We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwokkiwak peoples, including Slaloothe, 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.

This episode is all about sewing rainwear.

We talk about some of the most common waterproof fabrics and defined terms like hydrostatic head rating and DWR.

We share some great indie patterns for raincoats, jackets, and hats, and we give tons of

tips for sewing with waterproof fabrics, sealing seams, re-waterproofing, and more.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Well, hello, Helen. How are you? Hello. I'm good. How are you? I'm so good. It's kind of ironic because we

live in the Pacific Northwest and it's always rainy here, but today is a gorgeous day. I know.

The sun is shining, waited for a rainy day. It would have been more appropriate, but I think I have the years of experience required to discuss sewing rainwear or at least wearing rain. We've put in our time. We've put in our time. No, but to be honest, I haven't sewn a ton of like rain fabrics. I've made some jackets that are like semi-waterproof, but I haven't delved deep into the world of sewing super waterproof fabrics. So I'm very excited to talk about this today because I'm actually working on a little raincoat pattern. So this is really good research. Yeah, I was waiting for you to drop that hint because I'm really excited about your raincoat pattern.

And I feel like this episode is really timely because it'll be coming out later this year, right?

Hopefully.

Yeah, that's the plan.

Sometimes 2026 don't hold me to it.

But I'm working on it and I'm excited about it.

So it will come to fruition at some point, some rainy day

in the future. Perfect. Okay, before we jump in, we wanted to remind you all that the best way

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