Summer sewing: Linen struggles, hacking shorts and bold stripes #109

About this episode

Malena and Johanna discuss summer sewing challenges, including linen fabric issues and creative ways to hack shorts from existing patterns.

Summer has (almost) arrived in Sweden, and Malena and Johanna are ready to talk about warm-weather sewing. It starts with a linen pants therapy session where Johanna has some saggy struggles; luckily, Malena has the solutions. They move on to shorts and how we can hack our favourite pants sewing pattern into a pair of shorts (hint: the answer might surprise you). Then Malena pulls out a roll of fabric and asks for advice, and the answer could be...dungarees, or as Johanna says, "own the stripes!" Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠stitchingtalespod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Or contact us at our socials: Stitching Tales on Instagram Stitching Tales on YouTube About Malena Hjerpe: Professional pattern maker, sewing book author and owner of Hazelhen Patterns. Hazelhen Patterns Instagram hazelhenpatterns.com (get your free Malva t-shirt pattern) About Johanna Lundström: Sewing book author, pattern designer and sewing content creator. thelaststitch.com The Last Stitch Instagram

People in this episode

Hosts: Malena Hjerpe, Johanna Lundström

Topics covered

• summer sewing
• linen fabric
• shorts hacking
• sewing patterns
• bold stripes

Keywords

• summer sewing
• linen struggles
• shorts pattern
• sewing tips
• bold stripes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hazelhen Patterns, The Last Stitch

Places: Sweden

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