We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwa Kwa Kwa Kiwak peoples, including Slay with Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Comox 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 Cosy Patterns.

We're two sewing beds who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too.

Join us for today's topic, Collars! Yeah!

Hello, Helen. Hi, Caroline. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm really good.

Just chilling here, staring at your beautiful face over Google Hangouts.

You're wearing a collared shirt today. Is that on purpose?

It's a colorful collared shirt. What color is your collared shirt?

My collared shirt is the color magenta? No, what would you call this?

Purple-y pink? Yeah, like a lilac.

Lilac-y, but like more, it has some pink undertones to it. Yeah, it's like a bright lilac, like a cartoon lilac.

I like it. You should totally call a fabric at Blackbird Cartoon Lilac.

I'll pitch it. I'll pitch it on your behalf.

But today we're going to talk all about collars. Yeah.

Are you excited? I am excited. I'm working on a button-up shirt pattern, so I've been working with collars lately, so this is well-timed.

Spoiler alert. Love it.

But we have a question before we get started, and today's question comes from Karen.

Dear Helen and Caroline, I love your podcast, and I hope you can help me figure out how to make more clothing items that I like

and will wear. I know that many sewests are hesitant to purge their closets of me-made items.

I have the opposite problem. I hate about 80% of what I make.

The most recent disaster was a pair of silky, flowing pants that turned into clown pants as soon as I put them on.

I tried taking them in, but they still looked frumpy.

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