Episode 46: Building an Empire with Lisa Comfort
Love to Sew Podcast
Helen Wilkinson
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Comfort tells the story of Sew Over It, her online and in-person sewing shop. Lisa sells patterns, fabrics, classes, and more! She started small and has grown her business into one of the biggest indie sewing companies in the world.
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| 0:18.8 | Dada 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 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 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 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 da da da da da Hello and I'm Helen, 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 |
| 0:23.0 | inspiring creatives and small business owners in our community. Today we have |
| 0:27.2 | Lisa Comfort on the show to talk about sew over at London and her lifestyle website |
| 0:32.0 | Lisa Comfort.com. We chat about how she got |
| 0:34.9 | started and the incredible growth that her business has seen over the years. |
| 0:38.9 | Lisa is in love with sewing and has played a huge role in the growth of this community. |
| 0:44.0 | All while looking fabulous. |
| 0:46.0 | Absolutely fabulous. Hello Lisa thank you so much for coming on the show with us. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello guys, thank you for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | We are thrilled to have you on. Can you please introduce |
| 1:04.1 | yourself to our listeners? Yeah sure. So I'm Lisa Comfort and I am the owner of |
| 1:09.6 | So Over It. So over it is we could say a one-stop sewing shop at all things sewing. We do everything |
| 1:16.3 | but sew things for you so teaching people how to sew spreading the sewing word. We |
| 1:22.2 | have two shops in London where we run our classes from. We also sell |
| 1:26.8 | our fabrics and habedeshire and things. And then we're also an independent pattern company and |
| 1:31.7 | we design our own patterns, which have not all of them but most of them have a bit of a vintage |
| 1:36.7 | nod and we also have an online shop where we sell our fabrics and patterns and our online classes and there's |
| 1:46.1 | probably something in there that I've missed as well but yeah I think that's most of it. |
| 1:50.3 | Inevitably when we were making the list of all of the things that you guys have going on it was endless honestly. |
| 1:59.4 | So whereabouts are you located? So we're in London. |
| 2:03.5 | So our shops are in north and south London. |
| 2:06.2 | Wonderful. |
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