About

Hi, I'm Sam. I'm the owner, maker, and designer of everything YumSumCha Designs.

In a past life, I was a globe-trotting event manager and then training project manager for a tech company. Sewing was one of my many creative hobbies that let me express my love of art, anime, and colour. Over time, the emotional load of being a working mum trying to survive in a suppressive work environment got to me and I burnt out.

I turned to sewing as a way to help me feel like myself again and wanted to sew more felt food for my son's play kitchen. Growing up as an Australian-born Chinese and immersed in the diverse multi-cultural communities of Sydney, I love cooking and eating Asian food from Cantonese cuisine to Korean, and Malaysian. So I felt really frustrated that there were so many sewing patterns for western felt food but very few for Asian.

I started YumSumCha Designs to show kids and crafters that Asian (felt) food is so much more than just dumplings and sushi.

Because representation matters.

Sam