We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish

and Kwa Kwa Kwa Kiwak peoples, including Slalo 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 Fabrics. We're two sewing buds who love to sew our own

clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too. Join us for today's interview with

Samantha, aka Purple Sewing Cloud.

Hello Sam, thank you so much for coming on the show today. Thank you so much for having me.

I'm very excited to chat with you both. Oh, we're so excited to chat with you too. Can you please

introduce yourself to our listeners? I'm Sam or Samantha. I live in the UK, the North East,

and I like to sew and craft. Yes, you really do like to sew and craft. Very prolific in the

community. Can you tell us how and when you learned how to sew? So I sewed a little bit as a child,

I did dance in and my mum used to make costumes and things and used to help out, but I've really

got into sewing about five years ago. So I had a brain injury or it was a brain infection

brain injury and part of my recovery for that was learning some fine motor skills because I'd been

like I hadn't moved for a long period. So my fine motor skills are quite bad. So someone suggested

sewing and that's where it and I just never stopped. I started so and then I don't think I've

stopped since. That's so awesome. Do you remember what your first project was? It was a unicorn

hobby horse. I still have it. It's really good actually. I would hate to see what the inside

looks like, but it's like a unicorn's head on a stick. It's got a little gold bow in its hair.

It's really cute. Oh my gosh, that is like the perfect first project for you if I were to pick one

for you. The unicorn head on a stick would be it. So I think a lot of our listeners would know you

as Samantha from Purple Sewing Cloud. That's your handles. So can you tell us where that comes from?

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