Jenni Smith and Kay Walsh on Menopause Makes

Yorkshire Post

Yorkshire based quilters Jenni Smith and Kay Walsh are on a mission to support women through their menopause journey with their book, Menopause Makes, that provides sewing projects to help women.

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00:00Hi everyone I'm Kay Walsh and I'm Jenny Smith and we are the authors of Menopause Mix. We

00:13are here today in our studio in Ilkley in West Yorkshire. Yeah and we've been beavering away

00:18writing this book for the past few years but we met tap dancing many years ago and then we've

00:24been sewing ever since haven't we really? Yeah we've been teaching, we used to have an in-person

00:28studio we do a lot of our stuff online now but the reason we've written this book Jenny? Well

00:33I think because we know ourselves this is a very personal journey I'm 48 and you're 53 so we've

00:39been living the reality of perimenopause and menopause that we've taught a lot of women and

00:44we know that if we can get people sewing they can find their community at this stage in life

00:48it can just have a massively positive impact on their lives and the projects in the book are all

00:54geared to symptoms so alleviating getting too hot a nice wafty jacket all the way up from an eye

01:00mask so if you can't sleep insomnia is definitely a problem for a lot of people in menopause all

01:05the way through to a beautiful quill and we teach you every step of the way we'll guide you for all

01:11of the projects. Yeah so the more people we can get sewing in Yorkshire but beyond as well then

01:17the happier we will be so we hope you take a look.

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