Episode 181: Lyocell/Tencel
Love to Sew Podcast
Helen Wilkinson
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Lyocell/Tencel is lovely for garment sewing...but what is it? In this episode, Helen and Caroline completely demystify this beautiful, comfortable, and sustainable fabric: how it's made, how to sew it, and how to care for it!
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| 0:00.0 | We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwakwakiwak peoples, |
| 0:06.6 | including Slaywetooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Komak's First Nations. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics, |
| 0:19.6 | and I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns. |
| 0:22.4 | We're two sewing buds who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey, too. |
| 0:28.0 | Join us for today's topic, a deep dive into Lysel and Tenself Fabric! |
| 0:39.2 | Hi, Caroline! Hi, Helen! How are you? I'm so good! How are you? I'm doing well, thanks. |
| 0:46.5 | I believe when this episode comes out, it is April 27th, which is right before the beginning of May, |
| 0:52.8 | and so I want to know, are you going to do me made made this year? This is about the time |
| 0:57.4 | of the month when I start panicking and speed sewing a few things so that I can have what I need for |
| 1:04.0 | me made made. I am undecided right now if I'm going to do me made made made. Are you? I think I am! |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, I feel like this year I'm really loving where my wardrobe is at. We have had some fun |
| 1:15.3 | new pattern releases in the last year that I want to play around with and show, you know, |
| 1:19.7 | how to pair them together or pair them with other patterns, so I'm pretty excited about it. |
| 1:23.4 | I think I'm going to try to post in my stories regularly, but, you know, me made made is really |
| 1:28.0 | just about wearing the clothes that you've made and you don't need to wear them every day. It's |
| 1:32.0 | just an encouragement to pull those out of your closet more often, whatever that means for you. |
| 1:36.6 | Totally. I think I need like a low commitment me made made pledge, so I'm going to think about it. |
| 1:41.5 | Yeah. Well, we're excited, and if you want to participate and you've never participated before, |
| 1:47.7 | me made may happens for the entire month of May, and you can use the hashtag me made may, |
| 1:52.5 | I think there's a few hashtags like hashtag mmm may or hashtag me made may 2021 to get the |
| 1:59.7 | specific year. So play around on your social media, find the hashtags in the areas you want to be, |
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