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 zero waste sewing. So we're going to cover

the benefits and the limitations of zero waste sewing. And we'll give you eight simple steps you can

take if you want to start exploring this niche. All right. So we have an icebreaker today,

Haley, from a community member, from TAMOC. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Tamak. What do you think is the most overrated sewing notion? And what do you

think is the most underrated sewing notion? Okay. I'm going to go with something controversial for overrated. Okay. So I hope I

don't upset too many people, but I think overrated for me is the seam gauge. I just feel like they

always, the gauge part of it always wears out really fast and gets kind of like loose and slides around.

It drives me totally nuts. And I've stopped using seam gauges and instead have started using

a mini clear ruler and I just, it works for me a lot better. And it's a little bit more multi-purpose.

I can use it to like add seam allowances

and make squared edges. And that works for me a little better because I like a multi-purpose

sewing tool. I'm a minimalist when it comes to minutions. And then for underrated, oh man,

I think there's a lot of things that are like really simple things that are underrated, but I'm going to have to go with Wonder tape, washaway Wonder tape, which is a brand name. I think it's the Clover brand. Basically what it is is a water soluble adhesive tape. It's just really useful in so many different contexts. You can use it in place of pins for things that where pins might get in the way. Some places I like to use it are for zippers. Sometimes when you're like pinning a zipper, you can get like weird, like kind of bumpy lines. Yeah. Same with patch pockets. It's really great for you can use it when you're attaching buttons. A little piece of

wonder tape under your button. Shout out to Taylor. She was the one who turned me onto that.

It comes in a little roll. I always have a couple roles of it because I feel like I just

find new creative ways to use it all the time. Something similar is a glue stick.

I think a glue stick can be really, really helpful for those same kinds of things that

you are just talking about, just for placing things temporarily.

You can use water-soluble glue and it washes right out.

Great for zippers, buttons, all that kind of stuff.

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