We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Quakwaki-Wak peoples,

including Slay with Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Comox First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to So! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Posit Patterns,

and I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics. 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 interview

with Sarah Me Duffy from So So Live.

Hello, Sarah Me. Thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Thank you for having me. We're so excited to talk to you about everything that you do for the

online sewing community. Can you please start us off by introducing yourself to our listeners?

Yes, my name is Sarah Me Duffy, and I've been sewing for a really long time.

You're not going to sell us how long? I think about 35 years now.

No, I am totally open about my age. I'll be 50 this year. I'm actually pretty excited about it.

Yeah, you get to join the Sewer for 50 Club. That's right! I love that group, exactly.

Yeah, me too. And where are you from?

Originally from California, and that's where I reside now. I've pretty much lived all over the

state, and I really love California. It's really beautiful. Really diverse. I love it.

That's awesome. And tell us a bit about your sewing journey. How and when did you learn how to sew?

I learned in high school when they used to have homeic classes. I think some schools might

still have them, but they're pretty much disappearing. And I learned very grudgingly. I've told

this story a lot because people ask me, and I'm not really proud of the brat I was when they put

me in a sewing class. But I was kind of a brat. I was like, you know, I don't want to be in this

sewing class, you know, but it was really the only elective available to my schedule. And the first

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