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There are loads of podcasts that can motivate and educate creative folks or DIY devotees, but these five favorites — focused on crafting, knitting, decorating and home improvement — manage to be both informative and fun (available on Spotify, your Apple podcast app and other popular podcast platforms).
Craft Hangout
"Pour yourself a glass of wine because it's craft hangout time …” croons the opening song of Craft Hangout, an energetic, popular biweekly podcast. Host Eliza Kapitan makes it feel a lot like being at one of those pottery workshops with friends, where the wine flows and everyone gets a little loose at the pottery wheel. She and her cohosts, Leeloo Thatcher and Jessie Katz Greenberg, define craft broadly as “an activity involving skill in making things by hand,” and discuss everything from Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting public television program to how to start an Etsy shop for selling your handmade goods. The Craft Fails segment is always a laugh, too, with tales of artsy projects gone awry.
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Behind the Studs
DIYers love Behind the Studs, a thoughtful and sometimes hilarious podcast dedicated to fixing up and maintaining your home. Hosts Colin Shaw and Jimmy Driscoll, longtime friends from New England (with the accents to prove it), run their own renovation and home improvement companies. Their podcast, launched in 2018, includes conversations on large-scale projects, such as the pros and cons of installing a swimming pool; maintenance advice (gutter cleaning, for instance); or remodeling tips (build your own bathroom vanity on a budget). Browse the episodes — a treasure trove of home repair knowledge, each about a half hour long — to find the advice you're after, and enjoy.
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