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 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 not the only thing we want to talk about.

Today we are chatting with Naila Row from Crochet Junction.

We get an intro to crochet, including the best beginner projects, yarn, and resources.

We also chat about integrating sewing and crochet and finding your crafty community.

If you love to sew, this is your show.

Hello, Naila. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm honestly buzzing to be here. Thank you. Oh, we're so stoked to chat with you about crochet today. I know our listeners are going to love hearing about this. So can you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Of course. So I am Naila Rowe and I am from a city in the north of

England called Leeds. And I no longer live there. I'm currently very much fixed in the Midlands

in England. So I'm currently just at side of Birmingham. And I am a crochet enthusiast, I guess I should

say, crochet content creator, YouTuber. And I also teach crochet enthusiast, I guess you'd say, crochet content creator, YouTuber, and I also

teach crochet, and hopefully soon I can add to that list, crochet pattern designer. That's on the

list for this year. So hopefully I can add that soon, but not quite. So yeah, I am 32 and I have been

crocheting for coming up 10 years actually, just under 10 years now. So yeah, it's something that has kind of taken over my life. I can confidently say that. It's a part of me. It's not going anywhere. And it is just, yeah, I am crochet through and through. So you can find me on Instagram as Crochet Junction, but I am Nayloro. Oh, incredible. Helen and I are so excited to talk to you.

Obviously, this is a sewing podcast, but we are interested in all things, fiber arts.

And I personally really want to learn to crochet.

So I'm hoping to come away with this with a little bit more knowledge.

And I know a lot of our listeners want to get that crochet kind of one-on-one

so that we can try it out ourselves as well. Can you tell us about your journey? What got you

into it? So it's a strange one really. Despite going up in what I would say is quite a creative

household. So my dad is an amazing painter and drawer And my grandma would knit and crochet for all of her

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