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.

And today we're talking about how I designed a five-piece capsule wardrobe. And we're

going to cover the process I went through and how I took my ideas from inspiration to a final

plan that really fits my life and fits my needs right now. So if you have trouble really narrowing

down your choices or making practical garments that you actually wear, stay tuned to hear all five tips, because I learned a lot from this process.

All right.

So we're going to start with our icebreaker for today, which is from Vanessa.

And Vanessa asks, what's your favorite crossover sewing tool, something that wasn't designed for sewing, but that you find useful?

I love this question.

What's yours, Haley? My favorite, I didn't come up with this. This is actually a tip from the late

and great David Page Coffin, but he recommended using surgical forceps, the kind that kind of lock

into place to turn corners on things like

collars.

And it is one of my favorite little, like, nifty tricks.

And one of, I'm not, like, big on, like, highly specific sewing tools, but this is one.

I definitely keep on hand. It's really great for things,

like especially waistbands on really heavy fabrics where it's just so much easier to have

something that has a vice grip to turn those corners out really nicely. So that's one that I love to use. What about you? That's a great one.

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