Dada da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Hello and welcome I'm Caroline and I'm Helen and we love to sew this is a podcast for makers where we talk about sewing a handmade wardrobe and bring you interviews with

inspiring creatives and small business owners in our community. Today we are talking

with Erica Schmitz, the creator of the app My Body Model. year, Erica set out to create an online tool for body

positive fashion sketching templates. And through a Kickstarter campaign, she received funding

to bring this project to life. My body model is ready for launch and we can't wait to hear all about it.

Yay! Congrats Erica! Hello Erica, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

We are also so excited to chat with you. To start us off, can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Yes, absolutely. My name is Erica Schmitz and I'm the founder of my body model and we create body positive

fashion design tools for garment makers and designers including people like us

who love to make their own clothes and we've created a

web app where you can make fashion sketching templates of your own body based

on your own measurements so you can plan and sketch out your

makes on an outline of your own body. It is the coolest tool you guys and we are

really lucky to have Erica here today because it's

launch day of my body model and we love getting in on the ground floor

with guests and all the things that they have going on so thank you for coming

and doing this with us and timing it with your launch day. It's so exciting.

I'm so excited. I'm so excited. This is perfect and I should mention Helen, thank you so much for being a

tester for my body model. All of your feedback was so helpful.

Oh, it was my pleasure. It was a really fun project to work on, so thank you for including me.

So I can't wait to talk all about this new app but before we get into that I want to hear a little bit more about you

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