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.

Today we're talking about how to work with some of the most beautiful,

but also most challenging fabrics in your stash, sheer and lightweight materials. We'll cover

the common problems you might encounter when sewing with these delicate fabrics, five essential

techniques that will transform your experience working with them, and how to choose the right projects to showcase their ethereal beauty.

All right, Haley, let's start with our icebreaker for today.

So tell me about a time when a fabric completely intimidated you.

What was it about that particular fabric that made you nervous to work with it?

Okay.

I think that in more recent years, about that particular fabric that made you nervous to work with it. Okay.

I think that in more recent years, something that's really intimidated me that I've worked with was like a burnout velvet fabric because I felt like it was a combination.

It is a combination of two very challenging fabrics.

Yeah.

Shear, lightweight fabric where the pile is like burned away.

And then velvet, which is also notoriously tricky.

Yeah.

And so as you are sewing or cutting anything, you're having, you know, each inch is a different experience.

So that was a fabric that really intimidated me.

But I found that really treating it like a shear was my best, you know, my best bet.

And then doing lots of hand-baseding.

Yeah.

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