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Sarah of Pattern Union is a big supporter of the Sewover50 community. Today she’s here to talk about visible mending. Sarah lives in Western Australia.

Sarah has been focussing on using her existing resources to focus on visible mending. With her pattern developments, she amassed a lot of fabrics and resources that were no longer useful to her but when she went to take them to the local thrift store, the response from the store was a wake up call to her regarding textile waste.

Special mention to Sue Stoney for her skills in reusing textile resources.

On Instagram you can find SewOver50, Sue Stoney and Sarah Pondevie.

We've had over 240 guests on the podcast and while we've discussed accessibility Sue Stoney identified a few gaps that we needed to discuss further. 

Sue has used hundreds of patterns and this list of issues are ones that pattern designers can use to make the lives of their customers easier to follow their instructions. Using redundant queues, avoiding colour use, including sizes on pattern grade  lines, adding pattern layers, being aware of hearing loss, yellowing of the lens through age, sewn shown seated, designing for seated people, text to voice enabling to help read pdf patterns - these are some of the podcast gaps Sue Stoney identified that we needed to talk about.

Sue references WHO stats to state her case about how pattern designers can make their patterns more accessible to their customers who love their patterns.  

The SewOver50 Instagram community continues to grow because it supports their growing community of over 37,000 followers through their positive community values.  Make sure you go back and listen to Sue's earlier podcast and over 90 SewOver50 podcasts available for free.

Chloe Read, the Australian Editor for the Sewcialists has so much to update us about. We celebrate Gabby Brown's 30th blog post. Gabby or Dear Gabby is the technical fit specialists that lives and breathes her craft while freely sharing her knowledge on Sewcialists.

Then Chloe updates about the updated editor team. Our podcast friend and Perth sewing local Sue Stoney, is joining the Sewcialists. More team announcements next year.

As it's the end of the year, the Sewcialists shares the Top 5 from the editor team and from submissions from the sewing community.

The Sewcialists continue to bring you 3 blog posts per week. They run their Instagram account so you'll also stay connected during the holiday season.

Sue Stoney is the originator of the Sewing Save Series. Sue is a Perth local who knows how to make any project work. You'll find all of Sue's podcasts here. 

You'll hear the lengths she goes through to make 2 projects work. Her passion for sewing and enthusiasm takes her sewing to the next level and Sue is always determined to make every project work.

Sue Stoney is back this week to tell us about how she saved a vintage linen table cloth and linen napkins. Sue is an avid op shopper and saving or reusing existing items are her speciality. You can read her blog post about more linen refashions too.

You can read about all the sewing save series podcasts and hear them listed on the Sewing Save Series blog post.

Sue Stoney is a creative and is an educator, hence we're excited for Sue to start this series where you can get to share your sewing saves with our listeners.

Like many of us, Sue love remnants. The dilemma is remnant fabrics are often too small for what you thought they could become. Each episode Sue will give us the back story behind each project/s.

You can be included in this series. Just drop us your suggestion on our Instagram account or on our facebook page.

#magamsewalong for June was all about #jugglingjune...whether it's patterns, prints, styles, projects or even time! Hope you were able to juggle and to join in with Sue Stoney @suestoney , Helene @hportemanteau and Suzy Roberts @sewinginspain in June! You'll know that their monthly challenges can overflow into the next month or two depending on your precious sewing time.

Sewing a garment each month as part of your self care is the aim behind 'Make a garment a month' sewalong.

Make a garment a month or MAGAM, started years ago by SarahLiz, a Newcastle local. SarahLiz @sarahlizsewstyle was running MAGAM on facebook with a large sewing following. After running this solo, it was time to Liz Jane to bow out and this is now run with 3 great supporters from across the globe. Selfish sewing or sewing garments for yourself is the only rule to follow.

You may already be a fan of Sue Stoney through her blog fadanista - for indulging in fads or through her intagram account. Sue has always been on our list of people to chat to and thankfully Sue was able to fit in a chat with Maria over a morning coffee in Sue's home, via Zoom of course.

You may have already met Sue through her travels as she meets fellow sewists and discovers fabric retailers and suppliers.