I'm Sari Mittnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising

ways that sewing impacts our lives.

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 20 sewing tools that you may or may not have.

And we're going to cover 10 essential sewing tools and 10 nice to have sewing tools.

We're also going to talk about our favorite variations on these tools.

So even if you have the basics already, you might learn about an upgrade that you haven't thought

about using yet. All right, let's dive into it. So we have an icebreaker today from Leslie. And Leslie

asks, what's the most difficult garment you have ever made? All right, Haley, what's the most

difficult garment you've ever made? Well, I'm not sure if I talked about this garment on the podcast

or not yet, but back of the day, I used to make wedding dresses. And this one client had me and my

friend, Rachel, she wanted us to construct a wedding dress out of her

prom dress and her mother's wedding dress, both which were made from the same fabric. It was this

really beautiful embroidered silk eyelet. And the thing that was challenging was that both dresses had like tons of stains

on them. Like I don't even know what was on them. They were not stored well. I think that they

may have spilled food on them. And there was tons of stains. Both garments were incredibly small. And we had to like tetris our pattern pieces into these garments and sit there and like painstakingly seam rip every single seam to figure out how it all work. And it had a very prominent floral embroidery pattern

and getting the pattern placement right. So there was like no flower nipples going on, no stains.

And then that on top of like the general stress of making someone's wedding dress for them,

it was a fairly simple kind of T-length

fitted halter dress, but she really wanted it like painted on her body. She wanted it to fit

incredibly snugly and perfectly. And it was so hard. I definitely sat at the sewing machine and sobbed,

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