Episode 209: Sewing Swimwear 2.0
Love to Sew Podcast
Helen Wilkinson
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Four years after our first Sewing Swimwear episode, we're back on the topic with more sewing tips, better fabric information, and lots of great pattern recommendations! We also cover ideas for adapting non-swimwear patterns into swimwear, swim coverup ideas, places to buy swimwear fabric, and a review of all the swimwear we have sewn ourselves. Plus: listener feedback from our Getting Started with Pattern Drafting episode!
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| 0:00.0 | We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish |
| 0:05.0 | and Kwa Kwa Kwa Kiwak peoples, including Slalo Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Kolmok's First Nations. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello and welcome to Left to So! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns, |
| 0:19.9 | and I'm Caroline the owner of Blackbird Fabrics. We're two sewing beds who love to sew our own |
| 0:24.5 | clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too. Join us for today's topic, |
| 0:29.4 | sewing swimwear 2.0. |
| 0:38.9 | Hi, Helen! Hi, Caroline! How are you? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm good. |
| 0:46.6 | It's funny that we're talking about swimsuits today because it is reigning buckets in Vancouver. |
| 0:53.6 | Sam and I had plans to go for our first swim of season tomorrow because the weather was looking |
| 0:58.9 | promising and we were going to wear our wetsuits. But now it's calling for thunderstorms, so |
| 1:06.0 | maybe next week. Yeah. Looking forward to that sunny spring summer weather so we can test out. |
| 1:14.7 | Our swimsuits again this season but can't come soon enough. Yeah. But by the time this episode comes out |
| 1:22.0 | we'll be a really good time for our listeners to start thinking about making a swimsuit of that |
| 1:26.9 | something that's on their list for the year. It's always great to get it done before the summer |
| 1:31.7 | weather hits because then you can get the most use out of it. So that's what we're going to be talking |
| 1:36.2 | about today. But first we have some great feedback that came in after we released our getting started |
| 1:40.8 | with pattern drafting episode and we knew we just had to share all of these tips with you. So at |
| 1:46.7 | so busty on Instagram said that their favorite pattern drafting book is Dress Pattern Designing |
| 1:51.9 | by Natalie Bray. They wrote, I find her method to work the best for busty figures after trying |
| 1:57.6 | a bunch of methods. Thank you so much for this recommendation. It's true that some drafting methods |
| 2:05.1 | are better for busty figures so it's good to get a recommendation from someone who's tried a |
| 2:08.9 | bunch of methods with that in mind. So we'll make sure we link that up in the show notes. And we |
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