Explore "visiblemending" with insightful episodes like "Kate Sekules 2022", "fourpatchtextiles", "Mendmarch 2022", "Visible mending journey" and "Katrine for Chronically sewn" from podcasts like ""Sew-organised-style", "Sew-organised-style", "Sew-organised-style", "Sew-organised-style" and "Sew-organised-style"" and more!
In this episode, Kate answers a few personal questions developed by Helene about Kate's style and fashion. In last week's episode she discussed #mendmarch and of course, mending features in her thinking and fashion choices.
Many thanks to Helene for the success of this discussion with Kate Sekules.
Anyone can mend.
Mend don't spend.
Robyn or fourpatchtextiles on Instagram is a maker of bespoke clothing, bags and occasionally quilts. She’s a big supporter of the visible mending including Mendingmayhem and the Sewover50 community.
Robyn discusses her use of textiles as part of #mendmarch.
In this podcast Kate answers questions from previous mending podcast guests Katrine, Selina, Wendy, Tricia and Uli.
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.
Katrine talks about how she lives with lupus, dyslexia and adhd while managing her energy levels to mend and craft in her everyday life.
Mending and always doing something with her hands helps her focus on everyday things like speaking to health services, teachers and even her neighbours. Katrine is a great supporter of sewover50, chronically sewn as she runs mending mayhem to encourage visible mending.
Katrine tells us about how her life changed with her final diagnosis and she has created her new normal. She's been living her life with chronic illness for over 20 years.
2021 has taken the creativity out of Katrine, the force behind Mending Mayhem. She's hoping that listeners who are feeling no energy to be creative can know they are in good company.
As we wind down to the end of 2021, if you're creative mind is feeling worn out, you can listen to how Katrine of Mending Mayhem also felt the same way for many months this year. She tells her story so that listeners who are also feeling deflated can know they are in good company to feel this way too.
Kate Ward of Zen Stitching has arranged this online retreat with 15 expert makers to share their skills with you close up. This is a free event.
Making Zen Online Retreat begins on 18 October 2021 for 5 days and the free presentations are available until Sunday 24th October. Keep up to date through the Instagram account.
This is Kate's sixth podcast and this time it's to encourage you to try a new technique with all the amazing speakers - Zac Foster, Meridith Woolnough, Sarah Woodyard, Sky Pennant, Liz Hayward, Maria Theoharous, Evelyn Bourne, Andrea Tsang Jackson, Raina McDonald, Heidi Iverson, Emma Freeman, John MacPhail, Vaina Soucy, Amy Maricle, Kaila Givehand and Kate Ward.
Each day 3 videos from the makers will be published and there will be live discussions with them online.
Kate Ward shares her research to show how mending helps save our resources. Kate has also shared this research on her blog so you can do additional reading about how textile manufacturing techniques pollute our planet.
By extending the life of your clothes by months or by years, lessens your carbon foot print. What you pay for clothes impacts the working conditions of factory workers. The less you pay for ready to wear goods, the less factory workers are paid and their working conditions remain poor.
#mendmarch run by Kate Sekules is a great way to take up visible mending one step at a time.
Uli has agreed to replay her original podcast from October during this month for #mendmarch.
You'll find Uli or schneckstein on Instagram, creating amazing mending on an amazing array of textiles. Uli lives in Kunststopfen, Kassel in Germany where she creates visible mends with such beauty. Uli has been featured in the Wednesday collage posted by Mending Mayhem's Katrine.
Uli uses embroidery, crotchet and weaving techniques to embellish that various mends she accomplishes each week.
Her love of mending began when she 4 years old and her mother taught her the importance of making sure you buy good quality goods and extend their life through mending.
Thank you Uli for being a guest to encourage visible mending.
Kate Ward is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator with over twenty years experience working and teaching in the Arts. Her interests include textiles, ceramics, jewellery, printmaking and intermedia. More importantly Kate is an Australian living in Nova Scotia Canada who is helping sewists take up stitching for all sorts of reasons including to ground themselves.
Kate has taught at NSCAD’s Extended Studies program, NS Centre for Craft, and at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Kate has more podcasts to add to our library of Sewing Save and Mending podcasts on Sew Organised Style podcast. Kate is well researched so you'll find all her references on her blog as also on her podcast blog post as well.
Lindsay Anne is an English literature teacher by day, self-taught hand-stitcher by night living in Tokyo Japan. Growing up, Lindsay was always described as the “creative one”.
Lindsay suggests that new starters should use what they have at hand. Machine thread is what Lyndsay uses for her embroidery pieces. The important thing is to start!
Because of the pandemic, there are less fabrics Lindsay can use for her sewing.
She's a teacher from the States living in Japan and loving what the world has provided her with.
This is the first mending podcast for 2021. There are many mending and sewing save podcasts we've published in 2020 so make sure you listen to them if mending and saving textiles is your goal.
Katrine of Mending Mayhem is back to share her mending embroidery techniques. She is a firm believer to 'mend don't spend'.
Katrine has written about 4 embroidery techniques she uses to walk us through each technique and the fun you can have mending. She is very honest to say that she uses techniques in the way that adds to her creations. The transcript is on her podcast blog post.
Katrine uses local resources so she doesn't contribute to landfill. She's also enjoying mending by hand these days.
Katrine also talks about many global menders that she follows.
Katrine has a few podcasts under her belt now and you can go back an catch up on her previous episodes.
You'll find Uli or schneckstein on Instagram, creating amazing mending on an amazing array of textiles. Uli lives in Kunststopfen, Kassel in Germany where she creates visible mends with such beauty. Uli has been featured in the Wednesday collage posted by Mending Mayhem's Katrine.
Uli uses embroidery, crotchet and weaving techniques to embellish that various mends she accomplishes each week.
Her love of mending began when she 4 years old and her mother taught her the importance of making sure you buy good quality goods and extend their life through mending.
Thank you Uli for being a guest on the Sewing Save Series.
There are so many ways to purchase second hand notions and fabrics but you'll need some tips to make sure you're not buying useless items. Katrine of Mending Mayhem is back to give us her tips for buying second hand items so you can keep to your tight budget, not add to landfill and make use of the things you need for future projects.
This podcast is part of Sue Stoney's Sewing Save Series we produce on Fridays.
Mending Mayhem is back from their Summer break. Katrine discusses this week's visible mending collage and the basics of mending.
Mend don't spend still applies. September is about sustainability and it's wonderful to have Mending Mayhem back on the podcast for the Sewing Save Series.
Sustainability is running hot this month. Ilaria has created #sustainablestylesept as a fun way to start being sustainable. Ilaria is a Canberra local that enjoys being sustainable and on today's Sewing Save Series emphasis on the word 'save'. She encourages people to wear repurposed clothes and enjoy being sustainable.
#Septextilelove, #sustainablesewing #boycottfashion
Make sure you join into Newcrafthouse's #sewyourselfsustainable this month too. They're daily prompts provide you with lots of easy ways to be sustainable.
Did you listen to part 1 with Katrine and Suzie? You should so you can follow along with the Mending Mayhem team as they discuss more about mending.
In part 2, we discuss the breadth of the mending community and more importantly how mending brings good memories to both the mender and the recipient of the mended item.
Mending does extend to anything, and you'll hear more about this from Katrine and Suzie.
Mend don't spend.
Katrine and Suzie are the Mending mayhem team. Mending is part of their daily lives and not just mending clothes. Mending is done with love.
Every item has more than one life and mending is an everyday part of their lives.
Katrine lives in Norway and comes from a family of textile crafters and Suzie lives in the Isle of Wight and is a textiles artist. They teamed up last year after Mending March to keep the mending message alive on Instagram.
The visible mending movement (over 76,000 IG posts) was one of Suzie's starting points to show the benefits of mending. Mend March is another great hashtag to follow.
Make do and mend is now a mantra for Tricia. She supports Extinction Rebellion, contributes to Make A Garment a Month Sewalong and has been a guest editor for Sewover50. Where does she get the time to do all of these things? You'll find out what drives her when you grab a cuppa to hear from Tricia.
You'll have to join Visible Mend once you hear about this from Tricia.
Tricia decided to help British industry by training in Textiles when she initially left school. Today she teaches sewing skills without using pins. You'll hear why in her podcast. You'll also hear about more than just Tricia. You'll have to listen in to find out. She's been a guest editor for Sewover50 - just once. There's a lot involved as an editor.
Catch up with all the Sewover50 podcasts on their podcast blog post.
Evelyn Wood took the time to give us some more details about her vintage sewing school and her unique partnership with the Australian Sewing Guild.
You'll find all these details and previous ASG podcasts on their podcast page of our website.
Many people tag Evelyn on Instagram on Mondays with their mending efforts.
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