59 min

BACKSTITCH with Kathryn Greenwood Swanson SEAMSIDE: Exploring the Inner Work of Textiles

    • Crafts

Talking to Kathryn Greenwood Swanson is like completing an electrical circuit that you hadn’t realized was open. Big ideas just light up this entire conversation. Kathryn and I catch up on the one year anniversary of our SEAMSIDE chat to catch up on everything that’s happened since we last talked. If you haven’t heard our first conversation, Kathryn runs a thriving creative reuse shop in Turner Falls, Massachusetts called Swanson’s Fabric, and you can find it in the feed on January 9, 2023. In that conversation we talked about: the role of the communal stashhouse, the shame so often associated with our fabric stashes, and how to start your own secondhand fabric store like Swansons.

In this SEAMSIDE conversation, Kathryn and I talk about:
① how to work with the energy of objects
② fixing the entire world in one fell swoop
③ our dreams for a cross-country multi-city quilty bus tour

Talking to Kathryn Greenwood Swanson is like completing an electrical circuit that you hadn’t realized was open. Big ideas just light up this entire conversation. Kathryn and I catch up on the one year anniversary of our SEAMSIDE chat to catch up on everything that’s happened since we last talked. If you haven’t heard our first conversation, Kathryn runs a thriving creative reuse shop in Turner Falls, Massachusetts called Swanson’s Fabric, and you can find it in the feed on January 9, 2023. In that conversation we talked about: the role of the communal stashhouse, the shame so often associated with our fabric stashes, and how to start your own secondhand fabric store like Swansons.

In this SEAMSIDE conversation, Kathryn and I talk about:
① how to work with the energy of objects
② fixing the entire world in one fell swoop
③ our dreams for a cross-country multi-city quilty bus tour

59 min