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

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

And today we're talking more about summer sewing, specifically the decisions that can make

or break your warm weather projects. So we're going to walk through five key questions to ask

yourself before you start your next summer project. So you end up with garments you'll actually

want to wear when it's hot outside. All right, Haley, here's our icebreaker for today. Tell me about a

summer garment you made that turned out to be a total win. So something that you reach for

constantly and what made it work so well? I think that the one that comes to mind, which I need to

recreate because I'm a different size than when I did this, was that one summer,

I lived, I think I still lived in L.A. at the time, I decided that I wanted to make my perfect

t-shirt and have a whole bunch of different drafted variations of it, like different neckline variations,

sleeves.

I wanted a couple dress lengths to pick from.

And so I self-drafted a t-shirt with all of, like, you know, all of the above.

And it was so nice to have, like, you know, all of the above. And it was so nice to have, like, a tried and true knit, like, modular pattern that, like,

any time I had a knit fabric, I could choose one of those options and mix and match different details to get what I wanted.

And I was thinking recently how much there was one particular dress.

It was like a black knit body con dress that I had in wore for like at least seven years.

And I really want to recreate that dress but also that whole

system yeah was um iconic and it wasn't like a lot of sewing time necessarily it was just like

the time doing all of the math and then like making a couple different tests. Yeah.

It was a big time saver in the long run.

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