We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unseated territories of the Coast Salish peoples,

including Slayer Tooth, Squamish, Musquium, and Comox First Nations.

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Hello and welcome to love to sew. I'm Caroline the owner of Blackbird

fabrics and I'm Helen the designer behind Helen's closet patterns.

We're two sewing buds who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing

journey too.

Join us for today's topic, Elastic! plastic. Are you feeling nice and stretched out?

Oh, I'm feeling very limber.

I'm feeling very...

How's your recovery?

We're failing. How's your recovery?

We're failing at the elastic puns, but we're trying. Oh my gosh.

I think I could bounce back though.

Oh, yeah, we're going to bounce back into it. We'll bounce back from those terrible puns.

Well obviously we're talking about elastic today. Who knew you could do a whole episode on the subject? There are so many types of

elastic. There really are. I mean braided elastic, knit elastic, woven elastic, clear elastic,

swimwear elastic. How many times can I say elastic?

There's even more than that.

Yes, and they all come in different colors, different prints, different widths, and you can

use them for different applications. So it's a lot and it can be a

little overwhelming when you're a new soist you go to your local store or online and you're trying to find

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