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139 Prose into Poetry

A jam packed and fun filled episode, featuring a shave horse, dressmaking, a really cool bag, the Novus Jacket, iteration, and One Hundred Acts of Sewing, with Sonya Phillip.
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136 The Why and the How

Kicking off the first episode of Series 14, Mothers of Unvention, with conversations about the process of design, beginning with using constructive discontent to identify a problem, and the deep…
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135 The Many Brendas

My quilt-in-progress, the collection of 1970’s pillowcases, and 6.5 inch squares is growing. If you like quilts and don’t yet know about the eye-candy that is r/quilting, get thee to…
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134 You Are Here

We’re talking about space. Not space – the final frontier. The other space. The space we inhabit. The space where we store things. The space we’re allowed. The space in…
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133 I’m back

In this episode, Lively yarn is tamed, and Abattoir is no longer offal (see what I did there?) through the magic of indigo; knitting that is no fun, but still…
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Not a Podcast

A quick hello, a few announcements, some catching up, and a general setting of the the stage for the fun to come. In this not-episode, I talked about the return…
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Sleeping in Public

I first discovered A Pattern Language in 1988, through an article in Metropolitan Home magazine about the building of Sala House, near San Francisco. The house was designed by the…
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Loving my tiny space

In the world of human-centred design, the phrase “constructive discontent” is used to describe a place or a thing that falls short of its intended purpose. It’s the corner cupboard…

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I’m a serial maker of podcasts, and many things that are not podcasts. I love playing with yarn, fibre and cloth. I will never accept that furniture in my living room only goes two ways. Almost every night, I dream about houses.

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