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Love to Sew Podcast

Episode 224: Sewing Help Line

Love to Sew Podcast

Helen Wilkinson

Indiesewing, Crafting, Sewingclothes, Smallbusiness, Apparelsewing, Hobbies, Entrepreneur, Sew, Fabric, Sewing, Leisure, Arts, Sewingpatterns, Fashion & Beauty, Maker, Diy, Garmentsewing, Fashion, Handmadewardrobe, Business, Indiebusiness

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hello Caller, this is the Love to Sew Help Line! What’s your sewing struggle? We answer questions from our listeners about pattern alterations, interfacing, re-fashioning, regaining sewjo after a long break, and more! We also share an inspiring listener email about whether or not to go to fashion school.

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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 Kwakwakiwak peoples, including Slalo Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Comox First Nations.

0:14.8

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

0:19.6

and I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns. We're two sewing beds who

0:24.1

love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey, too!

0:28.6

Join us today as we troubleshoot your sewing problems. Welcome to our Sewing Helpline!

0:38.8

Hi Helen! Hi Caroline! How are you? I'm great, how are you? I am good! It's a bitter sweet episode

0:48.2

because this is the last episode of the season! Can you believe it? Oh my gosh! This season actually

0:55.4

flew by with so much fun recording! Yeah, it was so fun! We had tons of great topics, it was just the

1:02.0

two of us this season, which was a little bit different, and I think we had a great time,

1:07.8

and the season also marked our five-year podcasting anniversary! Like, wow, I can't believe it's been five

1:15.2

years! I was looking up some stats before we came on to record, and I wanted to ask, did you know

1:23.7

that in five years we've had five million podcast downloads? Whoa! Five million? Five million!

1:34.0

Holy! Wow! It's absolutely wild! That is so cool! I love that! Five years, five million! Yeah, I want

1:43.7

to thank our listeners for being here and supporting us and downloading the show and listening to

1:49.1

the show and loving on us all the time. It's so fun to make this podcast with you, Ellen.

1:54.0

Oh, it is so fun, Caroline! I love making this podcast with you, and I love sharing it with our

1:58.8

listeners. We have some real super fans out there. I know there are lots of folks out there who have

2:03.2

been listening since the beginning, so thank you so, so, so much for contributing to that five

2:08.4

million downloads. That is amazing! Yes! One of my favorite things is seeing those love to

2:14.1

sew podcast babies. Yeah, when folks make one of your patterns with a blackbird fabric and tag us,

2:22.1

and we get to see the podcast babies. It's so cute! Yes! Hashtag loved sew podcast baby.

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