We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Quakwaki-wak peoples,

including Slay with Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Comox 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 vests who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey, too.

Join us for today's interview with Byravi, Rathanna Sabapathy.

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

Hi, Helen.

We are so excited to chat with you about quilting a topic that we have yet to cover on the show if

you can believe that, so thank you for coming on today to chat with us about it.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Yeah, my name is Byravi, and I am a quilter and a quilt pattern designer.

I've been quilting for a couple of years, but it's only for a long time,

and I love to teach people how to quilt.

And where are you from?

So my parents are both from India, so I am Indian and I'm Tamil, and I personally grew up in Florida,

and I now live in Berkeley, California.

Awesome. Okay, you mentioned that you just got into quilting a couple of years ago, so I think

we need to hear this story like how and when did you learn to sew, and then how did you get into

quilting. I learned to sew a long time ago. I learned to sew when I was in middle school,

and I am 28 now, so there's been quite a few years of garment sewing, but a couple of years ago,

I kind of started to see stuff in the quilting world online that was really appealing to me,

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