I'm Sari.

And I'm Haley. And this is Seamwork Radio.

Hi everyone, welcome back to Seamwork Radio. So today we're talking about whether it's cheaper to sew your own clothing.

So this was inspired by an article that we have in Seamwork this month, which you can check out, and we'll link to that in the show notes.

But in this episode, we're going to cover the types of sewers who really save the most money when they're sewing and some tips that everyone can use to curb their spending.

So Haley, let's start with our icebreaker for today, which is what's the most expensive fabric that you've ever bought?

Gosh, I usually don't buy very expensive fabric for myself, to be honest.

The most expensive fabric I bought, but it was for a dress that I made someone, was like a four-ply silk, which is one of my favorite luxury fabrics to work with and it usually ranges anywhere from like

$80, $220 a yard. It's very expensive, but it has this like beautiful balance between like drape,

but it's also very like heavy on the body so luxurious it's the bomb

and no regrets actually my only regret is that i don't make it hadn't made anything for myself with

it that's really funny because mine is also a four-place silk which is it's just just a very expensive fabric. Yeah, well, it was for my wedding dress. I bought it at Breitex in San Francisco, and it was a gold four-ply silk shirmish. So it was, you know, really just this, oh, it was so beautiful, is so beautiful. I still have scraps of it laying around that I think

someday I'll do something with. But I bought it. I made my wedding dress with it. And then Ken had

his suit custom made. And the tailor took a bit of my dress fabric and made a pocket square

for him embroidered with her wedding date and

names on it. So, yeah, it was pretty special. But that was the most I'd ever spent per yard

on fabric for sure. I don't remember how much it cost, but I just remember it being quite expensive.

Oh my gosh. We knew what the icebreaker was going to be, but we didn't discuss what our fabrics were.

Yeah, I know. It's funny that they're the same, but it is an expensive fabric. It is.

Definitely the most I've ever spent. If you have an icebreaker that you want to share with us for a future episode. Maybe we should coordinate our answers next time.

Maybe we should. I don't know. But if you have an icebreaker, you want to share with us, you can

post it on the community. We'll put a link in the show notes where you can do that. And we pick out

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