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Peppermint Issue 52 - Cover

Peppermint Issue 52 – Cover spread

Peppermint Issue 52 - Climate feature

Peppermint Issue 52 - Grace Forrest interview

Peppermint Issue 52 - Little Tienda

Peppermint Issue 52 - Youswim

Peppermint Issue 52 - Refugee feature

Peppermint Issue 52 - Pillowcase top DIY

Peppermint Issue 52 - Art Spot: Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

Peppermint Issue 52 – Craftivism

Peppermint Issue 52 - Recipe

Peppermint Issue 52 - Village Green: Stradbroke Island

Summer Issue 52

Fighting fashion slavery with Grace Forrest • Holding on to climate hope • Under the microscope with science communication • Artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins weaves family stories • Behind the seams with Little Tienda • Transforming our refugee policies • Get the dirt on worms • A pillowcase thrift flip and solar-powered DIY • Radical imagination for a better world • Craftivists knitting truth to power • Preserving for sustainability •

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Best of the Month: Inside the Metaverse, Tie Dye Fails and Letting Go of the Grinch

It’s time for another edition of The Monthly Mint – a chance for you to join in the Peppermint office chat...

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How Your Phone Can Help Make a Difference to the World

Scrolling on TikTok, sliding into someone’s DMs or simply giving your mum a call to complain about your day are...

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“Art Come To Life”: Luke John Matthew Arnold’s Joyous Collab with Gorman

Known for colourful prints, artist collabs and playful cuts, it’s probably a bit of an understatement to say that Gorman...

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Can Your Morning Routine Make You a Better Person?

Embracing a daily routine doesn’t have to involve waking up at 2.30am and eating three turkey burgers for second breakfast...

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The Good Bean: Get Your Fix of Fairtrade Coffee

With the support of Fairtrade Australia New Zealand, small-scale growers in PNG are tackling climate change...

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12 Sustainable Fashion Documentaries You Need to Watch Right Now

Break up your true crime and series-of-the-moment binging and add some ethical fashion to your watch...

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Sewing School: The Peppermint Skye Shorts Are Here!

Collaborating with London-based patternmaker Mandi Bharij from Make With Mandi, we’ve created the Peppermint Skye Shorts to be both glam...

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A Blooming Beauty – Our New Summer Issue Is Here!

Colour your world, dear reader, with our latest issue: blooming to life with stories aplenty to help add a dash...

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Sewing for the Perfect Fit: How to Do a Full Bust Adjustment

Hello, my name is Mireille and in the immortal words of Kath Day-Knight, I’m a Country Road size 10...

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From Dishes to Dresses: This Sewist Is Transforming Tea Towels for a Good Cause

Sue-Ching Lascelles is a Brisbane-based artist who, like many of us, went through a home sewing kick during lockdown. Combining...

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Here We Go Again: Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Recycling

Recycling may have its issues, but it’s still an important ‘R’ in the #ReduceReuseRecycleRefuse life goals mantra. So this National...

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Get Your Stitch on with These Beginner-Friendly Embroidery Kits

Ever since Emma Downing of Yarn Industries took us into the magical world of embroidery – you can find four...

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If you want to change the state of the world, start with a girl. If you don’t know how to start, start with your clothes.

– GRACE FORREST, ISSUE 52

IN BLOOM 🌼🌹🌸🌷⁠
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Bursting forth, bright and lush, falling flowers scatter – reminding us to stop and soak in nature’s blooming beauty...⁠
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There’s nothing quite like the scene of jacarandas flowering to signify the start of a steamy summer on the east coast of Australia. Capturing the colour and variety of our tropical city streets, littered with purple, we collaborated with local Brisbane florist Lucy Reid of Foraged and Fleurs to design a cover for our latest issue that spoke to the restorative power of being in nature.⁠
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“All my bouquets are a combination of foraged items and Australian-grown market flowers,” Lucy says. “By foraging, each bunch is really representative of a particular moment in a season and a particular place. It’s amazing to see the microclimates that exist even within really small distances! I love that keeping an eye on what is blooming seasonally is teaching my kids to understand nature and the seasons too.”⁠
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We're a little bit obsessed with the results, if we do say so ourselves. Grab a copy from your local newsy or our website (free shipping Australia-wide!) to peep more photos from the gorgeous shoot. ⁠
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Photos: @KelleyTakesPhotos⁠
Model: @TeganLewiss⁠
Flowers: @ForagedAndFleurs⁠
Red dress: @ABCH.World⁠
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#PeppermintMagazine #SustainableFashion #EthicalFashion #NaturalBeauty #BodyPositivity #PowerOfFlowers

Get crafty with us! ⁠
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The tradition of sales and shopping on ‘Black Friday’ – the day after American Thanksgiving – has made its way to Australia, where you will find many brands offering super sales even though we aren’t actually even celebrating anything?⁠
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Our friends at @Spoonflower are looking to turn tradition in a less commercialised direction with their Craft Friday celebrations, which reimagine the day as a time for families and friends to make time to craft together.⁠
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This Friday 26 November starting at 10.30am (American Eastern Time!) Spoonflower will be throwing a free Virtual Craft Friday Festival bringing together 14 talented creatives and publishing new make-along tutorials every half hour on their YouTube channel! And who's that at 1.30pm ET? Why it’s Peppermint with a video tutorial on how to make our fabulous DIY Fabric Planters! ⁠
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Hit the link in our bio for more details, pop by to see us and get ready to sew along. We can’t wait to get crafty together!⁠
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#PeppermintMagazine #SpoonflowerCraftFriday #SpoonflowerCraftFriday2021

MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE⁠
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“The biggest misconception I hear and see is that you need to find a ‘unicorn’ piece of nutrition advice to help you thrive. I see people searching for the next diet, what food they need to avoid or what new superfoods and potions they need to buy. Unless you have a specific health problem, which should be treated through careful analysis and supplementation with a qualified health practitioner, it doesn’t need to be complicated or restrictive.”⁠
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Our relationship with food extends so much further than what’s on our plates (and our social media feeds) as @Lexi.Crouch, @Naturally_Nina_ and @MegYonson – three @endeavourcollege nutritionists – explore in our latest issue. Grab a copy from our website to read more today and head to the link in our bio for more information about Endeavour College. ⁠
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Recipe: @MegYonson ⁠
Photo: @LuisaBrimble ⁠
Styling: @Olivia_Blackmore ⁠
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#PeppermintMagazine #EndeavourCollege #MakePeaceWithYourPlate #Nutrition

GIVEAWAY ☕⁠
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When you woke up this morning to brew your first cup of joe, did you stop to consider the journey of the beans? Growing wild in the highlands and foothills of Papua New Guinea, coffee shrubs are often referred to as ‘money trees’. One of the country’s most profitable non-mineral exports, it’s the smallholder farmers that are driving production.⁠
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With the support of @FairtradeANZ, these small-scale growers in PNG are tackling climate change and social issues one cup of coffee at a time. In our last issue, we spoke to second-generation coffee farmer Molock Terry to learn more about the process – find out where to find the good bean over on the blog (link in bio). ⁠
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Thanks to our amazing friends at Fairtrade, we’ve also got the ultimate coffee prize to give away to one lucky reader! Featuring two ceramic mugs (hand-made in Australia by @Takeawei) and a @Moccamaster_Aus in the colour of your choice, plus Fairtrade PNG coffee from @SevenMilesCoffeeRoasters, and @MontvilleCoffee (worth $640), it’s the perfect pack to get your fair coffee fix. ⁠
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To enter, just tag a friend you think is brewtiful and we’ll draw the winner this Thursday 25 November (Australian addresses only). Good luck coffee lovers! ⁠
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UPDATE: Congratulations @mscaverley! You’re our lucky winner 👏 Send us a DM with your name, email and address so we can arrange your prize 💖

#PeppermintMagazine #FairtradeCoffee #Fairtrade #ChooseFair #CoffeeGram #CoffeeLove #ButFirstCoffee

Have you seen the horrifying images of the discarded clothes dumped in Chile's Atacama desert yet? Captured by @MartinBernetti_PhotoJournalist, it’s pretty clear how our overproduction and overconsumption is devastating the natural world. ⁠
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It’s also an important reminder that film (and photography) can be a really powerful medium for moving and motivating people to become interested in an issue or cause. So why not break up your true crime and series-of-the-moment binging and add some ethical fashion docos to your watch list rotation this weekend?⁠
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Equally fascinating, moving, devastating and inspiring, over on the blog, we’ve revisited 12 must-see documentaries that will take you beyond the glossy pages and curated feeds to show fashion’s effect on the world's rivers and waterways, shine a light on garment workers fighting for safer work conditions and expose the ugly truth of China’s denim factories, along with providing glimpses of innovation from sustainable companies working for a better world.⁠
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Hit the link in our bio to watch them today!⁠
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📸 by @MartinBernetti_PhotoJournalist for AFP⁠
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#PeppermintMagazine #SustainableFashion #EthicalFashion #FastFashion #AtacamaDesert

FREE PATTERN ALERT 🚨⁠🌴⁠
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Start your sewing engines and get ready to swing into sunny days with our latest free sewing pattern – the Peppermint Skye Shorts! ⁠
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Collaborating with brilliant British patternmaker Mandi Bharij from @MakeWithMandi, we created a pair of shorts that are both glam and practical! Inspired by the dramatic swish of circle skirts, our version of swing shorts walks the line of fun and function with flow aplenty around the legs and hips – and pockets, of course! The curved front yoke paired with an elasticated back waistband is all class at the front, comfy at the back. Go on: get your legs out and make this simple sew so you can sashay into glorious warm-weather adventures. ⁠
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We’re beyond thankful to our sewing partner @Spoonflower for helping to make our free patterns possible! The world’s largest marketplace of independent designs from global artists, Spoonflower is leading the way in custom, sustainable textile printing. Their on-demand process significantly reduces materials, energy and water, with inks that meet Oeko-Tex 100 requirements and fabrics – including a Certified Organic range – that are ethically sourced. Pop on over to spoonflower.com for inspiration for your next me-made project.⁠
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We used the Organic Cotton Sateen from Spoonflower, printed with a botanical palm leaf pattern by Italian illustrator @chiccabesso.⁠
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Download this exclusive Peppermint pattern from our website (link in bio) and sew your own today – we can’t wait to see your creations!⁠
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Photo: @KelleyTakesPhotos⁠
Model: @fiftynova50⁠
Linen shirt: @themnml_ ⁠
Sunglasses: Vintage⁠
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#PeppermintMagazine #PeppermintPatterns #PeppermintSkyeShorts #FreeSewingPatterns #SewersOfInstagram #FreePatterns #MeMade #Sewcialists #SlowFashion #SewingLove #MakeItYourself

Hello, my name is Mireille (@mireilleosunshine) and in the immortal words of Kath Day-Knight, I’m a Country Road size 10… Which means I wear anywhere between a 12 and a 16 in ready-to-wear garments.⁠
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It’s one of the reasons I turned to sewing. There are myriad reasons why the craft is totally excellent – how ‘wonderful’ it is to be able to create clothes that *actually* fit?! Much like clothes off the rack, however, patterns don’t come out of the packet perfectly accommodating the human body in all its glorious variety. ⁠
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If you’ve ever chosen a pattern based on your full bust measurement and suddenly found your neck and shoulders falling out of your top (or your fit across the shoulders is scrumptious, but your garment pulls across the bust), these are classic signs that you might be a candidate for a full bust adjustment (FBA).⁠
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Getting the right fit is surprisingly easier than you’d imagine - head to the link in our bio to learn how to do a FBA yourself! ⁠

#peppermintmagazine #sewersofinstagram #freepatterns #memade #sewcialists #slowfashion #sewinglove #makeityourself

Nice job New South Wales! 🎉⁠
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The most populated state in Australia has finally caught up to the rest of the country and will implement a plastic shopping bag ban across the state from June next year. The law, which state parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour for, also means that from November 2022, most single-use plastics (including cutlery, straws, drink stirrers, polystyrene containers, microbeads, cotton buds and disposable plates and bowls) will be banned too. ⁠
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“Only 10% of plastics in New South Wales are recycled with the rest ending up in landfill, or worse, littering our streets, dumped in our parks and washing up in our waterways,” State Environment Minister Matt Kean said.⁠
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“This legislation is expected to stop 2.7 billion single-use items from ending up in our natural environment and waterways over the next 20 years, and is a game changer in the fight against plastic waste across our state.”⁠
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Onya New South Wales 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #singleusesucks #plasticban #plasticfreeliving #waronwaste #saynotosingleuse #iquitplastics #zerowaste #reusables

Ever since Emma Downing of @Yarn_Industries took us into the magical world of embroidery – you can find four exclusive Peppermint embroidery patterns in Issue 51 or in Sew&Tell Issue 1 – we here at Peppermint have been OBSESSED with getting our stitch on. ⁠
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Hand embroidery can be a meditative practice that creates complex and beautiful artworks in fabric form. It can also give you all the fun of drawing on your clothes when you were a kid, while being adult appropriate, kind of posh, and lasting through a good laundry cycle. It’s a great way to add individualism and style to your wardrobe or spruce up an old piece that no longer sparks joy. ⁠
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If you want to dip your toe into the waters of embroidering, a great place to start is with a ready-made kit. We’ve found five beginner-appropriate and super cute embroidery kits (including this by the amazing @BrynnAndCoShop) to help you take your first steps on the not-so-long and arduous journey of becoming a master of the craft! Hit the link in bio and go forth and get your stitch on... ⁠
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#peppermintmagazine #slowstiching #embroiderydesign #hoopartembroidery #embroidery #handembroidery #embroiderykit #floralembroidery #embroideredflowers #embroideryinstaguild #loveembroidery #hoopart #damngoodstitch #embroiderylove

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