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Happy New Year!

The episode has been for a while now but here is the blog post to accompany it! What are your new year's goals? Any fun cosplans coming up? Listen to the episode for some fun inspiration and tell us yours here on the blog or in the Facebook Group!


Stay tuned for a new episode this weekend! Thanks for listening!

Love,
The Stitch and Seam Team
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