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Slow Fashion: New Podcast Episode

Slow fashion is the opposite of fast fashion. It has arisen from the concerns about the planet and about concerns about wage equality and the equal treatment of people in all countries, not only as workers, but also as the end users of these products and concern about our climate. It started by a lot of people pivoting to buying organic clothes, when possible. And then people started looking at the idea of these organic sustainable fibers are going to be grown on a farm somewhere. Read the Transcript Listen to the podcast Watch the Video

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Toxins in Our Clothes

Toxins, Mutagens and Hormone Disrupters…. These are just a few consequences of buying and supporting the fast fashion industry. We just don’t know what has gone into making our clothing and household textiles. There aren’t studies about using know carcinogens in clothing against the biggest permeable organ in our bodies: our skin. We don’t have adequate labeling and these global textile industries just are not transparent.

You can listen to the podcast here or iTunes, Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Prefer to watch? You can see it here on YouTube or here on Vimeo

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Fast Fashion, Slow Fashion and Healing our Planet

In this episode, Lisa explores what fast fashion is and what the issues are with this overconsumption of textiles.  She talks about what you can do to turn away from this consumerism and start to heal ourselves and our planet. 

Click here to find the link for the episode…. Or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Prefer to watch? Click here to go to my Vimeo page.

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Foundations of Fabric

A new episode of the podcast dropped last Monday. I thought I would blog a little bit about it in case you missed it.

This new season is all about Slow, Climate Beneficial Fashion vs. Fast, polluting fashion. In this episode, I talk about the fibers that fabric is made from. I talk about the pros and cons of the fibers. Of course there is a call to action should you choose to take it.

You can listen to the episode here or subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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Maryland Sheep and Wool Next!!

Yes, MD sheep and wool is next Saturday and Sunday. So I’m in the middle of packing the truck to get going.

I’m about half done and expect to have it all packed up by late this afternoon.

SOOOO!! I’ll be putting the online shop in vacation mode.

Come to the festival and see us. We are in the Main Building! Our booth is C5. Where’s that? well enter the large open doorway and go into the right aisle. We are the a few booths down on the left. You won’t be able to miss us.

Be sure to show us what you have made with our yarn! It makes our day!!

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New Season of Podcast

This season is all about fibershed and slow fashion. I am researching some of the really hard questions about changing our wardrobes over to be more climate beneficial with mindfulness of equity and reducing waste. This first episode is about style. What is your style? Do you dress that way? Especially now as we are going back into the world, how do you want to clothe yourself to reflect your inner beauty? You can listen to the podcast here or your can subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Or watch on Vimeo or YouTube.