We recorded the last episode of the season for the Designers, Plants, and Coffee podcast, and we wanted to leave you with a quick update on what each of us is working on — plus why we’re taking a short midseason break. If you’ve been curious about Cover Me Chic Collective, this post explains our plans, how the collective will work, and how you can stay in touch while we regroup. Cover Me Chic Collective is at the center of what’s coming next, so read on for dates, details, and ways to join the waitlist.
We’re taking a midseason break to get schedules aligned, tend to family and personal projects, and do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our businesses moving forward. This is a pause, not a goodbye — we’ll be back recording soon. In the meantime, we’ll still be watching comments, email, and social messages, so don’t hesitate to reach out with topic ideas or questions.
Zahiyya is building Cover Me Chic Collective. Here’s the short version of what’s included:
If you want more info or to join the waitlist and to lock in early bird pricing.
Naima is deep into back-to-school prep — syllabus, lesson planning, and fresh classroom projects. She’s also taking private clients in the DC metro area for one-on-one sewing and selling help. If you’re local and want private lessons, Naima is accepting students.
LaTisha is continuing her work with corporate clients focusing on tech packs, fittings, and technical design. She’s growing tech design services and booking more fittings — the work that makes pattern and garment manufacturing smoother for brands and designers.
If you want to keep learning, practice fitting, or dive into pattern making while we’re off the mic, these pages are great starting points:
We’re building Cover Me Chic Collective to be a place for sewists who want better-fitting, curvy-friendly patterns, a monthly pattern rhythm, and a community to ask fit questions and share wins. If that sounds like you, join the waitlist and sign up for early access.
Thank you for listening to Designers, Plants, and Coffee and for supporting Cover Me Chic Collective. We’re taking this short, intentional break to rest and plan so we can come back with better content, more consistent schedules, and the Collective ready to launch. Keep listening to old episodes, send us questions, and bring us the topics you want covered next season.
If you love the podcast, please leave a review, share with a creative friend, or tag us on Instagram. Until next time — keep dreaming big and growing slow.
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Zahiyya: Welcome to the Designers Plants and Coffee Podcast, where we’re sewing, sipping, and staying rooted.
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We’re three creative women building handmade businesses and sharing real conversations about design, growth and what it really takes to make things that matter.
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So grab your coffee, pull up a project, and let’s grow together.
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We are recording our last episode of.
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Zahiyya: The season and we’re just going to go through what we’re working on and why we’re taking a break so that we can move forward
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in our businesses and see you back whenever we start again, whenever that’s going to be, which will be soon. It’s going to be soon.
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We just have to get, you know, get everything together and get our schedules together.
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Anyone who want to take it out first.
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Naima: I’m working on corporate clients, doing tech packs, fittings, education and yeah, tech packs, fittings, tech design.
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Just working on more clients and getting more clients.
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LaTisha: All right, well, next week is back to school for me.
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So, you know, this week is all about teacher prep, project prep and mental prep.
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Just getting ready for the new semester.
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You know, I try to keep it fresh so I give them different projects.
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Right now I’m trying to get my syllabus out by tomorrow since they don’t really have stuff stores so they can get their pattern.
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So it’s just a whole lot of sharks in the air right now.
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I’m also still taking private clients, so if you want to learn how to sew one on one, you know where to find me in D.C. metro area.
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That’s it, back to school for me.
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Zahiyya: I’m working on the COVID Me Chic Collective.
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It’s going to be a foundation member price for the 29th through the fifth.
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That’s when the cart’s going to be open.
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But you can get on the mailing list.
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I’m going to leave a description below.
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Basically, it’s been what we’ve been talking about.
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It’s mainly fitting for the hips, bust and waist, all the curves that we have, making sure your clothes fit.
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There’ll be a pattern a month, there’ll be a community, you know, just, you know, different skills of the month things.
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So just if you want to learn more about it, just hit the link below and you can sign up and then you’ll get your information for that.
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That’s the main thing I’m working on.
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Also, I do take corporate clients and stuff like that. I’m still working on that. And that’s it.
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I mean, I got kids in school,
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sending kids to college and getting another one ready next year.
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So it’s a lot of stuff going on.
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Yeah, it’s a lot of stuff going on. So it’s all good stuff. All, all good stuff.
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So yeah, that’s what we’re working on.
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So it’s just like our plates are full so we just going to take a little break.
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You know, self care and all of that other stuff.
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So we’ll definitely see you in a couple of months.
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Any closing words before we get out?
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LaTisha: All right. So while we’re gone, if you see something in the fashion world you want us to talk about, if you have any questions,
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if you come across anything, you are, you still have access to us. So please just hit us up. Social media, email.
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We still monitor the chat in our videos.
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So you see something, if you’re watching old videos and something pops up, hit us up in the video chat. Not leaving you.
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We are going to, this is our mid season break.
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Naima: A couple of things that I know we just lost Arani, but also, yeah, that’s one of the really big.
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So to check out some of his, his greatest collections and the, the Ralph Lauren collection or Collab with the HBCUs has been extended.
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So let us know what you think about that collection.
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Zahiyya: Just, just, just put, put what you think about the collection in the comments.
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We’ll love to, we’ll, we’ll chat in the comments to see, you know, see if y’ all thinking the same thing we thinking.
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Naima: Keep looking out for changes in digital patterns now that all of the pattern groups have basically folded. Yay. Independent pattern makers.
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Zahiyya: There’s a lot of stuff happening in the fashion world and the creative world, the craft world.
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So if you see anything happen that you want us to talk about for the season that’s coming up, hit any one of us up Instagram
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like Naima said, email in the chats, the video chats or whatever, we are definitely still going to be monitoring and checking everything.
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We’re still here, just not recording anymore.
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So until next time, I am Zahiyya from COVID Me Chic along with Naima.
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Naima: From Fearless Threads and LaTisha of Keeping youg Stitches. See you next time.
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Zahiyya: Thanks for hanging out with us on the Designer’s Plants and Coffee Podcast.
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If you love this episode, please leave a review, share it with your creative friend or tag us on Instagram.
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Until next time, keep dreaming big and growing slow.
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