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Stitch Please Nominated for Best DIY Podcast
(CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA) - Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter, is proud to announce that The Podcast Academy has nominated Stitch Please for an AMBIES award as the Best DIY Podcast for 2023. Launched in 2019, the Stitch Please podcast explores the intersection of sewing, crafting, and Black culture; providing a platform for Black women, girls, and femmes to share their experiences and creativity in sewing.
Stitch Please is currently ranked #5 in Apple's US Crafts category and is the #1 Google search result for "Black sewing podcast." The podcast is fortified by more than 150 episodes, 425k downloads, listeners in every American state and in 83% of the world's countries.
"It makes me really proud to see a DIY podcast that centers around our community being recognized for excellence," Woolfork said. "This nomination affirms the power of Black women's voices. Stitch Please is creating a story and documenting the history of Black creativity, one stitch at a time."
Essence Magazine highlighted the podcast's unique perspective and the way it empowers Black women in the sewing community.
The Stitch Please podcast, produced by Black Women Stitch, is a unique weekly audio show with a global reach. Guided by Woolfork's cheerful engaging style, the podcast considers the joys of Black creativity including sewing tips, history, and interviews with a wide variety of Black sewists, quilters, designers, and fiber artists.
Carmen Green, founder of the Black Sewing Network: "Black Women Stitch is an essential and impactful force within the sewing community. The platform is necessary for the empowerment, well being and perpetuity of black women/femme sewists. The Black Sewing Network will forever be indebted to their contributions and trailblazing efforts that have created awareness and opportunities for us all!"
Nikki Griffin, founder of Sewing My Style and Atlanta Sewing Style: "There is no one else in the sewing community that centers and celebrates Blackness in the sewing and craft space like Black Women Stitch. The Stitch Please podcast exposes so much more than what we see on social media in the sewing/craft community - valuable content that is unique and entertaining."
Talib Jasir, founder of Afros and Audio: "Afros & Audio is excited for the nomination of the Stitch Please podcast. Too often special interest podcasts get overlooked and Black-centered special interests even more. Lisa has grown tremendously since starting her podcast and fans of the show have grown with her. The success of the show speaks for itself and I'm happy that Lisa is receiving much deserved recognition. "
Some past guests of Stitch Please include sustainability activist Aja Barber, womanist theologian Rev. Dr. Renita Weems, Broadway star Marcy Harriell, TV actor Jaskia Nicole, and US Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
Stitch Please will make an appearance at the Modern Quilt Guild's QuiltCon in Atlanta, GA, from February 23-26. The event is the largest modern quilting show in the world. The podcast will record several live shows with the Black Women Stitch community.
New episodes of Stitch Please are available every Wednesday on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Alexa, and anywhere else podcasts are played.
Hosted by Larry Wilmore, The Ambies® will be streamed LIVE from 9-10:30 p.m. EST on March 7 on Amazon Music channel on Twitch from the International Theater in Las Vegas.
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About Black Women Stitch
Black Women Stitch, founded by Lisa Woolfork, is the sewing community where Black Lives Matter. At Black Women Stitch, we center Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing while promoting the principles of Black liberation, radical self-love, and social justice. This initiative was derived from Lisa's experience as a Black Lives Matter-Charlottesville organizer. After surviving a white supremacist terror attack in the summer of 2017, she was further harmed by the white supremacy in her sewing community. The Black Women Stitch movement began in July 2018.
About Stitch Please
Stitch Please podcast centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. The weekly audio show discusses the wide world of sewing, quilting, and needlecraft from a distinctly Black lens.
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