#204: The Sewing Machine, A Novel – Kat Camfield with Natalie Fergie

Check Your Thread: Sewing More Sustainably

Guest interviewer, Kat Camfield, is talking to author Natalie Fergie about Natalie’s incredible historical novel, The Sewing Machine. Based on real, historical events that took place at the Singer Sewing Machine factory in Scotland, the novel follows two families: one belonging to a worker at the factory who went on strike, the other belonging to the owner of one of the sewing machines that the striker helped make. If you’re interested in sewing as a lens through which to look at social history, then you’re going to find this conversation fascinating. Natalie and Kat also geek out over vintage sewing machines and their sizable collections!

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Kat Camfield is a sewing teacher and sewing retreat organiser living in Victoria, Canada. You can follow Kat on Instagram @cooperativekatsews

Hear Kat on previous episodes of CYT:

Learn more about author Natalie Fergie and her books: The Sewing Machine and 25 Library Terrace:

Watch the silent film ‘Birth of a Sewing Machine’ from 1934. 

Look up the model and age of vintage sewing machines via the International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society website

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Guest interviewer, Kat Camfield, is talking to author Natalie Fergie about Natalie’s incredible historical novel, The Sewing Machine. Based on real, historical events that took place at the Singer Sewing Machine factory in Scotland, the novel follows two families: one belonging to a worker at the factory who went on strike, the other belonging to the owner of one of the sewing machines that the striker helped make. If you’re interested in sewing as a lens through which to look at social history, then you’re going to find this conversation fascinating. Natalie and Kat also geek out over vintage sewing machines and their sizable collections!

Support the podcast over on Patreon!

Kat Camfield is a sewing teacher and sewing retreat organiser living in Victoria, Canada. You can follow Kat on Instagram @cooperativekatsews

Hear Kat on previous episodes of CYT:

Learn more about author Natalie Fergie and her books: The Sewing Machine and 25 Library Terrace:

Watch the silent film ‘Birth of a Sewing Machine’ from 1934. 

Look up the model and age of vintage sewing machines via the International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society website

2025-11-10
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