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 Sewe.

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

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

We're two sewing buds who love to sew and it's the only thing worth talking about.

In this episode, we're interviewing Michelle Thomas Elder, a designer, Taylor, and sewing teacher who owns the cut studios, a co-working

space for designers in LA.

Michelle has made custom pieces for celebrities and altered oat-cutture gowns, and recently she released her first book.

We are so excited to hear her stories and get her sewing and design tips.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

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

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited to be here.

We can't wait to chat with you.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners.

So I'm Michelle Thomas Elder.

I'm from Los Angeles by way of Houston, Texas, and I am a fashion designer and mobile tailor for TV and film.

Oh, we have so much good stuff to talk to you about today.

But first, we always start our interviews asking our guests how and when they learned how to sew.

So can you share that story with us?

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