We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the co-salish and quakwaki-wak peoples,

including sleighwetooth, squamish, muskwium, 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 Closet 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 special fitting episode with Alexandra Morgan of In-House Patterns.

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

Thanks, Helen. It's so great to be here. I really appreciate the opportunity to get

introduced to You're the Snores. Oh, we're so excited to chat with you, and we have to thank you

for all your work leading up to this episode, reviewing fitting questions and pictures with us,

and planning this whole episode. We're so excited, but can you start us off by introducing yourself

to our listeners? Absolutely. My name is Alexandra Morgan, and I teach pattern making and fitting

to people who love to sew. I create sewing patterns, online courses, and free video tutorials

where garment sewers who want to make their patterns fit and want to learn new pattern making skills.

Awesome, and where are you from, Alexandra? So I'm currently living on Vancouver Island,

like Helen, but I grew up in Saskatchewan. Awesome. Fellow Canadian, we love that.

Yes. Can you tell our listeners how and when you learn to sew, we'd love to hear a little bit

about your sewing story. Absolutely. Well, I grew up on the farm. It's a Saskatchewan, so we were

kind of, you know, my mom didn't drive or anything like that. So the things that we had to do on the

farm, besides the farmwork type stuff, was really kind of the hobby sort of stuff. So mom taught me how

to sew, and we had Barbie dolls, of course, and so my first sewing project, of course, was a

tube top for Barbie. But I remember just growing up and just always having the opportunity on weekends

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