I'm Sari.

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 how to be more intentional about what clothing you add to your life

so you can feel good about everything you own.

We're going to cover the reasons you might want to buy less clothing, what common blocks

people face in buying less, and seven concrete tips to help you think more deeply about what

you buy and what you make.

We also want to mention that if this idea of intentional sewing

and creating a meaningful wardrobe really resonates with you, you'd probably really love our

Design Your Wardrobe course, which is starting next week, actually, August 22nd. So Design Your

Wardrobe is a three-week course that's available to Seamwork members, and it walks you through

a process that helps you design and sew a

wardrobe for the next season. Signups are open now, so go to seamwork.com slash go slash dYW if you want to

learn more. All right, so we're going to start with our icebreaker for today, which comes from

seamwork member Saskia. And Saskia asks, what was your first make ever?

All right, Haley, what was your first make ever? This is kind of bad because it was so long ago that I'm,

I can't remember. It was one of two skirts. I made two skirts back to back. One was a corduroy skirt and it had a button

closure, kind of like a double-breasted moment. And it took me so many yards of corduroy because I

kept on cutting the nap facing the wrong way. I don't know like what was going

on with me, but I could like could not figure out the nap. I must have gone through like three

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