Tag: SewKC

Kindred illustration by Elyssa Bezner

Shop small: Five designer gifts at Kindred celebrating KC’s fashionpreneurs, winning vibes

By Tommy Felts / November 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Startland News shopped Kindred’s Oak Park Mall store as part of the newsroom’s five-part holiday gift guide that identifies locally made goods and supports the call to shop small. Click here to read the multi-day gift guide as it develops. Local designers always have a spot on the rack within the Kindred Shops. …

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SewKC at Collective Ex

How an elastic team turned an early tip about face masks into SewKC’s saving grace

By Tommy Felts / October 30, 2020

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of stories about Kansas City fashion companies putting their own creative spin on the often-utilitarian face mask. As demand for face masks surged this spring, a massive and sustained influx of traffic and orders at SewKC crashed the Crossroads creatives’ online retail engine — forcing the…

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Johnny and Michele Dawbarn, SewKC

Married to collaboration: SewKC couple stitches meaning into each hand-sewn design

By Tommy Felts / October 30, 2020

Michele and Johnny Dawbarn’s symbiotic studio space in the Crossroads allows the always-evolving creative duo to do more than finish each other’s sentences. It stitches ideas to passion, threading a common mission through their businesses, they said. “When you sew-” Johnny began. “You bring two things together,” finished Michele, co-founder of SewKC with her husband.…

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Sandlot Goods

Sew you want a fight? Makers across KC mobilize mask production to slow COVID-19 spread

By Tommy Felts / March 25, 2020

Editor’s note: The following is part of Startland News’ ongoing coverage of the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Kansas City’s entrepreneur community, as well as how innovation is helping to drive a new normal in the ecosystem. Click here to follow related stories as they develop. Kansas City’s makers aren’t sitting idly as the ongoing Coronavirus…

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Thee Outpost

Explore inside: Thee Outpost offers fresh brew of Thou Mayest, Collective Ex coffee-creative collaboration (Photos)

By Tommy Felts / July 11, 2019

The way is open and a new era has begun for Kansas City’s dreamers, doers, makers, and caffeinated creators.  “I’m really pulling that curtain back [and letting] makers do what they do,” explained Johnny Dawbarn, founder of Collective Ex — a collaborative of artisans, designers and creatives at 519 E. 18th St., now open to…

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