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.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew.

I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's closet patterns and cedar quiltco.

And I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics and BF Patterns.

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

We each sewed a vest and we are about to reveal them to each other for the first time.

We'll talk about the patterns and fabrics we chose, the ups and gowns of our sewing process, and how we're going to style our new vests.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Woo!

We sewed vests.

I love these episodes so much and I cannot wait to see your vest.

I'm so excited.

No, I am so excited too.

I'm like vibrating with excitement.

I cannot say the word vest or think about vest without hearing the Simpsons like, see my vest, see my vest, made from real

gorilla chest, you know?

Okay, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm sure our listeners look at it.

I'm going to look that up after.

You should.

It's amazing.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, well, before we get into this episode, we want to remind you all,

...