Used2Sew is a weekly edutainment podcast about one of the most ignored but important mechanical inventions affecting life in the United States; right up there with the automobile … the sewing machine!

Mother-daughter team TR and Aradia will be discussing sewing machines, sewing history, and sewing culture in both past and present. With comedic timing and far-ranging references, Used2Sew will explore topics including:

• Textiles, technology, transportation

• Industry, business, politics, labor

• Women, home sewing, social movements

• Industrial Revolution, World Wars and Fast Fashion

• Repair, Reuse, Frugality, Consumerism, Planned Obsolescence

We promote the repair, restoration and use of vintage sewing machines. We advocate anti-consumerism. We tell you how and why.  We’ll have hilarious Tales of Sales from TR’s wild years in 1980’s fabric box-store retail with Singer. We’ll have fun contests and realistic calls to action for YOU, modern sewist/machine appreciator! History! Humor! Honesty!

Stay threaded!