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 choose your next sewing skill without

getting overwhelmed by all the possibilities out there. We'll cover why traditional skill levels

don't tell the whole story, how to identify techniques that will actually build your confidence,

and my favorite approach for making new skills stick by learning as you sew. All right.

So, Healyar icebreaker for today.

Tell me about a time when you learned a new sewing technique that completely changed how you felt about a project or about sewing in general.

This is tough because I've had so many of these moments, but I will say that I think that the times that I've had these moments most often have usually been around finishing techniques, like when I learned how to do like a

flat felt seam or how to do like a bagged lining or a bound like edge finish. I feel like learning those

techniques and then also taking the time to apply them in my finished projects.

Like really those projects tend to have a lot more longevity in my wardrobe the thing that I like the blouse that I took the time to make do French seams on for instance yeah um so they just feel like more special and like something that there's no like there's no way I could afford

to buy that in a store. Yeah. Yeah, I was thinking something similar, which is that when I first

started sewing, I didn't really know about finishing technique. And I was always kind of like,

well, how do you make it look not so tatty on the inside, you know?

Like it gets all shredded and the wash and everything like that. And I didn't really, I didn't

have a surger when I first, you know, started sewing. And I didn't really know about, you know,

using a zigzag or anything like that. It took me a while to figure all that out. And then once

I learned about finishing all the different

techniques you could use and how to apply them, I felt like my sewing really leveled up.

Yeah. So that is one of them. I think another thing was just all the different things you can do

with bias tape when I kind of started experimenting with that more. Yeah. Not just bindings and facings, you know, your typical things, but actual details that you can do with bias tape when I kind of started experimenting with that more. Yeah. Not just bindings and

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