3 Steps to Help You Get Past a Mistake or Failure
Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity
Colette Media
4.9 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Some of your future sewing projects will fail, so what can you do when you make a mistake? In this episode, Sarai and Haley share 3 simple steps to help you get past a mistake or failure.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sari. And I'm Haley. And this is Seamwork Radio. |
| 0:09.1 | Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Seamwork Radio. So today we're talking about three steps to help you get past a mistake or failure. |
| 0:18.7 | We're going to cover how our own perspective on mistakes has evolved over |
| 0:21.8 | time, when to know if you should stop a project that's not going well or just persevere, |
| 0:26.6 | and our three steps you can go through when you're frustrated by a mistake. All right, so our |
| 0:32.0 | icebreaker for today, what is the worst fabric choice you have ever made, Haley? |
| 0:38.5 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:39.9 | I think that the worst fabric choice I've ever made was I had drafted this sheath dress and it had a princess seam. |
| 0:52.0 | And it wasn't a traditional princess seam. Instead, it came to like a really |
| 0:57.0 | severe corner at the waistline creating, like, it was very like, I don't know, future. I thought |
| 1:03.9 | I was really doing something. Anyway, princess seems, but make it future. Anyway. |
| 1:12.1 | The future of princess seems. |
| 1:16.5 | Right angles. |
| 1:19.6 | So I chose this like stretch jacard. |
| 1:24.9 | And first of all, it was just like a weird texture. And then it was like really stretchy for a |
| 1:32.6 | stretch woven and getting those corners that had to be like, they're definitely the focal point |
| 1:39.5 | of the garment and very central and right on the waistline. I had to get them both perfectly symmetrical, |
| 1:47.1 | and this fabric was just moving around and stretching. And by the end, I had ripped out the seam |
| 1:54.2 | so many times that it had just totally stretched the fabric. And it had made the waistline |
| 2:00.1 | a dome shape because it was so stretched |
| 2:04.1 | right there at the waist. And I like, you know, washed the fabric and steamed it and tried like, |
| 2:11.5 | you know, all of my tricks. I just could not save it. And it was, I mean, it may have been kind of |
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