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 Favrics and BF

Patterns. And I'm Helen, the designer behind

Helen's closet patterns and Cedar Quiltco. We're two sewing buds who love to sew, and it's all we

ever talk about. Our guest this week is Inuk-seoist Laura Pia Churchill. She tells us about

life in Nunavut, the role of sewing in Inuit culture, and the nitty-gritty details of making

parkas, amoutique, and more. If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hello, Laura, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

No worries.

We're so excited to chat with you.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

My name is Laura Pia Churchill.

I'm from Kanyat Duguay, Pek Nunavut, also known as Clyde River, and I've been living in Iqaluit

for quite some time now, which is the capital city of Nunavut.

Awesome. And have you always lived in Ikaluit?

I moved here when I was about 12 years old. And in my early 20s, I moved back to Clyde just for a year to teach.

And then I came back to Iqaluit. But I've traveled abroad for years as well and then always came back home.

Oh, wonderful. Yeah, we're so excited to talk to you about your sewing journey. So can we just

start off by you telling us how and when you learn to sew? For sure. I was around eight years old

when I made my first pair of mitts, and this was at my

grandparents' cabin outside of Clyde River. My aunt was teaching me how to make mitts, and it's a

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