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Crafts Podcasts
212 shows and 22,840 episodes sit under Crafts.
Love to Sew, Wood Talk, and Stitch Please offer practical sewing, woodworking, and maker conversations about technique, shop work, and creative culture.
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The quickest way into these shows is to ask what kind of company you want while your hands are busy. Some hosts troubleshoot a seam in real time. Others invite an artist or business owner to settle in and tell the longer story behind the work. The materials change, but so does the purpose of listening: instruction, companionship, reflection, or a candid look at earning a living from making things.
This Crafts shelf sits inside the broader Arts collection on PlayNext. Move up to Arts when you want the wider cultural conversation. Choose Visual Arts when the finished work is the destination, Creative Process when you care most about how ideas develop, or Design when the focus shifts toward planned form and function. Stay here for talk that keeps returning to materials, tools, technique, and the pleasures and frustrations of making by hand.
Around the sewing table
The New Craft House Podcast has the easy rhythm of a conversation recorded in a working sewing shop. Personal updates and office logistics mingle with fabric names, garment ideas, fit problems, remnants, linings, and half-finished thoughts. The hosts correct each other, remember something halfway through a sentence, and offer practical warnings without turning the exchange into a formal lesson. It is particularly good company for listeners who already know a little sewing vocabulary and enjoy hearing experienced makers think aloud.
Sewing Out Loud moves faster. Its two voices work through problems together, testing advice against slippery fabric, machine settings, stitch length, and the awkward cases that resist a simple rule. Banter and occasional bluntness keep the instruction from becoming sterile. The pleasure lies in hearing the wrong approach examined alongside the better one.
Love to Sew Podcast is warmer and more reassuring, with the feel of knowledgeable friends talking across a table. Technical language stays specific, yet the hosts keep translating it into consequences for an actual garment, body, or fabric stash. The range runs from Plus-Size Patternmaking with Leila Kelleher and Rainwear to Hats and We Sew Bags. A listener question or anecdote often becomes the starting point for several workable options rather than one decree from on high.
Technique with a wider frame
Stitch Please slows the conversation down and makes room for history, culture, and personal experience beside the practical advice. Its explanatory style circles a point, restates it, and offers another example until the idea clicks. That makes an episode such as Explore Your Sewing Machine Stitches: Hidden Features You Already Own a natural entry for someone seeking direct help. Mark Your Makes: How To Know When You Made What stays close to everyday practice, while The Red Hat: Anti-Fascism & Anti-Blackness in Creative Spaces signals the show’s willingness to follow sewing into cultural questions.
There is plenty of permission in this voice: permission to learn slowly, to ask basic questions, and to understand craft as part of a life rather than an isolated technical exercise. The show can move from a tip to a story and back again without losing the practical thread. Try Stitching Together Holiday Traditions - Celebrating Garifuna Culture Through Sewing with Martha McIntosh when you want that broader perspective stated directly in the premise.
Clay, wood, and the long studio visit
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast changes the pace. Interviews unfold like patient studio visits, with craft-literate questions about tools, firing, surface, form, and studio decisions opening into place, influence, community, and artistic discipline. Guests are allowed to repeat themselves and discover the shape of an answer while speaking. The result suits listeners who prefer process discussed through lived experience rather than compressed into tips.
Wood Talk | Woodworking brings a livelier shop-floor energy. A panel of experienced woodworkers moves from housekeeping and jokes into listener questions with little ceremony. Sanding pads, plywood grades, jointers, veneer cores, hand tools, and workflow receive detailed treatment, but disagreement remains friendly and useful. The title What's a Buttress Flare | WT604 offers a fair sample of the show’s taste for questions that sound as though they arrived straight from a workshop conversation.
When making becomes a business
The Rev Craft Biz Podcast is the place to go when creative work meets trade shows, marketing, teaching, burnout, and the less picturesque parts of running a small operation. Its interviews are leisurely and digressive, treating guests as peers with enough room to tell a full story. Industry language appears naturally because the conversation assumes the listener is already somewhere near the craft world.
The episode list makes that working-life emphasis clear. Big Quilt Shows - Exhibiting, Lecturing, and Teaching - with Daisy Aschehoug and All About the Trade Shows - With Maddie Kertay address public-facing parts of the job. All Things Email - with Carolina Moore turns toward communication, while Making the Changes to Ease Burnout - With Timna Tarr and Learning How to Manage Hustle Culture - with Lauren Goche take up the cost of keeping everything moving. For the creative side of the same life, begin with Designing Quilt Patterns to Make Something That Can't Be Unmade - with Cheryl Brickey.
Where to start
For friendly, project-minded sewing company, start with Love to Sew Podcast. Choose Sewing Out Loud when you want faster troubleshooting and confident shop talk. Tales of a Red Clay Rambler: A pottery and ceramic art podcast is the strongest on-ramp for a reflective studio conversation beyond textiles. If your questions involve selling, teaching, exhibiting, or sustaining the work, begin with The Rev Craft Biz Podcast.
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The Rev Craft Biz Podcast hosts leisurely conversations with quilting and sewing professionals about pattern design, trade shows, advocacy, burnout, and the practical work of running a creative business.
Sewing Out Loud pairs quick, informal banter with practical sewing instruction, letting two knowledgeable voices correct, agree, and work through problems as if you were beside them at the sewing table.
Love to Sew Podcast blends friendly sewing companionship with plain-language technique, moving from bags, hats, and rainwear to plus-size patternmaking, Inuit traditions, and the realities of building a sewing business.
Stitch Please slows down to explain sewing through examples, stories, and personal experience, connecting machine stitches, garment marking, and travel clothes with fabric culture, history, and creative community.
Wood Talk brings a panel of experienced woodworkers to listener questions, mixing friendly banter and mild irreverence with specific shop talk on tools, materials, sanding, joinery, and workflow.
Tales of a Red Clay Rambler treats each ceramics interview like a patient studio visit, using questions about clay, firing, tools, surface, and form to reach biography, place, lineage, community, and artistic ethics.
The New Craft House Podcast captures a brisk, informal sewing-room conversation, with recurring voices trading practical notes on fabrics, patterns, fibers, remnants, workshops, deliveries, and everyday shop logistics.
Maya's Upcycling as both Art and Function moves between hands-on reuse projects for lamps, ironing boards, and wire hangers and short Wednesday reflections on love, healing, inner strength, and perception.