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 Colmox First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics,

and I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns. 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 topic, Machine Stitches!

Hi, Helen! Hi, Caroline! How are you? I'm great! How are you? I'm good.

Excited to talk about machine stitches. Very exciting topic.

It's the opposite of hand sewing. It's machine sewing. Yay!

It may not seem like an exciting topic, but there is a lot of meat here. Let me tell you.

There are so many stitches. There are so many stitches and I feel like this is a very

beginner-friendly episode because if you're just getting into sewing and you're looking at your

machine, you might be like, what the heck do all of these little symbols mean?

Yeah, and when am I supposed to use them? Yeah, and we're going to get into it today. We're

going to talk about it. Yes, but we have some feedback first that we got after our history of

Sewing Patterns episode about various sewing social medias. Jill wrote, I wanted to mention a web

page that's a social group of Sewists that may be of interest. It's called Stitcher's Guild.

I've been on it for many years and they have so many experience sewists there.

Awesome. Thank you for recommending this Jill. Stitcher's Guild is a discussion board or forum

that is made just for sewists. Yes! And Molly wrote in and said, Helen was saying how she wishes

there was a sewing specific social platform for people to share their makes without all the drawbacks

of Instagram life. It's not sewing specific, but I recommend checking out the making app. It's an

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