We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwokkiwak peoples, including Slalutooth, 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 basically all we want to talk about. We're back for the spring season with an episode

all about sewing hats. We talk about special materials and techniques you'll only see in the world of

hat making, talk about hat styles from easy to advanced, and reveal the hats that we made.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hi! We're back, baby. We are back for the spring season. I'm so excited. Me too. And before we get into it, as always, we want to give you a little reminder that you can join us over on Patreon if you missed us over the winter break. We were over there chatting up a storm about everything that's going on in our lives and sharing it with our Patreon and Apple podcast subscribers. So you can always join us over there if you want more content. You get access to bonus content every month. And we have a lot of fun catching up on those more casual episodes. We really do. It means so much if you're

able to support us, even if it's just for a month or two. But if that's not in the cards right now,

we totally get it. If you want to support us for free, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.

We haven't asked for this in a while. And we would really love to get some more recent reviews.

So please do. Yes, please do. And above all, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for joining

us for our spring 2026 season of love to sew. Oh, it's going to be a good one. We have so many,

so many fun things planned. Yes, we have a great season plan. So like we said, this is the first episode of our spring 2026 season.

We have so many exciting topics and guests coming up.

Plus lots of our new favorite format, the WISO episodes, including this one today.

But before we get into the main topic, let's do like a little mini catchup palette and give people a taste of what we do on Patreon.

An Apple podcast.

Oh my gosh.

It was a pretty great winter break.

Obviously, the holidays are always lovely.

And we came out swinging in the new year with a couple of new patterns.

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