Episode 168: Sewing and Chronic Illness with Andie Wells
Love to Sew Podcast
Helen Wilkinson
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Andie Wells joins us to talk about their sewing practice and how the community can better support sewists living with chronic illnesses and disabilities. They also discuss fat sewing, who they love following in the online sewing community, and some of their favourite sewing resources!
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| 0:00.0 | We're recording today on the traditional ancestral and unseated territories of the Co-Sailish |
| 0:05.1 | peoples, including Slewathuth, Squamish, Musquium, and Comox First Nations. |
| 0:09.6 | Dada da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Helen the owner of Blackbird fabrics and I'm Helen the owner of Blackbird |
| 0:17.8 | fabrics and I'm Helen the designer behind Helen's closet patterns. |
| 0:21.0 | We're two sewing buds who love to sew our own clothes |
| 0:24.7 | and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too. |
| 0:27.7 | Join us for today's interview with Andy Wells |
| 0:30.1 | from So Pretty Pretty in Pink. Dada Dada da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello Andy, thank you so much for coming on the show today. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited about this. |
| 0:43.0 | We're so excited too. Can you please introduce yourself for our listeners? |
| 0:47.0 | Sure, my name is Andy Wells. I am a self-taught plus-sized soist or fat soist depending on what term you prefer. |
| 0:56.0 | I actually I live in Toronto, Ontario up in Canada, but I've also lived in several provinces on the east coast of Canada as well of several places in Ontario itself and I also do improv comedy in my spare time and I am a disabled zoist. |
| 1:12.4 | Wonderful and we love to kick off the show learning a little bit about our guest's |
| 1:17.1 | sewing journey. |
| 1:18.1 | So can you tell us how and when you learned how to sew? |
| 1:21.1 | Sure, I started sewing in 2008. It's actually a very cute story. And I love |
| 1:28.4 | telling it because it's sort of like the origin story with my partner Velvet. I started sewing after a |
| 1:34.7 | conversation with him, the very first conversation actually, where we were talking |
| 1:39.4 | about Halloween costumes and I got into a conversation where I was like, oh, there's nothing available in my size and I really wanted to be this and then basically like over the course of the conversation, I just decided, hey, I'll go and buy a sewing machine. |
| 1:57.0 | And then I made my very first costume that way. |
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