Our Best Tips for Buying Swimwear Fabric

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this episode, Sarai and Haley share everything you need to know about selecting the perfect swimwear fabric for your next project. From understanding stretch and recovery to fiber content and specialty options, they'll demystify the process of shopping for swim fabrics so you can create comfortable, long-lasting swimsuits you'll love wearing.

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0:00.0	I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.
0:09.5	Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.
0:16.9	Today we're talking about how to choose the perfect fabric for your swimwear projects.
0:20.8	We're going to cover essential characteristics to choose the perfect fabric for your swimwear projects.
0:25.1	We're going to cover essential characteristics to look for when shopping for swim fabric,
0:30.0	specialty options you might not have considered, where to find the best materials,
0:33.8	and how to make sure the fabric you choose will create a swimsuit that's comfortable,
0:36.7	flattering, and built to last.
0:40.9	All right, Haley, so spandex comes in a lot of weird colors and prints. So what's the best spandex fabric you've ever bought? Okay, I made a swimsuit,
0:47.1	a one-piece swimsuit out of a gold lamay spandex. And it was very funky fresh. I really liked it. This was like 2009, 10. It was like the era of American apparel and like indie sleaze. And so it was like a really just kind of like fun sleazy swimsuit. And I made it for like a little collection of
1:13.3	swimwear in a gold. And then I also did a black LeMay two piece. And they were a hit.
1:20.3	They're really fun. That's fun. I think for me, the best fandex, there's two that come to
1:26.3	mind. One I think you saw, which had donuts printed all over it. I had a feeling you might say that. I got that from Spandex World, I want to say. And that was really cool. And then the other one I bought was like this bright neon, neon pink spandex, which I was going to make shorts, like workout shorts out of, like bike shorts.
1:49.3	I don't think it I ever did. I don't think I ever turned it into anything. Maybe I did. I can't
1:53.1	remember, actually, if I made anything with them. I had it in my drawer here at work, though, for a really long time.
1:58.6	I didn't know what to do with it. So those are the ones that are, and that I think came from Spandex World too.
2:04.4	So when we were making the Reese swimsuit lat, which we released last summer, the proto fabric we used was like bright day glow, like lime, yellow, green.
2:19.0	Like a tennis ball?
2:20.3	It was, it was like a tennis ball.
2:22.4	And it was so, it was like so distracting in the fittings.
2:27.1	I was like, oh, man.
2:28.0	I can't look at it.
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