We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and

quaquoquoque peoples, including Slalotooth, Squamish, Musquium, and Comox First Nations.

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Hello and welcome to Love to Soe, I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackburnt fabrics and B.F.

And I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quilt Co.

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

Today we're diving deep into bag making.

We're talking about the best fabrics to use, how to give your bag

structure, how to make a bag that's both functional and stylish, plus we demystify bag

hardware and share some great indie bag patterns.

If you love to sew, bags, then this is your show.

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Hi Helen, hi Caroline, how are you? I'm doing well, thanks, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. I'm

excited to talk about bags today. Oh me too. I have really been on a bag sewing

kick lately and I feel like the community is on board because I've been seeing

quite a few bags popping up,

bag sewing happening.

I mean, I know there's a lot of die-hard bag sewers

out there, too, that just love to sew bags.

And I'm beginning to understand why.

It's a lot of fun.

It's a lot of fun, and it a lot of fun and it's one of those things actually that

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