Designer Interviews

John has met so many influential designers over the years and now he will be touring the country to interview as many as he can find. There will be some people you know well and some less well known faces but they all share two things – a love and talent for sewing! Enjoy the films.

 
Filmed before lock down Cara talks to John about her creative life and her passion for embroidery that started in her school days and how, against all the od...
Before lockdown john went to Secrewell Farm to talk to Emma Bradford about teaching, sewing and longarm quilting. Emma shows John some of her latest projects...

Before the lockdown, John Scott met up with Sewing Quarter favourites Crazy Lorraine and Chloe to catch up with them, find out what they have been doing since Sewing Quarter went of...

John Scott returns to talk to Hannah Bradley-Cohen from #thebespokequilter to unveil the mysteries of long arm quilting. She talks us through how the machine...
Jenny Jackson joins join to chat about her work. Jenny was originally inspired to take up EPP (English Paper Piecing) because she didn't want her sewing machine to keep her new baby awake! Inspired by a combination of her Aunty and Instagram her quiet night time hobby is now her job!
John Scott introduces us to a new designer Hannah Bradley-Cohen. Based in Brighton, Hannah is a lover of quilting as well as piecing and patchwork and she tells John how she left her life in the Spa and Beauty industry in order to set up her business thebespokequilter and now makes quilts full time!
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The greatest double act in sewing, John Scott and Mandy Shaw are together again when John talks to Mandy about her Housewife Sewing Rolls the design of which were inspired by her father's army hussif. There is never a dull moment when these two are together and Mandy goes through all her patterns and designs that evolved over the years.
John Scott talks to Mandy Shaw about her favourite thing - Redwork. She tells us about the history of redwork, how it is not always red and it'a popularity in the USA even though the technique was originally conceived by the Royal School of Needlework.