I'm Sari.

And I'm Haley.

And this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

Today, we're talking about how to continually grow and advance your sewing skills, so you keep having fun and stay motivated.

So this is the last part of our series on our sewing by design

framework. And we're going to cover how a beginner mindset can help you to become more advanced,

how to go about tackling a skill you've always wanted to learn, and how to combine different

resources in order to become your own teacher. So we're going to start with our icebreaker for today.

And this one comes from Betty Kay.

Betty is one of our favorite people in the Seamwork community.

Shout out to Betty.

Love you, Betty.

Betty asks, what is your fantasy make?

Something you wish you could make.

Don't know if you ever could do to lack of skills,

tools, fabrics, resources, time, sensibilities, something you dream of making someday. So what do you think,

Haley? It's fantasy time. I know. Okay, something that I love making formal wear. I used to make wedding dresses for people. I love sewing a fancy dress and like for, you know, obvious or maybe not obvious reasons. To me, it's obvious. I don't have a lot of occasions to wear fancy dresses. And so it like hurts my heart a little bit that I don't get to make stuff like that.

I used to be able to.

And I think my fantasy make is like kind of a big sewing regret of mine is that I didn't make my wedding dress.

I wish I could time travel.

My fantasy is time traveling so I could go back in time, kick myself in the butt and say, don't be lazy, make your wedding dress.

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