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Love to Sew Podcast

Episode 238: Sewing Help Line 2.0

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

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

You’ve reached the Love to Sew Help Line! What’s your sewing struggle? In this episode, we’re taking your calls and giving out advice - on how to upcycle overalls into pants, what fabrics to use for summer shorts and trousers, whether or not to backstitch when shirring, and more! Plus, we catch up about our summer adventures and announce a new way to support Love to Sew.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

including Slay with Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam and Komex First Nations.

0:13.8

Hello and welcome to Love to So!

0:16.0

I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns and Cedar Quilco,

0:19.7

and I'm Caroline, the owner of Black Refabrics and DeF Patterns.

0:23.2

We're two sewing buds who love to sew, and it's basically all we want to talk about.

0:27.6

You've reached the Love to So Help line!

0:30.0

What's your sewing struggle?

0:31.4

In this episode, we're taking your calls

0:33.2

and giving out advice on how to upcycle overalls

0:35.9

into pants, what fabrics to use for summer shorts

0:38.6

and trousers, whether or not to backstitch

0:40.8

when shearing and more.

0:42.3

If you love to sew, this is your show.

0:44.9

Oh my gosh, it's so good to be back, though. And I love, love, love the fall vibes. As

1:06.6

we say every year, just yeah, a really, really, really exciting sewing season for me. Yes.

1:13.5

And it's fall 2023, which means it's been six years since we started making this show. Honestly,

1:19.7

I can't believe it. Neither can I. Six years. What episode number is this? 238. What? So many episodes.

1:28.8

So many episodes. I feel like anyone who's listened to all of them should get some kind of

1:35.5

award. Like we need to be sending out gold stars or ribbons or something. You get a gold

1:40.5

star. You get a little star. Oh my gosh. Well, of course, because it's the first episode of the

1:46.4

new season, we're going to start this episode with a little summer catch up. And we do have a

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