I'm Siri 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 five tips for using thrift shop finds to create your next

sewing project. All right, well, let's go into our icebreaker for today. What is the best thing

you ever thrifted, Haley? This is a tough question because I've thrifted for many years now and I've

cut some like really cool stuff. It's a lot of, like, furniture pieces that come to mind.

I think my favorite garment I've ever thrifted is I thrifted a cashmere coat that has a fur collar.

It's, like, 1960s, beautiful, hammered silk lining. Just like all of the like amazing

details, bound buttonholes has like a really cute little like kind of bow detail at the collar.

Like everything about this thing is just the best. And I got it at a thrift store called Out of the Clause in L.A.

I love that thrift store.

It's cute.

But they also, like, know what they have.

And so sometimes the prices can be, like, a little bit more expensive.

And I think this was marked at, like, $40, which for what it is is, like, nothing, but I was like, I was really broke.

And I had like $20 of cash.

And out of the closet is a like a charity thrift store that like benefits, I think like medical care for HIV and AIDS patients.

And a lot of the times the staff who works there,

like are queer people, and I put on this coat, it fit me perfectly. And so I like went up to the

guy behind the counter. And I was like, don't you want to give this to me for $20? Because I look

so good in this.

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