Send me a Text Message!This is the Season 4 Premiere episode, and is hitting the ground running!  I have a shiny new logo for the podcast, as you will notice with the updated podcast art icon. My guest is Melanio Gomez, a finalist Maker on the NBC TV show, Making It .  The Season 3 finale aired last week, August 26th, and 4 finalists competed with their final make of the Shed Hack.  Melanio shares his creative background that ultimately prepared him to be a maker on Making It.&...

S4 E72: Season 4 Premiere; Melanio Gomez, Making It Finalist

Host Stephanie Socha, a residential interior designer and maker presents a creative lifestyle podcast for those who love to sew, quilt, knit, decorate and make things for the home.&nbsp; This podcast is for the maker who loves to dabble in many types of hobbies, mainly sewing and quilting, but also knitting, paper crafts (Cricut) gardening and interior decorating. &nbsp;

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Send me a Text Message!Hello and welcome everyone!  If you are new, I am Stephanie and this podcast is a long conversational format with alternating solo and guest episodes.  There is a chit chat segment that is after the guest segment where I chit and chat about everything and nothing in my world of being a maker and interior designer.  This episode will probably be the last one for season 6, however, I may pop back in with an episode or two over the summer, so keep your notif...

S6 E115: Jenni Grover, Wellness Coach

Send me a Text Message!S6 Ep 114Guests segment:  Aims, Indy Bindy Fabrics https://www.indybindy.com.au/shopAims is the owner of Indy Bindy Fabrics, an independent online fabric shop based in Australia.  She works with independent fabric artists and designers.  A lot of these fabric artists are in Japan and are small businesses and their fabrics are unique and amazing!  The Indy Bindy Sewciety is a private sewing membership group for garment sewists.  Aims programs gue...

Aims - Indy Bindy Fabrics

Send me a Text Message!The main topic for today’s episode is “Sewing Fashion and Quilting trends of 2024”.  It was fun to research this topic and to present my thoughts on them as well as resources for you to check out to make some trendy fashion including patterns, fabrics notions and more.Stephanie's recommendations for sewing patterns on trend for 2024:https://megannielsen.com/collections/sewing-patterns/products/dawn-curve-jeans-4-in-1-sewing-pattern. Cufffed jeans are a trend right ...

S6 E113: Sewing Fashion and Quilting Trends 2024

Send me a Text Message!Christa Watson is back to chat with us about none other than machine quilting, her new Dazzle Dots fabrics with Benartex, Sewing table with Arrow,  quilting notions sold in quilt shops and her new book with C&T Publishing.Links:https://christaquilts.com/ Christa's BooksDazzle Dots Fabric CollectionCT Publishing Creative SparkChrista Cabinet Sewing TableChrista's 2024 Teaching EventsMake and Decorate Podcast Links to Ep. 25, 32 and 81 with Christa Watsonhttps://...

S6E112: Christa Watson, Christa Quilts

Send me a Text Message! Patreon.com/makeanddecorate  Patreon has recently added a free membership feature available where you can join in chats with me and everyone in the group.  Paid subscribers receive a new bonus podcast episode every month.Guest Segment:  Belle Brunner with Seams Sew MeBelle is a quilter, quilt pattern designer, quilt guild consultant and trainer.  Her popular quilt pattern, Winsome Windows, uses a technique where there is no curved piecing,...

S4 E72: Season 4 Premiere; Melanio Gomez, Making It Finalist

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