25 episodes

Casual conversations over coffee with award-winning author and sewing instructor Deborah Moebes, based on her blog, Whipstitch. Deborah shares insights about the connections sewing provides each of us: our relationships, our history, our homes, our community, our hearts, our minds. Engage with ideas that will enrich your sewing, make it more rewarding, and enjoy some time visiting together.

Whipstitch Deborah Moebes

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    • 4.8 • 12 Ratings

Casual conversations over coffee with award-winning author and sewing instructor Deborah Moebes, based on her blog, Whipstitch. Deborah shares insights about the connections sewing provides each of us: our relationships, our history, our homes, our community, our hearts, our minds. Engage with ideas that will enrich your sewing, make it more rewarding, and enjoy some time visiting together.

    Episode Twenty-Five: For The Love Of Bias Tape

    Episode Twenty-Five: For The Love Of Bias Tape

    Host Deborah Moebes guides you through THREE chapters covering everything you want and need to know about bias tape.  Chapter One: What Is It, and Why?  Chapter Two: What to make with bias tape.  Chapter Three: Continuous bias tape, step by step.
     
    Read more here:
    https://whip-stitch.com/?s=bias+tape

    • 52 min
    Episode Twenty-Four: What's A Sewing Tournament?

    Episode Twenty-Four: What's A Sewing Tournament?

    Have you ever heard of a SEWING tournament?  You've heard of a basketball tournament, and a bowling tournament, but a SEWING tournament?  The League of Dressmakers, Whipstitch's subscription garment club for sewing better clothing, has an Annual Sewing Tournament, the only one of its kind.  The next round starts the first week of March 2024, and you can be part of the fun!
    Listen to Whipstitch founder Deborah Moebes share the inspiration and concept behind the sewing tournament, the challenges involved, and the unexpected outcomes for members who play along.
    Want to take part?  Join The League:
    https://leagueofdressmakers.com

    • 28 min
    Episode Twenty-Three: How To Defeat Sewing Perfectionism

    Episode Twenty-Three: How To Defeat Sewing Perfectionism

    Host Deborah Moebes shares the story of sewing a men's sport coat from a Vogue sewing pattern, only to have it fail miserably--and what that reveals about her own (accidental) pursuit of perfectionism in her sewing.
    Read the original blog post here:
    https://whip-stitch.com/mens-sport-coat-reveal/

    • 52 min
    Episode Twenty-Two: Murder In Greece! The 2024 Murder Mystery Quilt--with BONUSES

    Episode Twenty-Two: Murder In Greece! The 2024 Murder Mystery Quilt--with BONUSES

    This year is the NINTH year of the Murder Mystery Quilt, and we're headed to GREECE!  Hear Deborah Moebes share the colors and design of the quilt, the mystery we'll be solving, and how you can also join Murder At Yellowstone for a limited time.
     
    Learn more:
    MurderMysteryQuilt.com
     

    • 34 min
    Episode Twenty-one: The Seamstresses of Manzanar

    Episode Twenty-one: The Seamstresses of Manzanar

    In this episode, Deborah shares a visit to Manzanar, an American internment camp for citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II.  The ways in which sewing formed community, relationships, and identity for those Americans during this tumultuous time should be honored and remembered.  These are Great Women In Sewing.
    Read a full transcript, complete with links & more posts in the Great Women In Sewing blog series, here:
    https://whip-stitch.com/great-women-in-sewing-the-seamstresses-of-manzanar/

    • 27 min
    Episode Twenty: Sewing Machine Maintenance For Beginners

    Episode Twenty: Sewing Machine Maintenance For Beginners

    Deborah discusses the near-death of her beloved sewing machine, her relationship with her local sewing machine repair shop, and how to maintain our sewing machines so that we don't need repairs as often--and at lower cost.
    Atlanta locals, the repair shop Deborah uses is the Atlanta Sewing Center, which has two locations: https://www.atlantasewing.com/
    Read Deborah's original blog post with these details and show notes here: https://whip-stitch.com/tag/sewing-machine-maintenance/
    Deborah's post about the "Three Most Common Sewing Mistakes--and How To Fix Them" is here: https://whip-stitch.com/answers-to-the-three-most-frequent-sewing-machine-questions/
    Deborah's bulk sewing machine needle purchase link is here (this is an affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3XvtCre
    The sewing machine cover Deborah mentions, which is both in her book Stitch Savvy and a part of the How To Sew video series, you can see here: https://whip-stitch.com/quilted-sewing-machine-cover/
    For more information about the How To Sew video series, see the League of Dressmakers blog post: https://leagueofdressmakers.com/how-to-sew-video-series-master-your-sewing/
    For more about rubbing alcohol to clean your tension discs, see this post from the National Quilters Circle
    The sewing machine oil with a telescoping spout is here: https://amzn.to/3CNd7NS
    Need a new sewing machine instruction manual, especially for a vintage model?  Try this archive: https://archive.org/details/manuals?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22sewing+machine%22&sort=-publicdate
    The post where Deborah looks at images of sewing thread under the microscope is here: https://whip-stitch.com/your-thread-has-a-shelf-life/
     
     

    • 38 min

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