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Love to Sew Podcast

Episode 273: Sewing for Travel

Love to Sew Podcast

Helen Wilkinson

Indiesewing, Crafting, Sewingclothes, Smallbusiness, Apparelsewing, Hobbies, Entrepreneur, Sew, Fabric, Sewing, Leisure, Arts, Sewingpatterns, Fashion & Beauty, Maker, Diy, Garmentsewing, Fashion, Handmadewardrobe, Business, Indiebusiness

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about sewing garments, bags, and accessories for trips! We talk about the best fabrics, how to layer, and how to design a travel capsule. Plus: indie patterns for clothes that travel well, tips for sewing travel bags, and our memories of sewing for travel! We also answer a listener question about sewing lace with big holes and share listener feedback about sewing motivation.

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0:00.0

We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and Quakwakwakwak peoples, including Slaiwitou, Squamish, Musquiam, and Comox First Nations.

0:14.4

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew. I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics and BF Patterns.

0:19.5

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

0:23.7

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

0:28.3

This episode is all about sewing garments, bags, and accessories for trips.

0:33.5

We talk about the best fabrics, how to layer, and how to design a travel capsule, plus indie patterns for clothes that travel well, tips for sewing travel bags, and our own memories of sewing for travel.

0:45.6

If you love to sew, this is your show.

0:53.0

Ooh, Helen.

0:59.3

I'm excited for this episode.

1:02.8

I'm excited for this episode.

1:05.3

Me too.

1:05.9

This one's right up your alley in particular because I know you love to sew for travel. And I love to pack for

1:13.5

travel. So I think together we'll have a lot to say on the subject. And we recently went on a little

1:18.9

trip together. So I feel like we have some fresh experiences of packing and traveling and

1:25.7

going for travel. We can call BS on any misinformation.

1:30.3

Be like, yeah, I totally travel light.

1:32.4

Yeah, right.

1:33.3

And I'm super organized.

1:35.5

Oh, my gosh.

1:37.3

Yeah, I have a lot to say about that.

1:41.8

But before we get into it, we wanted to remind all of our lovely listeners that the best way to

1:48.2

support love to sew is by joining us on Patreon or Apple podcast subscriptions.

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