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Curious about what goes on behind the scenes in the world of patternmaking? You're in for a treat! We have a special guest. It's Robin, our talented patternmaker!  Robin shares her insider secrets and takes us on a journey through the entire process of creating a Seamwork pattern. From the initial sketch to the final photo shoot, Robin reveals the steps involved in bringing a pattern to life. 

Networking is thrown around a lot in the freelance world. But how important is it really?The truth is, if you want more fashion freelance clients, it's ultimately a relationship game.  And that is exactly how Ana Guerrero quickly got 3 new clients. They were all from industry connections, specifically from other freelancers she had built relationships with. In this episode, Ana shares how she refined her niche, transitioned from hourly to project-based pricing, and found more clients. She has done all of this, and we talk about the strategy behind it.If you want to get more clients, learn strategies for effective networking, and the importance of customer research, hit play now!About Ana:After earning her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art (not Fashion! LOL) from the University of California Santa Cruz, Ana started taking fashion classes at various community colleges. She landed a design internship for a contemporary women's clothing brand in 2010, which marked the beginning of her journey in the fashion industry. In 2019, she launched her freelance patternmaking business, Stitches and Sketches Patternmaking, which has been thriving ever since. When she's not working, she enjoys attending concerts, dyeing her hair fun colors, and cuddling with her cats. Connect with Ana:Email at: ana.sspatternmaking@gmail.comFollow on InstagramConnect on LinkedinResources:197: How to Sell Yourself As A Freelance Fashion Designer (without feeling gross) SFD in NYC early bird tickets on sale now! Click here for more deets! sewheidi.com/NYC

Dreaming of more clients doesn't help grow your freelance fashion career...but these tips will!Hanan specializes in modest women's wear and aims to expand her client base but needs a little help navigating her niche. Heidi and Hanan delve into the importance of having a niche-specific profile on platforms like Upwork, as well as leveraging industry connections to attract new clients. They explore strategies for standing out in a competitive market and rekindling relationships within Hanan's extensive network. This episode will leave you inspired to refine your own niche and make meaningful connections in your professional network.Key takeaways from the episode:1. The Power of Niche: Hanan and Heidi discuss the importance of positioning your freelance profile to specifically highlight your niche. Learn how being specific in your niche, such as modest women's wear, can help you stand out in a competitive market.2. Utilizing Upwork: Hanan and Heidi dive into strategies for leveraging platforms like Upwork to find and secure freelance opportunities. Discover why tailoring your profile to your niche is essential for attracting the right clients.3. Networking and Engaging: Hanan emphasizes the importance of nurturing industry relationships and engaging with your network. Heidi shares insightful tips on staying top-of-mind with industry contacts and creating genuine connections.About Hanan:Hanan worked as a pattern maker in the Los Angeles fashion district for 14 years. When she had her third child, she quit her job to become a stay-at-home mom and moved away from LA. After seven years, she decided to pursue her dream of starting her own fashion brand for modest women's wear, but struggled financially. She had followed Heidi for many years, but had never realized that the freelancing she talked about was entirely remote. This caught Hanan's attention, and she decided to attend a workshop hosted by Heidi to learn more. She found it difficult to drive to LA with three kids, so she was excited to explore this freelancing journey and see where it takes her and her brand.Connect with Hanan:Visit their website: hijabfix.comEmail at: hijabfix@outlook.comFollow on InstagramConnect on LinkedinWork with on Upwork Sick of being tied to a desk and want more freedom in your day, snag my free training: How to Freelance in Fashion (even if you're terrified you don't have all the answers) by clicking here.

In episode 58, master clothing craftsman Keti McKenna tells the story of her fashion career from recently-immigrated geophysicist in NYC in the 1990s, to seamstress, to patternmaker at designer brands, and finally founder of her own high-end suiting brand Ketivani. Keti’s original career was as a geophysicist, but she always had a love of fashion […]

Join me for this special episode 50 as I chat with three of my fellow patternmaker and product developer friends about how you can develop fashion that fits your customer, lifestyle, and values. We share our best industry tips and expert advice on making clothes that really fit – and building best practices for your […]

In this episode, Amy Stich interviews Kathy Roulston on interviewing in qualitative research. This conversation is great for both beginners and advanced researchers. The following is a transcript of the conversation. Amy Stich  0:11  Hello, everyone. Welcome to qualitative conversations Podcast Series hosted by the qualitative research special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. I'm Amy Stich and associate professor at the McBee institute of higher education at the University of Georgia and affiliated faculty with the qualitative research program here at UGA as well. I also currently serve as the CO-editor of the six newsletter with one of our students here at the Institute Erin Leach as a guest host today I'll be interviewing Dr. Kathy Roulston on interviewing. Dr. Roulston is a professor in the qualitative research program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Her research interests include qualitative research methods, specifically qualitative interviewing and analysis of talk in interaction. Her most recent books include interviewing a guide to theory and practice. That's published with sage just coming out in 2022. And Exploring the Archives A Beginner's Guide for Qualitative Researchers co authored with Kathleen de Morais, and published by Myers education press. Outside work Kathy enjoys working with fiber and textiles, and exploring the creative pleasure of spinning hand dyeing and weaving. Dr. Roulston thanks so much for joining us to discuss a topic that all of our qualitative listeners will very likely know at least a little something about an interviewing may even be something that some of our more experienced listeners may at times take for granted as an all too familiar tool for data collection, rather than a method that provokes very meaningful, often critical methodological questions that I know you're going to talk about today. So why don't we just start by you telling us a little bit about your scholarly interests and interviewing and how you got started?Kathy Roulston  1:57  Thank you, Amy, for that lovely introduction. So I first became interested in the methodological aspects of interviewing when I was doing my doctoral studies at the University of Queensland in the 1990s. I had conducted quite a few qualitative interviews prior to that as part of my master's degree in the early 90s. But when I did those interviews, I really saw them as a transparent means for gaining information about the world. So when I was doing my doctoral studies, I was learning about ethno methodological approaches to analysis from Dr. Carolyn Baker. And I took a very puzzling excerpt from an interview that I had conducted in my earlier study, and I reanalyzed it. And then this analysis helped me to get a better understanding of the performance of work that goes into the construction of interview data, in the ways that interviewers and interviewees produce interview data together, and then also how, as a researcher, it's possible to cut and categorize the interview transcripts in a way that can generate findings that can actually distort the ways in which the talk was produced. So I think there's quite a lot of writing about that now. But Dorothy Smith wrote an article back in the early 70s, called theorizing as etiology. And I used that to think about how coding based approaches to data analysis can hide how researchers contribute to the generation of interview accounts. And, of course, I've done methodological work on research interviews since that time, and I still am very intrigued by how research interviews get done.Amy Stich  3:54  It's so interesting. And that's a really lovely transition into some of those deeper methodological or substantive questions surrounding interviewing. Can you talk to us about some of the recent developments in interviewing?Kathy Roulston  4:08  Yeah, thanks. Thank you, Amy. So, over the last couple of years, I've been trying to keep up with new developments in interviewing. And I have to say there's an incredible range of innovations that qualitative researchers can use to inform their work. If you look at the methodological literature, interviewing history of any interviewing historically, you'll find that some of the strategies that are now being frequently used by researchers are not actually new. But I think what really surprised me when I started to look at the methodology, methodological literature is that in the last 10 years, there's just been an enormous amount of publishing in this area. So I kind of think about this in several different ways. So there's methodological work that is looks at particular approaches to conducting interviews, there's writing that talks about working with particular populations. And then there's work in which scholars are using new theories, to re theorize what it means to do into an interview and what interview data are. And then researchers are also taking out all of the new modalities that we use in everyday life to conduct interviews that differ from, I guess, early ideas of a research interview as a formal place based and in person interview. If you'd like I could talk a little bit in more detail about those four different strands. Amy Stich  5:44  That would be great. If you don't mind. Yes, please. Kathy Roulston  5:47  Sure. Well, in terms of how researchers approach interviewing, I think you'll see a lot more writing on how researchers who use interviews can account for sensory awareness. Now, the most familiar approach would be the use of visual methods. But people are also using sound, smell, taste, touch, and so forth. And then there's also a range of writing that examines materiality as it emerges in interviews. People bring objects to interviews that are used as prompts to talk about research topics. Sometimes the researchers bring those sometimes the participants bring those. And then researchers have looked at how technologies such as recording devices show up within interview talk, how people orient to those and what that means in an interview. And then, of course, we're quite familiar, I think now with the use of images in work, whether that's moving images, use of videos that people orient to, or still images, and then sometimes the researchers can bring those images to the interview, or they might engage participants in generating or bringing their own images. Now, there's also writing on various forms of graphic elicitation. Researchers can ask participants to draw diagrams or timelines, and then they talk about those within the interviews. And you'll see work where researchers attending to place in space in interviews. And then they might do this through go-alongs, in which interviews go along with their participants in cars or public transport. And then, of course, in walking interviews. Now, as I mentioned earlier, ethnographers have used these kinds of interviews for very long time, things like walking interviews, but I think what is different now is researchers do not necessarily find their work as ethnography. And then you'll see researchers using new technologies, such as global positioning systems, in conjunction with those mobile methods, and also creating maps in relation to walking interviews and mobile methods. And that they you'll see these in articles. Now, as a second strand of writing, you'll see a lot more attention now to culturally relevant approaches to research. And obviously, that's probably long overdue. Researchers will find lots of guidance about how to work with specific populations. And I'll just mention a couple here. So how to interview children around play based approaches. So you can see work where researchers using toys or puppets, you'll see research interviews used in inclusive ways with people with disabilities, and the various solicitation advice, or elicitation devices people use. There's work on use of American Sign Language with the deaf community. And then of course, there's much work on how to work with people from other cultures. And I think some of this work does use participatory approaches, where the participants participants themselves are key stakeholders in the development of the research topics, they might serve as co researchers or even peer interviewers. So the peer, the participants are co participants with the researchers and they might act as interviewers with other people. And then, of course, because researchers are increasingly conducting research in countries other than where they might present their work, you'll see a lot of research that's methodological to do with interviews on translation, interpretation, and what that means for issues of data analysis, the ethics and representation. And then, of course, there's more writing on how to conduct interviews with elite populations or how to recruit those for interviews and so forth. But I think if you look at the methodological literature that's been published probably over the last 75 years, I think probably almost any population can emerge a special in some way. So if what ever group you are choosing to conduct interviews with, it's just well worth looking at what methodological literature you might locate that can support your work. And I encourage listeners to think about that. And now moving on to theorizations of interviewing, there's a good deal of writing that draws on concepts from post structural and new materialist writing, and it reconceptualize as what interviews are and how we might think about them, and some of this critical of interview research as well. Although there's loads of critiques you could find that have gone on for decades about interviewing. So researchers have used concepts from Deleuze and Guattari book 1000 plateaus, such as the assemblage the fall the rhizome to rethink interviews and interview data. And then you also see ideas such as diffraction and interaction from scholars such as Karen Berard and cartographies, from Rosie Bradotti, applied to thinking about interviews. And then I guess, just to finish off, talking about some of the strands of literature on qualitative interviewing, there's a host of work which looks at the modalities in which interviews are conducted. And of course, because we've all been living through the COVID pandemic that started in 2020, I think probably all of us have turned to online interviews as a way to continue our research during the pandemic. But I think we also need to recognize that researchers have always made use of new technologies to conduct interviews. So when recording devices first became popular in the 1930s, audio cassette recorders for those of us who were interviewing a couple of decades ago, and telephones, and mobile telephones. And then of course, moving into the 2000s, we have digital recording devices. And then, of course, what we're doing right now, which is an audio recorded interview over the internet. And I actually I've seen some researchers from folklore studies, use podcasting software to record internet interviews. So if you're not interested, there's actually some pretty cool tools out there. But I think we'll see now use of synchronous online meeting rooms such as zoom, which we all know about, to interview people across physical distance. But you'll also see researchers making use of asynchronous tools. And of course, we've had email for a very long time. But these taxpayer base tools such as WhatsApp, and I used for both individual and group interviews. And then just to wrap up some of the methodological issues. I think what I've really noticed in the last year or two is the rapid replacement of manual transcription of interviews. So for example, you might be familiar with Express Scribe or ink scribe, which were tools to help us with manual transcription. But now these are really been taken over by voice to text software. Now, voice to text software has also been around for a few decades. But it's never been entirely taken up because it wasn't that accurate. But now that artificial intelligence has been applied to the voice to text software, the accuracy is probably over 90%. And so I think you'll see people using tools such as Otter.AI or [...]. But I think it's always advisable to double check any kind of transcription. So that whether you use a transcriber, whether you transcribe these manually, or you use a voice to text program, I think it's just good practice to listen to the audio recordings, check the transcriptions and just ensure that what you've put in your transcript is accurate.Amy Stich  14:32  Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, despite having a vast array of these technological advancements that assist us throughout the research process. I don't know that anything will ever really replace the need for us to deeply engage with our data and meaningful sustained ways that of course result in more meaningful interpretation. You know, in other words, I don't know that technology were will ever necessarily replace the qualitative researcher, but that's probably a topic for another podcast. So now despite having all sorts of advancements in the field, can you talk about some of the persistent challenges that qualitative researchers face and learning to interview? Kathy Roulston  15:13  So I think teaching qualitative research, interviewing for about 20 years now, and I've also done some research on that. And I've got a project going on right now to do with that. And I also recognize that some scholars argue that you don't need to teach interviewing. And that's because as interviewers, and speakers, we use our ordinary language skills to conduct interviews. And I agree that that's what we do. We use our ordinary language skills when we ask questions about our participants. But I think one of the challenges for novice researchers is not that they don't know how to ask questions and conduct interviews, we are surrounded by interviews every day, we listen to them all the time, we see them on television, and so forth. I think the challenge is learning to become a really good listener, and thinking about what to say next. And so when I look at transcripts, I find that novice interviewers are challenged to listen well. And that's because sometimes they're thinking about the next question to ask. And I know this, because I asked them to reflect and that's what they say in reflections that was really hard for me to listen, because I was I didn't know what I was going to say next. So what happens is a couple of different issues, things can happen. So the interviewer can fail to unpack what an interviewee has said, by not asking any follow up questions. So rather than asking a follow up question on what's just been said, they move directly to the next question, without regard to whether an interviewee has fully explained the topic. And what happens then if you just move to the next question on the interview guide is your interview ends up being really short? Right? So we know from narrative inquiry and narrative research that people very frequently give the abstracts of the story first. So they tell you the short story. And then as an interviewer, it's up to you to ask thoughtful follow up questions to get more detail about an interview is meaning making now. And a related problem for novice interviewers is when they do try to ask follow up questions, they can come out as long convoluted and MultiPad questions, they might ask five or six questions, because thinking on the spot of what to say next. So what's interesting, when I've looked at how people answer those kinds of questions, is they do a pretty good job of handling these enormously complicated questions. So I think, though, that sometimes interviewees interviewers rather, they don't need to do that much work. There's ways to ask their follow up questions, just one at a time. And then that actually, I think might help when it comes to data analysis. Because if an answer has been in response to a multi part question, the analyst has to go through a good deal of analysis to think through, in what ways their question has been answered. Right. So I think, another issue, and I think this, potentially is related to the fact that we all are very familiar with interviews as a genre. But sometimes I find that novice interviewers are really challenged to recognize the implications of their own actions as interviewers. And I think it's important for every one of us weather where we've done a lot of interviews or a few interviews, we just need to be really aware of what we say, and then what happens next as a result. So I think some new researchers come to qualitative researcher thinking that they can be neutral and not impact what gets said. But it's been well known for decades that it's not really possible to not impact what gets said. So even researchers who use standardized survey interviews, find it very difficult to avoid engaging with interviewees because interviewees ask questions of them as they go along. So I guess my point is, even if you follow In a script, it's just very difficult to follow that when it comes to actual real life interaction. So when qualitative researchers are asking questions in open ended or semi structured interviews, whatever they do is going to enact what gets said next. And that even includes whether you say nothing. So even if there's a silence, so for example, if you were to ask a question, you open a slot for the interviewee to say something. And if you pause long enough, the interviewee will do something. And the next turn actually might be asking a question as to what it is that you want to know. But yes, so whatever interviewers do does impact what goes on. And I think each of us needs to recognize whatever it is that we do, and how that impacts what gets done. And think about our own, I guess, natural language skills and how we speak to one another and listen to one another.Amy Stich  21:13  Right, excellent points. And again, a really nice transition into my next question about the interviewer or the person and some of the qualities that might make for a quote unquote, good interviewer. So Dr. Roulston, can you talk about what constitutes a good interviewer?Kathy Roulston  21:31  Sure. Thanks for that question, Amy. So I have talked to other researchers about this. And that was one of the questions I asked them. And then I've also looked at accounts from professional interviewers who have talked about that topic. And I think there's a good deal of agreement on what a good interviewer does. So firstly, they prepare well for interviews, interviews, they're good listeners, they treat the interviewee with respect. They understand that to conduct a good interview, you have to be flexible. So what what works in one situation is not necessarily going to work in another. And I've seen several places, good interviewing practices likened to the improvisatory qualities of jazz. So sometimes you just have to make stuff up. And then, my good friend and colleague, Judith Price Lee, she reminded me quite a few years ago now that you just need to be skeptical of advice, including the advice I've just given. Sometimes I think advice is appropriate, and sometimes it's not. And perhaps interviewers just need to attune themselves to the specific context in which they're working, and also the people they're talking to, to figure out what's going to be a good interview in this situation.Amy Stich  23:04  That's great. I love that advice. And think it's appropriate in this context. So to be a good interviewer, really to be good at anything, it would also seem one would benefit from a great deal of experience and learning from what we might deem to be failures in the field or what we might at the time call, you know, a quote, unquote, failed interview. Can you tell us about any of your own experiences with you know, quote-unquote, failed interviews, or any interviewing disasters that you've had? ...Kathy Roulston  23:45  So I think because I'm a methodologist, I tend not to write off interviews as failures. Because I think if something is goes really terribly wrong, and interview, then that gives that will give me something interesting to unpack now, unpacking that failure might actually be quite painful. But I'll share some of my disasters. And as I think about these, I think all of them were because of my own lack of preparation, which I guess is the for the first rule of good interview. Be prepared. So I have conducted a couple of interviews that I think they were great interviews. But when I went to download them or transcribe them, I didn't have a recording. So that is every researchers worst nightmare.Amy Stich  24:46  I can relate to that. I've had that nightmare.Kathy Roulston  24:50   So the first happened when I did my master's degree so I was using one of those digital Walkman switch antiques now but it files and records. But in that case, I was able to reschedule the interview, I had a very kind participant who agreed to be interviewed for a second time. But I think what happened there was the spontaneity that occurred in the very first interview was lacking in a second. And of course, that's foreseeable. But more recently, this is probably maybe a little over 10 years ago, I think. I failed to generate a complete recording on a digital recorder. And what had happened, I'd been conducting back to back interviews all day, before an evaluation study. And the space on my digital recording device, it had a little desk in it filled up in half the interview, and I couldn't reschedule this, that there was no possibility. So what I did, as soon as I could, I wrote down as much information as I could for memory. And since I've read more on the history of interviewing, I think what's interesting about that is, this is how anthropologist used to record the interviews via hand, during the interview and all after. So there's one account by anthropologists who [...} Patternmaker. In 1966, she was looking back on her career. And she wrote about going back to her car after her interviews and writing as many notes of what the interviewees had told her as she could. And it so happens, because I'm interested in archival work, too. I've had a look at some other handwritten notebooks from a field worker who lived in Athens where I live. She conducted interviews as part of the Federal Writers Project. And she her handwritten notebooks. It's all in pencil. They're just incredibly detailed notes about interviews. And I have to think that before people had, I guess, ubiquitous access to audio recording devices, they probably had better strength of recall than perhaps we do, because we just typically rely on our audio recordings. But I guess back to your question around it. I think both of these disasters could have been avoided, if I did a backup recording device. That's what I do. I take them on an iPad or an iPhone or something and record it as well. I don't know when I have others to talk about it. I nobody want to know.Amy Stich  27:51  I think we will all love to know more.Kathy Roulston  27:55  Okay, so this is one of my embarrassments. So in another case, I, the interview, we selected the place where we were going to conduct an interview it interview and I had not met her prior to the interview. So we met for the first time. And we arranged to meet at a cafe in another county, and that I was not familiar with. So I showed up early. And I was just horrified to find that this cafe had closed. The person I was interviewing had obviously not been there for a while either. And so she was very surprised. So he we were in a strip mall in an County I wasn't familiar with trying to locate another place to conduct an interview. And I ended up recording this conversation in an open area in a grocery store, which had like a little eating area with tables and chairs. So as you can imagine, this was not a great setting, and it was not a great start to the interview. That's what I recall. I don't remember much about it. I do have a worst one.Amy Stich  29:11  Oh, yes. Thank you for your honesty.Kathy Roulston  29:16  Yes. So. Yes. So this one I, I guess was at a very busy point in the semester. And I had arranged to interview someone. And when I went to conduct the interview, I went to their office, which was on my campus, and they came to my office and our offices and two different buildings a couple of miles apart. So obviously that interview didn't get done. And that was incredibly embarrassing, because it was clear that I hadn't done enough preparation to double check the location that we're both on the same page. And I think that just goes to show that no matter how busy you are, you just need to really be systematic about checking the equipment, and then ensuring that both you and the interviewee know where you're going, that there is a place a space to meet, where you plan to meet, and just double check everything along the way. So I tried to do that now. But I've made errors along the way.Amy Stich  30:25  That's great. And as much as we may learn from our failures, it is of course wise to try to avoid them. Yeah, so. So Dr. Roulston, who were some of your favorite interviewers? Sure,Kathy Roulston  30:38  I would have to say that Terry Gross, who broadcast the program, fresh air, which is on National Public Radio in the United States, she's one of my favorite interviewers. If you listen to her, she, these interviews just seem to be so smooth. About I think she has published a couple of books on interviewing and in her introduction to those books, you'll learn more about how she does those. And you just need to be aware that she has a team that produces those interviews, and they're also not aired live, right. So the editorial team smoothes out the talk. And they also might even resequenced, the questions and answers. And then just as another note, and I think this is encouraging to all of us. She also has had some pretty challenging interview, and you can look around for those. So I guess as someone who has, she's literally conducted 1000s of interviews. It's just useful to know that she runs into problem interviews as well. And then I think what we can all learn from this is that to do a good interview entails collaboration on the part of both interviewer and interviewee. So interviewees can be uncooperative, for all kinds of reasons. And sometimes we might never really know what those reasons are. But I think in other cases, we might also consider why an interviewer might be reluctant to talk to us. And then, as a good researcher looking into the reasons that might be occurring, and why it is that people might might not be answering our questions. So that's something to think about. Right, right. And then we asked me about favorite interviews. I'm not sure he's one of my favorite interviews. I think I really like looking at his interviews to see what he does. So that's Sacha Baron Cohen. And of course, he's not a broadcast interviewer. And he's not a research interviewer. And he's also not necessarily generating information as researchers do. Because as, like, as a comedian and a satirist, he's doing something else altogether. So you probably have seen him in his various television shows and films. So he disguises himself to interview both ordinary and very famous people, is pranked quite a few policy, very famous politicians so far to say, I, I've seen Maureen Dowd of The New York Times has interviewed him and about what his work and what he's trying to do there. And he describes his aim as to expose hatred, bigotry and racism through those kinds of interviews. So I think what I enjoy about listening to comedians and satirists when they interview is how they upset out expectations of what an interview is, and also, quite often what's appropriate to ask. And then, of course, interviewees wide awake to what's going off on quite often. And so sometimes they'll just walk out of the interview, and just refused to participate. Rather than to avoid these embarrassing interactions, which some of these interviews are designed to elicit, and I'm not suggesting that researchers design interviews to do this kind of work. But I think what I find interesting about them, is it how it really helps us to think about the purpose of asking questions of one another.Amy Stich  34:39  Absolutely. Yeah, those are such interesting choices. Have you heard Terry Gross interview Sacha Baron Cohen on fresh air?Kathy Roulston  34:48  No I haven't. Amy Stich  34:49   You know that's a two for one for you. Kathy Roulston  34:52  Have they actually interviewed him? Amy Stich  34:56  Yes, she has. She has You guys, I've learned, I believe, just early this year. Yeah. So you might want to check that out.Kathy Roulston  35:04  Thank you very much. I appreciate that.Amy Stich  35:08  Absolutely. So before we end today, I think many of our listeners will also appreciate hearing some of your top tips for conducting interviews. So what advice would you give to those just starting out?Kathy Roulston  35:18  Well, I may repeat myself, so forgive me Sure, of course. But I think first, I think it's really helpful to for every one of us as interviewers to recognize and natural language skills. So if any listeners are those people who like to sit and listen, and he might be very introverted, it is actually going to be easier for you to listen to participants, and you are very unlikely to interrupt them, because you'll be listening. And because that's the natural way you engage in interaction. Now, if you like talking, and you like telling stories, it might actually be very challenging for you not to contribute to the talk. Now, I don't want to be understood as saying that there's not a time and place for telling your own stories as part of an interview. And if anyone wants to take conversation approach to interviewing, that's probably going to happen. But I think what I am trying to say here is that it's useful to recognize that what your talk does for the generation of interview data. And so for example, if you tell your stories, in response to what your participant is saying, these are actually there's a name for these kinds of stories, have the sociologists have called them second stories, which match a story that's just been told. Then when it comes to analyze your data, you as a researcher really have to be fair to your participant by counting for your own talk in the analysis and interpretation. And thinking about what your part in the generation of that talk was. So that's one, one thing, I think, is helpful for all of us. And then of course, this goes without saying, we just need to be listened to our participants respectfully. And I clearly if we're using interviews, we're seeking to learn from others. And it's our responsibility to just really be respectful. Now, I think that doesn't necessarily mean we need to agree with them. So sometimes participants say very disagreeable things that we might really disagree with. Sure. But I think the in that case, then we need to think about how we can be fair in how we represent them, when we write up our findings. And, of course, representing our findings is an probably a topic of another podcast, too. But there's actually methodological work out there now, which, like really thinks about what happens when we interview people with whom we might disagree. I guess the other thing to think about in interview is to really recognize that interviewing is performative. So people want to represent themselves to one another particular ways, for specific purposes. So even though research interviews are information generation, typically we are wanting information about some research topic. It's you can also ask what kinds of actions are being done in an interview. So for example, your interview is justifying or excusing the actions or they could be complaining about something or praising something or complimenting something. So that's just another order of data analysis, which the sociologists, Holstein and Gabrielle have written about, for quite some time, since the mid 1990s. They talk about analyzing both how interviews get done in as well as what gets said in those interviews. And then I think maybe, just to finish up here, there's more methodological work, which really calls on researchers to examine the search methods and how they might consider the participants needs very deeply in how they examine their topics. I've got one good example here, from Castro Dale. This is an article published in 2018 in qualitative inquiry, so he intended to use mobile methods in a study but the When he talked to his participants, they preferred formal sit down interviews. So even though we might have preferences for how we're going to conduct interviews, I think more and more researchers are writing and talking about how they design their interviews, research with their participants preferences in mind. So I guess a good interview can look really easy. But I, we can't ever really predict what's going to happen past the second term. So I advise all of us to be open to be flexible, and relaxing. Just enjoy yourselfAmy Stich  40:39  full again. That's wonderful advice. Thank you again for sharing your expertise with us today. And thank you, listeners for joining us for this edition of qualitative conversation.Kathy Roulston  40:51  Thank you very much me. I've really enjoyed talking to you. Amy Stich  40:55  Thanks so much, Kathy.

How do you grow from your first few clients to a thriving, fully booked freelance biz? After four years as a Successful Fashion Freelancer, Alison Hoenes is earning 75% more than her old full-time salary, booked out months in advance, and still growing. And she's doing it all without working insane 60-hour weeks (like most traditional fashion jobs). If you've established some steady clients and are ready to grow your freelance business, this episode is full of strategies to get you there. And if you're just getting started, you'll be inspired by how far Alison has come in just four short years. This episode is a follow up from Alison's interview two years ago: Episode 103: How to Make More Money as a Fashion Freelancer (than in a Full Time Job)!  For the complete show notes, including links to the resources mentioned, head over to Successful Fashion Designer!

Freelance patternmaker Alexandra doesn't have a fashion degree, and she doesn't live in a fashion hub. Yet with only a couple years of experience, she is now making more in one day as a freelancer than she made in two weeks at her old full-time job. Better yet, she loves the freedom to make her own schedule, choose the best projects for her goals, and actually have a life--all while still working in fashion.   For the complete show notes, including links to the resources mentioned, head over to Successful Fashion Designer!

Sewing instructor and fitting expert Pamela Leggett discusses her latest shapewear and other patterns, shares sewing tips, and talks about how her business has weathered the pandemic, in the Sewing With Threads video podcast, Episode 30.

"...All things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished..."-Simon Peter, 2 Peter 3:4-5Oruhne changes. Perhaps it was simply one continent, a rainforest. But what if it was more? If it's a land of wilds, what about the sea, and the shore? What about evergreens and deserts and tundras and mountains and flood plains? The face of Oruhne changes this week.Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Canon". Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepers

If you want to see your garments and accessories in the hands of more than just a few customers, you need to understand how to get your fashion designs into production. On this episode of the Successful Fashion Designer podcast, patternmaker and designer Xochil Herrera Scheer of The Chicago Patternmaker draws on over a decade of experience to share what she’s learned about factories, production, and bringing your designs to life! For the complete show notes, including links to the resources mentioned, head over to Successful Fashion Designer!

Garment pattern designer Liesl Gibson says she thinks about the fit whenever she creates a new pattern. In Episode 28 of Sewing With Threads, the founder and chief designer of Liesl + Co., Inc., describes a few fitting factors she considers when pattern drafting: the amount of ease needed, style, and a sewer's personal preferences.

Join us behind the scenes and take a front row seat at the iconic London Fashion Week. We discuss past fashion week experiences,  and Caroline brings you her diary of live recordings from the studio, the catwalk and the show rooms. Step inside our shoes and experience what fashion week is like for a real life pattern cutter.

In the Sewing with Threads Episode 15 video podcast, guest Jennifer Stern-Hasemann discusses her focus on—and the importance of getting—a good fit. The garment pattern designer and owner of J Stern Designs also answers a Threads reader's question about proper placement for princess seams.

Where do jelly babies come from?Mass-produced things are all around us. But they all start with a single object. In this episode, Olivia goes looking for the patternmakers, whose invisible hands are the original creators of much of the stuff we use every day. They see a world no-one else can see. So why are they disappearing? And what will we lose when they are gone?Producer: Olivia RosenmanCollaborating historian: Jesse Adams SteinHost: Tamson PietschExecutive Producer: Tom Allinson

Mark Neighbour is a patternmaker, designer and fashion lecturer. Mark and I discuss clothing and construction, and how the technical aspects of making, and wearing clothes on the body, informs his own design work and his teaching. Learn about his early influences, growing up in country Australia, which led him to his lifelong love affair with clothing and its construction. Listen to Mark’s design advice for fashion students and makers.

A very special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at The InDesign Conference 2016! Scroll down to see a couple pictures. In this episode: News and Updates: Quick history lesson about our podcast InDesign CC 2017 released last week Fun times at AdobeMAX! InDesign Magazine Nov. 2016 is magical (literally) and comes with videos! Registration open for the 2017 InDesign Conference, May 22-25, part of CreativePro Week Interview with Mohammed Javed Ali, InDesign product manager Our top 10 OIFOTW's (Obscure InDesign Features) from episodes 3 to 237 And this episode's Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Alpha Channel News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Teacup Software is a consulting firm and a vendor of simple, elegant, and unobtrusive plug-ins for InDesign, including BarCodeMaker, PatternMaker (developed with our own David Blatner), and DataLinker, for linking to databases. They've recently updated their plugins to support InDesign CC 2017, too. Support your local InDesign developer! Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign CC 2017: New features, Keeping older versions, Updated ID New Features Guide CreativePro Week 2017 Where does Javed Ali and the rest of the team work? In Noida, Delhi, and Gurgaon Join the InDesign prerelease team Here are the OIFsOTW we talked about! 1. Non-joiner 2. Flush space 3. Barbell 4. Magnet 5. Float 6. Choke 7. Straight Hash 8. Folder Zero 9. Butt Cap 10. Jumbo This episode's OIFOTW: Alpha Channel Here are a couple pictures from The InDesign Conference 2016: Anne-Marie and David welcoming the crowd to The InDesign Conference 2016 Anurag Wahi and Javed Ali, InDesign product managers/engineers, answering questions during the Ask Adobe Anything session

In this episode: Latest news: InDesign CC 2015.4 POINT 1 update ... oy the naming The InDesign Conference 2016 is coming soon — November! PePcon 2016 videos and CreativePro Conf 2016 videos are up InDesign Magazine Script-o-Pedia All about InDesign's new GPU feature Interview with Brian Wood, InDesign Guru Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Zoom Setting The QUIZZLER returns!   News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Teacup Software is a consulting firm and a vendor of simple, elegant, and unobtrusive plug-ins for InDesign, including BarCodeMaker, PatternMaker (developed with our own David Blatner), and DataLinker, for linking to databases. Teacup moved to a subscription-based pricing model earlier this year. You can take 15% off the first year of any subscription when you enter the code IDSECRETS15. Hurry, this offer will end in a few weeks. QUIZZLER: Listen to the podcast for the Quizzler, a simple question about InDesign that you can answer with a little searching. When you find the answer, email it to us at info at indesignsecrets.com with QUIZZLER in the Subject line (not in a comment here!). We'll choose a winner from all the correct answers we've received by SEPTEMBER 20. Winner will be notified by email and announced in the next podcast, and we'll send the prize to them too!   Links mentioned in this podcast: InDesign Conference 2016: Washington DC, November 7–9 All about the new GPU feature in InDesign (what is OpenGL?) Adobe Muse Classroom in a Book (by Brian Wood) Brian is doing a session and a 1/2-day workshop at The InDesign Conference! Creating Acrobat scripts with Javascript? Javascript Developer Guide for Acrobat (circa 2006) PDF, 200+ pages! Online documentation for scripting Acrobat X  The mysterious Zoom Setting:

New eBook on InDesign CS6; PePcon 2012 and 2013; Charts and Graphs; Obscurity of the Week: Monochromatic ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-173.mp3 (15.4 MB, 27:20 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. News Our newest eBook! Guide to InDesign CS6 (and CS5.5) New Features by Keith Gilbert Our PePcon 2012 recap: Highlights, info, job leads PePcon 2013 Announcement! April 29–May 1, 2013, in Austin, Texas Join us in New York City, June 12-13, for InDesignSecretsLive! in NYC Getting charts and graphs into InDesign: Solution round-up Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Monochromatic News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Em Software: DocsFlow is a plugin for InDesign that marries the layout and design power of InDesign to the shared editing power of Google Docs, resulting in "editorial Nirvana!" >> eDocker: HTML5 Tablet Publisher is made for everyone who wants to create HTML5 publications from InDesign. Use the software to create and sell tablet-ready web apps (no app store required!). Special offer: $100 off (valid to 6/15/2012) with code 10IDS2012 -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Posts from new guest bloggers Ashley and Kelly > Check out Kelly's DocumentGeek posts about the PatternMaker plug-in for InDesign > eBook: Guide to InDesign CS6 (and 5.5) New Features (free sample and write-up to come soon on our eBooks page) > Photos from PePcon 2012! > As mentioned: Twixl Media and Mag+ were in the PePcon house > Typefi is looking for a team of freelance template designers, interested? E-mail info [at] indesignsecrets.com w/TYPEFI in Subject > Free Column and Bar Graph Scripts (scroll down) > Line charts script > Chartwell Font > Video on Vimeo on how the Chartwell font works > Anne-Marie's InDesign Secrets movie about Chartwell (movie #005) on lynda.com > Claquos Pie Chart script and our blog post about it > Delta Graph v6 graph/chart software for Mac and Windows > Making charts in Illustrator

How to grade patterns on your computer using Adobe Illustrator This tutorial will help people that already know how to grade patterns, but don't have the funds to buy an expensive program to grade patterns on their computer.

How to grade patterns on your computer using Adobe Illustrator This tutorial will help people that already know how to grade patterns, but don't have the funds to buy an expensive program to grade patterns on their computer.

Plug-in-palooza! What, how, why; Twenty-plus great InDesign plug-ins; Obscurity of the Week: Configure Plug-ins ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-065.mp3 (15.8 MB, 34:30 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Plug-in-palooza! What's a plug-in? Why are they valuable? Finding InDesign plug-ins on the Internet Installing plug-ins Fast descriptions of over 20 InDesign plug-ins that users are loving (the tip of the iceberg, there are at dozens more we didn't have time to cover) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Configure Plug-ins Sponsor Link and Offer: This episode was sponsored by Audible.com, which lists over 40,000 audio books you can download and listen to just like a podcast. Go to audiblepodcast.com/indesign to download your free audio book (time-limited offer). Links mentioned in the Podcast: Adobe's comprehensive InDesign Plug-ins list DTP Tools (Page Control, Layer Comps, History, Tetris, Cross References, Keyboard Shortcuts) Markzware (Q2ID, ID2Q) EmSoftware (InData, XTags) Teacup Software (DataLinker, TypeFitter, PatternMaker, BarcodeMaker) Rorohiko (TextExporter, LikeFindsLike, Color2Gray, ChatterGoofy) Recosoft (PDF2ID) i.t.i.p GmbH (InMath) Gluon (ProScale ID) Triple Triangle (Color Spec Cubed) Knowbody Software (CoolKerning) Zevrix Solutions (LinkOptimizer) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-202-6483 Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

Recorded live at the ID Conference! Intro; News; Audience Q&A; Live Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Convert Text ----- Details follow; or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, Quizzler answers, and to leave a comment. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-052.mp3 (26.6 MB, 56:43 (!) minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Recorded live at the 2007 InDesign Conference in New York City! Intro to the podcast, how it's usually created (when not in front of a live audience) News: This conference, New plug-ins for CS3, New InDesign user group in London, UK Who in the audience travelled the furthest to the conference? Q&A from the audience: Converting CS3 to CS2 and CS2 to CS1, Editing .inx files Live Quizzler: How many ways can you duplicate an object in InDesign? (answers below) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Convert to Text Links mentioned in the Podcast: Audacity open-source audio recording software Teacup Software (PatternMaker and BarcodeMaker plug-ins) Typefi (free AutoFit plug-in) London InDesign User Group Brazilian InDesign Blog PitStop Professional from Enfocus Software Adding the Notes plug-ins to InDesign CS2 Quizzler answers! From our genius studio audience: Cut/copy paste, Step and repeat, Alt/Option-drag, Cut/copy Paste in place, Cut/copy Paste into, Duplicate, Transform > Move (with Copy button), Duplicate a layer containing the object, Alt/Option-drag the object's layer proxy to a new layer, Export snippet and place it back in, Drag it into a Library and drag it back onto the layout, Use it in PatternMaker, Duplicate the page or spread containing the object, Use it on a Master page and then override it on the document page, Option/Alt-arrow key. From David: File > Export to .inx then copy and paste the call to the object elsewhere in the .inx file, save it and then open it in InDesign. From Anne-Marie: Paste object into first row of table, convert row to a Header row, then continue table into a new frame and the object gets duplicated in the second frame's Header row. Two more from David: Hold down the Option/Alt key when pressing Return/Enter after editing any transform field; or Copy object to clipboard, then use Find/Change text (Find: any character or string, Change: Clipboard contents). Wow! Who knew there were so many ways? Listen to the podcast to learn who won the contest. Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

Free Stuff for InDesign Users; Obscurity of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames ------- Details follow, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes and links to sites mentioned in the podcast. ------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-034.mp3 (11.1 MB, 23:16 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted in a few days) Free Stuff for InDesign Users: A follow-up to David's recent Adobe eSeminar Layout templates that come with the program Adobe Exchange templates Where to install Scripts and Plug-ins Free plug-ins: PatternMaker, InBooklet Make Grid script — one of the free scripts bundled with InDesign Lots of other answers to questions asked by eSeminar attendees Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Unassigned Content Frames Links mentioned in the podcast: All the upcoming live e-Seminars from Adobe (and recorded ones from the past) Our page on Free InDesign Stuff Teacup Software's free plug-in, Pattern Maker Adobe's InDesign Exchange web site InDesign Conference: Master Class (Seattle, WA, Nov. 6–8, 2006) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!