We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwakwakiwak peoples, including Slaywatu's, Squamish, Musqueam and Komok's First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love To So! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Cosy 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 topic, petite sewing!

Hi, Helen! Hi, Caroline! How are you?

I'm great thanks, how are you? I am very good.

I don't know about you, but I have been really looking forward to this episode.

I have to! Yeah, we know that there's a need for petite sewing information out there because we've gotten a lot of requests for it,

and because we're not petite ourselves, we decided to have not one, not two, but three amazing guests who can speak to the petite sewing experience today.

Yes, we have some great interviews coming up, but before we get into the guests, let's talk a bit about what petite means.

So petite, of course, is the French word for small. In the garment and sewing industries, petite is typically a category for people who are short-statured, usually below 5 feet 4 inches.

That covers a lot of people, but as you'll hear in the rest of this episode, sewists who identify as petite are not all one shape or size.

There's a huge variety, and each individual will have unique measurements and sewing preferences.

Yes, okay, let's get into these interviews. Let's do it.

Hello Simone, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Hi, I'm super excited to be on here.

We're so excited to chat with you. Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Yes, I am Simone, and you can find my Instagram at Intensely Distracted. I'm a mom of two from Utah, and I just recently opened a label shop.

Yeah, we are so into your labels, can you tell our listeners what the name of the shop is?

It's just my Instagram handle, Intensely Distracted. I thought about changing it to something that was more like punny and so friendly, but I think Intensely Distracted kind of sums my personality up quite nice.

That's awesome. I know it's hard to come up with a good sewing pun these days, it isn't taken.

Yes, very true.

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