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da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Hello and I'm Helen, I'm Helen and I'm Caroline and we love to sew. This is a

podcast for makers where we talk about sewing a handmade wardrobe and bring you interviews with inspiring creatives and

small business owners in our community.

Today we're talking to Amanda Adams, the blogger behind Bimble and Pimble.

Amanda also organises BP-Sauveember, an annual photo-a-day challenge for sewists.

We love Amanda's fun and playful approach to sewing, not to mention she is hilarious. Don't you think Helen look I am

living large in Canberra today, so doing very well.

Thank you so much for coming on the show to chat with us.

Thank you for having me on, I'm really excited.

So we thought we'd just start with for people who maybe don't know you I don't know how people could not

know you but for anyone who doesn't know who you are tell us a little bit about

yourself sure yep so my name is Amanda and I blog at bimble and pinball.com, which is named after my two ridiculously adorable dogs.

Yeah, and I'm based in Canberra, which contrary to a lot of people's belief is actually the

Australian capital city, not Sydney.

And yeah, I've been sewing for a gosh about five six years now and yeah I tend to do it with how

shall I put this a good sense of humor is probably the way to go about it.

I really love reading your blog you always come

across as being so lively and I I can get a sense of your sense of humor

through your writing which is always so fun. Yeah I tend to where people meet me they're like yes you

write how you talk so there's not a lot of filtering I have to say there's bad

senses of humor here. So you learned to sew as an adult, you said five or six years,

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