We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the coast

Salish and Kwakwakik peoples, including Slalutooth, Squamish, Musquiam, and Comox First Nations.

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

patterns. And I'm Helen, the designer

behind Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quilco. We're two sewing buds who love to sew, and it's

basically all we want to talk about. This episode is all about a lesser known fiber, hemp. It's super

environmentally friendly, breathable, antibacterial, and has great body and texture.

We talk a bit about hemp's long history, how it goes from plant to fabric, and what you can

sew with it.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hi, Helen.

Hi, Carolyn. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm really good. I love him. Really good. I love him too. I'm really excited to talk about it. Yeah, me too. I love these fabric deep dives. I always learn something new when we do these. It is really interesting to learn a bit more of the history behind the fabrics that we love. Yeah. And we're really starting to get to the point where we're like,

well, what could we do next? Because we've covered a lot of different fabrics. That's true.

If our listeners have suggestions. I was just going to say, please get in touch with us if there's

a fabric you want us to cover on one of these episodes. But for today,

we're going to talk about hemp, which is a real favorite. And I have community favorite too,

so I'm excited to get into it later. Okay, we have a couple things to get out of the way first. First and

foremost, we wanted to remind you that the best way to support love to sew is by joining us over

on Patreon or Apple podcast subscriptions. And if you join us there,

you get access to bonus content every month. We have so much fun catching up with you all on those

more casual bonus episodes. It really is a highlight of our month. Yes, we get to be really

chatty on those episodes. And this past one that we did in April was really fun. We got to talk about your

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