I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seambrick Radio. Today we're talking about how to know if a pattern you want to sew is beginner friendly or not.

We're going to cover the three different levels of beginners, how to know where

you fall currently as a beginner, how to identify patterns that match up with your skill level,

and our own specific recommendations for seamwork patterns that'll work for the level that you're

at. So we will start with our icebreaker. Today's icebreaker comes from seamwork member Nadia. I love the name

Nadia by the way. It's such a beautiful name. Nadia asks, what is the most last minute project

you ever finished? I know many of us have stories of working on something the night before or even

hours before the event we want to wear it for. And follow-up question, were you happy with how

the crunch time item turned out? All right, Haley. What's your crunch time item that you remember?

Well, first of all, I do this with practically every event that I make something for specifically.

I just want the record to show that. One that stands out to me is I made

years ago when my best friend Rachel had her baby shower, I threw it for her and I wanted to make a

special dress for it. And I made this beautiful ivory wrap dress with this cool floral, green floral motif.

And I didn't finish it in time.

I wore it.

But I had to like get help like safety pinning myself into it.

And I had to tape the lining down so that I wouldn't have like a wardrobe malfunction. It was like seriously like

junk drawer engineered, but I wore it and it looked really cute. And I finished it eventually,

like, you know, weeks later. I also feel like I'm every time there's an event, if I'm making something for it,

it's right up to the last minute.

That's just the way, right?

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