I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Hello and welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a

creative process so you can sew with intention and joy. Today we're talking about finding the

best sewing machine for your budget. And we're

going to cover our top 10 tips for figuring out what you need in a machine, where to look for a

machine, and how to approach your shopping for one. We're not really necessarily going to recommend

certain makes and models today, but we want to help you figure out what you need so you can find

the one that's right for you. All right. So our icebreaker today, Haley, to help you figure out what you need so you can find the one that's right for you.

All right.

So our icebreaker today, Haley, is, are there any sewing related terms that you're afraid to say out loud because you're afraid you're going to mispronounce them?

Oh, my gosh.

This is a good icebreaker. I think that the ones that I get tripped up on the most are P-K, I think I, you know, P-I-Q-U-E, and Noil.

Noil just sounds so like wrong to my ear, but I think phonetically, that's how you would pronounce it.

Also, there's WAL.

That has an E at the end, though. So that makes

sense. That just sounds prettier. I want Noil to be Nual. That would be nicer to my ears.

Yeah, I've heard people pronounce Vual as voile as well, which always sounds off to me. So I don't really know. But I think any sewing term that's in

French or that is derived from French is a little bit anxiety-inducing. I feel like we put our like

little American twang on it. Yeah, like croaky. Crokey is a word that just sounds like, I mean, that's how

I've heard every American say it, but it definitely sounds Americanized. When we were talking about

this before, and I was mentioning it for a while, I worked a German company when I was in grad school

and almost all of the other employees,

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