#164: Sewing Wins and Fails in 2024 with Lise and Meg

Check Your Thread

Are you ready to wrap up 2024, to look back at a year’s worth of sewing wins and fails, and consider some hopes and plans for 2025? I got together with two of your favourite previous podcast guests, Lise Bauer and Meg Grandstaff, to have this unapologetically lengthy conversation. So if you’ve got a long journey this festive season, or you need some company during a stint in the kitchen, let the three of us join you. Also, we answer the all important question: what forms of potato the three of us are going to be enjoying over the Winter.

Stick around a few minutes and we’ll crack on!

My guests are:

Lise Bauer (@miss.taeschli on Instagram)

Listen to Lise in the previous episode:

• Ep. #118: Last Sewist Standing with Lise Bauer

Meg Grandstaff (@the_grand_stash on Instagram)

Listen to Meg in previous episodes:

• Ep #22: Mending Workshops with Carla & Meg / Community Glue
• Ep #37: Pledges and Participants #1 with Rebecca & Meg
• Ep. #103: Swimming in a Sea of Scraps with Meg Grandstaff
• Ep. #150: Momentum and Motivation with Meg Grandstaff

Sewing patterns and products that were mentioned in this episode:

• Didi Pullover by Fibre Mood
• Bay Pants by Bel’ Etoile
• Brera Cardigan kit by We Are Knitters
• Saguaro Set by Friday Pattern Co
• Archer Button Up Shirt by Grainline Studio
• Donny Shirt by Friday Pattern Co
• I Am Sunshine Jeans by I Am Patterns (read my review post)

Accounts and businesses mentioned:

• @sewover50 community
• @virtualsewingroom
• Fitting expert Kate Roberts @projectpatterns
• @destash4palestine
• Charm Patterns
• Bianca @sleepless_in_bavaria is Lise’s co-host for the Whole 10000 Yards of Yarn challenge
• @shamseldinrogers
• @pinkmimosabyjacinta is the creator of the Whole 30 Fabric challenge
• @craftyguider

Meg's genius reinterpretation of her baby mitten fail into chair socks win!

My daughter’s ‘Goblincore’ scrappy cardigan:

My hideous knitted vest fail: