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On this episode of Stitch Please, Lisa sits down with couture designer and sewing educator Garland Hayes-Soto a man who went from singing in church plays and serving prom looks to sewing custom wedding gowns and teaching the next generation how to stitch with confidence. Garland shares how one hand sewn prom vest changed his whole career path, what it was like learning fashion in Hollywood while working at Universal Studios, and why sewing students need to stop showing up to class empty handed and TAKE NOTES, BOO. From quick change costume chaos to couture...
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Hello Stitchers, welcome to Stitch Please, the official podcast of Black Women's Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. I'm your host, Lisa Wulfort. I'm a fourth generation sewing enthusiast with more than 20 years of sewing experience.
I am looking forward to today's conversation. So sit back, relax, and get ready to get your stitch together. Hey, friends. Hey, it's Lisa from Black Women's Stitch and the Stitch Please podcast. And as I say every other week,
this is a very special episode because this episode is with none other than Couture Man Sewing, Garland Hayes Soto. Garland joins us from California where he has been sewing formally, informally, at school, after school, before school, working with the small children, working with the celebrities,
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