We are recording today on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territories of the Coast Salish and Quakwakwakwak people's, 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 basically all we want to talk about.

We each sewed a bag in secret and in this episode we will reveal them to each other for the first time.

We'll also chat about the patterns and fabrics we chose, what techniques

helped us out during the sewing process, and how we plan to style our new bags. If you love to

sew, this is your show. Hi Helen. Hi, Caroline. How are you? I'm great. I'm buzzing as always. You know these episodes. I know. These episodes are the best. People are going to get sick of us talking about how much we love these episodes. But I really can't stress enough how much I enjoy these we sew episodes. I know. And I was thinking about how you could transfer this to the outside

world. Like if you have a sewing friend, you could do this, not on a podcast. You could each decide

you're going to make a theme something, a bag, for example, and make them and then get together and reveal

them to each other. It's just that accountability, that motivation. Deadline. Yeah, it's so much

fun. And sewing around a theme is so fun. Like if you're not on social media, you're not

participating in any of the like, I don't know, people on socials do that where it's like,

this month we're doing this or like, here's this other kind of, what are these called?

I'm like a club, like a sewing club. Yeah. Yeah, there's lots of those out there too. A lot of fabric stores run those kind of clubs and those are really fun as well. Quoting bees or quilting gilts are really good for that too. They do like monthly challenges and everybody does the same style of quilt or something. It's really cool. But if you want to do it with a friend, you should.

The reveal is the best part. The reveal is absolutely the best part. Okay, before we get too

far into this, we want to remind you all that the best way to support the show is by joining us on

Patreon or Apple podcast subscriptions. Yes, you get access to bonus content every month. We do bonus episodes and we have

a lot of fun catching up with you all in those more casual bonus episodes. Very chit-chatty.

You can hear all about Caroline getting her face lasered. Wow, that's the hook this month.

You won't believe what happened. You won't believe what happened, to be honest.

Oh my gosh, you can hear all about the chair drama in Cancun.

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