All posts by Masha Karpushina

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Ella. I’m 29, a proud first-generation American, now Californian, and a home garment sewist by night.  By day, I work for a nonprofit foundation connected to Levi Strauss & Co., offering hardship support for Levi’s employees and retirees. When people in our…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Sara and I live in Northern California with my husband and 3 young boys. All I ever really wanted was to raise a family, and I married my love when I was 19 years old and began doing just that! I’ve dabbled…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.  For a few years, I worked as a mixed animal veterinarian in both general practice and at a non-profit sanctuary (think dogs, cats, hedgehogs, mice, cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, eagles, hawks, snakes, camels, and zebras). Then I decided to go back to graduate school to…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Monelle. I was born and raised in San Francisco and still live in the Bay Area with my husband and two little boys. I am an attorney by trade, but have always been a creative person. I love all kinds of creative arts,…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Sophie and I live in Vienna, Austria with my little family. Right now I’m still on parental leave, but before I had my son I worked as a flight attendant. Travelling has always been one of my biggest passions, so when I got pregnant…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. My name is Elsa, I’m 39 years old and I make memory guardians in the form of fabric dolls. I graduated in architecture and after 10 years working on large scale projects, I became a mother and started sewing toys for my children. Through playing with…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Sadie, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my husband and two small kids.  I work for students with disabilities as an assistive technology specialist and a special education lecturer at a local university.  Before this work arrangement, I was…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Pauline, I am French and I’ve just celebrated my 29th birthday! I am multi-racial, my father is Indonesian, my mother is also mixed from Tunisia and Germany and I myself was born in New Caledonia. When I’m not sewing at home I…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Aluma Meshulmi, I am 21 years old, and I live in Israel. I am a photographer and creator. At the age of 10, my parents bought me a sewing machine for my birthday, and that’s how I started sewing. Why do you…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.   My name is Georgia, I am a 24 year old fashion designer living in Brisbane, Australia. I’m passionate about slow fashion, minimalism, sustainability and ethics. Why do you sew? I have always loved being creative, and sewing has always been a way for me to…

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. I’m an architect, but also have been working in pottery, sewing, and knitting in my spare time. I have been pursuing pottery for almost four years. I learned sewing from my parents when I was a child. They ran a clothing manufacturing business, making high…