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 more intention and joy.

So today we're talking about 20 essential sewing tools, and we already talked about the first 10 in episode one.

So we talked about 10 really basic essential tools. And then today we're going to

talk about the other 10, which are the more nice to have tools. So if you are somebody who maybe

already has your sewing toolkit all set up, this is going to be a good opportunity for you to

hear about ways that maybe you could upgrade the tools that you already have or maybe

learn about some new variations or tools that you haven't added to your collection yet.

So today we're all about those nice to haves and those kind of little extra things that make

sewing a little bit more fun. So our icebreaker for this episode is, what have you been sewing recently

that's been bringing you joy or making? It doesn't have to be sewing. What have you been making

recently that's been bringing you joy? How about you, Haley? Well, I'll talk about what I'm

sewing right now. I am making a PK dress, which is Christine Haynes, her new pattern. She's one of my good friends and she emailed me the pattern, which is like really good timing because my husband and I are currently planning a vacay, like a beachy vacay. And I wanted to make

like something kind of khaftan like to like, you know, swan around in. And I have this amazing

sheer fabric. It's like a burnout gingham in a navy color. And so I'm making it out of that. And it's like,

you know, this pattern has like a ton of ease, but it's totally see-through. So I love the kind of

like juxtaposition of like something that's just like enormous but also completely see-through.

So I'm like trying to decide how I'll definitely wear it as a beach cover up. But I'm like,

am I brave enough? I think I am. The answer is yes. The answer is always yes to just do like a bra

and a half slip or something underneath, you know,

going out to dinner. I think I am. I'll go for it. I have like not very many body hang up.

So I'm going to do it. And it's like the coolest fabric that I bought tons of years ago because

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