Ep. 315: Tilly Walnes on (Super!) Simple Starts, Returning to Yourself, and Cutting the Onion
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
How do you build an entire handmade clothing empire out of a New Year's Day dare? That's exactly where my conversation with Tilly Walnes, of Tilly and the Buttons, starts.
In this episode, you'll hear us talk about how she took sewing from hobby to business, how to maintain the spark for any creative endeavor, what to do if you want to make something but just cannot find the time (ahem...you'll hear me commit to something that I 100% didn't follow through on!), and how to get over the initial hurdles of getting started.
(And let me know if you want to be accountability buddies on making something from Tilly's new book!)
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Tilly's Books:
Tilly and the Buttons: Make it Simple: Easy, Speedy Sewing Projects to Stitch up in an Afternoon
Tilly and the Buttons: Stretch!: Make Yourself Comfortable Sewing with Knit Fabrics
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Raise Your Hands Say Yes with life coach Tiffany Hahn. This is a podcast that is all about teaching smart, ambitious women, how to raise their hands and say yes to all of those things they want to do, be and say without compromising their standards or their sanity. For more information, go to Tiffanyhan.com and now on to the show. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey, everyone. It's Tiffany. Welcome back to another raise your hand say yes. I am really excited |
| 0:26.8 | to be bringing you this interview this week. This is a conversation that I recorded back in |
| 0:32.6 | January. If you want to know how long things take in the life cycle of a podcast, sometimes months. |
| 0:40.2 | And I was ready to release this mid-March and then everything in the world got turned upside |
| 0:48.0 | down. |
| 0:48.3 | And now here we are. |
| 0:50.2 | I am interviewing Tilly Walms from Tilly and the Buttons. |
| 0:54.1 | If y'all are crafters or sewers, then you may know Tilly. |
| 0:59.0 | She has written three different sewing books. |
| 1:02.4 | She has a line of patterns out. |
| 1:05.1 | And her work is so fun. |
| 1:08.5 | You're going to hear me in this interview talk about how I want to be the sewer. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. And I'm still not, but that's okay. Her work is so fun and cute. And she really makes |
| 1:20.9 | everything accessible. Her whole brand is focused around helping people learn how to sew |
| 1:26.9 | their own clothes. |
| 1:28.2 | And it was so fun to talk to Tilly because I'm always interested in like, |
| 1:32.2 | how did you become this thing, right? |
| 1:36.3 | And what you'll hear us get into is how, I believe it was 10 years ago, |
| 1:42.4 | Tilly started a blog, but she wasn't, she wasn't Tilly in the |
| 1:47.5 | buttons yet. And she started a blog as kind of a dare, right? This phrase, go on, I dare you, |
| 1:54.4 | which, oh, it's so fun when people dare us things, right? And we talk about how she went from that to this, how she went from a hobby to |
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