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Flex Your Costume Sewing Muscles — Episode 23

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|Sponsored| Halloween is one time of year when you can really show off your sewing skills. Get your creative juices flowing with a conversation about costumes of all kinds – cosplay, historical, Halloween – with co-hosts Kate and Amanda and guest host Ginger.

Originally published 10/3/2019. Now available on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts. Please subscribe and leave us a review if you love Sew & Tell so we can grow our sewing family even larger.

Episode Summary

  • Welcome
  • Discussion Segment: Costumes in general
  • Discussion Segment: Our favorite personal costumes
  • SewJo
  • Sew & Tell

Sew & Tell

What’s your dream costume?

Ongoing Sewing Pun Tally

Meg: 4
Amanda: 4

Kate: 3

Other Notes

We want to apologize for not being able to include images of all our favorite costumes that we talked about. Turns out both Amanda’s and Kate’s moms are out of town and unable to send old pictures our way! But please enjoy the costume sewing pictures we do have:

Ginger flexes her costume sewing with cosplay. She and her daughter Parker Jean are shown here in a cat and superhero costume respectively.
Ginger and her daughter Parker as Captain Marvel and Goose the Cat/Flerkin at Denver Pop Culture Con in 2019.
Ginger's mom creating a Miss America costume.
Ginger in her Miss America costume
Kate's first experience with costume sewing in a simple Wonder Woman costume.
Kate as Wonder Woman, age 2

In this episode we asked you:

“What’s your dream costume?”

Leave your answers in the comments below!

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Originally published 10/3/2019. Updated 5/5/2021.


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