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

including slew of tooth, squamish, muskwium, and comox-first nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet pattern.

And I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics.

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, how I learn to sew.

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Hi, Helen! Hi, Caroline! Oh my gosh. This is our 200th episode of Love to Sew!

Two 100 episodes, How many hours is that?

I don't think I want to know. That is a lot of sewing talk. Like people said,

we were going to run out of ideas. They said, I'm just looking at them now.

But seriously, so many episodes of sewing tips, techniques, tools, fabric deep dives,

amazing guests, and community stories. And we are so grateful to you, our listeners,

for making this possible. Yes, you've listened to the episodes, you've commented on social media,

you've sent us emails and voicemails, you've supported us on Patreon. And we've learned a lot

from you. We've laughed at your jokes and we've been inspired by your makes. It's been such a great

journey. It really has. I can still remember the very beginning of this when we were meeting regularly

talking about the idea of starting a podcast and trying to figure out how it was going to be and

what kind of guess we were going to have and what kind of topics we would do and how often we would

record. And I still think back on that like four years ago, and we had no idea where that was

going to take us. Yeah. And I mean, we've seen a lot of changes in our lives over the last four

years. We've both moved. I've moved several times. You moved away from Vancouver. Our businesses

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