Sustainable Sewing, Conscious Choices and Small Business Life with Rosie from Sew Eco Fabrics

In this episode of The Sewing Social Podcast, host Gemma Daly chats with Rosie, the creative mind behind Sew Eco Fabrics — a beautiful small business championing sustainability in the sewing world. 🌿

Rosie opens up about her journey from retail to running her own eco fabric shop, the highs and hurdles of small business life, and why conscious consumer choices matter more than ever. She also shares practical sewing tips, insights into choosing sustainable fabrics, and an exciting look at what’s next for Sew Eco — from innovative subscription boxes to upcoming market appearances.

It’s an inspiring, down-to-earth conversation about creativity, community, and making a difference — one stitch at a time. 🧵✨

Key Takeaways: 

• Rosie's journey began in retail, leading to a passion for sustainability.
• She started her business to make a difference in the fabric industry.
• Sustainability means offering only eco-friendly fabrics to consumers.
• Small steps towards sustainability are better than none at all.
• Rosie emphasises the importance of reusing materials in sewing.
• She aims to create a magical experience with her seasonal surprise boxes.
• Future plans include more basic fabrics and subscription boxes.
• Rosie enjoys the community aspect of sewing events and pop-ups.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Early Conversations

02:23 Rosie's Journey to Sustainable Fabrics

08:06 Challenges of Running a Small Business

11:32 Defining Sustainability in Business

15:19 Practical Sustainable Sewing Tips

17:02 Types of Eco-Friendly Fabrics Offered

19:43 Navigating Pricing and Quality in Fabric Retail

20:19 The Journey of a Self-Taught Seamstress

22:43 Patterns and Fabrics: Preferences and Challenges

25:04 Creating Unique Seasonal Surprise Boxes

28:37 Future Plans: Expanding the Business

30:22 Fun and Games: This or That with Rosie

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Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:11.394)

Rosie, welcome to the Sewing Social Podcast. I'm so happy to have you on today. I wondered if you could introduce yourself to the listeners.

Yes, hello, I'm Rosie and I am the owner of Sew Eco Fabrics which is an online fabric shop filled with eco-friendly and sustainable fabrics, haberdashery, everything eco-friendly. But yeah, that's me.

So I wondered if you could talk us through your sort of career journey that led you to this point of running a sustainable online fabric shop.

Okay, so this might take a while. So I've been trying to think about this and I would say there's probably three things that have factored into building the business or starting a business. So ever since I left school, I have been working in retail and hospitality. I didn't go to university when I left school because I didn't know what I wanted to do and I didn't want to rush into things. I wanted to travel and all this. And so I thought the worst thing to do is to go to university and just study something for the sake of studying something. Even though

At sixth form, I studied business and I had this idea that I wanted to be kind of like a business consultant or something like that. I just wasn't ready. I mean, who is at 18? So I decided just to go off and travel and just enjoy life really. Why? You're young, right? So I did that and then I kind of landed in retail because obviously with traveling, it was kind of like start one job, quit, start another job, go traveling, all this. And it got to the point where I still kind of really didn't know what I wanted to do. But whilst working in retail.

Speaker 1 (01:41.77)

And I think it's not unknown that retail is probably one of the most exploitive industries to be in, working minimum wage, working horrible hours, working with people, which can be difficult. My share of stories that awful, but after working for so many different companies, I started to see a theme and I realised that our society is great with businesses, but businesses hold so much power and

I feel that especially with retail being that that is the majority of our economy is us pushing money in, is buying stuff, that all these retail companies are probably doing it in a way that is not benefiting community, is not benefiting people and especially the workers. So I kind of like after so long of working in it, I was like, I want to make a difference. I want to change.

I felt like I was always arguing with my managers and I was always saying, but why can't we do this way? Why can't we do, no, that's head office. That's head office. We can't do this. And I'm just like, this is ridiculous. I want to change things. So I guess my business from school and then I did end up going to university and I dropped out. But I studied business for about a year and a half, but COVID hit and financially it was just impossible for me to stay. So I thought, okay, I don't need a degree. It's all good. And I started a small Etsy shop called Roses Craft Corner.

where I was selling little pin cushions and this is where I get onto the next bit. And so I started getting really passionate about sustainability, doing all the research and understanding how to live more sustainably. So like in my house, we have the sponges, there's no plastic sponges. I've switched out our laundry, we know how long we use softener and stuff like this. Well, obviously I don't buy clothes, I make clothes. But I would do buy clothes for my husband.

as I do not make for anyone else. We always make sure it's more sustainable options and that kind of stuff. Everything I think about, I try to choose a sustainable alternative. So when it came to making these little pin cushions, I was like, maybe I could use all my fabric ways and do all that kind of stuff. So I started making recycled pin cushions and just happened to be selling them, else? And I started to really enjoy it. And I was kind of doing this through university and then obviously COVID hit and I got furloughed for, I think it's...

Speaker 1 (03:57.038)

With all the lockdowns, was like nine to 10 months of furlough. So as you can imagine, for a retail assistant, I was living the dream. It was really nice to finally have a holiday. So I kind of used all that time to make all these pin cushions and I was getting really into the marketing and I was like, this is so fun. And I think that business and that sustainability all start to come together. And then obviously I was sewing and I started getting back.

my sewing again, because I used to sew in textiles in school. And then obviously with all the traveling, kind of didn't really have time for it. And then I would say around about 23, 24, I started getting back into sewing. So that was kind of like, it all kind of just happened to get into it. And then before I knew it, I was still working in retail. I actually went over to Hobbycraft for a bit as a marketing assistant and I loved it, but it suddenly made me realise, and obviously I

of got out of that retail bit, but I was still in head office and they were a lovely company to work for. I just realised that I don't want to work for anyone else. So it kind of got to the point where I was like, you know what, if I don't leave now and I went back to the retail store that I was at before I went to Hobbycraft and I just, because I wanted the hours to go down, I wanted to make sure that I was going to give everything I possibly could while still kind of financially stabilising myself.

Yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (05:24.486)

as much as I could. And I thought if I do that, I can give it my all and I can just say, to hell with it. Let's just start a business. What am I waiting for? So that's it. I then, I took about a year just to save a little bit of capital, just to make sure I had something to go off. And I just, yeah, filed the paperwork and here I am. But it all came together.

What do you think have been some of the biggest challenges that you've faced so far? Because your business is still relatively young, isn't it?

Honestly, the hardest one with the business is visibility. Just getting the word out there, that's been the hardest thing. obviously, because I do everything myself, apart from outsourcing a couple of ads back at the beginning of the year, I've done everything myself. You're continuously thinking I need to get traffic to the website, I need to do this, I to do that. It is a lot. so the thing is I only went full time with the business back in April, May.

So I, for the last two and a half years, I've only just reached this weekend was my third business birthday. But yeah, for the first two and a half years, I was working two, sometimes three jobs with the business. didn't have much time for it. So as you can imagine, it's grown quite slowly because I've been, and it's only the first six months that I've really been able to chuck my all at it. But yeah, it's been hard visibly just trying to get the word out. I've been doing a pop-up. I've been doing, I did a whole thing.

For the last year, I made it my mission that once a month I would go up to a social around the country and try and pop up the shop. I'm very tired. When I had the idea, was like, yeah. And you know what? It's been absolutely incredible. I've loved every single moment of it. I've got, I think, three left. So I've got actually two in October. So I've got one in Nottingham and I've got Sew Brum in Birmingham. And then I've got Newcastle-Pontine in November. And then I'm done.

Speaker 2 (07:16.47)

You can have a rest after that. Yeah, but we're excited because Sew Notts is the one you're coming to, which myself and Becky run. yeah, we're very excited to have you. This episode will be out after that, but yes, that's going to be exciting. But I can imagine packing up like the shop, both ends and then, you know, putting it all out and it must be tiring. So you deserve a well-earned break after that.

I'm sure. It's definitely worth it though. I've met a lot of new sewists and it's just such a lovely vibe just to go to these groups, to get to chat to people. I think it's so isolating when you're online only and you don't get to talk to people. But then also I don't have many friends that sew and it's only through socials and sewing camp that I've actually met people and I've now got sewing friends. So it's an opening thing. I love it. It's amazing. It's a great idea.

So you touched on it a bit at the start and the reasons for like opening the shop and choosing it to be sustainable. But what does sustainability actually mean to you as a small business?

So basically I wanted to start a business where, again, going back to the retail kind of thing, there is a lot of lack of transparency or there is this whole shift where businesses are starting to do collections of eco-friendly stuff. so I kind of, was starting to see this in fabric shops. like, this is great. I was like, however, the way you spend your money is how you vote with your money essentially. And as I saw it is that if we only stopped.

sustainable and eco-friendly, the best fabrics we could possibly buy, then we're not supporting the rubbish fabrics. We're not supporting the unethical, unsustainable working places and stuff like that. And eventually if we all shifted towards that, there'll be no need for it and they would have to step up their game. So I kind of, wanted to create a fabric shop where there was only that kind of stuff so that people can have that buying power and say,

Speaker 1 (09:19.072)

I'm doing the right thing with my money. I'm purchasing it like that. And yeah, that was my overall thing of just starting the business and making sure that that's where I sat.

Yeah, I love that. And it actually makes the choice as a consumer easier, doesn't it? Because if you only have eco-friendly fabrics, then you're not like umming and ah-ing about, this one okay or is it not? exactly. You've actually made it easier for people.

people. I kind of wanted to take that out because I think the hardest thing about sewing is finding the fabrics that go with the pattern. And it's just like, well, it's hard enough doing that. We don't want to have to then worry about sustainability and all this. So I thought, let's just make it easy, which is why I have the Sew Eco scores on the website as well. So obviously I have my bare minimum I have, which is natural fabrics with a certification. So typically, OKO text or got certified, stuff like that.

And then I kind of go up. So number four is most sustainable that we have out in the market right now. So something like Lensing Pencil, Lyocell, all those new renewable sources that are in a closed loop system and have the best that they can possibly do right now. But obviously technology is evolving and fingers crossed there'll be so much more out there that that will go up.

Do you have any simple, sustainable sewing tips that the listeners might find useful? So obviously you provide the fabrics and you've got more sustainable threads on the website, anything that they could maybe use in their day-to-day sewing practice.

Speaker 1 (10:55.19)

I would say obviously the first one being if you are buying fabrics, then try and choose more sustainable options if you can afford it. I would say scraps, any scraps you can try and use, try and reuse them. I know that there's a thing where some people are like, do I save them? Do I not? But at the end of the day, it's entirely up to you. And I think it's not, there's no wrong or right way of doing things. So if you want to chuck them out, it's okay. No one's going to judge you. We can't all be perfect. But yeah, I would say if anything, just mainly making sure you're

what you're choosing is more conscious, more responsible. Yeah, and just try your hardest. But no, we're not perfect.

No, the common sort of theme along a lot of people that I've spoken to is just try, you know. Like you say, small steps are better than no steps, aren't they?

Yeah, exactly. There's no way to do it perfect and don't feel hard on yourself if you feel like you need to do something that is not, it's not great quality or something like that. It's not the end of the world because if anything, the stuff that's already out there that is rubbish, it's there. It needs to be used. It's better than going to landfill or being incinerated. So it is what it is.

True. And what steps do you think you take as a small business to sort of minimise your environmental footprint?

Speaker 1 (12:12.718)

So from every single aspect of the business, so from the moment I opened, said to myself, there is not going to be a single thing that I don't do that is sustainable. So from my packaging, I have always only used, there's like a, it's like a recycled tissue paper. So it's actually from consumer waste. It's not, I don't know if most people know this, but there are a lot of tissue paper actually has plastic in it. So I specifically found the one supplier that I could find that was consumer waste.

through and through. My packaging, for example, is biodegradable, compostable. So all that kind of stuff, everything that I use in my day to day, even just down to the little things, I try to make sure I'm reusing everything that I possibly can. And then obviously I've got the fabrics, I always make sure that's a sustainable option. I also then have carbon neutral shipping as well. I also grow trees and habitats.

So with every single order, it's trying to remember all that's the part of what I do. And then also I do, so like other things like in terms of sustainability with communities and people, also do like Sew Yellow for Endo, I will do like a kit box and then a portion of that will go to the charities and stuff like that, or any just charities that are helping build back communities. yeah, I kind of try and, it's not just about.

eco-friendly, the environment side of it. It's also the people, the human side of it as well. I'm trying to it all.

That's really interesting and you know, you're definitely trying your best. So for anybody that isn't familiar with your business, which of course they should be, because it's amazing, what types of fabrics do you specialize in?

Speaker 1 (13:45.098)

Yes.

Speaker 1 (13:55.63)

So for my current stock, I currently have cotton, viscose, gabardine, which is cotton as well, but it's a twill type. I also have double gauze and there's more old denims. have like, so because obviously I'm still building the business, I've been building it and building it. I would say mostly at the moment I have, I specialise in brands. So for example, Cousette and Taylor, I do their lovely, beautiful collections. And so

I kind of been trying to keep their special collections in, but I'm starting to try and find more basics. So will start to find next year, I will be doing a lot more plain colours because at the moment I have a lot of printed, a lot of designs, which is a bit more, I guess you could say fancy. Or I feel like a lot of people feel like they need to dress up for or something like that. Whereas I don't have a lot of

planes like my vintage cottons, they're planes, they're great. I'm actually wearing my trousers right now. But a lot of it is just the design stuff with the nice patterns and whatnot. But next year, yeah, definitely more basics are coming in, more core wardrobe, basics wardrobe kind of thing. I'm definitely going to be specialising more in that. And I'm trying to bring the price down because a lot of these, the thing is they're so heavily certified. You've got

the great closed loop systems that it does boost up the price. And I have started to notice that a lot in my shop are higher in the cost and I would like to bring it down for customers a little bit. having that core range, will have, it will be a little bit cheaper. It won't be cheap cheap, but it will be cheap.

Cool, that's really exciting. So earlier you mentioned that you, you learnt, well, I don't know if you learnt to sew at school, but you sewed at school. Did anybody teach you or are you self-taught largely?

Speaker 1 (15:46.574)

So I would probably say I'm self-taught. I, so I dabbled. So when I was at school, we had textiles and I was obsessed with textiles. I loved it. used to make all these corsets. I got the soldering out. I was actually thinking about this morning thinking, what did I make? I got the soldering iron and I remember having, I can't remember, it Ganser or something? can't remember. Organza. Organza. can't even pronounce it. And yeah, I remember just soldering all these little feathers into this corset.

and was amazing and then the school lost it and I was very gutted about that. yeah and then so I kind of drifted off of sewing obviously because of the travelling and whatnot. I wouldn't say I was tall I was just kind of given a project and you kind of just do your best kind of thing. And then obviously when I was about 24 and I did the Etsy shop I just started to stitch again and I thought this is really fun. I do remember making a dress with my nan and it was terrible.

And it was my very first one. And I think I was 17 and I wanted to make a Halloween dress. And for some reason I went as a goth, like a gothy vampire and I had the plastic fangs and everything. And it was like, it had skeletons all over this dress and I still have it to this day. I don't know why I'm keeping it. I can't fit in it, but it's awful. But I will always remember that. And Nan was helping with me because I couldn't figure out the pattern, didn't understand the pattern.

I think that was it. Apart from that one project, I didn't really do much more. So when the Etsy shop started, the pin cushions were where I started to really start to understand stitching and all that. And then I started making my own clothes. And gradually, it's been now what? Eight, nine years. gosh, that's getting on. That I've been just kind of learning by myself. I haven't really taken any classes.

If anything, I'm terrible at just Googling and helping myself by looking at a sew along, but now I just plot along and go, what's going wrong and figure it out. That's how I do it.

Speaker 2 (17:44.686)

Well that helps you learn doesn't it? Do you have any sort of favourite patterns or fabrics that you love to work with?

It does, yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:52.462)

So I love Matchy Matchy Sewing Club because I always recommend it to beginners. thing is that they're very boxy and I think for more advanced or I would say more confident people who'd like to sew a lot, maybe it's not something they would like to sew all the time because it's very simple. It's a very fast sew and they can be a little bit different fitted. And I think to some people that might be a bit boring, but I love it because it's just sometimes when you're just...

you can't be bothered to sew, but you want to sew and it's just kind of like, want, you can just pick it up and go for it kind of thing, you know. So I love those. But I also love working with viscose and that's a new one for me because usually it was cotton. But I think once you start to figure out what viscose, as long as you have lots of pins in it, you can make it work and it looks absolutely incredible. But I think it's a lot of people get scared by it because of how slippery it is and whatnot. I think it's amazing. That's probably my favourite.

But don't get me wrong, I do love tricky patterns as well, but I'm very impatient. I do like a quick win.

You like a quick win? Yeah, that's fair enough. And especially because, you know, you put in a lot of time and effort into business. So I imagine actual sewing time is a bit limited these days.

It is, it is very much. Everyone thinks that starting a fabric shop will be so fun. Trust me, it's not as fun as it sounds. It's fun, but it's not so fun.

Speaker 2 (19:16.128)

Yeah, there's a lot of hard work people. Another thing that you've been offering recently is like your surprise boxes, isn't it? Your seasonal surprise boxes. And they do look incredible. You put so much effort into it. How do you source all the elements and like how long does it take to put those together?

Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:36.846)

A long time. So I kind of do like a mood board. So last year I released the Christmas box. I've just released a Christmas box this year as well. And this is the first year of doing a summer box. And the idea just come to me because I had like this picnic theme in my head and I was like, it's summer. I think it is just the dopamine of summer that just kind of took over. But before I knew it, I was just like, oh, this would look really good. This would look really good. And the kind of the boxes just, they kind of just come together. I know.

I don't really, I just wing it. I put a little mood board together. I tried to have a theme, so like the picnic blanket, the theme. And then I kind of just tried to source loads of different little things. The main thing is it started off with, I wanted to source eco-friendly stuff. I wanted it to be something special. And then I saw there was this video that kind of went viral about a woman who didn't buy herself something for Christmas. And it was because she is the main gift giver. And apparently it turns out

After this video went viral, there was a statistic that is something crazy, like over 60 or 70 % of women don't actually get gifts. They have to buy it for themselves because they are the default gift giver. And I was just like, that's incredibly sad. I was like, I want to be that gift giver. So I was just like, let's create a box. Because I thought being the fact that the majority of the sewing community is women, the chances are that there are going to be a lot of women out there who don't get a box or don't have a gift.

So thought if I can create a box and I can create something really special, I could do it that way. And then obviously everyone typically does the advent calendars. And again, I wanted to do something different. I wanted something, I didn't want it to just be a load of paper bags where someone just opens up loads of different numbers on a different day. I wanted it to be personal. So I'd write, I write little notes in there. My first Christmas box, I did clues because I didn't want it to be heavily Christmas. Not everyone likes Christmas. I'm not a Christmas person. So.

I don't go out buying Christmas fabrics or anything like this. And I was thinking, not everyone's going to want that. So if I do, I think I did five Christmas things and then the rest was wintery. then so the five Christmas things, I did five clues. And so I made little riddles and I did a sticker or no, it was a stamp. I did stickers on the other one. It was a stamp for like the Christmas tree. And I'd do a riddle to say like, to find out.

Speaker 1 (21:56.064)

it was a Christmas tree. And then I'd put a little, if you can't figure out, this is the answer. I don't know how many people had to use them. I don't know how bad my riddles were. But yeah, and then they would open it up and then they would figure out where the Christmas thing was. But yeah, I just wanted to create something magical and special for everyone. And it just kind of just rolled over. Then it happened with summer. I think my summer one was probably the best one. And now I'm doing Christmas all over again, which I've got round two of Christmas for you and it's still open actually. But by the time this comes out, it'll probably be over.

no, I mean, they do look incredible and it must take you so long to put them all together.

I feel like I should hire assistant just for these boxes because it does take a lot of work. Yeah, and I always leave it to the last minute and I'm up to like 2am in the morning before they ship because I'm still trying to figure them out.

So you've mentioned that next year you want to sort of branch into maybe more plain fabrics and maybe on a slightly cheaper price point. Have you got any other exciting plans for the business or is it still just building?

It is still very much building. do have a plan to, so obviously, although I'm online, I'm based in Livingston in the New Forest and Livingston does a Saturday market. It depends on how tired I'm to be after this pop-up year, but I have a plan to try and do the market. But obviously I'm on my own. So I need to figure out a way to go for toilet breaks. That's biggest thing on my mind is how do I go to the toilet? How do I need the market?

Speaker 1 (23:21.902)

So I'm thinking about doing that and I'm thinking maybe I do it like once a month and I can pop up and people can, if they're local, they can shop. And if people are on a holiday, especially in summer, I might do maybe one every week or every two weeks, I'm not sure. That is probably going to be something I'm going to branching into just because I simply, I can't afford an office. I can't afford to have a proper retail location at the moment. So this is the next step, I think, to actually being where people can feel the fabrics and et cetera.

That's the main one. I'm also bringing out lot more. So I'm bringing out more project kits, subscription boxes. So like little subscription boxes. When I say subscription, I don't mean like a monthly project. It's more like, you know, when you go into your sewing room and then you're like, I need to change my needle. And then you look in your drawer and you find out you have no more needles and you're like, no, I have to go out. So I'm thinking of doing like a little subscription boxes of, so I don't know, let's say every two months you needed a stock up. I would send you a whole set of sewing needles so that you can then.

you have them there and you're not disappointed when you open your drawers and find there's no sewing you need with that. So little things like that. Yeah, but that's the little things that I'm planning to do as well.

So watch this space for next year. Just to tie up the interview, Rosie, I like to do a little game of this or that. Is that all right with you? It's not too taxing, I promise. So, wovens or knits?

Hahaha

Speaker 1 (24:45.167)

I'm going say Wovens. I'm actually starting to enjoy knit a lot more, but I'd say because I have more Wovens in the shop, I'm going to say Wovens.

Yeah, didn't you recently make that named... is it like a jumpsuit? Was that knit?

Yes, it was the, I think I'm pronouncing it right, the Keilo jumpsuit. my gosh. Like everyone was telling me how good that pattern was and I was like, yeah, I get around to it. But I think I had to, cause I'm tall, so I had to do about three meters of fabric and I was like, this is a lot of But I managed to sew it. It took me about probably two days worth of sewing. I did it at a sewing camp and so I was kind of rushing and then things started going wrong. And then like,

I usually do. I was reading the sewing patterns, but I wasn't reading far enough. That's my terrible thing that I do. And I kept making mistakes and going, well, that's why they wanted me to do it. So it took me about two days, but it was an amazing pattern. And once I finished it, and don't get it wrong, it's probably one of my worst sewings, but it was amazing. It's so comfy. And I'm like, want to make another one. It's so good. I'm going to say solids now because I used to really be into the print.

Good.

Speaker 1 (25:55.022)

But then there's so many, so many prints you can get and then you're like, nothing goes with anything. So I'm going to say solids now. Now you can see where the business is going to solids because I'm going to.

Yeah, it's all led by your choice. Yep. Tea or coffee? Ooh.

hahahaha

tea. I'm going to say tea. I love coffee, but I actually get really sleepy on coffee.

The opposite effect.

Speaker 1 (26:19.926)

Opposite effect, yep.

this one might be hard now that I know you've actually got a cat and a dog. saw dogs.

It's not mine, it's my sister's!

Okay, dogs. Yeah, I used to have a dog, but now we rent, we can't have dogs. So unfortunately, so I have to live through my sister.

You get to dog sit from time get to dog sit. But... A tried and tested pattern or something new?

Speaker 1 (26:39.98)

and cats.

Speaker 1 (26:44.738)

I didn't test it. Like my collage gather top that I'm wearing right now, Matches Sowing Club. This is like my fifth one.

If you like something, you gotta make it again.

Yeah, and now I'm obsessed with the box of bow shorts that I've currently hacked and I'm wearing the trouser version. So yeah, I'm all matchy-matchy today.

an organised stash or creative chaos.

I'm going say organised because mine is currently organised without being measured and I have no idea what's actually in it but it's very neat just because I haven't been able to sew for so long and I'm currently working on a quilt so or like a puff quilt and so I don't actually need to go in the stash right now so it's lovely and organized.

Speaker 2 (27:25.004)

Nice, nice. It's nice to look at. Scissors or a rotary cutter?

Now scissors. I used to be rotary cut there, but then I got really frustrated with it and I was like, you know what, I'm going to add scissors. So now I'm a scissors and I'm a fast sewer. So I just like to chop and go and I can't be bothered just to get the cutting mat out and put it on the floor. So I'm just like, no, let's just go.

Spring summer or autumn winter?

I would say, I'm going to say spring, summer, just because I love sewing tops and I'm not, I love sewing knits and jumpers, but I don't sew enough of it. I'm going to say spring and summer, just purely because I sew more. I think it's the dopamine all over again, isn't it?

A meal out or a takeaway? What's your takeaway of choice?

Speaker 1 (28:10.297)

I you what, it's probably going to be a curry just because we probably discovered the best curry ever. I mean, we've eaten a lot of curries and the thing is we've moved about 30 to 40 miles in the last three, four years of renting different places. so we've eaten a lot of different curries, lived at a lot of different places, over a 40 mile radius.

I'll tell you what.

Anyone who comes to the New Forest, New Forest Tandoori is it's

You heard it here guys! And the last one, sewing for yourself or others.

that was easy. I'm a selfish seller and I'm proud of it.

Speaker 2 (28:52.106)

is fair enough. Fantastic. So where can people find you Rosie?

They can find me online at sewecofabrics.

Perfect. And are you on Instagram as well?

Yep, Sew Eco Fabrics is my handle. I am on Facebook as well. Again, Sew Eco Fabrics for the handle and on Pinterest, which don't look at my Pinterest boards, they're terrible. I'm working on it.

So.

Speaker 2 (29:14.629)

brilliant. Well, Rosie, you've been amazing. Thank you so much for joining me on the Sewing Social Podcast today.

Thank you for having me. It's been lovely. Thank you. See you later. bye.

Welcome, you take care.

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