Sew & So..‪.‬ Flint Rock LLC, BERNINA

Enjoy this marvelous conversation with George Kalajian, a world renown couture master craftsman located in New York’s Garment District. George is the owner/operator of Tom’s Sons International Pleating which was founded more than 50 years ago by his grandfather.

Join us for our first episode direct from Australia as Robyn Cuthbertson from Robyn J Designs shares her inspirational story of adventure, bravery, and tenacity in living her best life. Her moving journey is nothing less than uplifting and her venture into where she is now…beyond serendipitous!

The Sallie Tomato company has been making a name for itself for years. Join us to meet its founder Jessica Barrera in the episode of Sew & So. Learn how she began to sew, why she named her company Sallie Tomato, how she has exponentially grown this business and her love for her hometown Fox Lake, WI!
Show Notes:
Designer, author, educator, and entrepreneur Jessica Barrera is our guest in this episode of Sew & So. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she learned to sew at an early age. She studied entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.

When not running her growing company, she enjoys coffee, being a mom, coffee, home decorating, travelling and black and white movies!

Join us as we reunite with one of our guests from Season 1, or to be more specific…70 episodes ago. We catch up with Dr. Karen Nyberg a retired astronaut who is currently pursuing interests in textile art and design - and the areas of conservation and sustainability.

As a reminder, Karen received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Dakota and graduate degrees, also in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She was selected as a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps in 2000 and as the 50th woman in space made her first trip to space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2008, during the height of International Space Station (ISS) construction. On her second spaceflight in 2013, Karen launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and lived and worked at ISS for 166 days.
During this time, she became the first person to create with sewing in space!

Cristina Arcenegui Bono began quilting in 1999 after watching the movie “How to make an American quilt”. Her initial background is in travel and tourism, but today her true passion is quilting, especially by machine, either on her long arm or her domestic sewing machine. She has grown her passion into an international business and has won myriad quilting awards. Join us for her remarkable story

“The Handbag Fairy Godmother” Emily Blumenthal joins us on this episode to talk about her amazing journey to turn handbag design into a full-time international business. Seeing content opportunities for product extensions, Emily founded the Handbag Awards, and Handbag Designer 101 the podcast, the book, and the Masterclass.