I'm Sari Mittnick and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising ways that sewing impacts our lives.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio. So this month we've been talking all about fitting.

And we started out by discussing what impacts are feeling about clothing and garment fit has on us.

And then last week we dove into how to jumpstart your own fitting journey.

Today we're going to be talking about our own favorite fit resources.

So we have a lot of tips and resources here for you guys if you want to explore this topic

even more. So we're going to cover some favorite books and we're going to talk about how to

look for resources within the sewing community itself. I'm really excited to talk about this.

Yeah. I mean, we've, I think we've both been doing this for long enough that we have our like definite,

like, favorite go-to things and we'll give you like the little insider scoop. So,

Sarah, I'm really curious to know what is the most life-changing fit adjustment that you learned? Well, I talked about this

in our episode a couple weeks ago that I have a pretty short torso and that was sort of the first

real fit adjustment that I experimented with and learned for myself was just shortening the

bodice on things. And that is still my go-to.

If I'm making anything that has any kind of fitted bodice or fitted waist,

I know that I'll probably need to raise it up a little bit.

And that's still, I mean, it makes a huge, it's such a simple adjustment.

It's just removing length,

but it makes a huge, huge difference

in the way things fit on my body. So that's probably my biggest life-changing fit adjustment.

And it's a really simple one. What about you, Haley? I would say I'm like a petite, curvy person.

And I think once I learned how to fit my bust, that was like a really huge moment for me is like, you know, figuring out like exactly how much room I needed in the bust and how much shaping I needed to then take it back in at the waist and all of that.

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