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#5: Craft & Thrift with Amy Dyce

#5: Craft & Thrift with Amy Dyce

FromCheck Your Thread


#5: Craft & Thrift with Amy Dyce

FromCheck Your Thread

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Released:
Aug 30, 2021
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Podcast episode

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Welcome to the fifth episode of CYT, this time featuring a conversation with Amy Dyce, a crafty, thrifty environmentally-minded woman who has a small business called Craft & Thrift. Through her Etsy shop she sells thrifted, vintage and deadstock fabric, along with other related sewing products. Amy was so generous with her time that we ended up chatting and recording for over two hours! Because of that, we will release two episodes that include different parts of our conversation. This first half focuses on her business, including how she pivoted from selling tea cosies to deadstock fabric, her (possibly haunted) storage unit and about the shipping containers full of 90s fabric that pushed her business to the next level. 



The scrap-busting related challenges are:



#so50sustainablesewing created by @judithrosalind and hosted by @sewover50



#recyclingremnants created by @elleandthestitches



Lou Box Top pattern by Sew DIY HERE



Lou Box Top kits from Craft & Thrift HERE



Find my guest Amy on Instagram @craftandthrift, her website is HERE and Etsy shop is HERE



The Sew Your Own Undies kits we collaborated on HERE



Jen Gale from @sustainableish’s powerful post HERE
Released:
Aug 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hello! Welcome to Check Your Thread, a podcast about sewing more sustainably. Each episode we enjoy nerding out about sewing, whilst picking up ideas and useful tips for how to reduce our impact on the environment. My aim is always to approach topics with a sense of curiosity and fun, and hope to leave our listeners feeling inspired by the end of each episode. Examples of topics that we cover include sourcing second hand textiles, zero waste sewing patterns, mending, upcycling, scrap-busting and alternative and surprising sources for fabric. If there are any topics you’d like CYT to cover, anyone you’d like me to get on the podcast to chat to or you’d just like to say hi, please email me at zoe@checkyourthread.com or message me via Instagram @checkyourthread.