We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories

of the Coast Salish and Quakwakiwak peoples, including Slay with Tooth, Squamish,

Musqueam, and Comox First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackford 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 interview with Ada Chen and Nicole Angeline from the Asian Sewest Collective.

Hello Ada and Nicole, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Hi, thanks for having us.

We're so excited to have you both on the show today,

you're both the host of the Asian Sewest Collective podcast,

and to start us off Ada, can you introduce yourself to our listeners?

I'm Ada Chen. I am a second-generation Taiwanese American sewist.

I use she-her pronouns, and you can find my sewing at i.hope.so.

Awesome, and Nicole?

Hi, thanks for having us today. My name is Nicole.

I'm a Philippinex American woman.

I use she-her pronouns, and you can find me at Nicole Angeline Soes on Instagram.

Amazing, and we'll obviously be linking your profiles up in our show notes,

but we ask all of our guests how and when they learn to sew.

So let's start with you, Ada. Can you tell us your sewing story?

Oh, well, I learned to hand sew when I was little,

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