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 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 literally all we want to talk about.

Today's guest is Sydney Graham.

She designs comfy, stylish patterns and makes amazing sewing content on social media.

We chat with her about her fascinating career journey, creating work-life balance, and her dreamy

DIY sewing spaces.

Oh, and it's Sydney's birthday today.

Happy birthday!

Go wish Sydney, happy birthday.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hello, Sydney. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. Hi, thank you for having me.

We're so excited to get to know you a little bit more today.

Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Sure.

So my name is Sydney, and I'm a sewing pattern designer and content creator for the most part and just general fan of all things crafty.

Amazing. And a question that we ask all of our guests is

how and when did you learn to sew? Oh boy. So when my husband and I were dating on my 19th birthday,

he bought me a sewing machine. I had sort of just offhand mentioned that it might be fun to learn how to sew.

He tucked that away, bought me a sewing machine. And from there, my mother-in-law, his mom,

showed me how to set it up and the general beats of how to use a sewing machine. But I didn't

really use it much for the first year or two after that that i kind of just felt overwhelming i like sort of

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