S12: Dream it, Create it, with Lucy Sparrow, founder of Sew Your Soul

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With a mantra that it is the energy you put in, that will see you succeed, artist Lucy Sparrow is the epitome of being utterly passionate (obsessed even) with the product you are creating.

Crafting felt creations to make you smile, her instantly recognisable pieces blend the world of colourful, tactile creations with a hard-hitting social commentary that tackles the world of gun crime, the sex industry, and the demise of our traditional high streets.

There is no doubt that Lucy’s art is shaking up the sewing scene and her commitment and passion means entering each of her installations is like a trip to the theatre, an experience that feeds all the senses and is completely intoxicating.

Driven by her strong desire to create events and pieces of art that people will remember forever, this is a wonderful tale of how hard work and belief can create real magic.

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0:00.0	Well, that was just one of the most fascinating interviews with Lucy Sparrow,
0:06.2	founder of So Your Soul, an amazing woman, an amazing artist who really has
0:14.4	explained that our fascinations in life are obsessions, the niche that we find ourselves in.
0:23.9	Absolutely can become our lives, our day jobs. Not only was she sitting talking to me
0:32.8	whilst still creating her felt creations because if she even took a minute out of the day and got
0:40.4	behind, it was like a conveyor belt of felt that would just sort of tumble on top of her.
0:46.7	She also had this way of just bringing light and love and fun to her subject and I think it's
0:56.0	one for all of us to listen to to understand that if we can dream it, we really can create it.
1:03.9	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006, I founded not
1:18.3	on the high street from my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and Co.
1:24.0	I'm the UK ambassador of creative small businesses and I believe that having a business doing
1:29.7	what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs.
1:36.7	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view the best way
1:43.7	to do this is by sharing stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses,
1:49.9	entrepreneurs and those who simply inspire me and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to
1:56.5	Dell Technologies, who've helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my Conversations of
2:02.8	Inspiration. Hi Lucy, what a pleasure it is to have some time with you today. As you know,
2:10.5	I'm a big fan and I'm going to mention that throughout this entire podcast, but welcome to
2:15.3	Conversations of Inspiration. Tell me where you are because I can see that you're in front of
2:20.8	some filing cabinets. Well, thank you Holly, it's lovely to be here and yeah, I'm really happy to
2:26.0	be joining you. Today, you are seeing me in my archive room, actually one of three archives,
2:32.5	because I've made a lot of stuff and it's where I put all the patterns and samples for everything
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