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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 are chatting with Aiden Owen, the Knitting Monk.

He joins us on the show to chat about his experiences learning to knit and sew and

what being a maker means to him.

We also talk about sustainability in making, desire as the fuel for creativity and our imperfect nature.

Nobody's perfect. Hi, Aidan, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I'm really excited to be here.

We're so excited to have you. Can you introduce yourself to our

listeners? Sure, absolutely. My name is Aidan Owen and I am a brother at Holy Cross Monastery.

We are an Anglican Benedictine community

in the Hudson Valley in New York.

And I'm a knitter and a brand new soist and Gardner among many other things.

Yes, a little backstory for our listeners.

You had deemed us on Instagram and then I, Helen, fell down the rabbit hole of your beautiful

Instagram feed, you're at Knitting Monk on Instagram, and you also have a YouTube channel that I've thoroughly enjoyed

watching. So after that introduction to you, I really

wanted to have you on the show because you have this beautiful way of speaking about making

and how it connects us to who we are as people.

So we're really excited to get into all that.

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