Check Your Thread: Sewing More Sustainably

#208: Challenging Consumption and Perfectionism with Jeanna Wigger


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PSA: The Winter of Care and Repair challenge is kicking off on 21st December! I used its imminence as an excuse to talk to the challenge’s creator, mending expert and author Jeanna Wigger, about the wider impact participating has had for her. Jeanna tells me how it’s helped her shift her consumption habits, challenge her perfectionism and reframe her ideas around productivity. Maybe it will do something similar for you! 

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Access and download the FREE WOCAR tracker sheet

Photo credit: Elaine Pieczonka. 

Jeanna Wigger can be found @thepeoplesmending on Instagram. Jeanna also has an excellent Substack which includes this explainer about WOCAR. 

Listen to my previous conversations with Jeanna:

  • Ep. #115: Winter of Care and Repair with Jeanna Wigger
  • Ep. #132: A Season of Mending with Jeanna Wigger
  • Ep. #135: How to Triage Your Mends with Jeanna Wigger
  • Ep. #163: How to Effect Change This Winter with Jeanna Wigger
  • Ep. #190: The Four Tendencies and Sewing with Jeanna, Kim & Lise 
  • Ep. #191: Stitch It, Don’t Ditch It with Mary Morton & Jeanna Wigger
  • Find and order Jeanna and Mary’s book, ‘Stitch it, Don't Ditch it’:

    Katrina Rodabaugh, author of ‘Mending Matters’, played a key role in Jeanna’s mending journey. 

    Jeanna’s men(D)iagram! Click through to read her explanation. 

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