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#6: Life, Sewing and Sustainability with Amy Dyce

#6: Life, Sewing and Sustainability with Amy Dyce

FromCheck Your Thread


#6: Life, Sewing and Sustainability with Amy Dyce

FromCheck Your Thread

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Released:
Sep 5, 2021
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Podcast episode

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It’s the sixth episode of the Check Your Thread podcast, and the second episode featuring parts of the great conversation I had with Amy Dyce. Last week Amy shared heaps about her small business, Craft & Thrift. In today’s episode, the conversation moves from running a sustainability-minded business, to running a sustainability-minded life! We discuss ways to share eco habits, the realities of eco-guilt and how making sustainable choices can get murky. Amy also talks about the ways she uses sewing to save her money and how thrifting has made sewing viable for her. Amy also explains how sewing and knitting became a gateway for her to become more aware of social injustice and other political issues, and reflects on the importance of acknowledging and checking your own privilege. 



Craft & Thrift Etsy shop HERE



My Lou Box Top made using a kit given to me from Craft & Thrift (kits HERE)





Tomato victory!





Katie Green Bean youtube channel HERE



The Vintage Book Worm UK Etsy shop HERE



Me-Made-May explainer HERE 



Find Amy’s Me-Made-May videos HERE 



Read more about my hand-sewn sock experiments HERE



Incredible visible mending and darning by Roberta Cummings HERE



Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal HERE





The Sporkful Podcast HERE with many episodes about race (and food) including THIS ONE
Released:
Sep 5, 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.