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

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

Dada da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Homox First Nations. Hello and welcome to Love to So I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabric's and B.

Pater.

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 all we know how to talk about.

Today we're interviewing low-waste pattern designer Chris Wood. We chat with her about how her patterns work, her design process, and what draws her to low-waste pattern making. We also talk about her cool and colorful personal sewing. If you love to sew, this is your show! Hello Chris.

Thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Hello, thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Oh, we're so excited to have you.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Yes, my name is

Chris Wood and I am a pattern designer. We love having a pattern designer on the

show. Chris, where are you from? I was born in San Jose, California,

and lived all over California until I moved here to Seattle about seven years ago.

Amazing, and we definitely want to hear all about your sewing journey.

So can we kick it off with you just telling us how and when you learn to sew?

Yeah, absolutely. So I learned to sew when I was about 10 years old on the

machine. My mother taught me how to do that after I had shown a lot of interest in hand sewing. I was making clothes for my barbies,

starting at about eight or nine years old, using my mom's scraps and her orange plastic

sewing kit, which I think a lot of people of my generation remember.

Yeah, just sitting at the kitchen table and hand sewing and then I spent a lot of time in her fabric stash and pattern stash just looking at the illustrations and I had an

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