We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish

and Kwa Kwa Kwa Kiwak peoples, including Slalo Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Colmox First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics,

and I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Cause of Patterns. We're two sewing buds who

love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too. Today's topic

is a beginner Q&A. Hi Helen, hi Caroline, how are you? I'm good, how are you? I am good,

I'm caffeineed up, I have my coffee with me, it's the morning, I'm feeling good, I'm really excited

to offer some support to all the beginners out there. Yes, it's been a while since we had a beginner

sewing episode. We had a whole episode dedicated to beginner sewing, which was episode 32,

and although it's an earlier episode, there's lots of great tips in there. We also recently did a

sewing vocabulary episode that was a lot of fun, so if you're a beginner, check those ones out too,

but we wanted to revisit this topic because we've welcomed so many new sewists to our community

in the last year. It's so exciting that people are getting other machines, they're making face masks,

and then they're going on to make all sorts of fun things and rediscovering sewing. So welcome to

the community, welcome to the podcast, and we can't wait to answer your questions. Yes, so today we're

going to be answering questions that we got when we put a call out on social, and we are so excited

to answer these questions. There's some really good ones, there's some funny ones. Of course,

we're not able to answer all the questions we received, but we're going to do our best to get

through as many as we can, and we want to thank everyone who sent in your question, if we don't

answer it today, and you're really desperate, maybe shoot us an email, and we can get you out over

email. Definitely. Okay, let's start off with questions for the true beginner. Laurel Murphy wants

to know. So I can use a sewing machine if someone else sets it up, but now I have one that's not

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