautiful!<br> **********<br> <br> PS. Don't forget to check out our Bonus Episode - BONUS BREW #1 OUT NOW:<br> https://stitchersbrewpodcast.bandcamp.com/releases<br> It really helps support our podcast! Thankyou!!<br> <br> +++++++++++++++++++++++<br> http://www.stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/stitchersbrewpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/stitchersbrewpodcast https://twitter.com/stitchersbrew<br> <br> We'd love to hear from you: hello@stitchersbrewpodcast.co.uk<br> +++ Theme song created by Stephen Ellis<br> +++ Podcast edited by Gabby Young and Stephen Ellis