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

including Slay with Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Comox 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 beds who love to sew our own

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

Par. Hello Rose, thank you so much for coming on the show today. Hi Helen, well thank you for

having me, as people may have guessed my name is Rose Par. Yes, and can you please let our listeners

know what it is that you do and specialize in? I specialize in ergonomics for

crafters, sores, makers, quilters, and just helping them set their areas up to stay as pain-free as

possible. That's my goal. Yes, we are here for it. We're so excited to learn from you today. Where are

you from Rose? I'm in Guelph, Ontario, which is just outside of Toronto. Awesome, I have some family

in Guelph, actually. That's that's very cool. We're fellow Canadians over here on the West Coast,

so tell us a little bit about your sewing and quilting journey and I'd love to know how and when

you learned to sew. Well, I always during my lectures they always introduce me and they'll say

sewing for 40 years, quilting for 30 years, and it just sounds good, but I'm 59 and I know I started

sewing long before I was 19, so it's probably more like sewing for 50 years, but you know, like a

lot of people I learned at my mother's knee and it was just sort of osmosis. You know, you wanted to

alter your Barbie dress and cut it off and change it, then you just went over to the sewing machine.

I've done a lot of sewing, a lot of dressmaking, a lot of everything, and then I actually went to

school for home economics and studied pattern design, tailoring, color design, all of those things,

and then, you know, had a family, took a break from a lot of that, sewed a lot of curtains, and a

lot of kids clothes, and then as my kids got older, I got more into quilting, and I do a little bit of

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