Stitch Please

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  • Black Sewing Network

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    Carmen Green

    Carmen Green is a stylist, an influencer, a community builder, an absolute fashionista, and a role model entrepreneur who always aims to learn not only about fashion and sewing but marketing as well. She is the founder of the Black Sewing Network on TikTok. She believes in building creative communities on social media not only by shifting the culture of Instagram to be more fun, relaxed and authentic but also by trying new platforms such as TikTok  to create a really inclusive and safe space like the Black Sewing Network where women from various countries not only learn to sew but are seen and supported in order to thrive.

    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

    Insights from this Episode

    • How did Carmen start sewing
    • Carmen’s perceptions of the differences between TikTok and Instagram as a sewing community
    • Why TikTok is a great place to create a sewing community
    • How did Carmen achieve 5000 followers on TikTok in 30 days
    • Carmen’s thoughts on the aggregate value of her sewing content
    • Differences between going live on TikTok and Instagram
    • Explanations on why social media reproduce the white supremacy standard via algorithms
    • Why the Black Sewing Network is much more than a sewing space
    • Carmen’s opinion on the stereotype that black women don’t support each other
    • How does Carmen manage to organize her social media schedule
    • Carmen’s advice to help us get our stitch together

    Quotes from the Show: 

    • "I think in the way that Instagram first was curating still images, you were meant to look at a picture and get all the information you needed and it was really about putting forward something that was already finished, it was like the end result, not about the process at all and what I think TikTok has done is that it has opened the door to real true learning-" - Lisa Woolfork in “Stitch Please”
    • "I think people think Black Sewing Network is exclusionary, it's not! We welcome everybody but the goal is…to amplify and celebrate black voices in the sewing community" - Carmen Green in “Stitch Please”
    • "There is not enough forward facing social media programming that right off the bat  says hey Black women, hey Black folks, I see you and I want you to see me and we’re gonna do this thing together and support each other" - Lisa Woolfork in “Stitch Please”
    • "There’s a huge misconception that Black women don’t like each other and don’t support each other when it's just like no…Black women have been the ones that had elevated me, pushed me forward, supported me, bought my sh*t, it's always been Black women first" - Carmen Green in “Stitch Please”
    • "[About Black Sewing Network] I’m using my personality to push others forward, that is ultimately essentially my goal" - Carmen Green in “Stitch Please”
    • "Don’t be afraid to fail, everybody makes mistakes regardless of how long you’ve doing something, I’ve been sewing for ten years and I’m not afraid to make mistakes publicly, don’t be afraid to be vulnerable in a safe space, Black Sewing Network is that space for a lot of people of various backgrounds…we’re not afraid to fail" - Carmen Green in “Stitch Please”

    Shout out to Julian Collins of Julian Creates for the name Black Sewing Network

    See Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression to learn more about why social media seems/is whitewashed

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

    Carmen Green

    TikTok: Carmen Green

    Instagram: Carmen Green

    Amazon Store: Carmen Green

    Facebook: Carmen Green

    Black Sewing Community: https://linktr.ee/blacksewingnetwork

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    37 min
  • Rest by Len

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

    Lemarie Paschall

    Lenmarie Paschall is Trinidadian. Her business, Rest by Len started out of a desire to promote restful habits. It became a 'thing' after making these gigantic pillows for youth in my church and community.

    Insights from this episode:

    • Lenmarie’s sewing story
    • Lenmarie’s earlier days of sewing
    • Lenmarie’s career as a financial analyst
    • Letting your creativity shine
    • Why it is important to take a break
    • Launching Rest by Len
    • What to expect at a Rest by Len event
    • Lenmarie’s next phase
    • How pillows by Len are an invitation to rest
    • Providing a lounging experience using pillows

    Quotes from the show:

    • “I think there’s something that happens when tap into our creative nature and the ability to create vs just the ability to be consumers” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”
    • “I have a really strong creative gene in me that I understood and I think that’s what gave me life” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”
    • “Take a break to celebrate, to take a load off, to laugh, to play games. I believe that people, they didn’t know they needed it, but once they got it, they really embraced it” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”
    • “People think that taking a break, resting, I've heard like it's lazy, it's not productive. It's an easy thing to do. But I think one of the hardest things to do is to say no” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”
    • “It just brings us (her partnership events) both joy because people come there and they don’t think of anything else, but just laughter, having a good time resting” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”
    • “I think what is extremely helpful is knowing what fills you, knowing what brings you joy knowing the things that regenerate you and energize you” —Lenmarie Paschall in “Stitch Please”

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

    Lenmarie Paschall

    Website: Rest by Len

    Instagram: Rest by Len (@restbylen) 

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    29 min
  • Happy 2023! Reflect and Look Forward

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

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    21 min
  • Stitching Holiday Traditions with Kamali Obiagu

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

     

    Kamali Obiagu

    Her first craft was crocheting, which she began in 2014. A few years later she decided she wanted to learn how to sew. Once she learned about PDF patterns and all the things she could make with a sewing machine, she knew she had found her passion. That was late 2018 and since then she has been sewing nonstop and has improved her sewing skills and taken over most of her wardrobe with her makes.

     

    Insights from this episode:

    • How does Kamali incorporate her crafts into the gift-giving and decorating aspect of the holidays
    • The significance of celebrating Kwanzaa
    • Important lessons that Kamali gives to her children
    • Kamali’s desire to design pajamas based on African prints this year
    • Kamali’s plans for her crafts during the Kwanzaa season
    • What is the message behind Kwanzaa
    • The importance of hand-made things for Kamali
    • The joy that brings to Kamali doing handmade gifts 

     

    Quotes from the show: 

    • “As for decorations, our family has a different flayer on this Kwanzaa season…we still have a tree, a holiday tree but we call it the black tree, the pan African tree so its a black tree with red and green decorations to mimic the pan African colors” —Kamali Obiagu in “Stitch Please”
    • “Kwanzaa is our time to remind ourselves how powerful we are as black people, the potential we already have and what we have for the future and to remind ourselves that we are the greatest as we are” —Kamali Obiagu in “Stitch Please”
    • “The principles in Kwanzaa remind us what we need to do to be better within ourselves and within our community” —Kamali Obiagu in “Stitch Please”
    • “ [About handmade gifts] I take pride in knowing that I contributed to something other than spending a whole bunch of money on a gift, it seems the roundest time it's the most expensive time of the year, and knowing that I can make something that comes from my hands…it's amazing” —Kamali Obiagu in “Stitch Please”

     

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

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    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

     

    Kamali Obiagu

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    Blog: Kamali Obiagu

     

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    15 min
  • Stitching Holiday Traditions with Florence Taylor

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

     

    Florence Taylor

    Florence Taylor is a firm believer that “clothes to fit the body, not the body to fit the clothes".

     

    Insights from this episode:

    • What Christmas meant for Florence’s parents
    • Family traditions at Florence’s house
    • Things that fill up Florence’s family
    • What Christmas means for Florence and her family

     

    Quotes from the show:

    • “Christmas for them (Florence’s parents) was not about what we wanted or what we needed, such as heavy and beautiful winter clothes, boots, snow pants, mittens, socks, and such. To adolescent children and teens, this was not exciting at all” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “I wanted my children to understand that they have a responsibility to our local community, to have the opportunity to provide amazing imprints of who they were as individual character” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “So Christmas for them (her kids), is about those little that one big thing that speaks to who they are as individuals” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “Christmas for us, whether it’s the food that we partake in, the gifts that we share, are about filling our children and the people that we love, their souls, their spirits and their bodies” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “We want our house to be filled with warmth and creativity. We want the spirit of Christmas to be about being altruistic (…) it is about community, it is about building, it is about sustaining family and traditions” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “In my family, Christmas is about sights, sounds and smells. The sounds of laughter and music, the sight of color and imagination, and the smells of how I show my love to them in terms of baking and how I wanna nourish them” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”

     

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

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    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

     

    Florence Taylor

    Florence’s Blog: Carissa Knit Corset Crop, Top, Mini, Dress, Midi & Maxi 

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    16 min
  • Stitching Holiday Traditions with Martha McIntosh

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

     

    Martha McIntosh

    Martha is a proud Garifuna-American from the Bronx, NY, with strong roots in Livingston, Guatemala. She is a sewing enthusiast learning to sew for her curvy, plus-size body and others as well. 

     

    Insights from this episode:

    • Details about her Garifuna origin
    • Her Christmas traditions growing up
    • Transferring those traditions to her children
    • Christmas traditions as a Garifuna
    • The influence of Garifuna tradition on her sewing

     

    Quotes from the show:

    • “I already knew what to expect because of how my parents had prepared me, you know, here in the United States. Even though we were not able to go for Christmas every year, my mom and my dad made sure to tell me and share their memories of what it was growing up and what those experiences were that” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “Trying to figure out what my favorite aspect of our tradition is, is kinda hard because I love it all. There is nothing that I don’t love about being Garifuna” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “According to Garifuna traditions, shared generation to generation, taught to me by my grandmother, taught to me by my parents, and as I share those stories with my children, the Wanaragua dance is a reenactment of when we were fighting the British in St. Vincent” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”
    • “It is truly inspired by the culture (Garifuna). My sewing always takes and leads to the bold, that’s what speaks to me: the bold fabric, the colorful fabric. I truly credit that to a lot of the Garifuna traditional wears that we do” —Florence Taylor in “Stitch Please”

     

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

     

    Martha McIntosh

    Website: https://marthamcintosh.com

    Instagram: Martha McIntosh

     

    This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.

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    18 min
  • Stitching Holiday Traditions with Vanessa Martina

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

     

    Vanessa Martina

    Vanessa Martina lives in The Netherlands with her husband and two boys. She was born and raised in The Netherlands.

     

    Insights from this episode:

    • Christmas in the Netherlands
    • Fireworks in the Netherlands
    • What Christmas was like for Vanessa growing up
    • Christmas at Vanessa’s home
    • Details about Sinterklaas and why her family doesn’t celebrate it

     

    Quotes from the show:

    • “Fireworks are a major topic of discussion every year. Fireworks are forbidden the whole year round in the Netherlands except for New Year’s Eve” —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”
    • “The next big holiday or celebration is Christmas and we have three days of Christmas. We have Christmas eve, we have the first day of Christmas (December 25th) and the second day of Christmas (December 26th)” —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”
    • “As a child, the best Christmases used to be at my grandmother’s house. My grandmother used to demand entertainment from all her grandchildren. We used to have to prepare, a performance was mandatory“ —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”
    • “My kids love Christmas, they really look forward to Christmas. We put Christmas presents under the tree, but we don’t tell them that’s from Santa, it’s from us, the parents” —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”
    • “Sinterklaas is probably the biggest celebration here in the Netherlands. There are books of Sinterklaas, songs that are sung, there are movies of Sinterklaas, toys, all the shops are with Sinterklaas, it’s a huge thing” —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”
    • “So basically, I try to make all the Christmas outfits and New Year’s outfits for me and my children and my husband, and I sew a little bit for things around” —Vanessa Martina in “Stitch Please”

     

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

     

    Vanessa Martina

    LinkedIn: Vanessa Martina

     

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    26 min
  • Stitching Holiday Traditions with Lena King

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    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

     

    Lena King

    Lena King is married, with two daughters, and lives in London. She was born in Ghana, and she loves to craft through sewing. She sews for garments for herself and her family.

     

    Insights from this episode:

    • Lena King’s sewing story
    • Lena King’s holiday traditions
    • Sewing during Christmas
    • Traditions from her childhood
    • Wrapping presents in cuts and scraps
    • Christmas at Lena King’s

     

    Quotes from the show:

    • “I have tried different things but sewing is the thing that really sticks, I think with me as a craft”  —Lena King in “Stitch Please”
    • “Every year, I think to myself, do you know what, I’m going to sew some presents for people. And I plan it in my mind, I think about who I want to sew for and what they gonna get” —Lena King in “Stitch Please”
    • “I tend to have lots of cuts and scraps of fabric every year from my sewing. And last year I wrapped quite a number of presents up in fabric that I had and that made a nice little additional present” —Lena King in “Stitch Please”
    • “One tradition I have brought along with me from my childhood is that of having something new to wear on Christmas day. My mom was a real stickler for that” —Lena King in “Stitch Please”
    • “I found some black fabric which is a bit sparkly and I asked her whether she (her daughter) liked it, and she did, and I made her a very simple neat little top and she loved it” —Lena King in “Stitch Please”

     

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

     

    Lena King

    Lena’s Blog: Lena King's Babydoll Dress - Simple Sew Blog

    Instagram: Lena King

     

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    17 min
  • Alexandria Eregbu Stitch x Stitch Live Show

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    Alexandra Eregbu

    Alexandria Eregbu is a multimedia artist, writer, and educator whose practice draws from ancestral histories, lived experiences, and her own imagination to deepen her connectivity to the natural world. Her work is driven by travel, storytelling, memories (whether lived or dreamt), and surrealist activity across the diaspora— spanning from Nigeria, West Africa, the Caribbean, and her native city in Chicago. Her contributions have been presented at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies at Public Space One in Iowa City, Poets House in New York, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, Casa Rosada in Salvador, Brazil, and Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, among others. Her writing has been published by the University of Chicago Press, Terremoto Magazine, and Green Lantern Press. Alexandria is a current Emerging Artist Fellow with the Driehaus Museum (2020); a recipient of the 3Arts Award (2016); and Newcity Breakout Artist (2015). She teaches as faculty in the department of Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Lisa Woolfork

    Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. #Charlottesville. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

    Insights from this episode:

    • What it means to teach sewing at art school
    • How art intertwines with social justice
    • How artwork works as a form of empowerment
    • Alexandra empowering young boys and girls
    • What textile means to Alexandra
    • Alexandra landing and working with Indigo
    • What the project ‘Finding Ijeoma’ is and what it meant for her
    • Expressing herself through deejaying

    Quotes from the show:

    • “Justice is definitely something that has become more and more central to my practice. Where that initially started was my work teaching young people between the ages of 14-19 years old” —Alexandra Eregbu in “Stitch Please”
    • “When I first started this program, a lot of them (young boys and girls) assumed I was just like them. It really pit me in a unique position to be a friend and also a mentor” —Alexandra Eregbu in “Stitch Please”
    • “The power of being present, is what these young boys and girls, who often times just need a listening ear, a little affirmation here and it will take them so far” —Alexandra Eregbu in “Stitch Please”
    • “You can have a job that doesn’t require you to clock in and clock out. You can have a job that is not extracting from you. You can have a job where you create beauty (…) I think that it’s important that kids know that” —Lisa Woolfork in “Stitch Please”
    • “I take responsibility and I think it’s a privledge to be able to know where it is you are from. And I take responsibility: that’s something I don’t really take lightly” —Alexandra Eregbu in “Stitch Please”
    • “Some of those girls still check in with me to this today, which is a blessing: you just never know whose life you gonna touch” —Alexandra Eregbu in “Stitch Please”

    Stay Connected:

    Lisa Woolfork

    Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

    Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

    Alexandra Eregbu

    Website: Alexandria Eregbu

    LinkedIn: Alexandria Eregbu 

    Instagram: Alexandria Eregbu

    This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.

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    30 min
  • Blacker Friday 2022!

    Businesses in this episode (in order of appearance)

    Baby Cakes Bags and Rags

    Sew Hooked On Treasures

    Cultured Expressions

    African Stretch Fabrics

    Dru Christine Fabrics and Design at the DC Creative Suite

     Thanks, I Made Them

    Mondes Threads

    Gifted Hands by Chrissy, LLC

    Nicole Elise, LLC

    Scraplanta Creative Reuse Center

    Seams and Such Boutique, Seams and Such Boutique, LLC

    Beau Jé Designs

    Sew Creative Lounge

    Sew Sweet Academy

    Living Water Quilter

    Kena Quilts

    Geaux Savvy Designs

    Krafting Cuzzins and More, LLC

    What's She Creating Enterprises

    Tangular Irby, Pearl and her Gee's Bend Quilt  

    Couture Man Sewing 

    Bzy Peach, LLC

    Dovetailed London

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About Stitch Please

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Dive deep into the vibrant world of sewing with the award-winning Stitch Please podcast, an official show of Black Women Stitch – the sewing group where Black lives matter. Uniquely crafted for those who love sewing, this sewing podcast is a gem that centers around Black women, girls, and femmes, weaving threads of creativity, technique, and passion with every episode.

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