Making Stitches Podcast
Making Stitches Podcast
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Connection, Confidence & Community with Melissa Santiago-Val from Sew Positive
Hello, and welcome to Making Stitches Podcast! This time, I'm delighted to be joined by Melissa Santiago-Val founder and CEO of Sew Positive. What began during the pandemic as a community effort making face masks to raise money for NHS charitie...
Stitching History: Inside the Knitting and Crochet Guild Collection
Upstairs in an historic industrial building in the centre of the West Yorkshire town of Slaithwaite is a vast collection of handmade items, tools and publications charting the history of knitting and crochet in the UK. The Knitting and Crochet ...
Pattern challenges, THAT paper dress and life after Sewing Bee with Kit Giroux
This time on Making Stitches Podcast, I’m joined by Kit Giroux, semi-finalist from the 2025 series of The Great British Sewing Bee. In our chat, Kit talks about their sewing journey, from first learning as a child to rediscovering a love of mak...
Yarn, Fibre & Community with Gareth from Manchester Wool & Yarn
I'm taking you out on the road with me today to Stockport to visit a fabulous yarn shop, Manchester Wool & Yarn. The shop celebrated its 2nd birthday earlier this year and is owed and run by Gareth, a passionate maker and supporter of the y...
From London 2012 to Peru: Anna Nikipirowicz's fabulous yarn adventure
My guest for this episode of Making Stitches Podcast is the wonderful Anna Nikipirowicz. Anna first learned to knit and crochet as a child in Poland, but she says she found it boring - luckily for us, as an adult she found a new passion for bot...