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 So! 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, Lining!

Hello, Helen!

Hi, Caroline! How are you doing today?

I'm doing well. Thanks. How are you?

I am really good.

I'm actually very excited to talk to our listeners about a little announcement we have about a future

episode. Oh my gosh, I am so excited about this too. Let's let's fill them in.

Yes, we have gotten so many requests over the years about doing more episodes about fitting.

And we really want to deliver on this, and one of the challenges is that it's hard to do it without

the visuals, because of course with fitting issues we want to see those drag lines, we want to see

that fabric pooling. So we've decided to do a whole episode about fitting with fitting expert

Alexandra Morgan. And if you'd like to be featured on this upcoming episode and get expert

fitting advice at the same time, Alexandra will be evaluating photos of listeners fitting issues

and giving custom advice on how to get the perfect fit. So if you would like to be featured

in this episode, you can send photos of one garment to our email helloatloveto sewpodcast.com.

And Alexandra has some advice for taking your pictures. So first, you want to make sure to press

your garment. Alexandra is going to need to be able to see what's going on, so you don't want any

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