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Helen Shaw Jun 09, 2021

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Helen recently wrote a guest post for Sewover50 about her shirtmaking journey. Where do you start when you decide to make a new type of garment.

When you hear Helen's story, you'll be surprised to hear what skills she decided to learn before starting to make shirts.

In September 2020 @sewover50 posted about shirt making and although Helen said in the comments that she'd love to make a classic shirt, at the time it felt highly ambitious. She takes us through her shirt making adventure that continues today.

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Leila Kelleher Jun 07, 2021

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Leila Kelleher is our final 'All butts welcome' pattern designers for this Sewcialists podcast. Sarah Veblen and Rae Cumbie were the previous pattern designers who spoke about pants fitting techniques using horizontal balance lines for Sewcialists podcast.

Leila has developed a jeans pattern that caters for 2 butt shapes through her Muna and Broad patterns.

She echos the advice of Sarah and Rae that getting pants to fit takes time and patience.

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Angie Hinksman Jun 02, 2021

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Angie Hinksman is a new sewover50 follower. As she chats about her sewing and her life, there will be many parts that I know you'll identify with.

There's a lot more to Angie than her amazing dress made from bias binding cut from a duvet cover. Angie tells her personal story and then talks about how she's found sewing and gardening have helped keep her busy/sane. She's a Sewover50 follower that has found support and friendship from her fellow sewists.

We'll definitely see more of Angie's sewing makes in the future.

Make sure you take the time to listen to all the Sewover50 podcasts when you're next in your sewing room. We'll keep you company.

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Sewing Weekender preparation May 30, 2021

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Tessa Chesworth goes through her preparation for this year's Sewing Weekender. She runs through what she will do before the Weekender starts so Tessa makes the most of the whole Weekender of Expert talks and Master Class videos. The great thing about the Sewing Weekender is you can watch it from any location and the Sewing Weekender team will again, make you feel like you're really there.

This year 10% of proceeds will be donated to the charities - The Black Curriculum, Refuge and Fine Cell Work.

This year's event includes more online socials through with five live zoom chat available throughout the weekend where anyone can join and share how they are getting on with their sewing project and sew along with other attendees.

Ticket holders will also have access to the private Facebook groups to share their projects and connect with each other.

Make sure you go back and listen to the Sewing Weekender team of Charlotte, Rachel and Kate, as well as the chat with Kylie of Kylie and the Machine.

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Applique mending May 27, 2021

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Applique is a great way to mend anything really and Katrine of Mending Mayhem runs through a few techniques she uses.

Reverse applique is a great way to use layers of fabrics to mend and add wonderful design features. Katrine gives us some tips to make this an easy and eye catching feature.

She also discusses using water soluble stabilisers and iron on adhesives. These are easy to use but you do need to know how your fabric will behave with these fabrics.

Katrine discusses the ways she uses these techniques to extend the life of her clothes in a way that adds to their design. Make sure you listen to all of Katrine's mending podcasts. She is dedicated to spreading the word about mending through this podcast and on her social media platforms. Each week Katrine shares mending inspirations across the mending world on Mending Mayhem.

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Meet Helga May 26, 2021

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Helga @salixsews celebrated with over 30,000 @sewover50 followers by sharing her family photos in the #so50oldphoto challenge.

What you won't know is that Helga only make her Instagram account public at the start of 2021 because she discovered the Sewover50 community and was embraced by the community and our #waiwot lead, Julie of @consistenlydifferent designs.

Helga describes Sewover50 as the 'mothership' for all the work that goes on behind the scenes to keep people in the sewing community connected and engaged.

Congratulations to Sewover50 for passing 30,000 follower milestone in April 2021. An amazing achievement and a community that makes everyone feel included.

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Speaking of derrieres May 24, 2021

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Today's Sewcialists podcast features Rae Cumbie from Fit for Art patterns as we continue our Sewcialists topic of 'all butts welcome'. She is following on from our first fit specialist, Sarah Veblen. Our final designer to talk about this topic will be Leila Keleher.

Sewcialists theme is 'all butts welcome', hence the focus on pants that fit your 'behind' better.

Rae also uses horizontal balance lines and vertical balance lines to finesse the rear fit of pants patterns. Rae has developed her Eureka pants pattern, providing 3 back types so new sewists won't need to make too many adjustments as they start sewing their own pants patterns. Until 31 May 2021, Rae is offering a 15% off digital pattern for the Eureka pants pattern using coupon code ALLBUTTSWELCOME

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KATM Behind the scenes May 23, 2021

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Kylie of Kylie and the machine will take attendees of the Sewing Weekender behind the scenes at KATM HQ. You'll feel like you're really there. Kylie chats about what you'll find at KATM HQ and you'll certainly see it at the Sewing Weekender this year.

This year 10% of proceeds will be donated to the charities - The Black Curriculum, Refuge and Fine Cell Work.

Ticket holders will also have access to the private Facebook groups to share their projects and connect with each other.

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Sew Together for Summer May 20, 2021

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Listen to us chat about this year's Sew Together for Summer challenge with Suzy Roberts, Sarah Smith and Monika Mobley. All the details about Sew Together for Summer are on Sarah's blog. The yearly #sewtogetherforsummer Instagram based sewing challenges are designed to support and encourage sewists of all levels to sew together a particular type of garment (e.g. a shirtdress) and share with the online sewing community.

All entries need to be tagged #s21entry so Suzy, Sara and Monika will find your entry or entries!

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Amanda Bowden May 19, 2021

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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.

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