Making your own swimwear is so rewarding especially if you're training to swim the English Channel. Amanda Bowden is going to swim the English Channel in August this year for charity. She's a Sewover50 follower and she chats about her sewing journey and and marathon swimming journey.

Amanda has perfected her marathon swimming cozzie to the point where she is able to make cozzies with a theme for each long distance swim she does.

In August Amanda will swim the English Channel in a relay team. She sews her own swimwear and has perfected her marathon cozzies. She's know as 'The Swimming Seamstress' on IG and Facebook and she shares her marathon swimming story and her cozzie sewing knowledge. Amanda shared her sewing and swimming story as a guest writer for Sewover50 on Instagram. Make sure you find Amanda on Instagram.