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

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew. I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quilco.

And I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird

Fabrics and BF Patterns. We're two sewing buds who love to sew and it's literally all we want to talk about.

Today we are taking it easy. Ease is the extra length and width that pattern designers add so that you can

move in your clothes. We're going to talk about how ease works and how to

figure out the amount of ease that you like. It's a game changer for making clothes that fit.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hello, Helen, how are you?

Hello, Caroline, I'm doing good things.

It's a really sunshiny day in Vancouver today. It's putting me in good mood.

It's sunny here too. And when this episode comes out, it's April first, and I love April. One of my favorite months.

Oh, my goodness. It's my birthday month.

So obviously that is a point in its favor.

But it's also just like spring has sprung month and I love that.

I feel like there's a real missed opportunity.

We could have pranked all of our listeners with some kind of April Fool's joke.

You're welcome everyone for not doing that.

Yeah, we're not that creative, I guess.

I didn't even think about that.

No, I know.

April 1st.

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