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.

Dada da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Comox First Nations. Hello and welcome to Love to So I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabric's 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 essentially all we want to talk about.

In this episode we share tips and tricks for fiddily, persnickety, awkward and complicated sewing technology. and

fiddily, persnickety, awkward and complicated sewing techniques.

We cover invisible zippers, darts, spaghetti straps,

princess seams, and lots more.

If you love to sew, this is your show. Hi Helen, hi Caroline, how are you? I'm good. I don't know why that intro

always makes me laugh. Yeah. Why? I think like I don't want to break the illusion but we chat before we

record and then we start recording and it's like, hi!

I know obviously we have to chat before we record because yeah.

Yeah.

Nobody wants to hear that.

Because we have so much to talk about.

What should only take like an hour and a half often takes us like three hours.

Yeah absolutely especially if we haven't recorded in a while it's like we got to catch up. We got to do our

catch up. Yeah I'm not mad about it. No, me neither. If you want to see your friends regularly, start a podcast with them.

It's so true. Oh my gosh. Well if you want to hear some of that catch-up, we actually do it every month on

Patreon. How's that for a segue? I loved it. It was flawless and it's so accurate. If you like the vibe of

this first 30 seconds you're gonna love Patreon. Yeah. Absolutely. We love recording Patreon and our Apple podcast bonus episodes. We love them. We love them. And we want to tell you about them because it's a really great way for you to support the show if you have the means to do it.

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