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Yes YOU can make a bra! Nikki G, Sewing my style

Yes YOU can acid dye fabric for that bra! Deborah Grayson, @colorfulfindings

Yes YOU can buy holiday fabrics with Black people on it! Queenora Renee Fabrics

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Learn more about Renee on her social media channels! 

• Blog 
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Pinterest

She has been social sewing via her Miss Celie's Pants blog and PatternReview.com for about 15  years and on Instagram for seven. Currently, she is  also a temp editor with Sewcialists. Some people might recognize her as an occasional model for Cashmerette Patterns. She has modeled the Holyoke maxi dress, Ipswich Swimsuit, and the Tobin Sweater.

A few months ago, Renee wrote about being Black and how it shaped the way she presented herself in the sewing community and why.  Here's a link to that blog entry.

Check out Renee and Lisa's SEWING NOTIONS VERZUZ. 

Which do YOU think is best in each category?

Category:  Cutting 

Renee: Bird In Hand  vs.  Lisa: Pattern Weights

Category: Marking 

Renee: ChacoLiner  vs.  Lisa: Frixion Colors

Category: Pressing  

Renee: Ham Holder vs. Lisa: Clover Hot Ruler Perfect Press

Category: Presser Feet 

Renee: 1/4inch foot vs Lisa: Stitch In the Ditch foot (I said "topstitch" but was describing  a foot with a stitch guide built in the center)

BONUS CATEGORY: The Notion that Defies All Categories

Renee: Seam Gauge  vs  Lisa: Fasturn Tube Turning Set 

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Yes YOU can make a bra! Nikki G, Sewing my style

Yes YOU can acid dye fabric for that bra! Deborah Grayson, @colorfulfindings

Yes YOU can buy holiday fabrics with Black people on it! Queenora Renee Fabrics

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Find out more about Najah Carroll on her website and on  Instagram

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Najah shares part of her story here: 

A few years ago, I "lost my sewjo" when life and work overwhelmed me all at once and activated my go-to coping skill: Strong Black Woman Survival Mode. I put my family and job ahead of my own needs, got real efficient at "running shit", and further away from my creativity. Garment sewing and writing stories about it on my blog had become my main self-care practice because it was freeing me from an adulthood of ill-fitting ready-to-wear (I am short and curvy) and fully engaged my brain and hands in something meant just for me. When I stopped keeping and making sewing promises to myself, I was determined to find out why and began a quiet journey of self-examination. I re-read the book by bell hooks that saved me in college, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women & Self-Recovery and began some much needed inner work and healing. The process is on-going. When the pandemic hit, I was triggered back into SBM mode. This time I recognized it! Those lost sewjo feelings were my call to action. I reached out to the sewing community, found out I wasn't alone and started writing, plugging holes in my self-care, and therapy-sewing my way out of the shadows. I called it my Sewjo Reclamation Project and immediately created my first sewing social media meme with an image from the movie, How Stella Got Her Groove Back. From there, I decided to self-publish my first writings as a for-profit ebook instead of on my blog. This is a transition for my platform that aligned with my 2019 transition to independent consulting from 20 years in the tech industry. The first chapter of my ebook is called "3 Reasons Why Passionate Women Lose Their Sewing Mojo" and is available for free download by my email subscribers. They will be the first to know when the ebook is available for purchase in September. To bring awareness to my Sewjo Reclamation Project, I have also begun live-streaming answers to questions from the sewing community about sewjo reclamation to my Instagram followers. Sharing my ideas, stories, and vulnerabilities has been its own healing experience. My intention is to help other passionate women reclaim their sewjo by transforming their craft into a ritual of self-care.

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Thank you today's Guest: Jeresther Thorpe Page

Find our more about Jeresther on Instagram

Watch her "And I Quilt" video here

And  learn more of her story here

Read about her quilting for a special little boy here 

Learn more about HandiQuilt machines here

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AME-Zion Church -- Jeresther mentioned her church affiliation as significant in shaping her interest in creative histories. 

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Learn more about Sahara Clemons!

Sahara Clemons is a multimedia artist, designer and activist born in Washington, D.C., and based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Playing with both the traditional and unconventional, Clemons creates paintings on wood and fabric, wearable art and fashion design. Her work confronts interpersonal and intersectional concepts and provides commentary on the historic, political and social trauma of people of color and its effect on shaping identity. Her work has been shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Second Street Gallery, The Bridge Progressive Arts Institute and McGuffey Art Center. Clemons is a YoungArts alumni and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design.  From  Cville Tomorrow. 

More information on Sahara:
Follow her on Instagram

Her TedX Talk Art as Conversation

On the installation of her 2020 mural. 

Art Against the Clock

The Fall 2018 SOUP.  Sahara won.  

About her McGuffey Art Studio Residency 

Other mentions: The Nap Ministry  is a vital project. Check it out. 

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Celebrate the 1st Birthday of the STITCH PLEASE PODCAST

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Mentioned in today's episode

Daughters Of, film by Shantrelle P. Lewis

Girl Trek, the world's largest Black women's health and wellness program

"The Will to Adorn"

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Register for the Parallel Universe Mystery Quilt here! The six-week class begins January 1, 2021. An early bird discount price is available until August 21, 2020. 

More about Ebony, Gyleen, and Latifah

Ebony: website, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube  Award-winning author and quilter Ebony Love is recognized as one of the leading experts in fabric die-cutting techniques who regularly contributes to magazines, videos, and television programs.  A founding member of the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild, she’s best known as the author of The Big Little Book of Fabric Die Cutting Tips, Binding Crazy Angles, and other books about quilting, sewing and die cutting. Ebony is fond of blindingly-bright prints and takes a contemporary approach to traditional designs. She’s also designed fabric lines in collaboration with Island Batik, including Primo and her upcoming release, Forecast. 

Latifah: website, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube  Latifah Saafir is known for her bold and innovative quilts. Combining her training as an engineer with her lifelong passion for sewing, Latifah creates designs that are graphic and contemporary, featuring challenging techniques with meticulous attention to detail.A co-founder of both the Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild and the worldwide Modern Quilt Guild, Latifah currently teaches workshops to guilds around the world. She has a line of patterns and templates that she has designed to use her favorite techniques, including a line of patterns called Quilt Cadets that teaches kids how to sew!She has released three fabric lines with Me + You, the modern fabric brand with Hoffman Fabrics. She’s been featured in over a dozen books, magazines and newspapers.

Gyleen: website,Facebook, Facebook, Facebook,  Gyleen X. Fitzgerald makes quilts that blend color, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence in traditional quilting. She infuses engineering tools and innovative techniques to simplify visually complex geometric polygon quilts. An avid quilter, Gyleen has earned Best of Show honors. As an author/publisher, she is a consistent Gold Medal winner which included Polygon Affair…So Easy You’ll Fall in Love.  She is best known for inspiring Trash to Treasure Pineapple Quilts and the creation of the Pineapple Tool by Gyleen.

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Connect with Tobiah

At her website

On Instagram

At the Hive (mail-order projects also available)

In this article by New City Arts

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Register Here for Deborah's Dye Class: https://www.colorfulfindingsclasses.com/courses/colorful-findings-course-1

Learn more about Deborah Grayson on social media

GraysonStudios

http://www.graysonstudios.com

https://www.instagram.com/colorfulfindings/

https://www.instagram.com/graysonstudios/
https://www.facebook.com/GraysonStudios

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Find Fleshia Gillon on the socials!

https://www.instagram.com/elle.g.designs/ (Fashion IG)
https://www.instagram.com/fleshiad/ (personal IG)
https://www.youtube.com/thestylecorner
https://www.facebook.com/ElleG.Designs1

New Orleans Fashion Week

http://neworleansfashionweek.com/top-design-competitors-2019

The research paper that she presented at the International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1592&context=itaa_proceedings

Production of Microbial Leather from Culled Sweet Potato Sugars via Kombucha Culture

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