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Welcome back stitchers! Happy 2024! Today we celebrate in the spirit of Sankofa. Sankofa is a word of the Akan people of Ghana, meaning "to go back and get it" in the Twi language. The retrieval concept is symbolized by interlocking hearts or a bird with her feet facing forward but her head turned backward and carrying an egg in her beak. What is the core concept of 2024? Plus what is Lisa's first...

Celebrate! Vote! Share! The Black Women Stitch Sew Black at QuiltCon is a finalist for an Anthem Award in the category of Community Engagement in Education Arts and Culture. Please vote for us here and share widely! Voting ends 12/21 .   The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available  NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artisti...

Celebrate! Vote! Share! The Black Women Stitch Sew Black at QuiltCon is a finalist for an Anthem Award in the category of Community Engagement in Education Arts and Culture. Please vote for us here and share widely! Voting ends 12/21 .   The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available  NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artisti...

Celebrate! Vote! Share! The Black Women Stitch Sew Black at QuiltCon is a finalist for an Anthem Award in the category of Community Engagement in Education Arts and Culture. Please vote for us here and share widely! Voting ends 12/21 . SHIPPING 12/14... The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available  NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artist...

The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available for preorder NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artistic inspiration! Welcome back stitchers! We are sew excited to bring you a new tradition to the Stitch Please Podcast: Holiday Swatches. A fabric swatch is a small sample of fabric that allows you to visualize a project before cutting int...

The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available for preorder NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artistic inspiration! In this episode of the Stitch Please podcast, Lisa welcomes Tiffany Turned, a talented sewist, to share her transformative journey into sewing. Initially skeptical, she discovered her passion through a 30-minute skirt tut...

The Black Women Stitch 2024 Wall Calendar is available for preorder NOW! Do not miss out on your chance to  and get your stitch together with a year of artistic inspiration! In this episode of the Stitch Please podcast, Lisa interviews Grace Christopher, the creative genius behind African Zesty Couture. Grace shares her journey into sewing, which began as a way to keep her mind active after m...

Preorder your 2024 BWS Wall Calendar TODAY!    Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Aaronica B. Cole Aaronica B. Cole is a dynamic force in the world of sewing and creative expression. With a passion for using threa...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store   Black Sewing Network Black Sewing Network is a platform that celebrates and amplifies black voices in the sewing community. We host daily sewalongs on social media that encourage an...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!    Check out our merch here  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store Black Sewing Network Black Sewing Network is a platform that celebrates and amplifies black voices in the sewing community. We host daily sewalongs on social media that encourage and motivate members of the sewing community to sew daily! Black Sewing...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Black Sewing Network Black Sewing Network is a platform that celebrates and amplifies black voices in the sewing community. We host daily sewalongs on social media...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Lisa Woolfork Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black w...

Sponsored by Accuquilt!    Sign up for the Black Women Stitch  newsletter!     Check out our merch here    Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon  Amazon Store Patterns Mentioned: Vogue 1940, Simplicity 8982, Mimi G for Simplicity 9687 KnowMe 2046, The Rushcutter Dress by In the Fold...

Sponsored by Accuquilt!  Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store Lisa Woolfork Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and r...

Start of the show. 0:09 Welcome to stitch please, official podcast of black women's stitch. Black women at quilt con. Finding a safe place from her heart to land. Quilting as a way to escape mathematics. What does “I miss hope” bring to me? 3:33 The scale of I miss hope. The frustration and tension of following the news. The intersection of quilting and activism. The process of creating a statemen...

This episode of the Stitch Please podcast features Naomi Johnson as host interviewing guest Rashida Coleman Hale and Lisa, live at the Modern Quilt Guild's 10th anniversary QuiltCon event in Atlanta. Lisa explains her motivation for attending QuiltCon for the first time and shares her excitement over the increased representation of Black women and Black-owned businesses at the event. Rashida discu...

Introduction to this episode. 0:09 Welcome to the official podcast of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group, where Black Lives matter. Thanks to underwriters Spoonflower, Moda, and Bernina This is a “very special episode” because this episode is Sew Black at Quiltcon. Watch word of the day. 3:21 Sarah has been collaborating with dead women from her family for the last 30 years, and now she gets to...

​​Celebrate the 200th episode of the Stitch Please podcast by contributing to the next 200 episodes. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon community  to get videos of the podcast, BTS, and other bonus content.  Donate via Act Blue (tax deductible)  to support our Capacity Building campaign in September and October. Donations earn bonus entries for the giveway.  Stitching FOR THE...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Queen Queen is a Bronx native with a Harlem heart, did college in Queens, currently resides in Brooklyn, and like most New Yorkers forgets Staten Island exists. Cr...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Jennifer Oldham Jennifer Oldham is a thread artist who creates beautiful embroidery hoop designs through which we can see our sisters and ourselves. Jennifer share...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!   Check out our   merch too!  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Black Women Stitch 2023 Wall Calendar Amazon Store   Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu was born in 1981 and is a painter and photographer whose passion for photography complim...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Ella Clausen When Ella Clausen fell in love with sewing, she fell HARD. She started a few months before the pandemic began and has been riding a wild frenzied wave...

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Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Robyn Burgess Robyn Burgess has been 6’2” since she was 13 years old and has always loved making every hallway and sidewalk her runway, but finding fashions that f...

Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter!     Check out our merch here  Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode.  Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Amazon Store   Sasha Black Sasha Black is a home sewist and content creator who is known for her amazingly hilarious sewing videos as Sasha Sews. She started sewing in 2015 as an...