Raquel's refashion journey

08/26/19 • 35 min

The sewing community is very cohesive on Instagram. Everyone has their favourites and build friendships about sewing but it's their life that keep them together.

Raquel refashions and develops her sewing skills using dead stock clothes from local Taipei resellers. She has ventured into pattern testing and is now a Minerva maker. She's used her sewing passion to create clothes she is comfortable to wear everyday. Raquel also shared her breast cancer resources with us in this episode.

The sewing community is very cohesive on Instagram. Everyone has their favourites and build friendships about sewing but it's their life that keep them together.

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Get to Jimmy buttons

Melbourne’s an easy place to get around if you’re staying for a short visit. Jump on a tram to get to Jimmy Buttons - an icon to the sewing community. It's where we can source all sorts of notions locally. Jimmy has been serving the clothing community and the sewing community now for 31 years and he confessed to us that he wants a holiday. You can find Jimmy Buttons online too.

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There was a time when the thought of online fabric shopping was an idea sewing and craft people would not consider or want.

Elizabeth of Elizabethmadethis.com has created a couple of very helpful blog posts about online fabric shopping. Elizabeth has always shared her research and ideas for sewing people because she has always been supportive to the community. Earlier this month Elizabeth wrote a great blog post called '16 tips for better fabric shopping online'. Elizabeth has now added The ultimate jumbo mega guide to online fabric stores with a spreadsheet containing over 200 online fabric retailers that span across 5 English speaking countries - The States, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. This is just the start of a great resource from Elizabeth that you can contribute to. Join me now and hear the real story behind Elizabeth's research.