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🗓️ 20 November 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Morgan Meredith is the designer and creator of Thread Theory, a menswear sewing pattern line. From the time she was little, Morgan knew she wanted a life that she could control. But when her husband decided to join the military, she thought those dreams might be shattered.
Listen to Morgan’s story of dramatic changes and rediscovering what really makes her happy.
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0:00.0 | We really appreciated small adventures over big adventures. |
0:05.0 | And even within big adventures, it was the small little things that we remembered the most. |
0:10.0 | From Seamwork Magazine, I'm Sari Mitnick and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about designing, making, and wearing our own clothing. |
0:27.9 | When you were a kid, did you have a picture of what you were going to be like as a grown-up? |
0:32.4 | I have to say, if I did, it was pretty murky. |
0:36.5 | But not so much for Morgan. Morgan is the co-founder of the |
0:39.7 | menswear sewing pattern company Thread Theory, along with her husband, Matt. She had some pretty |
0:44.9 | specific ideas about life, even when she was little. The last year, I read a little document |
0:51.7 | that I had written in school. we had to make a time capsule. |
0:55.1 | And unbeknownst to me, my mom had saved it. |
0:57.6 | And we are always getting rid of things. |
1:00.0 | We never save anything. |
1:01.2 | We don't keep things. |
1:03.4 | Like, I have hardly any of my childhood things. |
1:05.3 | But for some reason, she saved this time capsule. |
1:07.6 | And so in that time capsule, I'd written that I saw myself living on the very |
1:13.7 | northern tip of Vancouver Island, which there's not many people living up there, and visiting |
1:20.3 | my family two or three times a year, very specific, I don't know why, and I saw myself living on |
1:26.8 | a artist retreat farm where I would write novels |
1:31.6 | and make art and sort of just live on my own isolated up there. So that's really surprising. |
1:41.1 | I didn't remember having that dream as a child, but I've always wanted to do something that's |
1:48.5 | really independent, not work with a large group of people. |
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