We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwa Kwa Kwa Kiwak peoples,

including Slewa 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 Blackbird Fabric. 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 show! It's our fourth anniversary Q&A! Woohoo!

Happy four-year anniversary, Helen! Happy four-year anniversary, Caroline!

We're a little late celebrating this because our anniversary was in August, but we were on a break,

okay? Let us live! Yes, since we switched to seasons, we've been off during our summer

anniversary, but I'm so excited to do a more fun and chatty, just the two of us episode,

we're actually going to bring Sam and Shay on a bit later in the show for a bit of a throwback

for our longtime listeners, but it's mostly going to be just us here, and you may have noticed that

we've moved a lot of our catch-ups and kind of silly banter and things like that over to our

Patreon bonus episodes. We're not doing so much of that on the regular show, trying to get right

into the content for you all, but since we started our Patreon episodes, we haven't focused

as much on our friendship here in the main podcast, but we are still friends, promise.

We are? Yeah, right? No, of course we are. We are totally still friends, and we still, you know,

get to work on the podcast all the time together, which is such a gift because it means that we get

to keep in touch even though we live far away from each other now. Yeah, so in this episode,

we thought we'd do a good catch-up and then answer some questions from listeners, and then,

of course, at the end, Sam and Shay are going to join us for a few questions from us,

and we're going to play a little game. But first, we have a voice mail from Beverly.

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