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

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

Dada da da da da da da da Nations. Hello and welcome to Love to So I'm Caroline the owner of Blackbird 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 literally all we want to talk about.

Today we're talking with Patrick Grant, one of the judges on the Great British Sewing Bee.

Patrick joins us to talk about his new book, The Savile Row suit,

and take us behind the scenes of a day in the life of the Savile Row crafts person.

We also chat about his ready to wear brand, community clothing, and 10 seasons of the

Great British Sewing Bee. If you love to sew, this is your show.

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

Hello, ladies, my absolute pleasure.

We can't believe we yourself to our listeners.

My name is Patrick Grant.

I am a British clothing designer and I'm probably best known as one of the judges on the excellent

BBC series, The Great British Sewing Bee.

Oh my gosh, our listeners are going to be thrilled.

Indeed.

Yeah, I think our listeners are going to be so thrilled to get a chance to hear a little bit more about you today. So can you take us way

back and tell us how and when you first learned how to sew? Well, I didn't do an awful lot of sewing

when I was little. I did lots and lots of other sorts of making right the way through school. I was really lucky.

At school we got woodwork and pottery, metalwork and all sorts of fun things, but I didn't do much so I did a bit so what I did was I would alter my trousers and do a little bit of alteration just to make clothes fit me better and you know if I had trousers that weren't quite skinny enough in the period

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