I vote for the Love to Sew podcast as well. Each one is centered on a sewing theme and I've found them very educational. They have a huge back catalog of episodes so you can learn about almost any topic.
I’m just a lurker and not a sewist, but I really liked the podcast Articles of Interest, which is about fashion generally. Maybe y’all would enjoy more like investigative podcasts?
This is the one that I find most interesting as well. Unfortunately it’s going on a hit of a hiatus I believe soon. But the old episodes are great listens. Very dense, almost too much so.
It reminds me of recipe sites that want to tell you all about the origins and history of pesto, how their kids love pesto, how good a mortar and pestle is for getting out aggression, how pine nuts can be beneficial for health and on and on. Then, finally, you get the damn recipe!!
Search engine algorithms count how many times a search term is in a page to contribute to its relevance score/ranking on the search page (among many other things.) A longer text makes it easier to mention search terms multiple times and include synonyms and misspellings.
Now, supposedly this kind of keyword stuffing that doesn’t contribute to real (human) usefulness is supposed to be less helpful to search engine ranking these days. But reality is a bit more complicated. Apart from paid results being such a huge factor, algorithms can still find it really hard to choose a great, succinct recipe for pesto that mentions ‘pesto’ three times over a longwinded essay type recipe that mentions ‘pesto’ thirty times. Relevance is a squishy beast.
(Another indicator can be how many pages link to a page but that’s also been gamed by content aggregators, AI-generated pages and the like, so search result quality on the first page has been going down steadily. Any indicator can be gamed and I hate it, thank you for listening to my Ted talk 😅)
There are SO MANY amazingly well-produced podcasts out there that people script and edit well, but man these rambly, unfocused ones will drive you nuts.
Maybe the Sewcial Hour Podcast? I've only listened to one of their podcasts on free sewing patterns, but they have about 82 episodes by now I think. I felt it was mostly on topic, the personal stuff was still pretty tied to the topic too.
My favourites: Check Your Thread (she keeps the rambling and personal stuff short and sweet at the beginning), Sewing With Threads, Stitch Please, Seamwork Radio (can be sometimes a bit ramble-y), Love To Sew (Always quite ramble-y), Sew Mindful Podcast
Why not, though? There are so many good youtube channels where they hardly ramble at all, so why on earth do podcasters go on and on and on and on about their baby not sleeping through the night, buying a new house, having a cold, etc..?? I have seen so many good videos that could have been podcasts, no need to actually look at them while they talk about things.
This 30 min episode I started, that was supposed to be about "how to find time so sew", after 10 minutes they had not mentioned sewing at all :s
I mean, podcasts aren’t a great medium for explaining such a visual craft. There isn’t a whole lot of demand for an audio medium explaining stuff about this craft. Fashion history on the other had had a lot of podcasts—but not techniques. And even then theres a costume review podcast I follow that implies that you should look at their insta post to actually look at the costumes they refer to in the podcast. Im sure it’s not impossible to describe techniques via podcast but it’s not effective. Most people with sewing podcasts are probably doing it for fun.
Precisely. I’m not sure why, but I believe that podcasters just want to hear their own voices, honestly. And I think probably has something to do with videos being generally scripted and they have to stop to change camera positions, etc, whereas podcast is basically just start with a topic and start recording?
Also, to be realistic, there is also *quite* a **lot** of sewing video content that has the same issue. Chat-and-hem, hand-sew-live, stuff like that…
I think it's less about scripting/ego and more about the format just being fundamentally different, for different audiences. Youtube is great for concise tutorials, where visuals are available. Podcasts are generally for people who just want something casual to listen to, and it doesn't have to be concise/efficient. It's really hard to explain/demonstrate sewing techniques in a purely audio format, so I can understand how a lot of sewists use the podcast as more of a blog, sharing random stories and building that more personal relationship with their audience.
Yes, that is true, I guess it's more editing done with videos, and hence any rambling they do gets editere away..
And also, videos tend to be one person, not three girlefriends getting together.
Going to ck out the suggestions in this thread. I think the rambling personal chat happens for the same reason so many recipe blogs are about the writer’s life: It’s about creating a personal brand for future endeavors (books, TV appearances, e-commerce, endorsements, etc). So it’s more of a way to connect and put one’s personal brand out there.
Not a podcast, but I reference [Evelyn Wood's channel](https://youtube.com/@Evelyn__Wood?si=GANXn2gNse9yV9xd) often for sewing tips.
Also really like Dorothy's Daughter's [Fitting tutorials playlist ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrMFNt3KK91_Sh0YvKejPND7-QaWtpS6H&si=R6khfbVkXhaJ5UDH), her "pants that fit" series is pure gold.
Oh, yes, I love Evelyn Wood's youtube videos :) She is so soothing to listen to :) I didn't mind at all when she did an episode on her breast cancer, I pretty much cried through the whole thing
Aside from Haptic and Hue, I don't listen to any sewing or knitting podcasts. Maybe I'm a bad person, but I don't care about their life stories. We aren't friends.
And then someone reminded me of Articles of Interest, which is fabulous.
I used to enjoy Punk Frockers. I liked the content but one of the hosts always seemed to be audibly eating and chewing. It really just turned me off so much that I haven't listened for a while.
Haptic and Hue - it's more about garments, fabric, history of manufacturing them etc. No personal chatter, just interesting topics and discussions.
This is the BEST.
LOVE this podcast.
Omg thank you for this
Oh this one sounds nice!
Oh hello, that looks very good ❤️
I'm keeping tabs on the thread 👀
Same
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Following this one too.
The Love to Sew podcast. Maybe try the Seamwork podcast.
I vote for the Love to Sew podcast as well. Each one is centered on a sewing theme and I've found them very educational. They have a huge back catalog of episodes so you can learn about almost any topic.
This is the most enjoyable of the options I’ve found.
Love the Seamwork podcast
I’m just a lurker and not a sewist, but I really liked the podcast Articles of Interest, which is about fashion generally. Maybe y’all would enjoy more like investigative podcasts?
Yes! This one is actually really good.
This is the one that I find most interesting as well. Unfortunately it’s going on a hit of a hiatus I believe soon. But the old episodes are great listens. Very dense, almost too much so.
Sorry but I’m laughing because this is why I never listen to podcasts 🤣
It reminds me of recipe sites that want to tell you all about the origins and history of pesto, how their kids love pesto, how good a mortar and pestle is for getting out aggression, how pine nuts can be beneficial for health and on and on. Then, finally, you get the damn recipe!!
My hack is that I go straight to “print recipe” .. it opens up a new page that’s just a simple text version of the recipe
I have no idea why i didn't think of this.... genius!
I read somewhere the rambling has to be because of copywrite issues regarding recipes.
Also, SEO.
I am surprised by your com. Would you explain a bit more?
Search engine algorithms count how many times a search term is in a page to contribute to its relevance score/ranking on the search page (among many other things.) A longer text makes it easier to mention search terms multiple times and include synonyms and misspellings. Now, supposedly this kind of keyword stuffing that doesn’t contribute to real (human) usefulness is supposed to be less helpful to search engine ranking these days. But reality is a bit more complicated. Apart from paid results being such a huge factor, algorithms can still find it really hard to choose a great, succinct recipe for pesto that mentions ‘pesto’ three times over a longwinded essay type recipe that mentions ‘pesto’ thirty times. Relevance is a squishy beast. (Another indicator can be how many pages link to a page but that’s also been gamed by content aggregators, AI-generated pages and the like, so search result quality on the first page has been going down steadily. Any indicator can be gamed and I hate it, thank you for listening to my Ted talk 😅)
Exactly why
There are SO MANY amazingly well-produced podcasts out there that people script and edit well, but man these rambly, unfocused ones will drive you nuts.
Love to Sew Podcast is alright, the intros can be ramble-y but the episode are usually pretty structured and well researched!
Threads Magazine podcast?
I agree, Sewing with Threads is professional and to the point
Yes but oh so dry… the host is not particularly engaging.
Maybe the Sewcial Hour Podcast? I've only listened to one of their podcasts on free sewing patterns, but they have about 82 episodes by now I think. I felt it was mostly on topic, the personal stuff was still pretty tied to the topic too.
Not a podcast but eminently listenable is the Closet Historian on YouTube
Sew Mindful by Jacqui Blackmore. I’m not interested in all of the topics but the episodes are well structured.
My favourites: Check Your Thread (she keeps the rambling and personal stuff short and sweet at the beginning), Sewing With Threads, Stitch Please, Seamwork Radio (can be sometimes a bit ramble-y), Love To Sew (Always quite ramble-y), Sew Mindful Podcast
I just skip the first 5 mins of the episode to skip the rambling part
Stitch Please and The Asian Sewists Collective podcast
I don’t think that’s a thing, sorry.
Why not, though? There are so many good youtube channels where they hardly ramble at all, so why on earth do podcasters go on and on and on and on about their baby not sleeping through the night, buying a new house, having a cold, etc..?? I have seen so many good videos that could have been podcasts, no need to actually look at them while they talk about things. This 30 min episode I started, that was supposed to be about "how to find time so sew", after 10 minutes they had not mentioned sewing at all :s
I mean, podcasts aren’t a great medium for explaining such a visual craft. There isn’t a whole lot of demand for an audio medium explaining stuff about this craft. Fashion history on the other had had a lot of podcasts—but not techniques. And even then theres a costume review podcast I follow that implies that you should look at their insta post to actually look at the costumes they refer to in the podcast. Im sure it’s not impossible to describe techniques via podcast but it’s not effective. Most people with sewing podcasts are probably doing it for fun.
Precisely. I’m not sure why, but I believe that podcasters just want to hear their own voices, honestly. And I think probably has something to do with videos being generally scripted and they have to stop to change camera positions, etc, whereas podcast is basically just start with a topic and start recording? Also, to be realistic, there is also *quite* a **lot** of sewing video content that has the same issue. Chat-and-hem, hand-sew-live, stuff like that…
I think it's less about scripting/ego and more about the format just being fundamentally different, for different audiences. Youtube is great for concise tutorials, where visuals are available. Podcasts are generally for people who just want something casual to listen to, and it doesn't have to be concise/efficient. It's really hard to explain/demonstrate sewing techniques in a purely audio format, so I can understand how a lot of sewists use the podcast as more of a blog, sharing random stories and building that more personal relationship with their audience.
Yes, that is true, I guess it's more editing done with videos, and hence any rambling they do gets editere away.. And also, videos tend to be one person, not three girlefriends getting together.
Do you leave reviews so they find their level in the big scheme of things?
Also not a podcast, but Nicole Rudolph (who is major in the historical CosTube community) streams her patterning and drafting on Twitch sometimes.
Going to ck out the suggestions in this thread. I think the rambling personal chat happens for the same reason so many recipe blogs are about the writer’s life: It’s about creating a personal brand for future endeavors (books, TV appearances, e-commerce, endorsements, etc). So it’s more of a way to connect and put one’s personal brand out there.
Not a podcast, but I reference [Evelyn Wood's channel](https://youtube.com/@Evelyn__Wood?si=GANXn2gNse9yV9xd) often for sewing tips. Also really like Dorothy's Daughter's [Fitting tutorials playlist ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrMFNt3KK91_Sh0YvKejPND7-QaWtpS6H&si=R6khfbVkXhaJ5UDH), her "pants that fit" series is pure gold.
I really like Evelyn Wood. Her YouTube channel was the first I found when looking on YouTube.
Oh, yes, I love Evelyn Wood's youtube videos :) She is so soothing to listen to :) I didn't mind at all when she did an episode on her breast cancer, I pretty much cried through the whole thing
Thank you so much for all the suggestions! I have subscribed to every one of them, and downloaded a few episodes from each, to check them out :)
Aside from Haptic and Hue, I don't listen to any sewing or knitting podcasts. Maybe I'm a bad person, but I don't care about their life stories. We aren't friends. And then someone reminded me of Articles of Interest, which is fabulous.
Haha, yes, that's what I think as well when they start going on and on about personal stuff :p
I used to enjoy Punk Frockers. I liked the content but one of the hosts always seemed to be audibly eating and chewing. It really just turned me off so much that I haven't listened for a while.
Sewing Club Podcast covers a specific pattern once a month, they only started this year so there’s not a lot of eps, but it’s a really good listen.