Craft & Thrift Podcast

About Craft & Thrift Podcast

Attempting to create a sustainable, handmade life. Knitting, sewing, and gardening! craftandthrift.substack.com (https://craftandthrift.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Amy

Category

arts · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Dec 2023

Latest episode

28 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jan 2026

   Craft & Thrift Podcast season 2

   According to my substack, my last podcast was released on June 30th, 2025. That was almost 6 months ago, and corresponds almost exactly with when life got busy and stressful with the renovation of my house. Want to know more about my newsletter and podcast plans? Sign up here! I’d always planned to come back to podcasting, I love a good yackety-yack and apparently have no end of thoughts and opinions to share with you all. In the meantime, I’ve learned some light editing skills, so hopefully in this season (I’m calling it a season to make it sound like the 6 month hiatus was due to something glamorous and official, like a writers’ strike, or actor diary conflicts, rather than overwhelm and lack of mental bandwidth) you’ll hear an upturn in quality. Except apparently in this episode, because I realised too late you can’t edit away wind noise. I’ll be buying a microphone for future episodes I think. In this episode I’m chatting about my plans for the newsletter and podcast for the next few months. I’m considering turning on paid subscriptions when I reach 1000 subscribers, which incredibly isn’t that far away now. For paid subscribers, I’m thinking of offering an additional weekly newsletter and a monthly podcast episode. I’ve been banking additional content, as a way to mitigate future periods of overwhelm. I feel strongly that I want paid subscribers to feel they get good value for money and my main concern would be that life gets busy and stressful, and the quality or frequency of my content drops off. Having a source of pre-written newsletter material to draw from, would give me peace of mind to know I could keep up with the frequency without too much stress. 12 Week Year by Brian P Morgan (https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/12-week-year-book-brian-p-moran-9781118509234?gad_campaignid=17416830390&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADZzAICKnQQFPCWo8-5LAFVWDg24H&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhOfLBhCCARIsAJPiopMmSORQaYjFF0ZoNrC6iawAfgUGKnr3VgvVtifk_onuFU2Oz23F2ZoaAlHdEALw_wcB&sku=GOR009172434) I hope you enjoy this short and sweet introduction to season 2 of the Craft & Thrift Podcast. Enjoy the ASMR ice noise Rosie and I generate for you at the end, you can see in the photo above how sodden and frozen the ground was on this walk. Speak to you soon! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit craftandthrift.substack.com (https://craftandthrift.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   30 Jun 2025

   I've finally been knitting!

   Life has been pretty busy recently with DIY projects - filling holes left behind by the electrician, sanding walls ready for decorating, researching & planning a new kitchen and bathroom. I love learning a new skill, so on the whole I’m enjoying renovating the house, but it hasn’t left much bandwidth for actual creative work. I treated myself recently to a Woolly Mammoth Fibre Company (https://www.woollymammothfibrecompany.com/) Patreon membership (https://www.patreon.com/c/WoollyMammothFibreCompany/posts), I found myself craving something restful and chill at the end of a long day of DIY. Emma is a natural dye yarn artist from Northern Ireland (apologies to Emma, I stumble over whereabouts in Ireland she was from in this episode!). It’s been the perfect accompaniment to knitting on the sofa in the evening and I’m finally making some headway on some longstanding projects. If you like knitting, sewing, gardening and renovation, then Craft & Thrift is for you! Here are some links and pictures to accompany this episode: My Sophie Shawl (https://www.petiteknit.com/en/products/sophie-shawl) for my Mum (assuming the pink isn’t too hot for her!), made using Black Elephant yarn (https://blackelephant.uk/) Rhubarb & ginger jam - made using this BBC Good Food recipe (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rhubarb-ginger-jam) Trying on a toddler-sized cowl, to make sure it goes over the head. Made using this vintage pattern from Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/254749856/womens-hat-snood-scarf-knitting-pattern?ref=shop_home_active_2&sts=1&logging_key=6013fccd418618e749f2063699879a92805d48b6%3A254749856) Home made pesto, made with home grown basil. Eaten in front of Woolly Mammoth Fibre Company on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU2h_M7ffMYdwGUgfspQEyw) Learning to fill the holes left behind by the rewire Badger & Daisy are unimpressed with the state of affairs in the house at the moment Grape jelly, made with grapes grown by a family friend. Made using this BBC Good Food recipe (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/grape-jelly) I tried to find a photo of my over sized Grandad sweater. You can get an impression in this picture of how this would have been the perfect indoors sweater, but how it was really too big and long to easily wear under coats. I still feel a lot of sadness and shame, that I cut it up and botched it, so I lost this sentimental piece of my Grandad’s wardrobe. It will live on in my Hobbit Robe and I’m planning on knitting Sweater No 18 by My Favourite Things knitwear (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sweater-no-18) as a more wearable substitute. Wherever you are in the world, I hope June has treated you well. Happy Solstice and welcome to the second half of the year! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit craftandthrift.substack.com (https://craftandthrift.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   14 Jun 2025

   On being a beginner gardener

   Andrew took this photo for me, I love how the early evening sunlight catches the chives It’s been a little minute since I published a podcast, but join me in my greenhouse to listen to the rain and talk about how the garden is growing. I find it so hard to be a beginner at anything, there’s a lag between the vision in my head and the skills I need to achieve the vision, but I’m trying really hard to just enjoy the process and the journey with my plants. If you like knitting, sewing, thrifting & gardening, then Craft & Thrift is for you! In this episode I talk about my raised beds (inside and outside the greenhouse, plus the mega raised bed from the podcast episode below), my birthday blueberry bushes, starting a stumpery from the remains of a plum tree, and sourcing plants. I bought a selection of plants from a charity plant sale at the local botanical gardens, you can see my selection below. Mental note: write down the names next time, I can’t remember half of what I bought. Everything appears to be thriving though, for which I’m very grateful. I love the marigolds and salvia in particular. One of my favourite places for a snack, a cuppa and a book - in my greenhouse It’s probably obvious, given I’m talking about the Chelsea Flower Show at one point, that I recorded this several weeks ago! We’ve been so busy with our house renovation that I haven’t had the creative bandwidth to edit and upload this podcast until now. I have been playing around with editing software though, so hopefully you enjoy the changes (mostly editing out an excessive amount of ‘umm’ noises). The audio quality sounds a bit fuzzy in the first few minutes but it’s actually rain in the background. I thought it would be a nice idea to record in the greenhouse in the rain, which makes for some lovely background noises at various points, but also makes it sound like there’s an issue with the audio in the first few minutes. I’m still a beginner at podcasting, as well as gardening…! My winter gourds are flowering! If you listened to the end, thank you as ever for your support of my little corner of the internet. I’ve got several draft posts waiting to be finished and published, so hopefully I’ll be dropping into your inbox sooner rather than later. In the meantime, may your sage flower and your strawberries be plentiful. Mine are getting munched by the slugs, but I don’t overly begrudge them, I’m just happy my strawbs are happy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit craftandthrift.substack.com (https://craftandthrift.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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