The Straight Stitch: A Podcast About Sewing and Other Fiber Arts · Episode 15 · April 28, 2026 · 54 min

A Long Line of Seamstresses

Send us feedback about this episode! Today’s guest is nationally-known sewist, author, and educator Katrina Walker. In her own words, she “comes from a long line of seamstresses”—women who sewed not because they wanted to, but because they had to. Katrina has taken that legacy one step further. After graduating from college and realizing that investment banking was not for her, she returned to her home state of Washington. A series of serendipitous encounters, a job with Nordstrom Product Gro...