Jul 28, 2025
Jeanna Wigger and Mary V Morton are the authors of Stitch it, Don’t Ditch It.
Mary direct messaged Jeanna when Mary heard Jeanna on Check Your Thread podcast. They teamed up and wrote this really helpful book about mending via hand sewing.
As a sewist, you would assume mending clothes is the focus of this book.
Jul 21, 2025
Ronda Hazell's story started in June 2024 when an echocardiogram showed she had a dilated ascending aorta (a dilation is a bulge where the diameter of the aorta gets bigger when it is more than 1.5 times normal size it is called an aneurysm).
This is a life-threatening medical condition because larger aneurysms...
Jul 14, 2025
Christine is Sewing and the City.
Her current life in Valencia Spain allows Christine to reuse existing linens with great embroidery for making garments.
She was introduced to SewOver50 by Suzy because of their connection in Spain.
This year Christine is using her fashion training to run Fit Clinics and she constantly...
Jul 7, 2025
Lou and Lynn organise Coastal Sewcial.
They met through a local sewcial called Sew-Toon. Tamlyn who runs Sew-Toon helped Lou and Lynn borrow some equipment when they first started Coastal Sewcial.
Coastal Sewcial is run onsite at a charity and the bonus for the sewists is there is an onsite cafe there as well. The...