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

and Kwakwakiwak peoples, including Slalo Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Komak's First Nations.

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

and I'm Caroline, the owner of Black for 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

choosing the perfect fabric.

Hello, Helen! Hi, Caroline! How are you doing today?

I'm doing well. Thank you. It's sunny today and I just went for a walk with my dog, so I'm feeling

good. Nice! It is also sunny here in Vancouver, really beautiful blue sky right now, and I did

a little meditation before we started recording, so I'm feeling really good.

Awesome! Well, today's episode is right up your alley, choosing the perfect fabric.

Oh, yes. Such a good topic. Another one of those ones that I'm like, how have we not covered this

before? This is a question we get all the time, so I'm really excited to dive into it.

Yes, but first we have some feedback from Corinne, who's one of our patrons on Patreon.

Thank you for supporting us there, Corinne. Hello, I'm so glad to have discovered your podcast.

I'm in my car all day and it killed me that I'd been wasting all of that time on nothing but true

crime podcasts. Not a waste of time. We're with you. Relatable. I saw that you once did an

episode on sewing revelations and helpful sewing knickknacks. I know I already missed the

boat on that one, but in case you ever do part two, these are some discoveries that changed my

sewing life. One, the magnetic seam guide ruler by Madame Sew. Holy cow, I thought I would never

reach a point where I could sew a straight line. I popped this thing on and bam, factory level

precision. If for some reason your stitch plate isn't metal, I've also seen people use building

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