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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Find Your Fit

Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Colette Media

Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Crafts, Arts

4.9830 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In part five of the Sewing by Design series, Sarai and Haley talk about finding your fit. Creating clothing that fits is such a motivating factor for why so many people sew. But learning about fit and applying those lessons to your own sewing practice can be intimidating. Sarai and Haley cover why fitting is a challenge for most people, then provide a simple framework for approaching fit. They discuss how to diagnose your fit in a systematic way, the two types of adjustments you need to learn, and how tracking and finding your fit can make the whole process so much easier.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Sari.

0:05.0

And I'm Haley.

0:06.5

And this is Seamwork Radio.

0:09.3

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

0:11.5

So today we're talking about how to find the fit that's right for you.

0:15.6

And this is part of our series on sewing by design, which is our framework to help you sew.

0:20.8

And we're going to cover

0:21.9

why fitting is a challenge for most people, how to diagnose your fit in a systematic way,

0:28.4

the two types of adjustments that you need to learn, and how tracking and finding your fit can

0:32.9

make the whole process so much easier. So that's what we're talking about today. And we have an icebreaker

0:38.4

today from Julie von Knit. And she wants to know about what our sewing accomplishment or

0:45.0

biggest learn from this past year is. So what do you think, Haley? What's your biggest

0:49.8

accomplishment or learn from this past year? Well, if I'm thinking in terms of projects, the thing that I sewed this year that I'm most

0:58.8

proud of is I sewed the Larkin bomber jacket for my husband, Eric, and it just like turned

1:05.5

down so good.

1:08.4

It did look really good.

1:10.2

It's really good. And I think it was also because I found

1:13.7

like the perfect like ribbing and just like everything came together so perfectly. The perfect

1:19.1

remnant for the lining. It just was like all of the stars aligned so that I could make a really

1:27.3

awesome bomber jacket. And it wasn't like anything

1:31.5

that I felt like was out of my school range or anything, but I still feel really proud of it.

1:35.4

It has lots of good little bells and whistles, like the lining and the welt pockets and all

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