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 sew.

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

And I'm Caroline the owner of Blackbird Fabric's and B.F. patterns.

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

Today we're interviewing pattern designers, sewing teacher, quilted coatmaker, extraordinary and snappy dresser, Natalie E-Baw.

She tells us about her design process, her long career in the sewing community, and how she puts

her amazing outfits together.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

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Hello, Natalie, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Hi, how are you guys?

We're doing so well.

We're really excited to chat with you.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Sure. My name is

Natalie E-Baw. I'm a fiber artist, quilter, general sewer of all things, sewing instructor. I wear a lot of hats. I'm also a retail manager and I live in

Alameda, California. Awesome and we always like to ask our guests how and when they learn to sew. So can you tell us about that?

Oh yeah, so the first memory I have of sewing is like a lot of people with my grandmother but it was really just like one

project we made Christmas ornaments my sister and I drew out little characters and then

my grandma helped us sew them up so they're really funky little Christmas

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