An Unusual Connection Between Quilting and Electricity
5/12/202640 min
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Today’s guest is Christine Lewis—quilter, teacher, bagmaker, and electrician. Christine shares how her creative journey through quilting has unfolded alongside her career as a wireman for the city of Tacoma, Washington. A chance suggestion from a friend led her into the skilled trades, where she developed leadership, management, and teaching skills that now serve her well as a business owner and sewing instructor. Our conversation explores creativity, craftsmanship, problem-solving, and the surprising ways that technical work and textile arts can complement one another.
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First 90 secondsJanet Szabo· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to The Straight Stitch, a podcast about sewing and other fiber arts. This is episode 122, and my name is Janet Zabo. I'll be your guide as we explore all things sewing. It's almost the middle of May here. It's going to be time to plant in a couple of weeks. I know it's been really nice, and I think probably a few people have put out plants, but it looks like it's gonna get cold again next week. Another Mother Nature head fake. So I'm going to wait to plant my garden. In the meantime, I have two empty weeks on my calendar. I can hardly believe it. Besides cutting the grass and taking care of the plants for the plant sale that I'm chairing in a week and a half, I should have a fair bit of time to do some sewing, and I'm excited about this. Last week, I was able to finish adjusting the Simplicity 8909 pattern. That's the raglan with the bust dart, and I've got that morphed into a well-fitting top pattern. So I'm gonna be getting out some of my