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 Kolmok's First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew. I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's Closet Patterns and Cedar Quiltco,

and I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics and BF Patterns.

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

Today, we're interviewing Wendy Liu, also known as With Wendy.

We chat with her about draping, DIYing designer clothes,

thrifting fabrics, and making sewing videos on YouTube.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hello, Wendy. Thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Hello, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. I don't get to talk to fellow sewing

peeps that often, so whenever I do, I'm like, oh boy, we can be nerdy now.

That's like half the reason we started this podcast, to be honest.

For those of you out there who don't know Wendy, Wendy, maybe you can give us a little introduction.

Yes, for sure. So, hi everyone. My name is Wendy. I sew on YouTube and I go under the name of With Wendy,

and basically I just make my own clothes, sometimes from scratch, sometimes thrift flip,

and it wasn't intentional that it became like a log of my sewing growth, but definitely from the

10 years that I've been doing it, you can see drastic improvement in my sewing ability.

And now it's kind of like a testimony to what you can achieve if you just keep spending time

with your sewing machine. But yeah, all the clothes I make tends to be for me to wear. I just

but I love all sorts of fashion. So it's like jackets, dresses, shirts, like lots of inspiration

from fashion news and things that I see currently. And then once in a while, it's just like for me,

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